New Preah Kossamak Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building starts operations in Cambodia
The Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building, a key livelihood project shouldered by State-owned China State Construction Engineering Corp, was officially put into use in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on March 21. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501049708/new-preah-kossamak-cambodia-china-friendship-medical-building-starts-operations-in-cambodia/
Viet Nam helps Cambodia build drug rehabilitation center
A drug treatment and rehabilitation center was inaugurated in Preah Sihanouk, Cambodia, in late March with part of its funding presented by the Vietnamese Government. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501066917/viet-nam-helps-cambodia-build-drug-rehabilitation-center/
Cambodia suggests to host ASEAN Digital Engineer Workshop next year
Cambodia has sought support from the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations (AFEO) to host an ASEAN Digital Engineer Workshop in March 2023. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501197980/cambodia-suggests-to-host-asean-digital-engineer-workshop-next-year/
Government pays $1.2 million to garment workers who gave birth
The government has paid about $1.2 million to nearly 12,000 female garment workers who have had babies so far this year. According to a report released yesterday by the National Social Security Fund, 11,706 female garment workers delivered babies in January, February and the first 22 ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50115636/government-pays-1-2-million-to-garment-workers-who-gave-birth/
Areng Valley community office dismantled
Chumnoab commune authorities in Koh Kong province have started to dismantle the Areng Valley community office despite appeals from the community to keep it. On March 21, Chumnoab commune officials advised the Areng Valley community to relocate their office because the land it was on ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50483296/areng-valley-community-office-dismantled/
Countdown to expressway groundbreaking begins
The groundbreaking of the nearly $2-billion expressway connecting the capital and Sihanoukville has been confirmed for March 22. The expressway will start at Tomnop Kobsrov Street, between Cham Chao and Krang Thnong communes, northwest of Phnom Penh International Airport, said Kong Vimean, spokesman for the ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583762/countdown-to-expressway-groundbreaking-begins/
Aggrieved villagers come to Phnom Penh for protest
About 100 residents of Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district gathered at Phnom Penh’s restive Samakki Raingsey pagoda on Wednesday ahead of a planned march calling for justice in their long-running land dispute. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/aggrieved-villagers-come-to-phnom-penh-for-protest-103757/
Labor union asks workers not to go on strike
Trade Union Workers Federation of Progress Democracy (TUWFPD) on Sunday appealed to workers in garment sector not to attend strikes called by other union leaders, saying that the strikes would adversely affect the workers themselves. The strikes are scheduled for March 12. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZWQ1MjNlZTBhZDl
Taiwan's bike makers shrug off challenge from Cambodia
Giant Bicycles founder and chairman King Liu said on March 5 that Taiwan’s bicycle manufacturers are still competitive, despite the challenge from Cambodian competitors becoming stronger due to the country’s favorable tax policy. Bicycles exports from Taiwan were down 11.49% year-on-year in 2013, while exports ...
Want China Times News Staff
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140311000004&cid=1206
Appropriate technology is a mechanism to promote nationally appropriate actions for greenhouse gas emission reduction
Phnom Penh – 21 March 2014, a workshop on Energy and Environment Technology: Capacity-Building Cooperation for the Development of NAMA in a MRV manner was organized by the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Environment (CCD) in cooperation with the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, ...
Ministry of Environment
Auto parts firm Denso bets $19 million on plant
In a bid to ramp up vehicle production in ASEAN. auto parts manufacturer Denso Cambodia has announced the construction of a new $19 million plant in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone. The facility will produce magnetos and oil coolers with production slated to begin in ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/auto-parts-firm-denso-bets-19-million-plant
Youths mark Youth International Day
Representatives from worker unions, confederation and Cambodian youth rallied Tuesday at the Freedom Park to mark 15th Youth International Day. After rallying at the Freedom Park, they marched to present petitions to the National Assembly, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, and Ministry of Labor and ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MDUwZDc1MTRmNzB
Three Battambang border gates open
Cambodia and Thailand agreed to reopen three regional border checkpoints in Battambang province on March 23 to facilitate trade. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/three-battambang-border-gates-open
Angkor Wat Autumnal Equinox 2023
Every year, the Equinox occurs twice: the Vernal Equinox in March and the Autumnal Equinox in September. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501365038/angkor-wat-autumnal-equinox-2023/
PPWSA posts higher net profit in Q1’23
The capital’s sole water concessionaire, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, saw increased net profit and revenue between January and March this year ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-ppwsa-posts-higher-net-profit-in-q123
Port Traffic Up Eleven Percent in First Quarter
The volume of goods passing through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port increased by 11 percent in the first three months of 2012 compared to the same period last year, according to statistics released by the port yesterday. Between January and March, 17,386 containers passed through the ...
Police quash Veng Sreng memorial ceremony
Riot police and municipal security guards shunted a group of would-be mourners around Phnom Penh’s southern industrial precinct on Sunday morning as they attempted to mark the second anniversary of the day military police marched along Veng Sreng Boulevard firing assault rifles into crowds of ...
Matt Blomberg and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-quash-veng-sreng-memorial-ceremony-104291/
The Cambodia population census: leaving no one behind
Cambodia will be conducting its third comprehensive and inclusive population census in March 2018. For any country, the population census is the first source of information that provides facts about the size of the population, the different age groups, the geographic distribution, the ethnical minorities ...
Derveeuw Marc GL
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/analysis-and-op-ed/cambodia-population-census-leaving-no-one-behind
China donates army vehicles
Defence Minister General Tea Banh yesterday confirmed that China is to provide the army with tanks and armoured personnel carriers to strengthen relations between the two militaries.He said the tanks and APCs would arrive in Cambodia in March, when the two countries will hold their ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104978/china-donates-army-vehicles/
Prey Lang ceremony due next month
Nearly 400 members of the Prey Lang Community Network will hold the annual Prey Lang ceremony in late March to commemorate and preserve indigenous identities and promote the forest’s potential. Meanwhile, Prey Lang activists have claimed illegal logging still exists in the area, even though the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108639/prey-lang-ceremony-due-next-month/