Minister Highlights Successes of CLV-DTA
Commerce Minister, Cham Nimol, has highlighted the benefits of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area, refuting claims that the Kingdom may lose land while noting the economic benefits the deal has brought in the last 25 years. ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/minister-highlights-successes-of-clv-dta
‘Visit Siem Reap 2024’ campaign kicks off to attract foreign tourists
The Visit Siem Reap 2024 campaign was launched on Saturday in Siem Reap province, home of famed UNESCO-listed Angkor Archaeological Park, to attract more foreign tourists to visit the land rich in cultural landscapes. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501457410/visit-siem-reap-2024-campaign-kicks-off-to-attract-foreign-tourists/
Grand Plans for $80-Billion Capital City Fit for a Techo
If Phoeung Sophoan has his way, Phnom Penh’s days as Cambodia’s capital city are numbered. A secretary of state at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Mr. Sophoan has big plans for a new 35,000-hectare capital city north of Phnom Penh called “Samdech ...
Gems in the rough in Ratanakkiri
“These are the best quality stones,” Lat Yun says with a grin. Nestled in his outstretched hand are three unassuming rocks. “I don’t know what they’re called, I just know they’re the best.” The gemstones of Ratanakkiri are a mineral called zircon, but in Cambodia, they ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gems-rough-ratanakkiri
Borei Keila Residents Protest Resettlement Plan
Residents of Borei Keila in Phnom Penh are protesting their resettlement. They were promised housing by Phanimex Company in exchange for the land they gave to the developers, who are said to not completed their side of the deal. So far only 7 of 10 ...
The ‘King of Koh Kong’ speaks out
Senator Ly Yong Phat, owner of the Phnom Penh Palm Sugar and Kampong Speu Sugar companies, has released a statement as a result of US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks that describe him as “The King of Koh Kong”. He answers such questions as why ...
Gov’t continues China tilt as ties with the US slide on ‘interference’ in Kingdom’s internal affairs
China has granted some $131 million in aid to the Cambodian military. It comes as yet another sign that the Kingdom is strengthening strategic ties with its Asian neighbour to counter increasingly cold relations with the United States. The aid was announced as part of ...
Poipet SEZ signs first lease to Japan firm
Japanese firm Sumitronics signed a lease to become the first tenant at the Poipet Special Economic Zone, which was established as a subsidiary of the publicly listed Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) in 2014. The electronics firm leased a 1-hectare plot of land in ...
Robin Spiess
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/poipet-sez-signs-first-lease-japan-firm
Worldbridge to open first SME industrial park
The first industrial park for small and medium enterprises in the Kingdom will open this October in Kandal province, just 12 kilometres from the centre of Phnom Penh. The SME Eco Park, referred to also as SME Cluster Zone by the developer, is located on ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505212/worldbridge-to-open-first-sme-industrial-park/
Authorities to compensate families over airport expansion
The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation yesterday said it will continue to address the issue of compensation for the remaining seven families whose land is impacted by the expansion of Preah Sihanouk International Airport. It has already resolved the issue with 250 other affected families. The ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50655171/authorities-to-compensate-families-over-airport-expansion/
Prince Real Estate plans $300 mil project
China’s Prince Real Estate plans to invest $250-$300 million in a new project on Norodom Blvd. The new project will begin after the completion of the current condominium project which began last year and is due to be finished in 2018. Li Min, president of Prince Real ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23754/prince-real-estate-plans--300-mil-project/
Loggers threaten Cambodian forest and wildlife preserve
A protected forest and wildlife sanctuary in northern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province has come under threat of illegal logging, with migrants to the area and soldiers clearing land and cutting down trees, sources say.Local residents and activists are urging Cambodia’s government to help protect the ...
Hang Savyouth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/threaten-10132015165540.html
Defender of Cambodia's dwindling forests wins goldman prize
The latest crackdown on illegal logging in Cambodia is “just a game” and big timber traders are winning, says Ouch Leng, a former government official who has spent two decades helping poor villagers fight poaching of precious tropical forests. Leng’s tenacious and perilous crusade to stop ...
Elaine Kurtenbach
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/defender-cambodias-dwindling-forests-wins-goldman-prize-38473467
Desperate times for Cambodia's farmers
The first rainfall this year did not arrive until early June to Pursat, a province located in the northwest of the country, where land looked bare and thirsty at the height of the planting season. The devastating drought, which the government has described as the ...
Ana Salvá
http://thediplomat.com/2016/08/desperate-times-for-cambodias-farmers/
The environmental web tool
Cambodia suffers from one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, with an average of one percent of the country’s forest lost each year. But in an initiative funded by USAID Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB), Winrock International hopes to help solve the problem ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26177/the-environmental-web-tool/
Businesses in Sihanoukville told to clean up
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities and relevant departments have asked businesses and tour operators in Sihanoukville to enhance the city’s beauty and prevent sewage from flowing into the sea, while warning of administrative measures for those failing to comply. A notice concerning order at Ochheuteal Beach was ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50110699/businesses-sihanoukville-told-clean/
Stevia Nutra Corp Establishes Major Cambodian Agriculture Companies
(The Company), an Agro-Management company focused on stevia agronomics, announced that it has incorporated Health Power Trading Company Ltd., a wholly owned BVI subsidiary company and Mighty Mekong Agro Industries Co. Ltd., a Cambodian based wholly owned subsidiary. This strategic move by Stevia Nutra will allow the Company to capitalize on significant labour and technical advantages as ...
Cambodia opens first largest sugar cane factory with $150 million investment from local company
Cambodia today opened first largest sugar factory in Kampong Speu province, western part of city of Phnom Penh with $ 150 million investment from a local company which employs 2 554 workers. Ly Yong Phat, owner of Sugar factory ( Phnom Penh sugar company) said: his ...
Groups appeal to gov’t to pass traffic law
The Cambodia Red Cross, NGOs and traffic accident victims Thursday marked annual road safety week by appealing to the government to quickly pass a new traffic law in an effort to reduce road accidents. The Ministry of Justice must still review the new traffic law ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/groups-appeal-to-govt-to-pass-traffic-law-56448/
Official in court over fraud case
A high-level agricultural official in Kampong Speu province has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from paddy rice farmers after promising to deliver them land titles in January 2013, a rights group representative and a court prosecutor said yesterday. Cher Pich, 44, deputy director of ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-court-over-fraud-case