Sea tourism sports recreation site to be established in Sihanoukville
A company branded Le Soleil Meilan International Travel Co., Ltd. is interested in establishing sea tourism sports recreation site in Sihanoukville. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501175896/sea-tourism-sports-recreation-site-to-be-established-in-sihanoukville/
Labor leader wants unionists’ charges dropped
A prosecutor at the Kompong Speu Provincial Court said on Wednesday that charges would stand against five union officials who were released on bail last month after they were arrested during a brawl with a rival association, despite calls by a prominent labor leader to ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/labor-leader-wants-unionists-charges-dropped-108658/
Better Recovery for Construction and Real Estate Sector
2012 has been an impressive year for Cambodia’s economic resilience. Among the many sectors that had positively grown are the construction and property development [sic] and they are expected to be among the highest growth achievers in the current year as well. In 2012, the ...
ODC participated in Barcamp Angkor
Barcamp Angkor 2017 took place on September 09-10, at Build Bright University, in Siem Reap province. The principle of the camp is to empower young Cambodian minds with speakers sharing their entrepreneurial, tech or digital experiences. Attendees will still have the ability to speak directly ...
A virtual workshop on food safety, market information, and access to financial service with fish producers and post-actors
On 13 August 2021, World Vision Cambodia issued an announcement on A virtual workshop on food safety, market information, and access to financial service with fish producers and post-actors.World Vision Cambodia (WVC) in collaboration with the Cambodian Aquaculturist Association (CAA) will organize a virtual workshop ...
World Vision Cambodia
New study finds high levels of anemia, food insecurity, among Cambodian garment workers
The International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia project, together with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Angkor Research and Consulting Ltd., today release a few summary results of the baseline survey for the “Study on the Impact of Food Provision on Garment Workers’ Health and ...
Better Factories Cambodia
Growing Tourism – A Positive Sign: Asia and Pacific Continue as Travel Hot Spots
Asia and the Pacific continued as a hot spot for international tourism in 2012, attracting what is expected to be in excess of 350 million international visitor arrivals, expanding its collective inbound count by more than 5% and generating more than 18 million additional foreign visits, year-on-year. Within this ...
Asean declaration allows Cambodia to flout human rights, warn campaigners
Human rights groups in Cambodia fear a new south-east Asian declaration of human rights could conversely offer the government in Phnom Penh a figleaf to clamp down on dissent. Cambodia signed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) human rights declaration on Sunday, two days ...
Cambodian students win out on ASEAN stock markets
Despite the Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) getting off to a sluggish start over the past three years, local university stuDents are seemingly already on the way to becoming good stock-pickers. The winners, two stuDents from Zaman University who went by the team name of Dark ...
Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-students-win-out-asean-stock-markets
Japan extends Covid loan for Kingdom
Japan has extended its loan for Cambodia for $270 million to be used in Covid-19 response and economic revitalisation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said following the 12th virtual Mekong-Japan Summit on November 13. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-extends-covid-loan-kingdom
COVID won’t hold us back, ASEAN meeting agrees
Speaking at the virtually held ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting (AFCDM), Neav Chanthana, Deputy governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), said that members are committed to pushing economic growth in the region Despite the Coronavirus panDemic. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50832326/covid-wont-hold-us-back-asean-meeting-agrees/
Government preparing to discuss new draft investment law
The government is planning to discuss a new law to stimulate investment in the country. The Office of the Council of Ministers will hold a virtual meeting on Friday to review the draft law, following the approval of Mr Hun Sen. The prime minister will ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50888821/government-preparing-to-discuss-new-draft-investment-law/
Visitors vanish from Asia’s most visited site, Angkor Wat
As dawn breaks, the unmistakable tapered towers of Angkor Wat emerge from the gloom – but for once there are no tourists jostling on its steps to capture Cambodia’s most famous sunrise. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700155/visitors-vanish-from-asias-most-visited-site-angkor-wat
New release on the selling of long-term entrance ticket for Angkor Archeological sites
On 22 May 2020, the Angkor Enterprise issued an announcement on the selling of long-term entrance ticket for Angkor Archeological sites to all tour operators, travel agents, relevant institutions, and international visitors to get informed. This action was made to accommodate foreigners staying in the ...
Angkor Enterprise
Vets living on SLC say site lacks clean water
About 30 veterans living in Aphivat Thmey village in Stung Treng’s Samaki commune – on land granted to them as a social land concession (SLC) last year – are pushing authorities to deliver a basic necessity the site lacks: clean water. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vets-living-slc-say-site-lacks-clean-water
Hun Sen promises modern satellite city at Angkor evictions relocation site
Prime Minister Hun Sen handed out gifts and promised metal sheeting as building materials to families who have agreed to vacate their homes that fall within Siem Reap’s Angkor park, saying the relocation site in Run Ta Ek commune will be turned into a modern ...
Phin Rathana
https://vodenglish.news/hun-sen-promises-modern-satellite-city-at-angkor-evictions-relocation-site/
Abused Workers Back Home
A maid who fled her employer after an attempted rape and was then thrown in a detention centre just two days after she gave birth was one of 26 distressed men and women who make up the latest repatriated abuse victims from Malaysia. detained for ...
Sen David and David Boyle, P. 1
Groups tell ILO to retract ‘right to strike’ claim
An employers and businesses federation that took out paid newspaper advertisements claiming Cambodia’s workers have no fundamental right to strike has hit back at the International Labour Organization (ILO), asking it to retract comments it made in response to the ads. Last week, the Cambodian Federation ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-tell-ilo-retract-%E2%80%98right-strike%E2%80%99-claim
Olympic-size walkway
Construction crews will break ground this weekend on a new walkway overpass alongside Olympic Stadium as part of the Olympia City development project. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) and a municipal crew will begin work on the walkway, which will be at a five-way ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/olympic-size-walkway
France grants $50 million in aid and loans to Cambodia
The French government has provided $50.9 million as grant aid and loans to Cambodia for clean water and hygiene in the provinces and to enhance capacity in the education sector.According to a statement from the Finance and Economy Ministry on Wednesday, the French government granted ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104242/france-grants-50-million-in-aid-and-loans-to-cambodia/