Youth cyclists blocked in Koh Kong province
Koh Kong provincial police confiscated more than 10 bicycles from a group of Mother Nature Organisation youths who were riding from Koh Kong province to Phnom Penh to submit a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen proposing that Koh Kong Krao Island be certified a ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-cyclists-blocked-koh-kong-province
FAO gives policy recommendations in response to dire farming warning
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said the country’s economically crucial agriculture sector must implement a raft of new measures to combat escalating natural disasters that are threatening Cambodian crops and livestock. ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50730610/fao-gives-policy-recommendations-in-response-to-dire-farming-warning/
Ethnic Vietnamese in Phnom Penh resigned to document purge
The campaign to cancel “irregular” documents from some 70,000 people – the vast majority of whom are ethnic Vietnamese – began in Kampong Chhnang province last month. Most interviewed there by The Post had no other documents, had lived in Cambodia for generations and had fled briefly during ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-vietnamese-phnom-penh-resigned-document-purge
Hunt on for illegal loggers as timber found in Ratanakkiri
Ratanakkiri provincial and O’Yadav district police forces seized 30 logs of mixed timber from a plantation in Pak Nhay commune’s Lom village on Sunday. Police suspect traders hid the logs at the plantation while they waited to transport them to be sold in Vietnam. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hunt-illegal-loggers-timber-found-ratanakkiri
Announcement on the need for Access to Information Law in Cambodia
On 01 July 2020, the Advocacy and Policy Institute issued an announcement on the need for Access to Information Law in Cambodia in a debate workshop on the update on the rights to Access to Information Law held on Tuesday 30 June 2020. It is ...
Advocacy and Policy Institute
Svay Rieng province sees over 2300 workers return in 2020
The deputy provincial governor of Svay Rieng has said that as of July 1, 2,317 people, of which 863 were females and 99 children, returned to the province in 2020. ...
Khann Chanvirak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50742354/svay-rieng-province-sees-over-2300-workers-return-in-2020/
Community participation in protection of forests urged on National Arbor Day
Prime Minister Hun Sen called on all citizens to participate in protecting the forest, environment and plant more tree saplings for the benefit of future generations, as he marked National Arbor Day yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50743342/community-participation-in-protection-of-forests-urged-on-national-arbor-day/
Dozens of officials in four ministries have to vacate posts
Advisors, assistants, secretaries and other officials with equivalent positions at four ministries will lose their positions, according to a sub-decree obtained by Khmer Times yesterday. ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50734717/dozens-of-officials-in-four-ministries-have-to-vacate-posts/
Hungary reopens embassy office in Cambodia after 25 years
Hungary has officially reopened its Embassy office in the Kingdom after 25 years of closure in a bid to boost cooperation and ties between the two countries. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50779350/hungary-reopens-embassy-office-in-cambodia-after-25-years/
Gov't says Cambodia facing most severe flooding in years
The flooding was caused by torrential rainfall from tropical storms, and has killed at least 12 people and affected more than 30,000 households across 17 provinces nationwide, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/govt-says-cambodia-facing-most-severe-flooding-in-years/5621010.html
WorldBridge’s SME cluster zone breaks ground in Takhmao town
WorldBridge Industrial Developments Co Ltd on November 27 broke ground on its long-awaited WorldBridge i4.0 SME Cluster zone in Kandal province. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/worldbridges-sme-cluster-zone-breaks-ground-takhmao-town
303rd COVID-19 positive case detected in Cambodia
Cambodia registered its 303rd COVID-19 positive on a 56 year old Cambodian-American national. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50783686/303rd-covid-19-positive-case-detected-in-cambodia/
Open Development Cambodia published Health facilities in Cambodia (2010) dataset
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Health facilities in Cambodia (2010) in both Khmer and English. Together with the website’s map explorer tool, we provide the details information on health facilities such as health posts, health centers, referral hospitals ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on temporary number of voter turnout in the commune election (2017)
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new dataset on “temporary number of voter turnout in the commune election (2017)”. This dataset shows temporary number of voter turnout during the 4th mandate of commune/sangkat council election which is contained the data of voter turnout in 25 ...
Press release: Changes to Sweden’s presence in Cambodia
On 26 November 2020, the Embassy of Sweden in Phnom Penh issued a press release on its government’s decision to close its office in Phnom Penh by the end of 2021. In this press release, the embassy also noted that the activities of the Ministry ...
China, Cambodia vow to deepen cooperation in all areas
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met here on Monday with visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and both sides pledged to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50772590/china-cambodia-vow-to-deepen-cooperation-in-all-areas/
Cambodia’s energy demand drops in H1 of 2020
Energy demand has seen a decrease in the first six months of 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, which had forced factories, tourism-related facilities including hotels to shut down, leading to the drop in power consumption. ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50755733/cambodias-energy-demand-drops-in-h1-of-2020/
Cambodia-Japan trade increases to $885 million in first five months
Trade between Cambodia and Japan reached $884.9 million from January to May 2020, down 3.8 percent year-on-year. Statistics from Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) show that during the first five months of this year. ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50748228/cambodia-japan-trade-increases-to-885-million-in-first-five-months/
Mine explosions kill two men, injure four in Pursat’s Veal Veng
Three children and an adult were seriously injured on Wednesday when a mine they were playing with exploded in Thma Da commune, in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mine-explosions-kill-two-men-injure-four-pursats-veal-veng
Group mounts campaign to keep children in school
The Child and Youth Network in Cambodia launched a “back to school” campaign on Wednesday to seek support to ensure children return to classes and do not drop out of school. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-mounts-campaign-keep-children-school