Cambodia, Vietnam eye $10 billion bilateral trade in 2022
Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce and Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade talked about boosting trade activities, pledging to push the bilateral trade volume to $10 billion by this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501063033/cambodia-vietnam-eye-10-billion-bilateral-trade-in-2022/
Students Urge All Sides to Keep Election Protests Peaceful
More than 200 students and opposition supporters marched sunday around Phnom Penh’s Wat Phnom with flowers in hand, urging parties to refrain from violence during saturday’s protest against last month’s contested national election results and for recent incitement charges against two students to be dropped. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/students-urge-all-sides-to-keep-election-protests-peaceful-41556/
State regulator warned Smart over luring qb subscribers
The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) last week warned mobile operator smart that it could face legal action for attempting to lure customers away from rival operator qb, and ordered smart to resolve the issue “immediately,” according to a letter from TRC to smart’s CEO ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/state-regulator-warned-smart-over-qb-dispute-59813/
Poll shows fighting corruption drives support for education reform in Cambodia
Earlier this week, Cambodia’s Ministry of Education Youth and sports (MoEYs) held a second high school exam to provide a second chance for the over 70 percent of 93,000 high school students who failed to pass the first annual national high school exam, held in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Silas Everett and Menghun Kaing
http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2014/10/15/poll-shows-fighting-corruption-drives-support-for-education-reform-in-cambodia/
Gov’t releases sub-decree on Bokor town development
The government has decided to develop Bokor National Park into a futuristic and historic tourism city, a sub-decree on the introduction of the master plan for Bokor town’s development said. The area will be connected to the Kingdom’s southern coastal tourism corridor. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-releases-sub-decree-bokor-town-development
Irrawaddy dolphin found dead
A critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin was found dead, floating along a stretch of the Mekong River in Kratie’s Chet Boreid district on Wednesday. The cause of the mammal’s death was determined as bruising to its gills caused by an illegal fishing net. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/irrawaddy-dolphin-found-dead-0
Civil Society Groups in Cambodia Suppressed: Report
Local and international civil society groups operating in Cambodia face government-imposed restrictions on their operations and have been significantly hindered in their work in the lead up to sunday’s general election, according to a recent report by a U.s.-based think tank. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Channy Chheng
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/civil-society-groups-in-cambodia-suppressed-report/4495078.html
Ministry holds workshop on ASF control
The recent outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in China haS put the Kingdom&rSquo;S authoritieS on alert, with Cambodia&rSquo;S MiniStry of Agriculture on ThurSday holding a workShop on the meaSureS to be taken in order to keep the Kingdom free of the diSeaSe. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-holds-workshop-asf-control
Hun Sen: Peace brought by Khmers, not ‘foreign hands’
Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday rejected the idea that “foreign hands” or assistance secured a resolution to Cambodia’s civil war in the early 1990s, warning historians to refrain from claiming the international community was responsible for peace-building in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-peace-brought-khmers-not-foreign-hands
Siam cement moving to expand in Cambodia
Thailand’s largest industrial conglomerate and the majority shareholder in Kampot Cement, siam Cement Group (sCG), is expanding production capacity and diversifying its product line to tap opportunities in Cambodia’s “booming” construction industry, its president and CEO Kan Trakulhoon told Khmer Times late last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17535/siam-cement-moving-to-expand-in-cambodia/
Royal group ordered to dismantle jetty on O’tres beach
Six monthS after it Started conStruction, Kith Meng&rSquo;S Royal Group haS been ordered to demoliSh a nearly finiShed jetty on O&rSquo;TreS Beach near Sihanoukville, with local officialS Saying the tycoon&rSquo;S company waS never granted permiSSion to build it in the firSt place. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/royal-group-ordered-to-dismantle-jetty-on-otres-beach-106093/
FASMEC MFI enters the lending market
Cambodia’s newest microfinance institution FAsMEC Microfinance officially launched yesterday.With a start-up capital of $1 million raised from a handful of investors on the new company’s board, the MFI hopes to expand its loan portfolio by the end of 2016. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fasmec-mfi-enters-lending-market
Official denies Prey Speu transfers
Phnom Penh’s social Affairs Department yesterday dismissed reports that dozens of homeless people were sent to the city’s notorious Prey speu detention centre this week, even as the United Nations confirmed the transfer and expressed concern at the continued use of the facility. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-denies-prey-speu-transfers
Ly Yong Phat in talks to supply power to Thailand
Tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s L.Y.P. Group is talking with the Thai government’s Energy Policy and Planning Office (Eppo) to supply Thailand with 2,000 megawatts from his planned Koh Kong coal-fired power plant, and hopes to sign a deal early next year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18243/ly-yong-phat-in-talks-to-supply-power-to-thailand/
UN rights envoy to visit in wake of ‘color revolution’ case
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia will arrive for her second fact-finding mission today, following the U.N.’s censure of the government over the widely-criticized conviction of a political science student for calling for a “color revolution” on Facebook. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-rights-envoy-to-visit-in-wake-of-color-revolution-case-110152/
Hun Manet pulls out of US parade amid protest
Prime Minister Hun sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, announced on sunday that he would not be attending a Khmer New Year parade he was invited to in Long Beach, California, in the face of vocal opposition from some of the community’s Cambodian-Americans. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manet-pulls-out-of-us-parade-amid-protest-110459/
Phnom Penh Port profits up
The first quarter earnings of the publicly listed Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) were up by more than 10 percent in comparison to the same period last year thanks to the Kingdom’s steady economic growth and the company’s efforts in streamlining its expansion. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26369/phnom-penh-port-profits-up/
Kingdom needs to support women and girls, minister says
Women’s Affairs Minister Dr. Ung Kanthaphavy addressed multiple points regarding the achievement of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in the Kingdom during a two-day meeting reviewing the ministry’s work in 2015 and planning its goals for 2016 yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23353/kingdom-needs-to-support-women-and-girls--minister-says/
Authorities clear furniture from Sihanoukville beach—again
Outdoor tables and chairs belonging to bars and restaurants on sihanoukville’s serendipity Beach were removed by local authorities on Tuesday as part of a campaign to beautify the city’s beaches by ridding them of illegal commercial activity, an official said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Peter Ford and Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-clear-furniture-from-sihanoukville-beach-again-111301/
Transport companies agree to drop fees
Cambodia’s two largest ports and the country’s biggest transport associations agreed yesterday to cut fees on container shipments in response to newly appointed Transportation Minister sun Chanthol’s industry-wide call on Monday for solutions to reduce the high cost of logistics and transport. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/transport-companies-agree-drop-fees