China’s aid to mine, ERW clearance in Cambodia benefits over 1 million people
China’s assistance to the clearance of landmine and explosive remnants of war (ERWs) in Cambodia has benefited more than one million people, a senior Cambodian official said on Saturday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501357764/chinas-aid-to-mine-erw-clearance-in-cambodia-benefits-over-1-million-people/
Cambodia’s international trade declined by 14.5 pct in Q1 to $11.25 billion
Cambodia recorded $11.25 billion in its international trade during the first quarter (Q1) of 2023, down 14.5 percent from $13.16 billion over the same period last year, said an official report released Monday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501271464/cambodias-international-trade-declined-by-14-5-pct-in-q1-to-11-25-billion/
Chinese financing nears 50% of total investment in May, US lags at less than 1%
In May, Chinese investment in Cambodia accounted for almost 50% of total financing, with domestic investment accounting for over 30%, while the US lagged behind at less than one per cent, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Refugee house hunting
High-level bureaucrats from Australia have visited several sites in Cambodia over the past two months to view properties where refugees from its overseas detention centre on Nauru could be relocated, the Post has learned. Separate sources, who cannot be named because of the sensitivity of the ongoing negotiations, ...
Daniel Pye and Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/refugee-hous
Cambodia’s trade volume up 20 percent in first half of 2022
Cambodia’s total trade volume was valued at $27.2 billion in the first half of 2022, up 20 percent from 22.6 billion dollars over the same period last year, according to an official report released on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501111765/cambodias-trade-volume-up-20-percent-in-first-half-of-2022/
Dam ‘redesign’ a mystery
Amid a lawsuit and a chorus of dissent, developers of the first lower Mekong mainstream hydropower project, the massive Xayaburi dam, have quietly submitted a long-anticipated, multimillion-dollar redesign plan, the Post has learned. What exactly has been changed about the 1,260-megawatt dam, which environmentalists contend will ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-%E2%80%98redesign%E2%80%99-mystery
Flooding chaos drives families onto safe hill
Recent flooding has claimed another victim, a child in Kratie province who drowned, bringing the total death toll to 30, Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said yesterday. While water levels are declining across the 12 provinces affected by flooding, ...
Pech Sotheary and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-chaos-drives-families-safe-hill
Toll climbs as floods recede
The death toll from recent floods has climbed to 20 while rivers engorged with floodwater have completely swept away 10 houses, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. In Prey Veng, the body of a police officer who slipped into a river while helping people ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/toll-climbs-floods-recede
Temple may be heritage site
Sambor Prei Kuk, the seventh-century temple of the pre-Angkorian Chenla Kingdom built by Isanavarman I, is to be submitted for consideration as a World Heritage Site to UNESCO. The announcement came yesterday at a seminar on research and conservation on the temple complex, the most important ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/temple-may-be-heritage-site
Troops to join UN’s CAR effort
Cambodia will send a detachment of 216 peacekeepers to the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), the Information Ministry has said. The Kingdom already sent a delivery of tanks, trucks and other materiel there on Friday. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/troops-join-un%E2%80%99s-car-effort
Floods claim two more
Flooding across 12 provinces has killed another two people, bringing the death toll to 29, an official said yesterday. The deaths occurred in Kampong Cham and Prey Veng provinces, according to Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/floods-claim-two-more
Sonatra takes one-year hiatus
Local stock brokerage company Sonatra Securities has announced it will completely dilute its books and put a halt on all business activities from October 1. In a press release posted on Sonatra’s website last week, the firm stated without an explanation that it was suspending all ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/sonatra-takes-one-year-hiatus
‘Orphanage tourism’ still an issue: UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund in Australia has warned volunteers and tourists to avoid visiting Cambodian orphanages following critical reports from the press in recent weeks. In a post on its website, UNICEF Australia said “these types of tours exploit children and their families for the financial ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98orphanage-tourism%E2%80%99-still-issue-unicef
Cambodia, Japan discuss cooperation expansion
Cambodian Prime Minister and Ambassador of Japan to Cambodia have discussed the strengthening and expansion of cooperation between the two countries in a number of areas. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501403908/cambodia-japan-discuss-cooperation-expansion/
New fines for faintings
The minister of labour has sent a stern warning to garment factories to take measures to end mass faintings or face the consequences. Speaking after a safety workshop yesterday, Ith Sam Heng said the government will get tougher on factories, fining those that didn’t provide safe ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-fines-faintings
Unions in push for park rally
As the razor-wire came down from Freedom Park on Wednesday, a group of unions quickly filed a request to be the first people to hold a demonstration inside the park since it was put into lockdown in early January. The letter, obtained by the Post yesterday, calls on ...
Mom Kunthear and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-push-park-rally
UNICEF urges govt to enhance efforts to end child violence
During a three-day visit to Cambodia, UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Director Debora Comini met with ministry officials and development partners to enhance efforts to end violence against children and end unnecessary family separation. ...
Som Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501404777/unicef-urges-govt-to-enhance-efforts-to-end-child-violence/
Worker insurance near
The government’s long-pledged health insurance scheme for private sector employees, including factory workers, is just around the corner, officials promised yesterday while refusing to name a more specific date. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Labour held a public forum on the insurance plan, which is expected ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/worker-insurance-near
Hundreds protest: Land grab feared after posts appear
Five hundred villagers in Preah Vihear province protested yesterday outside the office of FP Malaysia Plantation Company, which they say is attempting to take their land. Rith Sothon, a village representative in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district, said the villagers filed a complaint after the company placed ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-protest-land-grab-feared-after-posts-appear
Risking it all for rosewood
At dawn on the Dangrek Mountain range, 62-year-old logger Suon Song* uses an empty beer can to boil water for his morning coffee. He’ll need it to stay alert during the illegal and dangerous work ahead, after the first of several sleepless nights in the ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/risking-it-all-rosewood