Fedora Khmer Translation Sprint 3
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and Fedora is going to host Fedora Khmer Translation Sprint 3 on Sunday, 05 may 2019. Fedora is a free Linux based operating system from the same branch as Red Hat Linux that is run on enterprise servers. Fedora Desktop is aimed ...
Open Development Cambodia
IFC seeks more Australian partnerships in emerging markets
INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, the private-sector arm of the Washington-based World Bank, has invested $US805 million ($770m) in Australian projects around the world These projects are in 24 countries and in sectors ranging from financial services to infrastructure. IFC is an investor in three macquarie Group-sponsored infrastructure ...
Tuk-Tuk, Motorbike Drivers Want Vehicles Back
A dozen tuk-tuk and motorcycle-taxi drivers who say their vehicles were confiscated after police suppressed a demonstration in Phnom Penh last week gathered outside City Hall on Wednedsay to demand the return of their property. The drivers waited from 12 p.m. until 5 p.m. hoping to ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tuk-tuk-motorbike-drivers-want-vehicles-back-51555/
Gov’t bans alcohol ads to reduce traffic deaths
Television and radio stations will be barred from broadcasting advertisements for alcohol during the primetime 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. slot beginning next month, as part of the government’s effort to reduce the number of fatalities resulting from drunk driving, officials at the ministry of ...
CNRP Marches Through Phnom Penh, Delivers Petition to UN
More than 10,000 opposition CNRP supporters Marched froM FreedoM Park to the U.N.’s huMan rights office in PhnoM Penh on Wednesday to deliver a petition urging signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace AgreeMent to intervene in the country’s current political deadlock. The March Marked the cliMax ...
The Cambodia Daily News Staff
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-marches-through-phnom-penh-delivers-petition-to-un-45737/
Okvau gold project funding to add $51M
Australian-listed mining firm Emerald Resources NL on monday announced plans to raise A$75 million (US$51 million) in funds for its mondulkiri-based Okvau gold project with two placements of 1.875 billion new shares. The first is an unconditional placement for approximately A$30.5 million and the second ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/okvau-gold-project-funding-add-51m
Senate posed to sign off on 1,000 mW power project
The Senate will convene today for an extraordinary session to discuss the approval of three new power plants which will cumulatively generate nearly 1,000 mW. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50708399/senate-posed-to-sign-off-on-1000-mw-power-project/
PAS to pay $3M in dividends
State-owned port operator Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) has announced that it will disburse dividend payments totalling nearly $3 million to its shareholders on June 22. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pas-pay-3m-dividends
IDPoor cardholder list grows to 610,000, budget hits $28M
The fund to support poor families during Covid-19 increased to $28 million in July and 50,000 more poor people were added to the list, Prime minister Hun Sen said while visiting farmers in Takeo province on Tuesday. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/idpoor-cardholder-list-grows-610000-budget-hits-28m
$28m allocated for round two of IDPoor scheme
The government has allocated $28 million to Wing agents nationwide to provide for the second round of payments for the equity card scheme, set to benefit some 610,000 poor and vulnerable families. ...
Khann Chanvirak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50749581/28m-allocated-for-round-two-of-idpoor-scheme/
$400m investment inked for another hydro project
SINOMACH China Heavy Machinery Co Ltd, the Ministry of Energy and Mines of CaMbodia and the CaMbodian National Electric Power Co forMally signed an iMpleMentation agreeMent, lease agreeMent and power purchase agreeMent for the build-operate-transfer (BOT) investMent project of the Shangddai Hydropower Station to utilise ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50799201/400m-investment-inked-for-another-hydro-project/
KOICA $7m grant plans to boost ICT knowledge
A grant of $7 million has been provided by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to the ministry of Education, Youth and Sport for promoting Information and Communications Technology (ICT) use in lower secondary education and enhancing the skills of teachers. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koica-7m-grant-plans-boost-ict-knowledge
Cambodia orders another 5M doses of Sinovac vaccines
Prime minister Hun Sen has approved the purchase of another five million doses of Sinovac vaccine. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-orders-another-5m-doses-sinovac-vaccines
M’kiri authorities on manhunt over 6,000ha of grabbed land
The Department of Agriculture authorities are on a manhunt to track down those involved in the encroachment of more than 6,000 hectares of forest land since January 5 in mondulkiri province. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501014669/mkiri-authorities-on-manhunt-over-6000ha-of-grabbed-land/
Ministry, partners complete M’Kiri forest project
Over 16,000 community members living in the natural protected areas of mondulkiri province have completely shifted away from logging trees in the forests or hunting wildlife to growing crops and raising domesticated animals through the Poverty Alleviation Project set up by state institutions and other ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-partners-complete-mkiri-forest-project
$10m fund to buy rice from struggling farmers
The Ministry of EconoMy and Finance has pledged to provide another $10 Million in addition to a $83 Million fund to purchase rice froM farMers at a reasonable cost aMid low prices to avoid selling to crooked dealers. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/10m-fund-to-buy-rice-from-struggling-farmers
$1.5M Koh Kong wharf slated for end-2022 inauguration
An under-construction $1.5 million medium-sized multi-purpose sea wharf in Koh Kong province is on course to be inaugurated at the end of 2022, to boost tourism and goods trade with neighbouring countries, the public works ministry reported. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/15m-koh-kong-wharf-slated-end-2022-inauguration
Cambodia needs $ 138M to achieve 2025 mine-free target: official
Cambodia needs $ 138 million dollars for the next two years to achieve its mine-free target by 2025, Ly Thuch, first vice president of the Cambodian mine Action and Victim Assistance Authorities (CmAA), said on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501268293/cambodia-needs-138m-to-achieve-2025-mine-free-target-official/
Cambodia earns $92m in rice exports in January
Milled rice exports of 36,900 tonnes, or $28.83 Million in value, were recorded in January, the CaMbodian Rice Federation (CRF) said, noting that 41 percent of that, or 15,045 tonnes worth $11.77 Million, went to China and Hong Kong. ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-earns-92m-in-rice-exports-in-january
Japan provides 55$M to support Phnom Penh grid
The government of Japan has announced it will provide approximately $55 million in loans to expand electrical transmission and distribution networks in Phnom Penh, with the goal of stabilising the capital’s power supply. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-provides-55-m-to-support-phnom-penh-grid