Congo Shows Support for Cambodia’s UN Seat Bid
The Republic of Congo has become the latest country to throw its support behind Cambodia’s bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2013-2014 term, Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said yesterday. Henri Djombo, visiting Congolese minister ...
Good ties boost investment, trade, tourism between Cambodia, China
The bilateral relations between Cambodia and China in terms of investment, trade and tourism have become stronger in the past year thanks to the two countries’ good relations, said officials Friday. Cambodia attracted China’s investments of 1.19 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, up 71 percent from ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-02/17/c_131416641.htm
Pailin Looks to Put Longan Fruit on GI Map
Pailin’s juicy longans, a small beige-colored fruit renowned for its sweet taste, is on the way to becoming Cambodia’s third food product to attain Geographic Indicator (GI) status. The longan will join Cambodia’s only other GI-recognized food products: Kompong Speu palm sugar and Kampot ...
Thai Envoy Proposes Group to Address Logging
The Thai Ambassador in Phnom Penh has suggested that Cambodia form a special delegation to tackle the common – and often deadly – practice of illegal logging along the two countries’ shared border, the ambassador said yesterday. Already this year, 11 Cambodians have reportedly been ...
Warrant sought for shooter
The Ministry of Interior has sought a warrant for the suspect who shot three people at a protest outside a shoe factory last week amid more allegations from government and police officials that the perpetrator was Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith. Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012030154802/National-news/warrant-sought-for-shooter.html
ASEAN plans to adopt an 'ASEAN bank' system
Central banks in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plan to set up an “ASEAN bank” system that would make it easier for designated banks to set up subsidiaries and operate throughout the region, according to official sources. The plan to set up ASEAN banks is ...
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/business/news/20120307p2g00m0bu116000c.html
Cambodia may find new rice market in Manila
Low international rice prices have further stymied Cambodia’s milled-rice exports, millers reported yesterday, but large orders – reportedly the first ever – from the Philippines have encouraged at least one of the Kingdom’s biggest rice exporters. Mega Green Imex Cambodia this year to date has received ...
Higher education reform gets $90M
Cambodia’s higher education sector – which education officials last month said lacks a clear vision – will undergo improvements under a six-year project financed by a $90 million no-interest loan from the World Bank. ...
Yesenia Amaro
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/higher-education-reform-gets-90m
Families shift from traditional to organic farming methods
The SAC, an investment initiative by the Japanese government, enables farmers in the province to enhance the quality of their yield and sell their crops to high-end buyers, including casinos and upscale restaurants in Bavet city and Phnom Penh. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50518904/families-shift-from-traditional-to-organic-farming-methods/
Employees sit out and block road
Around 700 garment workers blocked National Road 4 in Por Sen Chey district on Monday in a protest to demand severance packages they claimed their factory owed them after it shut down. The workers said Chim Li Cambodia Pte Ltd, which has since taken over ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/employees-sit-out-and-block-road
VN border ‘‘largely’ marked
Cambodia and Vietnam have largely completed border demarcation in Ratanakkiri and Mondulkiri provinces at locations agreed by the two parties. But disputed areas were left untouched pending France’s assistance, according to border committee officials. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vn-border-largely-marked
GMAC: Protests hurting industry
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has warned that increasing industrial action is harming the investment climate as the threat of the Kingdom losing access to the EU’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement looms. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/gmac-protests-hurting-industry
Ministry to carry out NGO census
The Ministry of Interior will carry out a census of local NGOs and associations from October 10 to November 29 to obtain updated figures of how many such organisations are present in the Kingdom. Some 5,386 NGOs and associations had registered with the Ministry of ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-carry-out-ngo-census
National Assembly unanimously approves draft social security bill
The National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved the draft Law on Social Security Scheme, which consists of 11 chapters and 107 articles. Passed by the Council of Ministers in early August, the bill was approved by all 105 members present at the assembly. ...
Labourers protest unpaid wages
Seventy construction workers in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet staged a protest yesterday after the labour agency that found them jobs failed to pay their salaries, totaling more than $30,000 over four months, as agreed. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507847/labourers-protest-unpaid-wages/
Customs unit to get choppers to fight smuggling: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said that the Cambodian customs unit will have helicopters equipped with weapons to stamp out smuggling. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504920/customs-unit-to-get-choppers-to-fight-smuggling-pm/
Government to expand clean water supply to rural areas
The Industry Minister on Monday said that he is committed to expanding the coverage of clean water supply across the country. During a visit to a water processing plant in Pursat province, Industry Minister Cham Prasidh said that providing clean water to rural areas is ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50522748/government-to-expand-clean-water-supply-to-rural-areas/
Firms back loan relief measures for victims
Representatives from the Kingdom’s microfinance sector on Sunday said the industry was keeping a close watch on those impacted by the Mekong River flooding, and that they were willing to take measures to reduce the financial burden on the victims. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-back-loan-relief-measures-victims
UN Human Rights Rapporteur to land in capital
The UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, is to land in the Kingdom on Monday, in her first official visit since questioning the “genuineness” of the July 29 national elections, polls she claimed were “one-sided”. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-human-rights-rapporteur-land-capital
Ministry to conduct CSO census
The Ministry of Interior and the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC) are to conduct a census aimed at ascertaining the exact number of registered civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Kingdom, the ministry’s General Department of Administration director-general Prak Sam Oeun told The Post on ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-conduct-cso-census