Thai authorities arrest 29 Cambodians for logging
Twenty-nine Cambodian men were arrested while logging rosewood in the mountains of Thailand’s Prachinburi province on Wednesday, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement on Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-authorities-arrest-29-cambodians-for-logging-112301/
Silver coins for ASEAN
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), or Central Bank, has issued ASEAN Commemorative Coins to mark the establishment of the ASEAN Community on December 31, according to its statement on Friday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18905/silver-coins-for-asean/
China supplies Cambodia with anti-aircraft hardware in new military aid
hina have provided Cambodia with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, Cambodia’s defense minister said on Friday, as the two countries agreed on new military aid to boost close ties. ...
Prak Chan Thul, Ben Blanchard
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/us-cambodia-china-idUSKCN0SV12R20151106#Wbm84zfVBvrtiZyO.97
Prime Minister in Malaysia for series of summits
Prime Minister Hun Sen jetted off to Kuala Lumpur on Friday morning to attend the 27th Asean Summit and hold one-on-one meetings with several heads of state. ...
The Cambodia Daily team
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-in-malaysia-for-series-of-summits-101130/
Eight timber trucks seized
A team of Pursat provincial and national military police seized eight trucks loaded with timber on National Road 55 in Kravanh district’s Samraong commune on Monday and yesterday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099637/eight-timber-trucks-seized/
Cambodian, Chinese firms sign co-op MOUs
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian and Chinese firms on Friday signed a number of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on business cooperation in the fields of agriculture, mineral resources, food, garment, and electronic products. ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-05/19/content_15337371.htm
Cambodian parliament's 1st vice-president voices support to Chinese investment
Kem Sokha, first vice-president of Cambodia’s National Assembly, on Wednesday lent his support to Chinese investors in Cambodia and urged them to focus on quality and transparency in their projects. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-parliaments-1st-vice-president-voices-support-to-chinese-investment-8263
Cambodia's trade with France up 29 pct in 2014
Trade between Cambodia and France increased to 520 million U.S. dollars last year, up 29 percent year-on-year, according to figures released by the French Embassy here on Wednesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150304/cambodias-trade-france-29-pct-2014
Ministry to curb illegal checkpoints
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport called on the directors of public works in Phnom Penh and the provinces to crack down on fraudulent truck-weighing checkpoints around the country. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ministry-curb-illegal-checkpoints
Sand dredgers freed in capital, jailed in Kandal
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday fined and released 10 workers swept up in a crackdown on illegal sand dredging operations by the Ministry of Mines and Energy last week. ...
Ben Sokhean and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sand-dredgers-freed-in-capital-jailed-in-kandal-81451/
Parliament ‘not a fish market,’ CPP assembly spokesman says
National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun on Tuesday defended the prohibition of a press conference on border issues planned by opposition CNRP lawmakers by saying the parliament is “not a fish market.” ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parliament-not-a-fish-market-cpp-assembly-spokesman-says-86329/
“we can’t be rich among millions of poor”
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol warned students at the elite Royal School of Administration on Tuesday: “We cannot live on a rich island in the middle of a poor ocean.” ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13548/---we-can---t-be-rich-among-millions-of-poor---/
International tourists to Cambodia shoot up 211%
Cambodia welcomed 3.92 million international tourist arrivals during the first nine months of 2023, surging 211% year on year, the country’s Ministry of Tourism said on Friday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501387581/international-tourists-to-cambodia-shoot-up-211/
Nine Companies Barred From State Projects for Not Paying Tax
The Ministry of Finanace in August barred nine local companies from working on government infrastructure projects for allegedly failing to pay tax owed on several projects funded by foreign money, government and company officials said yesterday. The move by Finance Minister Keat Chhon to freeze ...
Stocks Slow as CSX Sees First Day Without Trades
For the first time since the bourse went alive in April, no trading took place on the Cambodian Securities Exchange on Friday. The share price of the bourse’s sole listing, the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA), remained flat at 6,450 riel ($1.58) at the end ...
Phnom Penh Court Charge Four Officials Of Land Ministry Over Corruption
The media release from ministry of land management, urbanization and construction on August 10 said: after getting information of irregularity on implementing the social economic land for former armed forces and poor families which published in media on June 14,2012. Ministry set up a committee to monitor the ...
Railway Family Payouts Could Be Increased
The government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will start drafting a new resettlement plan this month that could improve the compensation on offer for some of the roughly 200 Phnom Penh families losing their homes because of rehabilitation of the country’s railway network in ...
Sesan Dam Decision Questioned
Cambodia has decided to go ahead with the construction of a dam on a Mekong tributary, but conservation groups are concerned that not enough study has been done on the hydropower project’s environmental consequences. Construction on the 400 megawatt Lower Sesan 2 dam in northwestern Cambodia’s ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/sesan-11142012170421.html
China's Taiwan opens 2nd bank in Cambodia
Taiwan Cooperative Bank, one of the leading banks in China’s Taiwan, officially commenced business in capital Phnom Penh on Thursday, bringing the number of commercial banks in the kingdom to 33. Taiwan Cooperative Bank is the 2nd bank from China’s Taiwan in Cambodia after the Mega ...
Hundreds are given sack for Sabrina clash
Hundreds of workers were sacked at the Sabrina Garment factory on Saturday following several violent protests at the Kampong Speu province premises and the arrest of unionists involved. The firings came after workers continued to protest outside the provincial court on Friday and Saturday demanding ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061166188/National/hundreds-are-given-sack-for-sabrina-clash.html