In Cambodia, a sweeping new environment code languishes in legal limbo
In Cambodia, the Mekong River winds past southeast Asia’s largest remaining lowland evergreen forest before filling up Tonle sap, the region’s largest freshwater lake. The river, lined with valuable sand, is home to an abundance of endangered species like the Mekong giant catfish and giant ss='cambodia-color'>...
Andrew Nachemson
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/in-cambodia-a-sweeping-new-environment-code-languishes-in-legal-limbo/
Factory workers seek help as ministry says owner did not file notice
While hundreds of workers from the shuttered Violet Apparel factory submitted a petition to the European Union’s Delegation to Cambodia seeking help securing unpaid benefits, a ministry official has said that the factory’s owner has not filed the necessary paperwork exempting him from paying workers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://cambojanews.com/factory-workers-seek-help-as-ministry-says-owner-did-not-file-notice/
Indebted oil company reports lower-than-expected oil at Cambodian block
KrisEnergy has warned that its current production rate at Cambodia’s Apsara offshore oil block has yielded only around half the company’s projected peak rate, and it has extended debt repayment deadlines and brought in an engineering firm to assess the situation amid “material uncertainty ss='cambodia-color'>...
Danielle Keeton-Olsen
https://vodenglish.news/indebted-oil-company-reports-lower-than-expected-oil-at-cambodian-block/
Building climate-resilient health systems in Cambodia
The impacts of climate change in Cambodia are increasingly posing risks to people’s health, while straining the country’s health system. since 2019, the country has been piloting a project to help increase the resilience and capacity of its health systems to respond to these climate-sensitive ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50898868/building-climate-resilient-health-systems-in-cambodia/
Hun Sen sponsors pro-bono lawyer group
The Senate&rSquo;S CommiSSion on Human RightS, Complaint Reception and InveStigation and the Samdech Techo Sen Volunteer LawyerS Signed a memorandum of underStanding (MOU) on joint cooperation aimed at enforcing the law on protecting the people&rSquo;S rightS and intereStS and eSpecially protecting vulnerable women and people SS='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-sponsors-pro-bono-lawyer-group
US remains the biggest market for exporters
The US remained the biggeSt market for Cambodia&rSquo;S export productS in 2021 deSpite the Covid-19 pandemic. Cambodia&rSquo;S eight-month exportS to the US increaSed Sharply although Some productS were made without the GeneraliSed SyStem of Preference (GSP), which meanS tariffS would have been paid. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50952218/us-remains-the-biggest-market-for-exporters/
Nat’l parks swell under sub-decree, biodiversity corridors integrated
The government has issued a new sub-decree which increases the size of three major national parks – Virachey, Jayavarman-Norodom and Preah Monivong Bokor – in a bid to ensure the preservation and protection of the Kingdom’s natural heritage, ecosystems and biodiversity. The expansions will also ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/natl-parks-swell-under-sub-decree-biodiversity-corridors-integrated
Cambodian fisheries eye European market access
Shetty Thombathu, chief technical adviSer to the UN InduStrial Development OrganiSation (UNIDO), Said the UN agency and the FiSherieS AdminiStration (FiA) under Cambodia&rSquo;S MiniStry of Agriculture, ForeStry, and FiSherieS are collaborating to enSure that the Kingdom&rSquo;S fiSherieS productS meet EU regulationS and StandardS for acceSS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-fisheries-eye-european-market-access
Cambodian students receive meals through partnership
Youth attending SaleSian educational programS Supported by the Don BoSco Foundation of Cambodia had acceSS to proper nutrition in 2021 thankS to a partnerShip between SaleSian MiSSionS, the U.S. development arm of the SaleSianS of Don BoSco, and Feed My Starving Children, a nonprofit ChriStian SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501146569/cambodian-students-receive-meals-through-partnership/
Prahok fish season bountiful
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina expressed his admiration for this year’s fishing season haul, which has seen fishermen catching up to three tonnes of fish in less than an hour, something he credits to the government’s efforts at preventing illegal fishing and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn and Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prahok-fish-season-bountiful
Prahok fish season bountiful
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina expressed his admiration for this year’s fishing season haul, which has seen fishermen catching up to three tonnes of fish in less than an hour, something he credits to the government’s efforts at preventing illegal fishing and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn and Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prahok-fish-season-bountiful
US-ASEAN Business Council pledges more investment in Kingdom
Six major American corporationS have committed to attracting US inveStment in Cambodia&rSquo;S public infraStructure and tranSportation SectorS to keep pace with the Kingdom&rSquo;S Socio-economic growth.&nbSp;The promiSe waS made during a February 27 working meeting between a delegation from the US-ASEAN BuSineSS Council (US-ABC) and MiniSter SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sem Pisey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-asean-business-council-pledges-more-investment-kingdom
Electronics imports surge one-third on-year: ministry
Cambodia imported $904.3 million worth of “electronics” in 2022 – surging by 33.2 per cent from $678.9 million in 2021 – with the fourth quarter accounting for the lion’s share at 28.61 per cent of the annual total, according to figures from the finance ministry’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/electronics-imports-surge-one-third-year-ministry
Cambodia records 22% rise in air travel
Cambodia’s aviation sector is experiencing a significant uptick in the first half of 2024 with the country’s three international airports handling a combined 3.03 million air passengers from January to June, up 22 percent from 2.48 million recorded in the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501539711/cambodia-records-22-rise-in-air-travel/
Cambodian CEO to chair ASEAN business awards
Sorn Sokna, chief executive of Sonatra SecuritieS in Phnom Penh, haS been made chairman of the ASEAN BuSineSS AdviSory Council&rSquo;S ASEAN BuSineSS AwardS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Substations
![](https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/substation-150x150.jpeg)
This dataset describes the information of substations for each of Cambodia’s province in 2011. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pentagon chief's China "self-isolation" claims incorrect: Cambodia
U.S. defenSe Secretary&rSquo;S China “Self-iSolation” claimS are incorrect, Cambodia&rSquo;S Deputy Prime MiniSter and DefenSe MiniSter Tea Banh Said here Saturday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Tian Shaohui
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-06/04/c_135412903.htm
Conservationists caution road through sanctury may harm birds
Conservationists have warned a new road could threaten endangered bird species in stung Treng’s siem Pang wildlife sanctuary. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Meta and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/conservationists-caution-road-through-sanctury-may-harm-birds
Cambodia kicks off nuclear energy talks with Russia
Cambodian and Russian officials yesterday met to discuss how the two countries can bolster the Kingdom’s capacity to develop nuclear technology. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-kicks-nuclear-energy-talks-russia
Opposition members defect to CPP
Fifty-one opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party members defected to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party on saturday, according to the CPP. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-members-defect-cpp