Uni students urge protection for prey lang forest
A recent forum highlighted a growing concern of Cambodian youth about Cambodia’s largest lowland evergreen forest, Prey Lang, and the impacts of deforestation caused by illegal logging. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20942/uni-students-urge-protection-for-prey-lang-forest/
Water running out in Reay Pai
About 2,700 families in Kampong Cham province’s Reay Pai commune, where wells and ponds have almost dried up, could soon be left without any safe water. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-running-out-reay-pai
UN agency to give $36 million for rural market access
The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide $36 million to the Commerce Ministry to help improve market access for poor farmers and small entrepreneurs. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24087/un-agency-to-give--36-million-for-rural-market-access/
Preah Vihear excluded from protection plan
The Ministry of Environment conducted a workshop yesterday to discuss the government’s plan to designate five forest areas, totaling about one million hectares of land, as protected. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24212/preah-vihear-excluded-from-protection-plan/
Angkor Wat ticket sales stagnating
Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia’s prime tourist attraction, experienced nearly stagnant growth for the first five months of this year, according to data released by Angkor Institution yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-wat-ticket-sales-stagnating
Large US bomb found in pond
Divers from the Cambodian Mine Action Center have recovered a 500-pound bomb dropped from Us planes on to Kandal province’s Kandal stung district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36792/large-us-bomb-found-in-pond/
No concrete solutions for cement shortage
Despite being home to several cement factories, real estate industry experts say Cambodia’s cement manufacturing sector has yet to fulfill demands of the fast developing building boom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/no-concrete-solutions-cement-shortage
Cambodia, China looking for MoU on nuclear power cooperation
Cambodia’s relevant officials of the Ministry of Environment have been working closely with their Chinese counterparts for a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on nuclear power cooperation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khan Sophirom
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=107890
Unions and companies alike unhappy with draft changes to law on worker contracts
Both unionists and private sector representatives are unhappy with draft amendments to Cambodia’s Labour Law, which would overhaul the regulations surrounding worker contracts and guaranteed employee protections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/unions-and-companies-alike-unhappy-draft-changes-law-worker-contracts
Cambodian rice exports cause a stir in Italy
Ente Nazionale Risi (ENR), Italy’s national rice agency, has raised concern over increased European rice imports from countries such as Cambodia, according to rice industry publication Oryza. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-rice-exports-cause-stir-italy
China offers cassava hope
Cambodia has marked its first Cassava Day with expectations of greater exports to China, one of the world’s big markets for the tuberous root. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36202/china-offers-cassava-hope/
China, Cambodia promise to deepen friendly ties
Vice Chairman Chen Changzhi pledged that China would continue to extend loans to Prime Minister Hun sen’s government, provide development aid, and encourage investment. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ith Sothoeuth
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/china-cambodia-promise-to-deepen-friendly-ties/3794351.html
Chinese equipment maker eyes Cambodia
Sany Heavy InduStry, one of the biggeSt manufacturerS of heavy conStruction machinery in China&rSquo;S Hunan province, planS to expand in Cambodia to tap into riSing infraStructure development. SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37672/chinese-equipment-maker-eyes-cambodia/
Florican population faces extinction threat
The increase in commercial dry-season rice cultivation in Cambodia’s Tonle sap floodplain is threatening the survival of the critically endangered Bengal florican, a new study suggests. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/florican-population-faces-extinction-threat
Old CPP chiefs a bane for new CNRP ones in Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville
Two newly elected opposition commune chiefs in Phnom Penh and sihanoukville are struggling to dislodge their Cambodian People’s Party predecessors following their recent swearing in to office. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/old-cpp-chiefs-bane-new-cnrp-ones-phnom-penh-sihanoukville
Erratic power supply irks millers
Rice millers in Battambang province are seeing red due to an erratic power supply affecting their production and causing them to lose money. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079872/erratic-power-supply-irks-millers/
Hatchlings bring hope for endangered ducks
Nine eggs of the globally endangered white-winged duck have successfully hatched after a nest was found last month in Preah Vihear province’s Kulen Promtep Wildlife sanctuary. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080411/hatchlings-bring-hope-endangered-ducks/
Criticisms mount at UN session
StateS, United NationS officialS and civil Society repreSentativeS continued to heap criticiSm on Cambodia&rSquo;S approach to civil and political rightS at the UN Human RightS Council yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/criticisms-mount-un-session
Construction remains strong growth driver for Cambodia
Investment in Cambodia’s real estate and construction industry now stands at $4 billion, according to data from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning, and Construction (MLMUPC). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/construction-remains-strong-growth-driver-cambodia
Korea and local investors to establish a modern shopping mall in Phnom Penh
Korea is joining hands with Cambodian investor to establish the biggest shopping mall of international standard in Phnom Penh to correspond to the capital’s increasingly modernising lifestyle. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lim Nary
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106861