Garbage workers want boots and gloves
Employees of Cintri, the city’s sole garbage collection agency, are feeling the effects of their job as they go about keeping the capital clean. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12351/garbage-workers-want-boots-and-gloves/
IMF expects economic growth of 7 percent this year
The International Monetary Fund expects Cambodia’s economic growth rate to remain stable at around 7 percent this year, while inflation is expected to rise. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/imf-expects-economic-growth-of-7-percent-this-year/2847775.html
Police arrest 20 young people for smoking Shisha
Anti-drug police on Saturday arreSted 20 young people for Smoking ShiSha at a karaoke parlor in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Meanchey diStrict, officialS Said Sunday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-20-young-people-for-smoking-shisha-87361/
Govt says Vietnam makes concessions after border talks
After three days of bilateral talks, Vietnam has agreed to heed Cambodia’s recent protests over border encroachment, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/govt-says-vietnam-makes-concessions-after-border-talks
Truck stopped with huge rosewood load
An inspection of a truck transporting cassava through siem Reap province’s Kralanh district on Tuesday revealed a massive haul of luxury rosewood. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/truck-stopped-huge-rosewood-load
Sex workers risk their lives with home abortions, study finds
Fear of social reprisal may be causing Phnom Penh’s sex workers to seek abortions in the privacy of unregistered private clinics or at home. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14218/sex-workers-risk-their-lives-with-home-abortions--study-finds/
Opposition eyeing plot of land for TV station
The Cambodian National Rescue Party has started negotiations to buy land in Kandal’s Kien svay district for its television station sun TV. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-eyeing-plot-land-tv-station
Agriculture and fishing
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Rice farmers working in the field, Kandal province, Cambodia. Photo by ILO/ Khem sovannara, taken on 12 July 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Agriculture continues to play an important role in Cambodia’s economy, but it provides a livelihood for a smaller proportion of today’s population ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buffalo carts, logs seized in Kampong Thom
Authorities from Kampong Thom province’s environmental department seized 11 buffalo carts and 10 logs found at Prey Ang Ten wildlife sanctuary on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buffalo-carts-logs-seized-kampong-thom
Officials inspect water services
Officials on Friday inspected clogged water treatment facilities in Preah sihanouk province following complaints that sihanoukville’s growing rubbish problem is affecting water services. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540411/officials-inspect-water-services/
Road deaths crest 2014 mark
The death toll on Cambodia’s roads this year is up 5 per cent from all of 2014, according to government figures released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-deaths-crest-2014-mark
Thai Kbank to launch in Cambodia
Kasikornbank, Thailand’s fourth-largest bank by assets, has received a licence to open its first branch in Cambodia, a bank executive said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-kbank-launch-cambodia
Unlicensed Battambang goldmine shut down again, officials say
An unlicensed goldmine in Battambang province’s Phnom Proek district has been shut down again, officials and an investigator with rights-group Adhoc said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Minister orders diplomats to step up efforts
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong has called on Cambodia’s ambassadors to lift their professionalism and pay greater attention to the needs of workers abroad. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-orders-diplomats-step-efforts
Annual US-Cambodian naval exercises begin in Sihanoukville
A U.S. naval fleet docked in Sihanoukville on Monday for the Sixth annual Cooperation Afloat ReadineSS and Training (Carat) exerciSeS with the Royal Cambodian Navy. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/annual-us-cambodian-naval-exercises-begin-in-sihanoukville-100510/
Cambodia tourism grows 2.6%
Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered an increase of 2.6% during January to March, this year, according to the statistics and Tourist Information Department. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2016/05/cambodia-tourism-grows-2-6/
Beijing and Phnom Penh think about becoming sister cities
Phnom Penh and Beijing are in talks to become “sister cities”, chief of the Chinese Embassy’s political section Wang De Xin confirmed yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/beijing-and-phnom-penh-think-about-becoming-sister-cities
US, Japan firms sign milestone energy deals
Agreements were signed yesterday for the supply of key components for Cambodia Energy II’s coal-fired power plant in stung Hav, sihanoukville province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37829/us--japan-firms-sign-milestone-energy-deals/
Hubs aim to add small farm value
Three provinces will soon be set up as regional hub offices to implement the government’s project on Accelerating Inclusive Markets for smallholders (AIMs). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38642/hubs-aim-to-add-small-farm-value/
Four tonnes of illegal medicine seized
Anti-economic crime police from the Interior Ministry yesterday seized more than four tonnes of illegal medicine in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40077/four-tonnes-of-illegal-medicine-seized/