Koh Kong sand-dredging protests heat up
Concerned Koh Kong residents, joined by environmental activists from the campaign group Mother Nature, began an ambitious protest last weekend in the province’s Andong Teuk commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Laurenson and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13808//
Research team: CNRP, CPP maps identical
The Royal Academy of Cambodia border research team said yesterday the maps showing the country’s borders being used by the government and the opposition were identical. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Takihiro and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14303//
Secondary Sources
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Cambodia, China to boost cooperation on mine clearing
Cambodia and the People’s Republic of China have agreed to further boost cooperation on mine clearance in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501014776/cambodia-china-to-boost-cooperation-on-mine-clearing/
ព័ត៌មានស្តីពីសាលារៀនជំនាន់ថ្មី
Source: របាយការណ៍ប្រចាំឆ្នាំរបស់សាលាជំនាន់ថ្មី ឆ្នាំ២០២២ SS='cambodia-color'>...
Overloaded vehicles at issue
Overloaded vehicles are contributing to a more rapid than anticipated deterioriation of Cambodia’s road network, experts said yesterday The ADB has funded an axle-load control programme as part of a Us$1 million technical package to support government rehabilitation of about 150 kilometers of the Kingdom’s roads. ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070550177/Business/overloaded-vehicles-at-issue.html
Petroleum engineers to provide support to Cambodia
At a Sept 11 meeting between Deputy Prime MiniSter Sok An and GaneSh C. Thakur, PreSident of the U.S.-baSed Society of Petroleum EngineerS (SPE), planS were diScuSSed about the SPE providing training and expertiSe for the Kingdom&rSquo;S oil and gaS Sector, according to a Statement SS='cambodia-color'>...
Villagers take hostages
The clearing of land for a Ratanakkiri rubber plantation had been frozen after more than 300 Tumpoun ethnic minority villagers captured a quartet of company security guards and another staffer, tied them up and held them hostage on Tuesday, company officials said yesterday. Jing Zhong Ri ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012022354691/National-news/villagers-take-hostages.html
Cambodia Potential
The potential for investment in Cambodia certainly appears to be there, as the country’s location in Indochina affords much opportunity for cross-border trade with Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, says Mark Mobius. Mr Mobius, who oversees more than Us $40 billion worth of investments as executive chairman ss='cambodia-color'>...
UN labour agency troubled by Cambodia's failure to arrest gunman
The United Nations‘ labour agency said Tuesday international buyers were “extremely concerned” at Cambodia‘s failure to arrest the suspect in last month‘s shootings of three garment workers at a subcontractor for German sportswear firm PUMA sE. Jill Tucker, technical advisor to the International Labour Organization, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Central bank mulls its inflation response
Cambodia’s central bank is looking to tighten monetary policy to slow an inflation rate that could hit 8 to 9 percent this year, National Bank of Cambodia Director General and spokeswoman Nguon sokha said yesterday. Increases in commodity prices and petroleum has led to rising prices ss='cambodia-color'>...
City Gives Lakeside Land Detail
City officials said yesterday that an offer of land to people living near Boeung Kak lake would not force residents to relocate, following concerns about how the city would implement Prime Minister Hun sen’s order. Villagers won 12.44 hectares of land for on-site housing at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Illegally Logged Rosewood Seized In Kratie Operation
The Kratie Provincial Court yesterday charged a truck driver with illegally collecting and transporting luxury wood after forestry officers last week confiscated 148 pieces of luxury wood totalling 31.2 cubic meters from his truck, which had been transporting the timber along National Road 7 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Boeng Kak Families Protest for More Land Titles
About 100 residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak area protested in front of City Hall yesterday to demand that 58 more families be given titles to homes from which they are being evicted. In August, Prime Minister Hun sen ordered that a 12.44-hectare section of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
The great land giveaway
More than 2 million of the Kingdom’s nearly 18 million hectares of land – roughly 12 per cent – was given out to 225 private companies in economic concessions last year, according to an annual report released by rights group Adhoc yesterday. The concessions put 606 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032355211/National-news/the-great-land-giveaway.html
New financing will support Cambodia in improving higher education for industrial development
On 26 April 2018, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved Us$90 million in financing to support Cambodia’s efforts in improving the quality of higher education and research in the country and broadening access to higher education for disadvantaged students. Over the next six years, ss='cambodia-color'>...
The World Bank
Sihanoukville gets a wake up call
Sihanoukville haS long been a part of the government&rSquo;S plan to develop the Southern coaSt aS Cambodia&rSquo;S next touriSm hotSpot after Siem Reap, and if recent arrival numberS are anything to go by it SeemS to be growing in appeal. However, aS new property developerS SS='cambodia-color'>...
George Styllis
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/sihanoukville-gets-wake-call
Anti-money laundering plan
With the deadline for a second review by a global task force of the government’s efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing fast approaching, the Kingdom’s central bank yesterday conducted a workshop with banks, financial institutions and state agencies to flesh out a strategy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28845/anti-money-laundering-plan/
China Unicom enters Cambodia
China Unicom, the country’s largest telecoms operator, has expanded into Cambodia to build optical telecommunication pathways in the Kingdom as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Hong Kong-listed company officially opened its China Unicom (Cambodia) subsidiary on Monday to become the latest industry ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-unicom-enters-cambodia