Air cargo volume soars again
For the second straight year Cambodia has proven to be one of the world’s most dynamic markets for air freight shipments, with growth in cargo volume exceeding both global and regional averages. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/air-cargo-volume-soars-again
More mangoes going to France under deal
Mong Reththy Group (MRG), the Kingdom’s largest agro-industrial conglomerate, has secured a deal to export additional volumes of locally grown mangoes to France, the company announced yesterday on its Facebook page. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-mangoes-going-france-under-deal
Authorities allowing logging, activists say
Villagers and NGOs have accused local authorities, including forestry and environmental officials, of accepting bribes from illegal loggers in exchange for unfettered logging expeditions in Preah Vihear province’s Preah Roka protected forest. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-allowing-logging-activists-say
Irrawaddy dolphins red listed
Cambodia’s beloved Irrawaddy dolphins are facing troubled waters, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) yesterday flagging the riverine mammal as ‘critically endangered’ in an update to its ‘Red List’. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Danielle Keeton-Olsen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/irrawaddy-dolphins-red-listed
New hall inaugurated at airport in capital
Cambodia Airports, a company majority-owned by France’s Vinci Group, officially inaugurated its $26 million new arrivals hall and the extension of its boarding concourse yesterday at the Phnom Penh International Airport. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-hall-inaugurated-airport-capital
Five more held for shooting forest patrollers in Mondulkiri
Five more suspects have been arrested and are being interrogated by authorities in relation to the murder of three forest patrollers last Tuesday in Mondulkiri’s Keo seima Wildlife sanctuary, authorities confirmed yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/five-more-held-shooting-forest-patrollers-mondulkiri
Tensions between Chinese firm, ethnic villagers mount
Ethnic Kuoy villagers in Preah Vihear’s Chey sen district filed a complaint against Chinese sugar company Rui Feng on Tuesday after a long-simmering land dispute almost erupted into violence last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tensions-between-chinese-firm-ethnic-villagers-mount
Cambodia signs deal with Chinese province
The Cambodian government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with officials from China’s shaanxi province aimed at bolstering trade and tourism, according to a release yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-signs-deal-chinese-province
Elections coalition has $170K shortfall
About $170,000 remains to be found for a coalition of watchdogs and civil society observers known as the “situation room” to successfully monitor all of Cambodia’s 2017 commune elections for irregularities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elections-coalition-has-170k-shortfall
Chinese FDI to flow in on Silk Road
Cambodia could see massive investments as a result of China’s latest pledge to funnel an enormous sum into developing infrastructure as part of its New silk Road initiative, an analyst said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-fdi-flow-silk-road
Construction of international tourism port on the way
Cambodia has finalised architectural plan and design for the country’s first-ever international tourism port and been proceeding cost estimation and construction – thanks to the loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Chandara Soleil
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106465
Exclusive: Cambodia fm softens tone after scathing attack on ‘hypocritical’ west
Cambodia’s foreign minister last week launched a scathing attack on Western democracies, labeling them hypocritical and only interested in promoting human rights and democracy when it was in their own self-interest. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Unexploded ordinances destroyed in Preah Vihear
Villagers in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district who found a haul of unexploded ordinances on their farmland on Monday have handed it over to provincial authorities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085588/unexploded-ordinances-destroyed-preah-vihear/
Hun Sen brushes aside looming US cuts to aid
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday brushed aside any potential concern over the Us cutting funding to the country over the recent dissolution of the opposition CNRP prior to next year’s general election. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5091088/hun-sen-brushes-aside-looming-us-cuts-aid/
Villagers request land dispute resolution
More than 50 people representing 253 families from Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district resubmitted a petition to the Interior Ministry yesterday, asking authorities to expedite a resolution of their land dispute. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32571/villagers-request-land-dispute-resolution/
Singaporean president skirts controversies over sand, maids
Singaporean PreSident Tony Tan Keng Yam&rSquo;S viSit to Phnom Penh on Monday yielded two agreementS on education and health, but no wordS on controverSial Sand importS or migrant maidS, an official Said. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/singaporean-president-skirts-controversies-over-sand-maid-123177/
First lady: improve child healthcare
Cambodia’s first lady appealed to civil servants and health workers to improve efforts to reduce maternal and child deaths in conjunction with the National Day on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health today. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35662/first-lady--improve-child-healthcare/
Construction sector investment falls by 22 percent
Investment capital in Cambodia’s construction industry is off to a dwindling start this year, falling 22.1 percent at the end of the first quarter compared with the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/construction-sector-investment-falls-22-percent
Vietnamese workers face deportation
The Immigration Department has detained 27 Vietnamese migrants suspected of being in Cambodia illegally. The undocumented workers, 20 men and seven women, were arrested on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37686/vietnamese-workers-face-deportation/
Villagers take truck to prevent logging
Villagers in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district confronted a group of soldiers, preventing them from felling timber in their community forest by confiscating one of their trucks, a local official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-take-truck-prevent-logging