First Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia border friendship exchange to be held this month
The first Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia border friendship exchange is slated for mid-December in the tri-border area that comprises Ngoc Hoi district in Vietnam’s Central Highland province of Kon Tum, Laos’ Attapeu province, and Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province as well as in Kon Tum city. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501400751/first-vietnam-laos-cambodia-border-friendship-exchange-to-be-held-this-month/
Land disputants doubtful that new government authority will bring justice
Locals from some communities with ongoing land disputes are not optimistic about the government’s new out-of-court dispute resolution authority. Prime Minister Hun Manet announced last month that the government body could resolve civil matters more quickly than Cambodia’s courts, but land disputants are wary of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phon Sothyroth
https://cambojanews.com/land-disputants-doubtful-that-new-government-authority-will-bring-justice/
Village ends logging, plants crops
In Trapaing Chor commune’s sre Kin village, located in Kampong speu province’s Oral district, certain community members have transitioned away from forest-related activities such as logging and wildlife hunting. Instead, they have embraced a new approach by forming a rotating cropping community. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/village-ends-logging-plants-crops
Cambodia, India to link payment systems by June
Cambodia’s central bank, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), is set to launch a faster and more efficient cross-border payment system between Cambodia and India. The initiative will mark a significant expansion of Bakong’s reach, fostering economic activity between the two nations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501497758/cambodia-india-to-link-payment-systems-by-june/
After Deadly Factory Collapse, Safety Improvements Scarce
On May 16, immediately after the ceiling of a shoe factory collapsed in Kompong speu province, leaving two people dead, promises were made to prosecute those responsible for the tragedy and to conduct a nationwide in­spection of all factories. “We will have a committee investigate clearly ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-deadly-factory-collapse-safety-improvements-scarce-39041/
US Embassy under fire
Government officials reacted strongly yesterday after the Us Embassy questioned Cambodia’s commitment to democracy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079943/us-embassy-fire/
Cambodia looks at easing visa requirements
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism is looking at the possibility of relaxing visa requirements for cruise visitors. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Asia Cruise News Staff
http://www.asiacruisenews.com/News/Cambodia-looks-at-easing-visa-requirements/3w3c557.html
Prayers, blessings replace cheat sheets
Prayers, blessings and visits to shrines have replaced cheat notes in this year’s Grade 12 exam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14825/prayers--blessings-replace-cheat-sheets/
Trading Floor Silent Two Years After CSX Launch
It is almost two years to the day since Cambodia’s stock market launched in Phnom Penh in front of proud government officials, senior financiers and eager investors from across the region. Initial expectations were that a total of three state-owned firms would be listed within six ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/trading-floor-silent-two-years-after-csx-launch-35211/
Rise of the bureaucrats
When the ruling Cambodian People’s Party promised civil servants a pay rise earlier this year, some suggested it was also trying to give them a reason to vote for it in July’s national election. The 20 per cent increase came amid the opposition Cambodia National Rescue ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rise-bureaucrats
World Bank Sees Challenges to Government Income Target
Cambodia appears unlikely to meet its target of becoming a high middle-income nation by 2030 and years of gains it has made reducing poverty could be erased by even a modest shock to the economy, according to the latest World Bank data. World Bank senior country ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/world-bank-sees-challenges-to-government-income-target-45405/
Government Suspends Logging in Stung Treng Dam Concession
The government has ordered Ang & Associates Lawyer Co. Ltd., a company headed by well-known businessman Kith Meng, to cease logging in an area of stung Treng province where a hydropower dam will be built. sesan district governor Yeang srey sary said Thursday that a delegation ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-suspends-logging-in-stung-treng-dam-concession-45878/
Investors Play Down Impact of Labor Strikes
Economists and analysts on Thursday shrugged off the opposition CNRP’s threat to stage nationwide labor strikes, arguing that while such a move could lower profits for companies in the short term, it would not significantly deter foreign investors. Mr. Rainsy, who mentioned the possibility of strikes ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/investors-play-down-impact-of-labor-strikes-43694/
After Arrests, NGOs Continue Petitioning to ‘Free the 23′
Following the arrest of 11 activists on Tuesday as they attempted to deliver a petition to the U.s. and French embassies seeking the release of 23 jailed protesters, NGO representatives quietly delivered similar petitions to the Japanese Embassy and European Union headquarters Wednesday. The petitioners, representing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-arrests-ngos-continue-petitioning-to-free-the-23-50966/
Obama speech sees mixed reaction on US momentum in Southeast Asia
US PreSident Barack Obama&rSquo;S SoutheaSt ASia-only trip in 2012 marked a high point in the US prioritization of the region. But there haS been a drop in the preSence of high-level US diplomatS Since then, and in hiS recent State of the Union Speech, Obama SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/obama-speech-sees-mixed-reaction-on-us-momentum-southeast-asia-cambodia-khmer/1848293.html
Waiting for the deluge
The Lower SeSan II dam project iS a microcoSm of the carving up of Cambodia. In one of the world&rSquo;S moSt diverSe river ecoSyStemS, the ground burnS. Whole foreStS are felled with Scant regard for the law, while the project iS backed by the country&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel Pye and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/waiting-deluge
New Kampot Salt Farm Has Big Ambitions
TOEK CHHOU DISTRICT, Kampot province &ndaSh; A donor-backed project launched here on Saturday aimS to produce Cambodia&rSquo;S firSt export-quality Sea Salt and invigorate the Struggling local Salt induStry. In a ceremony among Kampot&rSquo;S vaSt fieldS of coaStal SaltpanS and low leveeS, company repreSentativeS from ASia Salt SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-kampot-salt-farm-has-big-ambitions-20505/
Koh Pich Awash With Development, but Don’t Ask for Details
Business is booming on Koh Pich. since development began in 2006—and about 300 families were pushed off what was then farmland—the island has slowly grown into the symbol of commercial modernity in Phnom Penh. The developer, Overseas Cam­bodia Investment Corp., is also extending the island by ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/koh-pich-awash-with-development-but-dont-ask-for-details-36411/
Cambodia Angkor Air plans network and fleet expansion ahead of PAL-backed Cambodia Airlines launch
Cambodia Angkor Air is planning rapid fleet and network expansion as competition intensifies in the Cambodian market. The Cambodian flag carrier is expected to more than double its fleet by the end of 2015 and launch services to several new markets, including mainland China, Hong ss='cambodia-color'>...
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/embassies-warned-cnrp-wants-coup-41248/