Mong Reththy: cooperation key to solving land disputes
Mong Reththy, a senator for the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and an agro-industrial tycoon, said land disputes between companies and local residents occur because of a lack of understanding on both sides. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17444/mong-reththy--cooperation-key-to-solving-land-disputes/
CNRP blamed for land woes
A senior environment official yesterday alleged that the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party and human rights groups should shoulder much of the blame for the destruction of the country’s protected areas. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-blamed-land-woes
Hun Manet defends his father's record
Lieutenant General Hun Manet has defended his father Prime Minister Hun sen’s record, saying people should remember the role Hun sen played in bringing peace and national reconciliation to the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-manet-defends-his-father-record/3293680.html
Norwegian firm plans to build $24M fish farm
Norwegian firm Vitamar AS Co planS to inveSt $24 million into a large-Scale marine fiSh farm in Cambodia&rSquo;S Preah Sihanouk province, State newS agency AKP reported yeSterday. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/norwegian-firm-plans-build-24m-fish-farm
Infrastructure funding puts Cambodia on front line of global politics
Japanese Prime Minister shinzo Abe’s push for “quality infrastructure” investment in Asia is expected to be among the key items on the agenda of next week’s G7 summit in Japan. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daniel De Carteret
http://www.voanews.com/content/infrastructure-funding-puts-cambodia-on-front-line-of-international-politics/3338556.html
Tycoon looks to expand and deepen private Sihanoukville seaport
Agro-industrial tycoon Mong Reththy plans to expand his private port to handle bigger ships and containerised cargoes, increasing potential competition with the country’s principal port in sihanoukville. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tycoon-looks-expand-and-deepen-private-sihanoukville-seaport
Interior Ministry report boasts of crackdown on political protests
Besieged by color revolutionaries, agitators and criminal politicians, the Interior Ministry kept the country safe from encroaching instability—at least, that was the ministry’s boast on Wednesday at its annual meeting. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-report-boasts-of-crackdown-on-political-protests-125669/
TRC: Ensure mobile networks OK
The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia yesterday urged all mobile operators to ensure that their services remain uninterrupted throughout the remainder of the commune election campaign period and during this weekend’s polling. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38894/trc--ensure-mobile-networks-ok/
IMF: Make youth a demographic dividend
The International Monetary Fund says Cambodia’s young population compared with other regional countries will be a driving force for financial development and contribute to the emerging finance technology sector, or Fintech. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39134/imf--make-youth-a-demographic-dividend/
Waters rising in Sesan dam villages as holdouts sit tight
Rescuers armed with speed boats and emergency supplies have been deployed to two stung Treng province villages where residents remain despite expected flooding as the country’s largest hydropower dam undergoes testing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/waters-rising-in-sesan-dam-villages-as-holdouts-sit-tight-132614/
Growth spurt of exports to Japan weakens in H1
Growth of exports to Japan slowed during the first half of 2017, marking the lowest half-year growth rate in nearly a decade, newly released data from Japan’s development agency show. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/growth-spurt-exports-japan-weakens-h1
Pawn shops face crackdown
Phnom Penh City Hall has set its sights on the many pawn shops in the city, ordering police to check that each shop has proper registration papers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077494/pawn-shops-face-crackdown/
Double trove of wartime explosives unearthed
Hundreds of unexploded landmines and cluster munitions were found in Battambang and Kampong Cham provinces on Monday, according to an official from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078278/double-trove-wartime-explosives-unearthed/
Workers’ bonus fight
More than 500 garment workers in Phnom Penh’s Por senchey district on Friday protested and blocked a portion of Veng sreng Boulevard to demand their annual bonus from 2010 to 2017. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093740/workers-bonus-fight/
Exiled Cambodian opposition members set up new movement
Foreign-based members of Cambodia’s dissolved opposition party have launched a movement to demand the release of its detained leader and to call for free and fair elections and possibly protests. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prak Chan Thul and Simon Cameron-Moore
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-politics/exiled-cambodian-opposition-members-set-up-new-movement-idUSKBN1F3083
Cambodia's Hun Sen appoints son-in-law to senior police post
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen has appointed his son-in-law as deputy national police chief, in a move apparently aimed at consolidating his power ahead of an election this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prak Chan Thul
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-politics/cambodias-hun-sen-appoints-son-in-law-to-senior-police-post-idUSKBN1F70RE
Chinese investment in Cambodian province pushes up crime rate, says governor
China’s growing presence and investment in a fast-developing Cambodian port and province have pushed up the crime rate and brought instability, its governor said in a letter to the government. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prak Chan Thul
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-china/chinese-investment-in-cambodian-province-pushes-up-crime-rate-says-governor-idUSKBN1FF0XP
Trucks rerouted from flooded Nat’l Road 4
Kampong Speu provincial authoritieS yeSterday iSSued an order banning heavy truckS from uSing National Road 4 in Phnom Sruoch diStrict&rSquo;S Maha Saing commune in reSponSe to heavy flooding in the area. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trucks-rerouted-flooded-natl-road-4
Cambodian exports to US down
Cambodia’s total exports to the United states declined last year compared with 2015, due to uncertainties in the Us presidential race and rising exports from Vietnam and new market player Myanmar. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35260/cambodian-exports-to-us-down/
PM warns of media anarchy
Prime Minister Hun sen warned the media yesterday that he was determined to maintain social order, citing Us President Donald Trump’s exclusion of some news outlets from a White House briefing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35929/pm-warns-of-media-anarchy/