Silk board looks to revive flagging sector
The recently established National silk Board is looking to tighten regulations and boost investor confidence in Cambodia’s silk industry, as well as create a policy for silk promotion in the future. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/silk-board-looks-revive-flagging-sector
Boat scrap halts votes over ticket earnings
Five people from Kampong Phluk village were injured after a violent protest erupted over the election of a new committee to support boating tourism in siem Reap’s Bakong district on saturday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boat-scrap-halts-votes-over-ticket-earnings
Rice export goals quietly fall
Cambodia’s ambitious goal of exporting one million tons of rice this year has been quietly dropped. A follow-up export goal of 600,000 tons also is falling by the wayside. ss='cambodia-color'>...
T. Mohan and Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12698/rice-export-goals-quietly-fall/
Stalled interbank market clogging up liquidity
At least $1 billion in surplus liquidity is sitting idle in Cambodia’s banking system and could be unlocked if the central bank implemented a more effective interbank lending mechanism, experts say. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12776/stalled-interbank-market-clogging-up-liquidity/
Vietnam, Cambodia to increase cooperation in border control
Vietnamese and Cambodian officials have pledged to resolve border issues between their two countries on the basis of friendship and respect for each other’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tuoitrenews News Staff
http://tuoitrenews.vn/politics/29238/vietnam-cambodia-to-increase-cooperation-in-border-control
Record rainfall prompts debate over drainage
The storm that swept through Phnom Penh on saturday evening resulted in the city’s highest rainfall on record, the municipal government said in a statement posted to its Facebook page sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/record-rainfall-prompts-debate-over-drainage-90412/
Opposition leader says amended Constitution could help border
Opposition leader sam Rainsy says the article of the constitution that demarcates Cambodia’s borders could be amended, for use of an older, more accurate map. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-leader-says-amended-constitution-could-help-border/2920987.html
Vietnam, Cambodia work to ensure smooth cross-border goods transport
Cambodia has asked for Vietnam’s coordination to ensure uninterrupted cross-border transport of goods amid the COVID-19 epidemic. ss='cambodia-color'>...
VIetnam Plus Staff
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-cambodia-work-to-ensure-smooth-crossborder-goods-transport/170382.vnp
M’kiri rangers bust wildlife hunters, hold one for questioning
Mondulkiri Department of Environment rangers arrested a man in Ror Nhor commune’s Koh Nhek district last saturday on suspicion of illegally hunting wildlife. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mkiri-rangers-bust-wildlife-hunters-hold-one-questioning
Threats, destruction and forced sales: rubber firm razes indigenous Jarai farmlands
The company had already ravaged the farms of their indigenous Jarai neighbors in Ratanakiri province’s Andong Meas district over the past months. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Brook and Eung Sea
https://cambojanews.com/threats-destruction-and-forced-sales-rubber-firm-razes-indigenous-jarai-farmlands/
BOC Phnom Penh Branch authorized as RMB clearing bank
China’s central bank announced on Monday that it has authorized the Bank of China (BOC) Phnom Penh Branch to be the clearing bank for renminbi (RMB) business in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501406842/boc-phnom-penh-branch-authorized-as-rmb-clearing-bank/
Economic policy and administration
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After the first general election in 1993, the government prepared and implemented a comprehensive micro- and macroeconomic policy and structural reform program to integrate Cambodia’s economy into the region and the world as well as stimulate its economic growth.1 In the two decades following that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cemetery community rejects land offer
Families living occupying cemeteries in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district are showing reluctance in moving to a new location offered by City Hall, saying that the new houses are inadequate. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50500234/cemetery-community-rejects-land-offer/
Japan provides $52M in grants
The Japanese government has provided more than $52 million in grants for Cambodia’s socio-economic development projects so far this year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-provides-52m-grants
Oz launches water schem
The Australian embassy last week launched the Cambodia-Australia Water Utility Improvement Programme (WUIP) which aims to support the Kingdom’s water operators and improve water service delivery throughout the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oz-launches-water-scheme
Soldier movement ‘due to military parade in Battambang'
A senior official from the prime minister’s Bodyguard Unit (BGU) said the mobilisation of troops and equipment over the weekend was merely to attend a military parade in Battambang province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldier-movement-due-military-parade-battambang
Students welcome ‘School Learning Gardens’ in Siem Reap
More than 100 enthusiastic students, teachers and community members welcomed the launch of “school Learning Gardens” at Trapeang svay Primary school in siem Reap province’s Angkor Thom district on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-welcome-school-learning-gardens-siem-reap
Government unveils tourism master plan to increase visitors
The government is set to roll out the Four-strategic Plan for Tourism Development aimed at reviving tourism in the Kingdom’s northern provinces, an inter-ministerial committee meeting has decided. ss='cambodia-color'>...
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-unveils-tourism-masterplan-increase-visitors
Kratie officials seize bulldozer involved in clearing state forest
Kratie’s Prek Prasap district authorities on Friday confiscated a bulldozer in connection with the clearing of 10 hectares of forestland near the protected Prey Lang forest, officials said on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-officials-seize-bulldozer-involved-clearing-state-forest
Ministry orders demolition of Sihanoukville building
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction ordered a nine-storey building in sihanoukville’s Mittapheap district to be demolished after deeming it technically inadequate and of poor quality. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-orders-demolition-sihanoukville-building