Illegal wood exports to China tripled in 2013
Cambodia’s exports of protected rosewood and other high-value timber to China more than tripled last year, according to U.N. figures cited in a new report that blames lax law enforcement across the Mekong region and skyrocketing demand in China for pushing some species to the ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-wood-exports-to-china-tripled-in-2013-58593/
Toll may lose rail rights
A company with ties to one of China’s top state-owned firms will look to push Toll Royal Railways and its local partner Royal Group of Companies out of a 30-year railroad concession with pledge to invest nearly US$850 million to revamp existing lines and build an additional ...
Job Announcement: Administrative Assistant and Web Development and IT Officer (21 Oct 2020)
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is an open data website, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The open data movement is based on the simple premise that data collected for public interest should be publicly available without restrictions. Information or data in the public ...
Striving to save the forest, Prey Long villagers launch patrols
For the several hundred villagers who have been camping and patrolling in a remote part of the jungle in northern Kompong Thom for several days as part of their campaign to save Prey Long forest, the strain is starting to show. Human rights workers say that ...
IMF says Cambodian economy to grow 6.5 per cent, but warns of risks
Cambodia’s economy is expected to grow 6.5 per cent in 2012, up from 5.75 per cent last year, the International Monetary Fund said in its annual review, adding that government policies to boost the investment climate were paying off. However, in its assessment, which was released ...
National products chase GI recognition
A lack of funds would prevent Cambodia registering some of the country’s specialty products as geographic indications (GI), a form of international recognition that has boosted the sales of other domestic products such as Kampong Speu palm sugar. The government would like to see Siem Reap ...
Food Imports See Big Jump
CAMBODIA’S total food and beverage imports jumped 28 percent year-on-year through June to US$74 million, as domestic demand continued to outpace the Kingdom’s production capacity. The demand comes as Cambodia’s economy regains momentum following the global financial crisis, said officials at the Ministry of Commerce, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082351201/Business/food-imports-see-big-jump.html
City Hall hands out Boeng Kak land titles
Marking another milestone in the years-long struggle between the government and the families of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake community, Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema handed out 254 land titles to lakeside residents at City Hall on Saturday. But with the government shrouding the titling process ...
Kingdom poised to ink deal for first wind farm
The government and French-owned The Blue Circle (Cambodia) Co Ltd will soon sign an agreement to build a wind farm in Kampot province – the first of its kind in the Kingdom. The agreement comes as the government has made efforts to diversify its power ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-poised-ink-deal-first-wind-farm
PM confident EBA outcome will not impact Kingdom
As the government reviews a European Commission preliminary report on whether Cambodia should retain its Everything-but-Arms preferential trade status, Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that the Kingdom has strong financial foundations to sustain itself with or without the EBA. “Someone said we will suffer ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50660990/pm-confident-eba-outcome-will-not-impact-kingdom/
Hunan province group to invest $1.3 billion in Kingdom
A group of businessmen from China’s Hunan province will today sign agreements to invest $1.3 billion in the Kingdom. The commitment was made during a meeting between Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn and Du Jiahao, a member of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50661005/hunan-province-group-to-invest-1-3-billion-in-kingdom/
Illegal bird netting in Koh Kong destroyed
Some 3,200m of netting used to illegally poach birds was destroyed by Stung Prot and Wildlife Alliance forest rangers on Tuesday after they were discovered laying in mangrove growth south of the Cardamom Mountains. Southern Cardamom Forest Protection Programme field coordinator Dragos Ionescu said on ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-bird-netting-koh-kong-destroyed
The shackles of abuse
The plight of Cambodian migrant maids who suffer abuse by employers in Malaysia is well documented. Less so is the mental damage caused by the overseas trauma, which has led to some returned migrants being chained up by their desperate familiesYoung women who survive abuse ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/shackles-abuse
Press Release: MFA-IC's reaction against the Phnom Penh Post’s article on migrant workers
On 26 July 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release in response to the article entitled “Migrant worker protections lacking, reports find” published on the Phnom Penh Post. The ministry spokesman made clarifications as follows:at the instruction of the ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Illegal marble miners detained in Kampong Speu
Kampong Speu provincial authorities on Friday arrested five individuals suspected of illegally mining marble at Kbal Damrey village in Oral district’s Trapaing Chor commune. Provincial governor Vei Samnang said on Monday that the suspects included three Cambodians and two Vietnamese nationals. “We are drafting a ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-marble-miners-detained-kampong-speu
Japan-Cambodia ink clean water supply agreement
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn and Japanese Ambassador Masahiro Mikami on Wednesday signed a grant agreement for ¥2.4 million ($22 million) on the “Project for Expansion of Clean Water Supply System in Pursat Province”. The agreement, finalised at the Ministry of ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-cambodia-ink-clean-water-supply-agreement
Life in the Koh Kong jungle through the eyes of forest rangers
A photography exhibit chronicling the lives of forest rangers working toward the environmental protection of the jungles in Koh Kong province will be displayed on Saturday at the capital’s 5 Drunk Men sky bar. The photos are to be sold to, with the profits going to ...
Raksmey Hong
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle-arts-culture/life-koh-kong-jungle-through-eyes-forest-rangers
Villagers denied land titles after demarcation
Sixty families in Kompong Cham province’s Krathor district are planning to file a complaint with provincial authorities after local land management officials decided to take away their registration documents for land titles under Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recently launched titling program. Pon Pumm, 44 a farmer, ...
Yearender: Hosting ASEAN Summit tops major achievements of Cambodia in 2012
The successful hosting of the 21st Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its related summits here in November was definitely the biggest achievement of Cambodia in 2012 despite some sad events such as the death of the venerated former King Norodom ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-01/01/c_132075147.htm
Sharp fall in insurance claims
Claims in the Kingdom’s six insurance companies declined dramatically last year, while the total premium revenue sharply increased by more than 20 per cent year-on-year, official data from the General Insurance Association of Cambodia (GIAC) show. GIAC data shows total claims reached $4.8 million, down from ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022061468/Business/sharp-fall-in-insurance-claims.html