Cabinet ministers endorse two key documents
The Cambodian cabinet plenary session was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Hun sen, at the Peace Palace, Phnom Penh, this morning, the state News Agency-AKP’s report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cabinet-ministers-endorse-two-key-documents-8922
Cambodia Asks ADB to Continue Supporting TVET
Cambodia has asked the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to continue its support to further boost the country’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50952914/cambodia-asks-adb-to-continue-supporting-tvet/
Australia to help update infrastructure standards
The Australian government has pledged to help Cambodia update engineering standards, which have defined the country’s infrastructure for the last 20 years. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50974433/australia-to-help-update-infrastructure-standards/
Investigation into human trafficking to Cambodia continues: Government officials
Government officials reported on the issue of Vietnamese being tricked into working illegally in Cambodia at the Government’s regular press briefing in Hanoi on september 6. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501146555/investigation-into-human-trafficking-to-cambodia-continues-government-officials/
Red Cross Criticized Over Slow Response to Floods
With thousands of families evacuated from their homes due to flooding, the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC), the largest and best-funded humanitarian organization in the country, has yet to provide flood aid to many struggling communities, local officials said Monday. Families living in some of the worst ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/red-cross-criticized-over-slow-response-to-floods-44560/
VN border ‘‘largely’ marked
Cambodia and Vietnam have largely completed border demarcation in Ratanakkiri and Mondulkiri provinces at locations agreed by the two parties. But disputed areas were left untouched pending France’s assistance, according to border committee officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vn-border-largely-marked
Electricity subsidy to boost manufacturing
Cambodia’s upcoming cut in electricity costs will likely lower manufacturing and operation costs for the export-reliant nation, delivering a boost to the business sector while potentially attracting more foreign investment, top executives said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50561137/electricity-subsidy-to-boost-manufacturing/
Thousands demand compensation
About 1,000 people locked in a land dispute with Heng Development Company in Kandal province’s Kandal stung district yesterday descended upon the Boeng Kyang Commune Hall demanding compensation for their loss of land. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564944/thousands-demand-compensation/
Mine of information
Prime Minister Hun sen chastised the head of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), Cambodia’s leading demining organisation, on Thursday during a speech to close out the National strategic Plan of Mine Action Conference . ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mine-information
Officials meet with JICA over Phnom Penh water management
Phnom Penh municipal officials on Monday met with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency to discuss a water treatment project in Dangkor district aimed at providing clean water and improving the city’s water management system. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505354/officials-meet-with-jica-over-phnom-penh-water-management/
Pursat authorites raid sawmill
Pursat provincial authorities on Wednesday raided a sawmill operating without a licence and confiscated 21 logs totalling 13 cubic metres at Kset Borei village in Phnom Kravanh district’s santre commune, while the owner escaped. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-authorites-raid-sawmill
EdC, two Chinese firms ink agreement on power plant
Cambodia’s state-run electricity supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) on Tuesday signed an agreement with two Chinese companies to build a $380 million oil and liquefied natural gas power plant in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/edc-two-chinese-firms-ink-agreement-power-plant
Chinese firm inks deal with SNTP on electricity supply in Preah Sihanouk
The China Machine-Building International Corporation (CMIC) – affiliated to sinomach subsidiary CNEG – has signed a cooperation agreement with Cambodia’s sNTP Company on providing electricity in Preah sihanouk province, according to a company press release. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-inks-deal-sntp-electricity-supply-preah-sihanouk
Koh Kong urged to solve land dispute
An official with Koh Kong’s provincial land department said yesterday that the department will cooperate with the Industry Ministry to resolve a land dispute case between a group of civil servants and their superior. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502316/koh-kong-urged-to-solve-land-dispute/
First banana shipment to China confirmed
Longmate Agriculture Co has announced that it will conduct a test shipment of bananas to the Chinese market next month, which will be followed by the company’s first official shipment to China in February. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564243/first-banana-shipment-to-china-confirmed/
Buyers worried about union demands, garment manufacturers say
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia says unions and their demands for higher wages are rattling the country’s industry and could lead to a decline in buyers, factories and jobs. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/buyers-worried-about-union-demands-garment-manufacturers-say/2952398.html
Thai fishing trawlers unloading catch in Cambodia
More than 200 fishing trawlers from Trat province are now docking and unloading their catches in Cambodia’s adjoining Koh Kong province to evade the strict regulations being enforced against unregistered. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/720088/thai-fishing-trawlers-unloading-catch-in-cambodia
Cambodia declines invitation to join regional rubber cartel
Cambodia has declined to join the world’s largest rubber production group, the International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC), because there is no benefit in doing so now, a senior official and an industry executive say. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16627/cambodia-declines-invitation-to-join-regional-rubber-cartel/
RCAF officers jailed over university scam
Two officers with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces were sentenced to one year each in prison for accepting bribes to secure positions for three men in the government’s National Defence University (NDU) in 2013. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-officers-jailed-over-university-scam
Think tank proposals focus on foreign policy
Cambodia’s Future Forum think tank yesterday marked Independence Day by releasing its first set of proposals, calling on the ruling and opposition parties to form a unified foreign policy ahead of the 2018 election. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/think-tank-proposals-focus-foreign-policy