UN extolls power of tech in goals to development
Private-sector investment into technology can help developing countries meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), representatives said yesterday at a conference, sparking debate on how Cambodian entrepreneurs can incorporate humanitarian goals into core business operations. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/un-extolls-power-tech-goals-development
Scandals and problems are mounting in land sale deals
Scandals are beginning to brew now that the real estate market is expanding with more affordable housing and cheaper land prices. The situation has been exacerbated by the lack of laws governing the sector and managing stakeholder disputes. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/scandals-and-problems-are-mounting-land-sale-deals
Groups prepare for architecture and design exhibition in 2018
Cambodia will have its third architecture and design exhibition in May next year in response to the growing demand for expertly designed structures and beautiful buildings. The exhibition, organised by Thai ICV subsidiary ICVeX and the Cambodian Society of Architects, will revolve around the theme ...
Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/groups-prepare-architecture-and-design-exhibition-2018
New partnership to light up electronics sector in Cambodia
Legrand, a French manufacturer of electrical equipment, entered into an agreement on Friday with local company BMSC to distribute uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices in the Cambodian market. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096455/new-partnership-light-electronics-sector-cambodia/
Chinese companies playing active role in Lancang-Mekong Cooperation
Since the establishment of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism less than two years ago, many Chinese companies have been active players in the cooperation, greatly boosting regional development in the six riparian countries. Jiang Zengwei, chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of international ...
Fei Liena, Lu Juan, and Mao Pengfei
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/10/c_136885593.htm
India loan signed to fund dam in Kampong Speu
India’s state-owned Export-Import Bank agreed to loan $36.92 million to the Cambodian government to fund the development of a dam and reservoir In Kampong Speu provInce. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india-loan-signed-fund-dam-kampong-speu
Breaking: Three killed while on forestry patrol in Mondulkiri
An Environment Ministry ranger, a Military Police officer and an employee of a conservation organisation have been killed in a shootout with other Cambodian authorities near Mondulkiri’s border with Vietnam. ...
Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-three-killed-while-forestry-patrol-mondulkiri
India, Cambodia to expand ties in IT, infrastructure sectors
The meeting between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw Cambodia invite indian investment in information technology, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and horticulture, infrastructure and small and medium enterprises. ...
Five more held for shooting forest patrollers in Mondulkiri
Five more suspects have been arrested and are being interrogated by authorities in relation to the murder of three forest patrollers last Tuesday in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, authorities confirmed yesterday. ...
Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/five-more-held-shooting-forest-patrollers-mondulkiri
New food security laboratory comes online in Svay Rieng
A new laboratory to monitor food products and ensure their safety opened on Tuesday in Svay Rieng province, near the border with Vietnam. It is the third such facility to open in the kingdom in the last few years, after other labs came online in Banteay ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106878/new-food-security-laboratory-comes-online-svay-rieng/
New electricity bill cuts planned to start in April
Starting on April 1, the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) will continue to bring down the cost of electricity for households and enterprises in Phnom Penh and a number of provinces, according to a recent announcement by the agency. in a statement released earlier this month ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109671/new-electricity-bill-cuts-planned-start-april/
Hundreds of families uprooted in flooded Phnom Penh outskirts
More than 230 families remained displaced from their homes last night in the flooded outskirts of Phnom Penh as water levels continued to rise amid collapsed dams and continuing rains. ...
Chhorn Phearun and Rayna Stackhouse
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-families-uprooted-flooded-phnom-penh-outskirts-119471/
120 students poisoned by school snack in Oddar Meanchey
About 120 students at a Christian school in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district came down with food poisoning after consuming a dessert served by the school on Wednesday, though officials confirmed that all were “recovering well”. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/120-students-poisoned-school-snack-oddar-meanchey
KrisEnergy to consider selling stake in Block A
Singapore-listed KrisEnergy Ltd is considering selling or farming out a stake in its Cambodia Block A offshore oilfield to ease its debt burden, according to the company’s 2016 year-end report. ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-consider-selling-stake-block
Five Cambodians deported from US arrive in Phnom Penh
Five Cambodians expelled from the U.S. arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said, as Cambodia continued to call for revisions to the 2002 agreement with the U.S. that allowed their deportation. ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/five-cambodians-deported-from-us-arrive-in-phnom-penh-127253/
Xi manual on ruling is now printed in Khmer
In another sign of Cambodia’s deepenIng affInity with ChIna, ChInese President Xi JInpIng’s book on governance, which showcases the leader’s rulIng philosophy, has been translated Into Khmer to be used as a guide for the KIngdom, Prime MInister Hun Sen announced yesterday. ...
Touch Sokha and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/xi-manual-ruling-now-printed-khmer
Foot-and-mouth disease hits cows in Svay Rieng
Authorities in Svay Rieng province on Wednesday said the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease had been brought under control by timely treatment, though their numbers on how many cows the contagious virus had infected varied wildly.Meas Sok, chief of Svay Chrum district’s Chhoeuteal commune, said ...
Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/foot-and-mouth-disease-hits-cows-in-svay-rieng-129458/
CPP, Opposition plan rival Friday rallies in Phnom Penh
The CNRP and the CPP will cap off two weeks of commune election campaigning on Friday with daylong processions, to which they expect to draw hundreds of thousands of people through opposite sides of Phnom Penh amid heightened security, party officials said on Tuesday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-opposition-plan-rival-friday-rallies-in-phnom-penh-130763/
Free pass to Thailand gets political in Poipet town
Local authorities in Poipet are grappling with a dilemma of their own making after the ruling party for months footed the bill to make day passes to enter Thailand free for Cambodian vendors – a populist move now complicated by the CPP’s apparent electoral loss ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/free-pass-thailand-gets-political-poipet-town
Soldiers, police in Mondolkiri under investigation for wood smuggling
The top military and police officials in Mondolkiri province have opened investigations into some of their soldiers and officers after a news story claimed they were involved in timber trafficking into Vietnam. ...