Anti-fake news site online
The Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia (WMC) has launched an information verification website named ‘Crosscheck WMC’ to combat the spread of misinformation on social media. It will enable the public to verify information from a number of sources to identify whether the information is true ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-fake-news-site-online
Journalist union urges end to fake news dissemination
The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia (UJFC) has called on journalists and social media users to put greater focus on moral and ethical considerations when disseminating information in order to avoid spreading fake news. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journalist-union-urges-end-fake-news-dissemination
Minister of Information collaborates with Cambodian-Chinese Journalists to combat misinformation
Neth Pheaktra, Minister of Information, met with Soy Sopheap, President of the Cambodian-Chinese Journalists Association (CJCA), and his colleagues on March 5, 2024, at the Ministry of Information in Phnom Penh. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501451399/minister-of-information-collaborates-with-cambodian-chinese-journalists-to-combat-misinformation/
Ministry disputes forests data
The Ministry of Environment released a statement late Tuesday night vehemently refuting University of Maryland data that showed a 30 percent spike in forest cover loss in 2016 over the year before, pointing instead to its own data showing only minimal deforestation over the same ...
Phak Seangly and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-disputes-forests-data
Study finds Cambodia most vulnerable to climate change
US credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has ranked Cambodia’s economy and creditworthiness as the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Of 116 nations measured by S&P as part of a vulnerability index published last month – with a number 1 ranking being the ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/study-finds-cambodia-most-vulnerable-climate-change
The economics of ELCs
Economic land concessions in Cambodia have a profound and negative impact upon rural households located near the plantations, severely limiting residents’ access to natural resources and causing incomes to dip by almost a fifth, a new study by the University of Copenhagen has found. The report, ...
Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/economics-elcs
EU envoy vows to help Cambodia achieve universal health coverage
The European Union (EU) has affirmed its support for Cambodia to achieve its global health coverage plan in line with the Pentagonal Strategy of the new government. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501450517/eu-envoy-vows-to-help-cambodia-achieve-universal-health-coverage/
Families face eviction from Pineapple Island
One of five families facing eviction from their island home off the coast of Koh Kong province has written to the provincial governor, urging him to intervene to stop a Chinese company developing their land. “If the companies want to take over villagers’ land, they ...
PM orders minister to end land dispute
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the Minister of Land Management to check on and handle more than 580 land plots for citizens properly to end a land dispute on Koh Rong in Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50480079/pm-orders-minister-to-end-land-dispute/
Koh Rong families fear losing their land
About 40 families in Sihanoukville’s Koh Rong commune who fear losing their land have requested intervention from provincial authorities in order to stop the activities of tycoon Sok Bun and officials from the Ministry of Land Management. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50202044/koh-rong-families-fear-losing-their-land/
Royal Group set to build hotel on Koh Rong
The Royal Group, in partnership with a Thailand-based Swiss investor, will build a 148-room five-star hotel on Preah Sihanouk’s Koh Rong island, with the group having completed a ground-breaking ceremony on Saturday. ...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-set-build-hotel-koh-rong
Koh Rong projects ‘will not bring pain’, DPM says
Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has sought to reassure residents of Koh Rong, an island off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province that has been leased to a local tycoon, that they would not be adversely affected by planned development projects. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-rong-projects-will-not-bring-pain-dpm-says
Coastal developments add new niche to property market
With the recent groundbreaking of the luxury Royal Sands residential project on Koh Rong by a Cambodian conglomerate Royal Group and two major luxury condominium projects being developed on or near the shoreline of Sihanoukville, real-estate agents say a new chapter has begun in the ...
May Kunmakara and Vincent MacIsaac
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19116/coastal-developments-add-new-niche-to-property-market/
On Koh Rong, gov’t working group deciding who owns what
After getting the rights to develop Koh Rong island in 2008, the Royal Group started clearing land last year in preparation for the construction of its luxury Royal Sands resort. ...
Jonathan Cox and Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23027/on-koh-rong--gov---t-working-group-deciding-who-owns-what/
Government gives land to villagers
The government has decided to transfer nearly 100 hectares of land on Koh Sdach island in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district to local residents, who were concerned they would be forced to relocate by development companies. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098727/government-gives-land-villagers/
Koh Rong land ‘belongs to firm’
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration spokesperson Kheang Phearum told The Post on Sunday that the 35ha being bulldozed by Royal Group Co Ltd in Koh Rong belongs to it after it was leased to it for 99 years by the government in 2008. ...
Royal Group signs agreement to build Koh Rong airport
An agreement has been signed for the construction of a $300 million airport on Koh Rong island, taking five years to complete. ...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-royal-group-sign-agreement-to-build-koh-rong-airport
Education ministry planning student loans fund for university
In an effort to prepare more students for ASEAN integration, the Education Ministry plans to set up a program to give high school students access to student loans so they can continue their studies at university. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20143/education-ministry-planning-student-loans-fund-for-university/
Mini-grants for bachelor research support opportunity
In building research capacity for students and supporting their thesis writing and under the collaboration between Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and Department of Natural Resource Management and Development (NRMD) of the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Open Development Cambodia will provide financial support for students ...
Open Development Cambodia
Insurance Institute To Boost Skills in Kingdom
An insurance training centre is being planned in Cambodia to develop local expertise lacking in the Kingdom’s nascent insurance industry. The institute hopes to offer diploma courses to industry leaders here so they in turn will be qualified to provide insurance training to others, such as ...