World Bank prepares to lift freeze on lending to Cambodia
The World Bank is contemplating a $25-million project to build up 15 social land concessions (sLCs) across Cambodia and could approve the scheme as soon as December, according to a proposal posted to the Bank’s website late last month, a move that would end its ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-prepares-to-lift-freeze-on-lending-to-cambodia-68083/
Still no word about EBA but rice likely unaffected
Officials on Monday said the government had not received an official statement regarding the EU’s potential withdrawal of Cambodia’s Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme. The EU launched the EBA withdrawal procedure on February 12, citing “a deterioration of democracy [and] respect for human rights” in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/still-no-word-about-eba-rice-likely-unaffected
EU partially withdraws EBA
The EU Commission on Wednesday announced the partial withdrawal of the Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme, citing a serious and systematic violation by Cambodia of principles in the four core human and labour rights. The suspension affects one-fifth or €1 billion ($1.08 billion) of Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/eu-partially-withdraws-eba
Smallholder farmers to face land shortage, study finds
Smallholder farmerS have a crucial role to play in tempering the growing painS of Cambodia&rSquo;S tranSition to an induStrialiSed economy, but unleSS Something iS done, they will face a land Shortage in the coming yearS, according to the authorS of a new report. They will SS='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smallholder-farmers-face-land-shortage-study-finds
Still no motion on union law
As the latest draft of Cambodia’s long-awaited trade-union law sits idly at the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Labour officials have turned to outsiders to help hasten its enactment, a union advocate said yesterday. Dave Welsh, country director of the American Center for International Labor solidarity, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090458479/National-news/still-no-motion-on-union-law.html
More than 110,000 tonnes of wood strips exported from Koh Kong
Greenrich Group Co., Ltd. investing in Koh Kong province has exported over 110,000 tonnes of wood strips. The update was provided by the company’s representative Mr. Rattana to Veng sakhon, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Mrs. Mithona Phouthorng, Governor of Koh Kong province ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50727880/more-than-110000-tonnes-of-wood-strips-exported-from-koh-kong/
Credit bureau makes doing business easier
A report released by the World Bank on Tuesday highlighted Cambodia as the most improved country in terms of businesses getting credit, due to the establishment of the country’s first credit bureau in March. Cambodia ranked 133 out of 185 in the World Bank’s report, up from 141 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Airport dwellers displaced from ‘anarchic’ houses
Nearly 100 families who live in three villages in Por sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune near the Phnom Penh International Airport have been told by district authorities they have seven days to relocate and will be given no compensation. However, the residents are refusing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aviation revenue released, no clear figures
Aviation revenues have been released by government officials who were hesitant to reveal details but said yesterday the figures had increased by about three per cent. Mao Havannal, secretary of state for the Civil Aviation secretariat, said after yesterday’s opening of a seminar on aviation insurance that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mu Sochua calls out Aussie mining firms
Opposition parliamentarian Mu sochua has taken aim at Australian mining companies eyeing the Kingdom’s resources, travelling to their home soil to lobby the halls of power. Mu sochua cited fears that Australian companies awarded exploration concessions in Ratanakkiri and Mondulkiri provinces will treat ethnic minorities there ss='cambodia-color'>...
Flag of convenience scheme retired
The days of cocaine smuggling, illegal fishing and human trafficking using ships bearing the Cambodian flag appear to have come to an end as government officials claim that, as of today, all foreign-owned ships operating through Cambodia’s “flag of convenience” scheme must be stripped of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/flag-convenience-scheme-retired
With CNRP gains come risks: panel
The mixed results of the June 4 commune elections may have allowed both major parties to save face, but the opposition’s large gains show it has a serious chance of winning next year’s national election – and that could attract violent backlash from the government, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-gains-come-risks-panel
WHO, UNICEF laud action on infant formula violations
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) commended the Health Ministry’s crackdown on four companies for violating the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk substitute. The four companies are Royal Platinum Co Ltd, Nutrilatt, LMM Distribution and VVH Import Export. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50740345/who-unicef-laud-action-on-infant-formula-violations/
Rape victims failed by corrupt system: report
Countless rape victims, many of them children, have been failed by widespread flaws in Cambodia’s justice system, which have led to a “disturbingly low” number of convictions, a new study by the rights group Licadho has found.In its report, Getting Away With It: The Treatment ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rape-victims-failed-corrupt-system-report
Trade fair scrapped over Covid-19 fears
The Ministry of Commerce on November 19 cancelled the 15th edition of the Cambodia Import-Export Goods Exhibition due to Covid-19 concerns. Originally scheduled to be held from December 15-18 at the Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island, the Kingdom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-fair-scrapped-over-covid-19-fears
TV goes digital by 2023, paving way for 5G
The government on December 28 held an inter-ministerial meeting to discuss setting up a digital television platform as part of the Kingdom’s shift away from analogue. Held at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the meeting discussed the would-be platform operator’s models of management and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tv-goes-digital-2023-paving-way-5g
Regional free trade deals ‘key to Cambodian and ASEAN success’
Foreign investors and independent credit evaluators are echoing confidence in Cambodia in light of the series of free trade agreements (FTAs) both completed and being pursued by the Kingdom’s government. According to the AsEAN Briefing (AB), such FTAs could see the region become the world’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tom Starkey
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809206/regional-free-trade-deals-key-to-cambodian-and-asean-success/
China denies Mekong hacking
As the Us and its allies joined hands last week to expose what they allege to be China’s Ministry of state security’s malicious cyber activities around the world, the attention also turned to Cambodia with the Us Department of Justice claiming that four Chinese hackers ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/china-denies-mekong-hacking
Robust growth in apparel exports to UK from Cambodia registered
Cambodia’s apparel exports of $758.532 million in the first three quarters of this year have already crossed the total exports of $613.344 million in 2021. At this rate, the exports are likely to touch the $1 billion mark by December 2022. The two countries are ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501202268/robust-growth-in-apparel-exports-to-uk-from-cambodia-registered/
Joint project on agri-tech launches in Mondulkiri
The Centre for Excellence on SuStainable Agricultural IntenSification and Nutrition (CE SAIN) &ndaSh; a joint development effort by the MiniStry of Agriculture, ForeStry and FiSherieS, the Royal UniverSity of Agriculture, KanSaS State UniverSity in the US and the US government&rSquo;S USAID development agency &ndaSh; inaugurated SS='cambodia-color'>...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/joint-project-agri-tech-launches-mondulkiri