Australia gives $36m for health improvement
Australia and Cambodia have agreed to enhance cooperation in the health sector, with Australia pledging $36 million for health improvements in the Kingdom. The commitment was made on Monday at the Health Ministry in a meeting between Minister Mam Bun Heng and newly appointed Australian Ambassador ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27702/australia-gives--36m-for-health-improvement/
Campaign to reduce traffic accidents
The government launched a campaign yesterday to distribute 3.4 million pieces of reflective tape in an effort to reduce traffic accidents at night, with Prime Minister Hun Sen ordering officials and party members to give the tape out for free and threatening to arrest anyone ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27981/campaign-to-reduce-traffic-accidents/
Appetite for investment in agriculture rising, forum told
South Korean investment in Cambodia’s agricultural industry, especially its food-processing sector, could result in the export of more value-added products that could help transform the Kingdom’s economy, a senior official at the Council for the Development of Cambodia and Korean officials told an investment forum ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20905/appetite-for-investment-in-agriculture-rising--forum-told/
Scammers pretend to be senior officials, threaten governors
The Ministry of Interior has ordered National Police to investigate a scam in which unidentified callers claimed to be senior officials at the ministry and the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in an attempt to extort money from district governors, according to a letter issued on April ...
Chhorn Chansy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/scammers-pretend-to-be-senior-officials-threaten-governors-110794/
India may send tigers to Cambodia
There will be discussions on whether some tigers can be relocated from India to Cambodia, at the third Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation. No evidence of tigers have been found in Cambodia since 2007 and the World Wide Fund for Nature recently declared tigers ...
Jayashree Nandi
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/India-may-send-tigers-to-Cambodia/articleshow/51786692.cms
Innovation for a fruitful harvest
The integration of technology into Cambodia’s agricultural sector is vital to increase the competitiveness and overall performance of the Kingdom’s harvest, but efforts to push for widespread adoption of innovative solutions has been slow to take off, industry experts and stakeholders said at a forum ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/innovation-fruitful-harvest
Apsara announces Angkor restoration plans
Angkor Wat is to receive significant new restorations in 2017, according to the Apsara Authority, which manages the historic temple complex.The announcement came following yesterday’s 24th session of the International Coordinating Committee for Angkor (ICC-Angkor) at which conservation, restoration, sustainable development and tourism were discussed. ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/apsara-announces-angkor-restoration-plans
‘Legend island’ draws $1 billion tourism project
About $1 billion will be invested to transform Koh Tang – “Legend Island” – into a luxury destination for domestic and international tourists, with resorts, hotels, a theme park, golf course and airport, executives said at the signing ceremony for a memorandum of understand (MoU) ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20484/---legend-island----draws--1-billion-tourism-project/
Drug center will not pursue 18 still free after mass escape
After more than 40 men broke out of a Phnom Penh drug rehabilitation center on Friday, officials said this week that they have called off efforts to arrest 18 escapees who remain at large, instead asking for their families to return them voluntarily. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-center-will-not-pursue-18-still-free-after-mass-escape-108129/
Rainsy says french investigating grenade attack
Speaking via video-link at a ceremony on Wednesday marking the 19th anniversary of the 1997 grenade attack in Phnom Penh, self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy announced that a French court had re-opened an investigation into the deadly attack he has long blamed on Prime Minister ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-french-investigating-grenade-110637/
US signs $35 million aid package with government
The U.S. pledged $35 million in development aid to Cambodia in the first part of a three-year, $137 million package announced on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon and U.S. Ambassador William Heidt, according to a U.S. Embassy statement. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-signs-35-million-aid-package-with-government-110667/
Push to promote local products
Supermarket owners are to be called for a meeting with the Commerce Ministry in response to complaints from small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that local products are not displayed or sold on their shelves, the commerce minister said yesterday at the launch of a ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25274/push-to-promote-local-products/
Construction work progress continues amid illegal workers’ arrest
Since the start of the year, department authorities at the Ministry of Interior have arrested more than 10,000 illegal workers, with the bulk of them being construction workers. However, industry experts and investors are split on the opinions that the arrest will impinge on the ...
A few hurdles still block path to joining global value chains
The government needs to urgently amend its industrial development policy to spur the inclusive growth of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and develop a national logistics platform to cut onerous shipping costs if Cambodia is to find a place in global value chains, panellists at ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/few-hurdles-still-block-path-joining-global-value-chains
PM confirms sky is the limit for twin towers
At the official inaugurAtion of the Hun Sen Boulevard on Monday, the prime minister proudly and publicly acknowledged the go-ahead for the Thai Boon Roong Twin Trade Center – the 133-storey twin skyscrapers thAt, when announced in February last year, was largely doubted by industry ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/pm-confirms-sky-limit-twin-towers
More needed for disabled: NGO
At a workshop to commemorAte the eighth anniversary of the Law on the Protection and the Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, executive director of the Cambodian Disabled People’s OrganisAtion Ngin SaorAth decried the lack of progress on equal treAtment of disabled people ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39938/more-needed-for-disabled--ngo/
Sokha arrest won’t impact voter registration: NEC
The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday said the recent political developments involving the detention of Cambodia’s opposition leader would not affect its efforts to register eligible voters ahead of next year’s national elections, though an observer said the arrest put the legitimacy of the electoral ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-arrest-wont-impact-voter-registration-nec
Tea Banh shrugs off threat of international sanctions
Defence Minister Tea Banh expressed indifference to the threat of international sanctions being levied on government officials and the Cambodian economy on Saturday, while ordering his military to be ready to destroy any attempts at an alleged “colour revolution” or popular demonstration over the arrest ...
Mech Dara and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tea-banh-shrugs-threat-international-sanctions
US committed to maintaining good relations
The United States is committed to maintaining bilateral relations with Cambodia in order to resolve some outstanding issues.Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn met with US Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, chairman of the US House Appropriations Committee, at the ministry yesterday where they mainly discussed relations between ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109640/us-committed-maintaining-good-relations/
Ministry investigates surrogacy services
The Justice Ministry is investigating accusations that surrogacy services are being offered in the Kingdom as rumors spread online. Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana said yesterday at a three-day workshop launching the “Explanatory Note of Domestic Adoption,” he was unsure if the rumors pertained to ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31036/ministry-investigates-surrogacy-services/