League for Democracy Party holds congress
Some 5,000 supporters turned out for the congress of the League for Democracy Party in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/league-democracy-party-holds-congress
Rosewood, resin trees seized in separate raids
Officials confiscated nearly 5 tonnes of rosewood and resin tree timber in Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces on Sunday in separate incidents. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosewood-resin-trees-seized-separate-raids
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. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-deaths-crest-2014-mark
Gasoline retail prices creep up in country
Retail prices for gasoline have gradually increased by approximately 5 percent since December last year, raising concern from motorists. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078692/gasoline-retail-prices-creep-country/
Japanese Firm set to Open Plant in Poipet
Japanese electronics firm Nidec Corporation has invested about $37.5 million to establish a factory in Poipet City that will produce parts for computer hard drives ...
Japan provides US$11 mln for maternal and child health project
Japan provides US$11.5 million in grand aids to Cambodia for the implementation of the Project for Expansion of National Maternal and Child Health Center. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NWUxNDNlOTcxMjE
Mother nature’s youthful ambassadors get to work
Forty young environmental envoys began training on December 5 to become Young Eco Ambassadors, tasked with raising awareness of the need to protect the environment. ...
Duch Lalin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18498/mother-nature---s-youthful-ambassadors-get-to-work/
Millions given for waste management
The government has allocated $5 million across the Kingdom’s 46 sub-districts and towns to help with waste management by national and local institutions. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25476/millions-given-for-waste-management/
UN envoy making informal visit
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association will arrive in Cambodia on February 5, his office announced on Friday. ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-envoy-making-informal-visit
CNRP Meach Sovannara’s accident
Meach Sovannara, the CNRP lawmaker who was let out of jail on bail in May, was involved in a car accident on National Road 5 on Thursday. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12221/cnrp-meach-sovannara---s-accident/
Kingdom may fall short of Tourism target
Cambodia may not achieve its goal of attracting 5 million tourists this year due to the slowdown in the global economy, according to the Ministry of Tourism. ...
Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13765//
Open Development Cambodia has published a new map layer and dataset of "Targeted municipalities for the implementation of the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) in 2020"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new map layer of target areas to be implemented in 2020 under MoU between NCDDS and Family Health International (FHI360) on the implementation of Social Accountability for Sub-National Democratic Development on the interactive map, under the map category ...
3rd Workshop: GIS application in land management and education
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce the 3rd workshop on “GIS Application in Land Management and Education”. This course focuses on two parts. The first part deals with the use of GIS in the land planning and management sector. The second part emphasizes ...
Open Development Cambodia
Kingdom inflation rises on oil prices
Inflation in Cambodia rose 5.8 per cent year-on-year in January, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics. Rising fuel costs had spurred the inflation, which was felt largely in the price of food, officials said. Data showed food and non-alcoholic beverage prices in January increased ...
Mikasa's Koh Rong factory Sees it join Japanese influx
Mikasa Corporation, a famous Japanese sports goods manufacturing company, is to invest more than $5 million in building a ball production factory in Cambodia’s Koh Kong Special Economic Zone (KKSEZ) and plans to start construction early next year according to officials. Hiroshi Suzuki, chief executive ...
Exports to China Fell 10% in First Six Months
Revenues generated from Cambodian exports to China fell by 10 percent in the first half of the year, according to figures released by the Ministry of Commerce last week. About $60 million worth of goods were exported from Cambodia to China between January and June, the ...
Infrastructure spending rises
Between 2008 and 2012, Cambodia’s spending on public infrastructure amounted to about US$2.5 billion — a sum an opposition politician says is too low and is ineffectively put to use. In his opening remarks at the seventh Cambodia Outlook Conference, Prime Minister Hun Sen said public ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022261558/Business/infrastructure-spending-rises.html
Instalment payments for goods gaining purchase
AEON Microfinance (Cambodia) Co, part of Japan-based AEON Group, said sales by instalment for electrical appliances and motorbikes increased by 715 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 year on year, a trend industry experts say will grow further with increasing demand for electronics. Started ...
Cambodia reports 17th human case of bird flu this year
A six-year-old boy from Cambodia’s southern Kandal Province has been confirmed for the H5N1 virus, bringing the number of the cases to 17 so far this year, a joint statement by the World Health Organization and Cambodian Health Ministry said Wednesday. “The boy has now ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2013-08/21/c_132651265.htm
Cambodia sets 2020 tourism target
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen expects the country to welcome 8 million foreign visitors by 2020. Talking to local media, the PM said the country was on track to achieve the ambitious target by 2020. The largest sources of tourists to Cambodia are Vietnam, China, South ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/02/cambodia-sets-2020-tourism-target/