Constitutional Council to hear voter registration complaints
The Constitutional Council of Cambodia will today start hearing claims from the opposition CNRP that more than 2,400 non-citizens were recently added to the country’s voter rolls, days after the government’s National Election Committee threw out the same complaints. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/constitutional-council-to-hear-voter-registration-complaints-124233/
Cassava prices up on delayed harvests
Cassava prices in Cambodia’s northwest corridor have skyrocketed to astonishing heights in the wake of the recent massive floods that have compromised yields in one of Kingdom’s most fertile regions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-prices-delayed-harvests
Cambodia improves in Corruption Perceptions Index
Cambodia scored a 21 out of 100 on Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2020, a one point improvement over last year’s score. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Brian Badzmierowski
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808341/cambodia-improves-in-corruption-perceptions-index/
Economic growth projected at 4.8 percent in 2022: Deputy PM
Cambodia’s economic growth is projected to see robust growth next year because of economic recovery resulting from the government’s Covid-19 vaccination programmme. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918131/economic-growth-projected-at-4-8-percent-in-2022-deputy-pm/
Economic growth projected at 4.8 percent in 2022
Cambodia’s economic growth is projected to see robust growth next year because of economic recovery resulting from the government’s Covid-19 vaccination programmme. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918131/economic-growth-projected-at-4-8-percent-in-2022-deputy-pm/
Belgium steadfast in support for Cambodian students
The Government of Belgium is providing scholarship support for Cambodian students wishing to pursue master’s and doctoral degree programmes at some of Belgium’s most renowned universities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501375054/belgium-steadfast-in-support-for-cambodian-students/
PM: Cambodia thankful for return of antiquities
Prime Minister Hun sen commended Cambodia’s foreign partners for their cooperation in returning precious antiquities that were looted by unscrupulous dealers during the country’s darkest hours. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-cambodia-thankful-return-antiquities
Government remains committed to protecting press freedom
Prime Minister Hun sen has reaffirmed the Royal Government’s continued commitment to protecting the freedom of expression, freedom of the press in accordance with the country’s Constitution and Press Law. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501284403/government-remains-committed-to-protecting-press-freedom/
Some 1,500 Bantengs counted in Cambodia
Around 1,500 Bantengs (Bos Javanicus) listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Threatened species have been recorded in Cambodia’s forests. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501314869/some-1500-bantengs-counted-in-cambodia/
Some 1,500 Bantengs counted in Cambodia
Around 1,500 Bantengs (Bos Javanicus) listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Threatened species have been recorded in Cambodia’s forests. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501314869/some-1500-bantengs-counted-in-cambodia/
Cambodia-ASEAN trade valued at over $7 billion in H1
Cambodia’s trade with AsEAN member countries was valued at $7.1 billion in the first six months of this year, accounting for 30 percent of the Kingdom’s total international trade. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501331365/cambodia-asean-trade-valued-at-over-7-billion-in-h1/
Ministry trains youth in trade regulations
The Ministry of Commerce has been training youngsters so that they are aware of Cambodia’s trade regulations and guidelines, governing the country’s trade and export-oriented markets. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rachel David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501488408/ministry-trains-youth-in-trade-regulations/
Relocation fears for Siem Reap families
About 90 Siem Reap familieS have rejected what they Say iS a preliminary move by the provincial authority to have them moved off land declared part of Kulen Mountain National Park in 2002. The familieS, in Banteay Srei diStrict&rSquo;S Tbeng commune, Said yeSterday they had rejected SS='cambodia-color'>...
Macau-Backed Casino Firm to Expand Operations in Cambodia
A Macau-backed firm plans to grow its involvement in Cambodia’s casino sector as it targets the local gambling market with gaming machines and two new casinos, the company said in a financial statement filed in the Us. Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc, which currently provides gaming machines ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rail Project In Need of More Funds
The rehabilitation of Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network is nearly six months behind schedule, and with more than a year’s worth of work to do, the project is running out of money, a consultant for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said yesterday. Paul Power, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
A ‘good neighbour’ policy
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr chose Cambodia as his first official overseas trip since his March 2 appointment to the top foreign policy job. The Australian Labor Party politician, former journalist and longtime premier of New south Wales sat down on Monday evening with the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032855289/National-news/a-good-neighbour-policy.html
Wildlife at odds with ELCs
Economic land concessions strewn over the remote Western siem Pang forest, in stung Treng province, are threatening the survival of Cambodia’s national bird, the giant ibis, a report reveals. The forest, flanking the Kingdom’s border with Laos, is home to five critically endangered bird species, yet ss='cambodia-color'>...
Maid Talk Premature: Ministry
The Ministry of Labour has played down reports it is close to sending domestic workers to singapore, a country that has only recently granted foreign maids a weekly day off. The two countries’ governments had been in talks with singapore’s Association of Employment Agencies about placing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Active acquisition is a GO
Malaysian-based GO Communications Group signed an acquisition deal to buy out Cambodian based Active Event Management, on Friday, sept 21, 2012. siet sisopheak, managing director of Active, said GO became interested in the company because of improvements in Cambodia’s economy and how it would benefit the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092558890/Business/active-acquisition-is-a-go.html
Micro-Lender To Roll Out ATM Service
Hattha Kaksekar Limited, one of the country’s largest microfinance institutions (MFIs), is in talks to become a commercial bank by 2014, an official at the micro-lender said yesterday. The move, if successful, will be in line with the Central Bank’s policy to support MFIs in diversifying ss='cambodia-color'>...