Korean premium beef, Hanwoo, finds a new market in Cambodia
South Korea has successfully exported its premium beef, Hanwoo, to Cambodia for the first time, marking a significant milestone in eight years of quarantine negotiations. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501351063/korean-premium-beef-hanwoo-finds-a-new-market-in-cambodia/
Kampong Thom’s vegetable and rice producers connected to buyers
46 agriculture communities in Kampong Thom province have inked contracts to produce and supply timely and quality vegetable and rice paddy to buyers and rice mills respectively. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501316307/kampong-thoms-vegetable-and-rice-producers-connected-to-buyers/
Forty percent of indigenous children in a Ratanakiri commune addicted to drugs
Local authorities and indigenous villagers in a commune in Ratanakiri are gravely concerned over the high percentage of their children being involved in drugs, with the propensity of becoming worse with time. ...
An Vicheth
https://cambojanews.com/forty-percent-of-indigenous-children-in-a-ratanakiri-commune-addicted-to-drugs/
Telco Axiata strengthens regional hold, controls 34% of Cambodian market post-acquisition
Being one of the biggest Asian telecommunications companies with operations across ten countries, Axiata Group Bhd has flexed its muscles to firm its grip on the Cambodian market After the acquisition of its rival Latelz Co Ltd, the second-largest mobile operator with a 21% market share ...
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/12/17/business/12469671&sec=business
Troubles for Tonlesap Air
About two months after Phnom Penh-based Tonlesap Airlines suspended its chartered flights, the local carrier’s future seems as cloudy as ever. Vann Chanty, the director of air transport with Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, said yesterday that the airline had not resumed operations and that ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061766300/Business/troubles-for-tonlesap-air.html
Chevron aims for 2016
Oil production in Cambodia may not begin until 2016, or at least three years after the originally appointed date, Chevron officials reportedly said at a Ministry of Environment meeting on Friday. Government officials yesterday confirmed the feasibility of the time frame. If Chevron Overseas Petroleum Cambodia gained ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070257137/Business/chevron-aims-2016.html
Families face eviction from Pineapple Island
One of five families facing eviction from their island home off the coast of Koh Kong province has written to the provincial governor, urging him to intervene to stop a Chinese company developing their land. “If the companies want to take over villagers’ land, they ...
Buyers going for gold
Consumer interest in gold has increased in Cambodia even with the price of gold at a record high. Gold is up more than $333 from the same time last year. The increase in gold prices is said to be a result of the 2008 financial ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072050514/Business/buyers-going-for-gold.html
After Mass Faintings, Factory Temporarily Closes
Hung Wah Cambodia Garment factory has been temporarily closed by its management after a second mass fainting spell of its floor workers. Authorities have asked that the factory close for a short time in order for the workers to have an opportunity to relax. There ...
Firms reminded of indemnity duty
With claims that some companies are attempting to avoid forking out seniority indemnity payments, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has reminded the owners and bosses of garment and footwear companies of their obligation to implement the new policy. Indemnity payments for workers in ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firms-reminded-indemnity-duty
CPP says drawing CNRP members
With the national elections approaching, a Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) spokesman said “many thousands” of former members of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) have joined it. However, watchdogs and ex-CNRP officials have voiced doubts about this, claiming the comment is merely an “old ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-says-drawing-cnrp-members
Tourism industry unruffled by election – experts
Tourism officials and industry insiders say the upcoming election is not affecting the flow on tourists into the Kingdom. Kong Sophearak, director of the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Tourism, told Khmer Times that despite this month’s election and the ongoing political rallies throughout ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50510282/tourism-industry-unruffled-by-election-experts/
Land in capital reclassified
The government has reclassified 35 hectares of state land in Phnom Penh as state-private land to be developed by a private company, a sub-decree seen by Khmer Times showed yesterday. In accordance with the sub-decree, signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen in September, the government converted ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50546775/land-in-capital-reclassified/
Ministry rejects salt society’s dissolution
The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft on Tuesday rejected the Salt Producers Community of Kampot-Kep’s (SPCKK’s) proposal to dissolve, saying it needed more time to figure out the issues facing the industry, its spokesman Oum Sotha said. The decision was made during a meeting on ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-rejects-salt-societys-dissolution
Indonesian haze may be choking Cambodia
Fires set by plantation owners in Indonesia may be to blame for the smog hanging over Phnom Penh, the Ministry of the Environment said yesterday. “I know there is a serious problem with haze,” Ministry spokesman Sao Sopheap told Khmer Times. “We have noticed haze ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16585/indonesian-haze-may-be-choking-cambodia/
Flooding from dam washes out homes, rice fields in southern Cambodia
Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release ...
Chandara Yang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/flooding-from-dam-washes-out-homes-rice-fields-in-southern-cambodia-09162015162039.html
Rainsy vows to return to fight
In an exclusive interview with Khmer Times’ French edition L’Hebdo, opposition leader Sam Rainsy guaranteed that he will return to the country before the next elections, explaining that he still has faith in the “culture of dialogue,” saying it must be “preserved and developed.” It ...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18830/rainsy-vows-to-return-to-fight/
Sugar plantation caught again with illegal wood
Authorities in Kompong Speu province on Wednesday seized more than 1,000 logs on the property of a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation, marking the third time the firm has been found with illicit timber in the past year. Local officials offered no explanation for why the plantation’s on-site ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-plantation-caught-illegal-wood-118908/
Voter registration drive falls behind schedule
Voter registration has fallen far behind schedule over the past two weeks, with enrolment dropping to just 30,000 a day from a target of 100,000, according to official figures, leaving more than 2 million Cambodians at risk of not registering to vote in time. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voter-registration-drive-falls-behind-schedule
Mother Nature sentence upheld as activists mull return
The Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a $25,000 fine for three environmental activists who fled the country after being convicted of threatening to destroy a sand dredging barge in Koh Kong province in 2015. They are now debating returning home, however, after the court ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mother-nature-sentence-upheld-as-activists-mull-return-125236/