Minister: Inclusive meeting vital
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has instructed heads of the government’s local visit working groups throughout the country to ensure that relevant officials are invited to attend all meetings at the municipal, district and commune levels. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-inclusive-meeting-vital
Parts of deity statue unearthed at Angkor Thom, reassembled
Archaeologists from the Apsara National Authority (ANA), a body tasked with managing the Angkor Archaeological Park, have unearthed the partial head and shoulders of a statue of a deity near Angkor Thom’s Ta Kav gate in Siem Reap province, and have reassembled the sculpture for ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parts-deity-statue-unearthed-angkor-thom-reassembled
Added push to wrap up first, second Covid shots
Or Vandine, head of the national Covid-19 vaccination committee, has urged municipal and provincial governors to accelerate their campaign for both first and second doses after noticing slow progress in recent days. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/added-push-wrap-first-second-covid-shots
China importers urged to buy from Cambodia
The head of the apex Cambodia trade body has asked importers operating in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi to take advantage of the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) and buy produce made in the Kingdom, particularly items on which concessions have been granted. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-importers-urged-buy-cambodia
ASEAN leaders adopt a number of key documents
The ASEAN Heads of State/Government adopted a number of important documents to boost their economic growth, ensure food security and boost digital economy, at the end of the Plenary Session of the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia yesterday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501355584/asean-leaders-adopt-a-number-of-key-documents/
Pandemic pushes public mistrust in the media
The pandemic has thrown additional hurdles to the media landscape as there is a quiet resignation of consuming news in the region, the head of a research centre said on Thursday, claiming people find news troublesome, problematic, and biased. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/pandemic-pushes-public-mistrust-in-the-media
Gov’t warns of fraudulent companies, urges cautious investment
There are other companies operating in similar form to disgraced former Oknha Leng Channa’s now-defunct Brilliant City World Co Ltd, which secretly defrauded people, Ky Tech, head of the government’s legal team, warned during a meeting attended by 267 people from several provinces in Phnom ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov-t-warns-of-fraudulent-companies-urges-cautious-investment
CPP Says ‘Too Late’ for Joint Investigation Into Election
CPP lawmaker and de facto party spokesman Cheam Yeap said yesterday it was now “too late” to form an independent committee to investigate alleged irregularities during last month’s national election and that the opposition CNRP needs to be “more flexible” in its relationship with the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cpp-says-too-late-for-joint-investigation-into-election-41033/
New Gov't Body to Regulate Telecom Industry
The government has agreed to create a regulatory body to ensure that companies operating in Cambodia’s telecommunications sector follow regulations and that companies that do not comply are held to account. According to a statement from the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Hun Sen approved ...
Land Tycoon Lavishes Largesse on Sanctuary Staff
Officials working in Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary and in nearby communities said yesterday that they were receiving new motorbikes and digital cameras from businessman Try Pheap, who in recent months received large-scale rubber concessions in the Preah Vihear province sanctuary. Earlier this week, it was ...
Outlook on Campu 'negative'
Moody’s Investment Services yesterday announced a change in outlook for Cambodian Public Bank to “negative” from “stable”, citing increasing risks in the Kingdom’s banking system and exposure to slow-downs in Western markets. While CamPu Bank country head Phan Ying Tong said yesterday the company’s financial position ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011092151766/Business/outlook-on-campu-negative.html
China’s president Xi arrives bearing gifts
Chinese President Xi Jinping is not one to arrive without a gift. On his first visit to Cambodia as head of state on Thursday, he pledged some $237 million in aid, erased almost $90 million in state debt, offered nearly $15 million in military support and ...
Khy Sovuthy, Ben Paviour and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinas-president-xi-arrives-bearing-gifts-119274/
B Keila, B Kak continue petitioning
Free of the police resistance that thwarted their march the previous day, about 65 Borei Keila and Boeung Kak community supporters marched to the Ministry of Justice yesterday in another effort to have land dispute activists Tim Sakmony and Yorm Bopha freed from pre-trial detention ...
Hedging China risks, Japan firms turn to booming SE Asia
Hiroshi Uematsu had a tough start in Cambodia, where he heads an economic zone that aims to attract business from his native Japan. He arrived just before the global financial crisis sent the Asian Economic Minnow’s exports into a tailspin and dried up investment interest. Now, ...
Villagers in Pursat Ask Spirits To Curse Pheapimex Company
About 70 villagers in Pursat province’s Krakor district held a daylong prayer ceremony yesterday to request help from spirits to curse the powerful Pheapimex company for destroying their farmland, villagers said. Pheapimex, owned by the wife of CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin, has maintained a 316,000-hectare ...
The promise of pork
While the Kingdom’s biggest industrial pig farming company is seeing steady growth as the nation’s population and hunger for pork grows, small pig farmers are having a hard time of it in the face of fluctuating prices and lower cost imports from Thailand, according to experts and insiders who came to a recent ...
Exports hold up despite EU slowdown
Cambodia has coped well in terms of exports despite the slowdown in some European economies, said the head of the IMF’s Asia-Pacific department last week. Anoop Singh, director for the department, said Cambodia has enjoyed many years of economic growth at about 6 per cent or ...
Bangkok-Cambodia buses launched
The first buses directly connecting Thailand and Cambodia left Bangkok on Thursday, headed for Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, with the launch of a regular service to bolster tourism and economic ties between the two countries. The first airconditioned bus from Bangkok to Phnom Penh left Mor ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/337029/bus-service-to-cambodia-launched
S. Korea, Cambodia Agree On Sharing Military Supplies
South Korea and Cambodia have agreed to share military supplies in peacekeeping and rescue operations as part of efforts to expand military ties between the two sides, the defense ministry here said Tuesday. Lee Seon-chul, the head of the South Korean defense ministry’s logistics managment bureau, ...
Workers Blame Mass Fainting on 'Angry Spirit'
After pounding on her chest and demanding a pig’s head, fruits and flowers to be offered to the angry spirit that she believed had taken over her body, garment worker Srey Mom collapsed on the floor of the Global Factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol ...