Battambang families to petition Prime Minister
A group of families involved in a land dispute with a businessman in Battambang province will today submit petitions to the National Assembly and Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet to plead for intervention. The more than 300 families, from Bavel district’s Boeng Bram commune, maintain that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/battambang-families-to-petition-prime-minister-67156/
Cambodian Opposition Gets Parliamentary Commission Roles
This week lawmakers from Cambodia’s opposition party are being voted onto 10 parliamentary commissions. This is a key part of a political deal in which the opposition finally agreed to take its 55 seats in parliament, ending its year-long boycott over alleged vote-rigging in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodian-opposition-gets-parliamentary-commission-roles/2428215.html
After prolonged protest, villagers win back land
Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim intervened in a high-profile land dispute between villagers from Kratie province’s snuol district and a south Korean agribusiness firm over the weekend, announcing saturday that the contested 1,562-hectare tract would be taken back from the company and awarded to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-prolonged-protest-villagers-win-back-land-67344/
Two-party talks on new NEC law move forward
Negotiators for the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP say they have hammered out several details of a new law governing the National Election Committee (NEC) after talks on Monday and expect to have the draft finished as early as the end of the month. The opposition ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-party-talks-on-new-nec-law-move-forward-67802/
Gov’t stands firm on Montagnards
A UN delegation met with Ratanakkiri province’s deputy police chief yesterday afternoon to discuss the fate of 13 Montagnard asylum seekers who have been hiding in the province in recent weeks. The provincial administration, however, has continued to call for the group’s deportation. Deputy police chief ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-stands-firm-montagnards
Acid attack claims life
A 20-year-old woman who suffered serious burns earlier this month after being doused with acid passed away on saturday, marking the first reported acid-attack fatality in Cambodia since 2012. On March 6, security guard Meas Vanny was walking from her rented room to begin a shift ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/acid-attack-claims-life
Nary a drop to drink
As a light rain peppered the dry earth in Kampong Thom province’s O’Dong village on Friday afternoon, residents rejoiced. Having scrambled around for pots and bowls, they hoped the drizzle would yield enough water to cover their basic needs. But after just 15 minutes, hope turned ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nary-drop-drink
Abe plans Mekong development to counter China
Japanese Prime Minister shinzo Abe will meet the leaders of five south-east Asian countries in Tokyo on saturday to adopt a new three-year development strategy for the Mekong region — a move that will rival China’s rising economic clout in Asia. The plan is likely to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Today News Staff
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/abe-plans-mekong-development-counter-china
Cambodia puts 44 people under quarantine for contact with COVID-19-infected Japanese man
Cambodia’s health authorities have put 44 people under quarantine for having contact with a Japanese man reportedly diagnosed with COVID-19, said a Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control Department statement on Thursday evening. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50698739/cambodia-puts-44-people-under-quarantine-for-contact-with-covid-19-infected-japanese-man
Virus cases soar to 84, latest patients quarantined in Preah Sihanouk hotel
Twenty-nine French tourists and two Cambodians being quarantined at a hotel in Preah sihanouk province’s sihanoukville have tested positive for the virus after coming into contact with two COVID-19 patients, raising the tally to 84, according to a Health Ministry’s statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50704525/virus-cases-soar-to-84-latest-patients-quarantined-in-preah-sihanouk-hotel/
Blockchain system will reduce dependence on the ‘greenback’
Cambodian’s will soon be able to make near-instant payments via a new blockchain payment platform being launched under a system called Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) that will “ultimately undermine the popularity of the Us dollar”, according to the Kingdom’s central bank director. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50723403/blockchain-system-will-reduce-dependence-on-the-greenback/
ASEAN Infrastructure Fund could be within Cambodia's reach
Access to the region’s largest collective financial resource, the AsEAN Infrastructure Fund, could be easier than expected for Cambodia, according to an Asian Development Bank economist. Initiated in May, the fund is expected to lend up to Us$4 billion and leverage up to $13 billion for ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071057314/Business/regional-fund-cambodia-adb.html
Number of Japanese firms to surge this year
If industry-watchers were roused last year by the influx of Japanese investment to Cambodia – including bellwether parts manufacturer Minebea – 2012 should not disappoint. Up to 60 new Japanese companies are expected to apply for business licences this year after the number tripled to about ss='cambodia-color'>...
PPWSA shuffle no surprise
Officials and securities firms yesterday showed little distress at the imminent retirement of Ek sonn Chan, the man credited with straightening out and preparing the capital’s public water utility for its initial public offering in April. A letter from the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority shuffle no surprise
WWF commits to preserve and protect endangered animal in Cambodia
Country Director of WWF-Cambodia Mr. Seng Teak took the National Environment Day and World Environment Day 2020 to Share WWF&rSquo;S commitment to work with the government to preServe and protect endangered animal in Kingdom&rSquo;S EaStern PlainS and Mekong Flooded ForeStS landScapeS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50731338/wwf-commits-to-preserve-and-protect-endangered-animal-in-cambodia/
Japanese firms in Cambodia biomass and solar power venture
According to Japan’s The Mainichi News, the company, a renewable energy producer Aura Green Energy Co. has teamed up with another Japanese partner to launch a hybrid power generation business in 2021, with the aim of securing the country’s power supply stability. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50717991/japanese-firms-in-cambodia-biomass-and-solar-power-venture/
Ex-RCAF commander Nhek Bun Chhay accused of disloyalty, stripped of role
Nhek Bun Chhay, president of the Khmer National United Party and former commander of Cambodia’s military under the royalist-led government of the 1990s, was stripped of his role as an adviser to the government and forced to surrender his firearms because he was “no longer ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sihanoukville: Returning Chinese mark a sign of a business rebound
The Kingdom’s coastal sihanoukville, where Chinese nationals national dominated nearly a half of businesses before the COVID-19 outbreak, is seeing economic activity gradually rebound after Middle Kingdom’s investors and workers started to return to the province as pandemic fears ease. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50734801/sihanoukville-returning-chinese-mark-a-sign-of-a-business-rebound/
NIG aiming to create level playing ground for ISPs
The National Internet Gateway’s (NIG) will level the competitive playing ground for Cambodian internet service providers (IsPs). It may however, also limit companies who invested millions of dollars building the Kingdom’s internet infrastructure from realising the return on investment they had counted on. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50822848/nig-aiming-to-create-level-playing-ground-for-isps/
CGCC executive clarifies Business Recovery Guarantee Scheme process
Small buSineSSeS raiSing queStionS about the proceSS of applying for a loan through the newly formed Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC)&rSquo;S BuSineSS Recovery Guarantee Scheme (BRGS), haS prompted CGCC&rSquo;S chief executive officer Mr. Wong Keet Loong to provide an overview of how the Scheme SS='cambodia-color'>...
Brian Badzmierowski
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50840936/cgcc-executive-clarifies-business-recovery-guarantee-scheme-process/