Cambodia benefits from Japanese tech
Minister of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth has encouraged the Japanese-owned Kirirom Institute of Technology to seek more Japanese technology companies to aid the establishment of the Eco-Technology Park at the Kirirom resort in Kampong Speu province. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-benefits-japanese-tech
Sustainability disclosure database for local firms launched
Cambodia, with support from the World Economic Forum (WEF), on May 12 launched the Supplier Database with Sustainability Dimensions (SD2) database, the first of its kind, to provide information on the sustainability operations of domestic companies. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sustainability-disclosure-database-local-firms-launched
Tonle Sap Lake plastics pick-up effort underway
The NGO2 Bamboo Shoot Foundation in cooperation with the Cambodian Association of Travel Agents (CATA) launched an environmental clean-up campaign to pick up plastic waste along the Tonle Sap Lake in Siem Reap province in order to improve the beauty of the area and increase ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-lake-plastics-pick-effort-underway
Cambodia seeks collaboration despite criticism of Lower Se San 2 hydro project
Cambodia is moving forward with development of the Lower Se San 2 hydropower project and is seeking support from surrounding nations. A spirit of collaboration was established on Tuesday at a meeting between Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, Tourism Minister Dr. Thong Khon and ...
HydroWorld News Staff
http://www.hydroworld.com/articles/2013/12/cambodia-seeks-collaboration-despite-criticism-of-lower-se-san-2-hydro-project.html
Workers 'win' after Kandal factory strike
Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday and 6,000 more planned to return today after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said yesterday. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed yesterday that the roughly ...
Radio waves signal hope for indigenous minorities
She had to leave Cambodia to learn how radio can be used to keep indigenous communities both up to date and in touch with their roots – and now she wants to do the same for the ethnic Jarai community in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17642/radio-waves-signal-hope-for-indigenous-minorities/
National health survey ready
International donors along with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Planning kick-started the Kingdom’s fourth Demographic and Health Survey in the capital yesterday. ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-health-survey-ready
Hun Sen attends dinner, presentation in China
Accompanied by his wife, Bun Rany, Prime Minister Hun Sen continued his trip to China on Tuesday evening by attending a dinner reception hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to state news agency Agence Kampuchea Press. Mr. Hun Sen and his delegation of high-level officials ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-attends-dinner-presentation-in-china-59355/
Poyry receives consulting contract for Cambodia's 400-MW Lower Se San 2 hydropower plant
Global consulting group Poyry has been awarded a consulting assignment for the construction of Cambodia’s 400-MW Lower Se San 2 hydropower plant. Awarded by developer Hydro Power Lower Se San 2 Company Ltd., the assignment includes independent engineering services including construction monitoring and inspection throughout the ...
Michael Harris
http://www.hydroworld.com/articles/2015/02/poyry-receives-consulting-contract-for-cambodia-s-400-mw-lower-se-san-2-hydropower-plant.html
Moody’s to review Cambodia's banks for downgrades
Moody’s Investor Services will review ACLEDA Bank and Cambodian Public Bank (Campu Bank) for potential downgrades, according to a release from the rating agency on Wednesday. But the move comes primarily as a response to the global financial crisis and the rating agency’s attempt to realign sovereign ratings with ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012042055668/Business/moodys-eyes-kingdom-banks.html
Dam Firm Told to Build Homes for Affected Communities
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that the company responsible for building the Lower Sesan 2 dam in Stung Treng province will be in charge of constructing homes for thousands of villagers that will be displaced according to a statement Friday by the Council of ...
Hundreds Protest Dam Plans
More than 500 ethnic minority residents of riparian communities in northeastern Cambodia held a peaceful protest Tuesday against the construction of a Vietnamese-led hydroelectric dam that will relocate them from their ancestral land. The villagers, who live along the Se San River in Stung Treng and ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/dam-02282012135535.html
Shanghai firm leads the way
Shanghai Construction Group has announced it will complete US$700 million in projects in Cambodia over the next five years, highlighting China’s dominant and still-growing presence in the Kingdom. The company presently oversees nine bridge and road construction projects in the Kingdom, according to government relations officer ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011092051749/Business/shanghai-firm-lead-the-way.html
More Cambodians traveling abroad as tourists
The number of Cambodians traveling overseas as tourists increased to nearly 700,000 in the first half of the year, up 26 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Tourism. Experts in the industry welcomed this trend and pointed out ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28454/more-cambodians-traveling-abroad-as-tourists/
Cambodia launches National Programme For Sub-National Democratic Development Phase 2 (2021-2030)
The National Programme for Sub-National Democratic Development Phase 2 (2021-2030) was officially launched yesterday under the presidency of Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501045431/cambodia-launches-national-programme-for-sub-national-democratic-development-phase-2-2021-2030/
Villagers refuse relocation
Villagers whose homes will be destroyed if the controversial Lower Sesan 2 Dam is built are to deliver today a letter to provincial authorities announcing that they refuse to be resettled. Meach Mean, coordinator of the 3S Rivers Protection Network, said the villagers, who hail from ...
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-refuse-relocation
Lower Sesan 2's Power not worth a dam: NGO
While the humanitarian objections to Mondulkiri’s proposed Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam project are well documented, a report from conservation NGO International Rivers yesterday highlighted an objection of another sort: the Lower Sesan wouldn’t be a very good location for a dam in the first ...
Government Says Constitutional Amendment Is Not a Change
The government has taken exception to language used to refer to its plan to amend the Constitution dealing with Cambodia’s borders, saying that the planned “amendment” does not constitute a “change”. Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said that he had launched a study to amend ...
Court Releases Four Arrested During Clashes
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday released four of the six men who were charged with assault following violent clashes between security forces, protesters and angry commuters in Phnom Penh last month, and intends to release the remaining two men today, a rights worker ...
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-releases-four-arrested-during-clashes-44890/
Nine inmates die in 1st quarter; drop from same period in 2013
The number of inmates who died in the country’s prisons in the first quarter of the year dipped to nine from 15 during the same period last year, a rights group and the prison department said. From January to April, nine prisoners—five men and four women—reportedly ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nine-inmates-die-in-1st-quarter-drop-from-same-period-in-2013-60719/