CABS provides opportunity for regional connectivity, says MoC
Cambodia’s commitment and efforts in unleashing the broader ASEAN market and beyond cropped up for discussion on Monday evening during the cocktail networking event of the Cambodia-ASEAN Business Summit (CABS) at Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra in the capital. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501466686/cabs-provides-opportunity-for-regional-connectivity-says-moc/
PM highlights important roles of trade policy advisory board
Prime Minister Hun Manet has underlined the key roles and responsibilities of the Trade Policy Advisory Board (TPAB) while presiding over the inaugural launch and first plenary session of the TPAB, held here at the Peace Palace on April 8, 2024. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501471214/pm-highlights-important-roles-of-trade-policy-advisory-board/
DPM Samal outlines key tasks to boost Kep tourism
Say Samal, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC), Monday called on the Kep Provincial Administration (KPA) to focus on achieving the objectives of Pentagonal Strategy – Phase One’s vision aimed at expanding accessibility to clean water, electricity and ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501578336/dpm-samal-outlines-key-tasks-to-boost-kep-tourism/
Cambodia’s trade with ASEAN up 13 pct in Jan.-Sept.
Cambodia’s trade volume with its fellow ASEAN member states was valued at $11.72 billion in the first nine months of 2024, up 13 percent from $10.37 billion over the same period last year, said an official report released on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501578605/cambodias-trade-with-asean-up-13-pct-in-jan-sept/
New law sets sights on halving wastewater discharges by 2030
The Cambodian Senate has approved a draft law on wastewater systems aimed at achieving the goal of preventing and reducing wastewater discharge into seas, rivers, streams, lakes, creeks and ponds by 50 per cent by 2030, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-law-sets-sights-on-halving-wastewater-discharges-by-2030
Volunteering to Tackle the Intractable Issue of Land
Veun sai district, Ratanakkiri – Kitted out in their camouflage uniforms, military boots, belts and Ministry of Land Management baseball caps, the dozen or so student volunteers looked like a stern bunch. There was no smiling as they sat at wooden desks in an open pagoda ...
Kingdom’s bourse missing some magic
At the headquarters of the Cambodia Securities Exchange on the 25th floor of Canadia Tower, something seems to be missing. Here, in Phnom Penh’s business heart, the sights typically associAted with trading shares – gesticulAting, shouting traders, the confusing hand signals, the buzz in the air ...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062166422/Business/kingdom-s-bourse-missing-some-magic.html
Cambodia: A rising star with a falling reputation?
Cambodia’s reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel workers’ rights is wearing thin – and yet the country is a rising star when it comes to attracting foreign investment and increasing exports. There are many reasons to deter brands and retailers from sourcing clothing in Cambodia. The Kingdom ...
http://www.just-style.com/analysis/a-rising-star-with-a-falling-reputation_id117944.aspx
Boy Beaten by Plantation Staff Sent to Vietnam for Treatment
A 14-year-old boy severely beaten by employees of a well-connected rubber plantation company in Ratanakkiri province on Saturday was sent to Vietnam for treatment for a life-threatening blood clot in his brain on Monday, according to his father, while a soldier detained in connection to ...
Information Minister Fears Repeat of 2003 Riots
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said Monday that the deployment last week of armored personnel carriers (APCs) and soldiers is necessary to prevent an outbreak of post-election violence akin to the anti-Thai riots that gripped Phnom Penh more than 10 years ago. Speaking to reporters at the ...
Kuch Naren and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/information-minister-fears-repeat-of-2003-riots-39266/
Embassies Warned CNRP Wants Coup
The government has informed foreign embassies in the country that the opposition’s threatened demonstrations over the election results are intended to illegally overthrow the elected CPP-led government, a ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Lieutenant General Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said that letters were ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/embassies-warned-cnrp-wants-coup-41248/
Cambodian police send 2 suspects to court after deadly clash in garment protest
The Phnom Penh Municipal Police on Wednesday sent two suspects to court with the charges of ” vandalism and causing injuries on police” in a Tuesday’s clash between the police and protesting garment workers, which resulted in the death of a woman and several injuries. Eang ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/824631.shtml#.UoQswPlgd8E
Moody's: Cambodia's rating constrained by narrow economic base, policy limitations
Global rating agency Moody’s Investors Service said Thursday that despite rapid growth, the small size and the narrow diversification of Cambodia’s economy constrained its B2 rating. The limited effectiveness of monetary policy due to a high rate of dollarization was also a rating constraint, the rating ...
Xinhua News Staff
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2013-08/22/content_29799938.htm
Blending may fuel energy sector
A container storage facility off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province that allows Cambodia to blend oil before export could hold the key to sustainable growth in the country’s nascent energy sector, according to a Danish oil and gas expert. With Chevron positioned to lead offshore ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/blending-may-fuel-energy-sector
Four More Named in Fertilizer Embezzlement Scandal
An official from Battambang province’s department of agriculture who was charged last Monday with embezzling $200,000 from the illegal sale of fertilizer donated to the poor by Japan has implicated four other officials in the case, including the son of senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap, ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-more-named-in-fertilizer-embezzlement-scandal-41913/
CNRP Lawmakers in Siem Reap as Boycott Starts
CNRP lawmakers on Sunday took an oath in front of Angkor Wat swearing they would boycott today’s opening session of the National Assembly and promising “not to betray the conscience of the people.” With the opposition in Siem Reap, the ruling CPP—which officially won a majority ...
Hul Reaksmey and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-lawmakers-in-siem-reap-as-boycott-starts-42886/
Violence begets violence
A mob of 500 villagers beat a man to death in Kampong Cham province yesterday after he allegedly slaughtered his wife and stepdaughter with a pair of scythes and reportedly taunted the assembled crowd with his wife’s severed hand. Police said Laing Pises, 48, used the ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/violence-begets-violence
CNRP’s Kem Sokha Refutes Claim That the Party Is Divided
CNRP vice president Kem Sokha on Monday denied claims made by Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s cabinet chief that leaders of the opposition party were making conflicting demands of the ruling CPP. The two parties have been locked in a political stalemate since July’s election, with the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrps-kem-sokha-refutes-claim-that-the-party-is-divided-45109/
Activist Monks, NGO Workers Held After Preah Vihear Protest
Prominent activist monk But Buntenh, head of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice, was arrested in Preah Vihear province on Thursday, along with another monk and three NGO staffers who had traveled to the province to support a group of ethnic Kuoy villagers protesting ...
Julia Wallace and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activist-monks-ngo-workers-held-after-preah-vihear-protest-49962/
New Documentary Explores the Societal Costs of Development
The documentary “Even A Bird Needs a Nest,” which premiered Thursday night at Meta House in Phnom Penh, starts off strong: an interview of Prime Minister Hun Sen speaking about the country’s progress and development. “The period of Hun Sen is a period of searching for ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-documentary-explores-the-societal-costs-of-development-45979/