Celebrating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2021
In December 1994, the United Nations decided that the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (IPs) shall be celebrated on August 09 every year. That date marks the day of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1982. People ss='cambodia-color'>...
580 iconic Giant Turtles released into Mekong river on World Turtle Day
To mark World Turtle Day, Wildlife Conservation society (WCs) in collaboration with Fisheries Administration celebrates the conservation of the Critically Endangered Cantor’s Giant softshell Turtles in Cambodia, by releasing 580 hatchlings into the wild. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501081043/580-iconic-giant-turtles-released-into-mekong-river-on-world-turtle-day/
Joint press release German government-funded study confirms grave problems in Cambodia’s microfinance sector
On 14 September 2022, the Cambodia League For the Promotion and DefenSe of Human RightS (LICADHO) releaSed a joint preSS on a Study commiSSioned by the Federal MiniStry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provideS further evidence of wideSpread over-indebtedneSS in Cambodia, reSulting in an SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia League For the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
Joint statement of Cambodia Microfinance Association and Association of Banks in Cambodia on the German government-funded study
On 16 September 2022, the ASSociation of BankS in Cambodia and Cambodia Microfinance ASSociation iSSue a joint Statement on a Study entitled “Micro” Finance in Cambodia: Development, ChallengeS, and RecommendationS commiSSioned by the Federal MiniStry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia Microfinance Association
Son Chhay found guilty for defamation, ordered to pay CPP $750,000
The Phnom Penh court on Friday ordered opposition Candlelight Party vice president son Chhay to pay the ruling CPP 3 billion riel ($750,000) in damages, finding him guilty of defamation for saying that voting fraud occurred during the June commune elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/son-chhay-found-guilty-for-defamation-ordered-to-pay-cpp-750000/
Condo oversupply persists amid low FDI and foreign buyers
Total foreign direct investment (FDI) to the real estate sector peaked at $3.6 billion in the years preceding Covid-19, where half of the approved investments was backed by Chinese investors. In 2019 alone, FDI financing in the property and real estate development in Cambodia stood around ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/condo-oversupply-persists-amid-low-fdi-and-foreign-buyers
Bakong likely to make forays into Rwanda
National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the National Bank of Rwanda recently held talks to explore ways to establish Bakong online payment system in that country, said an NBC statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501315349/bakong-likely-to-make-forays-into-rwanda/
Clean water pumped to dry suburbs
A team from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) iS working cloSely with the Takhmao fire department to provide water to the reSidentS of Takhmao town. Several memberS of the public have complained about a Severe lack of water preSSure in recent weekS, with SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clean-water-pumped-dry-suburbs
International trade down 13% in first half of 2023
Cambodia’s international trade performance in the first half of 2023 registered $23.69 billion, a decrease of 13 percent from $27.24 billion in the same period last year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mon Sokeo
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-international-trade-down-13-in-first-half-of-2023
Agriculture Ministry working on forming commune agricultural coordinators across the country
Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina received visiting Dr Christoph Hoffmann, Member of the German Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
http://Agriculture Ministry working on forming commune agricultural coordinators across the country
AFD, EU back Cambodia’s water sector reformation
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) expressed their commitment to support the expansion of the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501574411/afd-eu-back-cambodias-water-sector-reformation/
UN hamstrung in Ratanakkiri as more montagnards arrive
Local officials in Ratanakkiri province are actively preventing a team of U.N. workers in the area from making any attempt to reach nearly 40 Montagnard asylum seekers now hiding in the province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-hamstrung-in-ratanakkiri-as-more-montagnards-arrive-78387/
Scrutiny over Finnish firm’s ties to Xayaburi
The Finnish government will investigate multinational consulting and engineering firm Pöyry over its involvement in Laos’s Xayaburi dam project, a letter obtained by the Post yesterday reveals. According to the letter from Finland’s Ministry of Employment and the Economy, dated October 16, a complaint filed by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry Bans US-Backed Radio Broadcasts for Election Weekend
The Ministry of Information ordered local radio stations not to transmit programs from U.s.-backed broadcasters over the election weekend, an official said. Voice of America (VOA), the U.s. government’s official broadcaster overseas, and Radio Free Asia (RFA), a station funded in part by the U.s. government, ss='cambodia-color'>...
GDP stays in election race
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has turned back from its earlier warning that it could withdraw from participating in the July 29 national elections, it announced on sunday. The party said it made the decision as the atmosphere of resistance from the Kingdom’s authorities had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-stays-election-race
Cambodian PM says won't allow any foreign military base in his country
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said on Monday there would never be a foreign military base in his country, following a news report that China was lobbying for a naval base in southwest Koh Kong province. The Asia Times, citing unidentified diplomatic sources and analysts, reported ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prak Chan Thul
https://reut.rs/2FxQgeq
Sar Kheng: Sokha requested security
Interior Minister sar Kheng on sunday revealed the story behind the transfer of former opposition party leader Kem sokha from Trapaing Phlong prison in Tbong Khmum province to his house in the capital. speaking at the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) headquarters in Prey Veng ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-sokha-requested-security
Interior Minister slams UNTAC
Interior Minister sar Kheng has slammed the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) which organised the 1993 elections. He said there were irregularities under UNTAC’s supervision of the polls, and despite spending $2 billion to bring democracy and peace to the country, war still ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-minister-slams-untac
Hun Sen tells Rainsy to stake life on poll figures
Caretaker Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday called out former opposition leader sam Rainsy and swore on his life that the latter’s claims of inflated voter turnout figures or intimidation surrounding the July 29 national elections were unfounded. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-tells-rainsy-stake-life-poll-figures
Relations with China to continue growing
A high-ranking Chinese official has vowed to boost ties with Cambodia to a new high, noting that the Kingdom has steady economic development during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50545338/relations-with-china-to-continue-growing/