Cambodia's garment exports up 9% in 1st half of 2015
Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest foreign currency earner, has seen a 9% rise in exports in the first six months of 2015, according to the Chinese state’s News Agency-Xinhua. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodias-garment-exports-up-9-in-1st-half-of-2015-8849
Prime Minister Hun Sen: We need unity for strengthening the economy
Prime Minister Hun sen called for the Royal Government officials in charge of hospitality service to pay high attention to fasten procedure and work effectively with private sectors to improve the country’s economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen:-we-need-unity-for-strengthening-the-economy-8876
Strike ends at Bavet window factory
More than 400 workers from a Chinese-owned window factory in svay Rieng’s Bavet town returned to work yesterday following two weeks of protests that saw strikers pelt their own factory with rocks. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-ends-bavet-window-factory
Tighter security on exams, but critics say teachers need paid more
A major exam for students this year included tighter security in order to prevent widespread cheating, but critics say more needs to be done to improve Cambodia’s education system. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/tighter-security-on-exams-but-critics-say-teachers-need-paid-more/2933104.html
Expressway planned from Saigon to Cambodian border
Vietnam is considering the construction of an expressway to link Ho Chi Minh City to neighboring Tay Ninh Province with investment of 693 million U.s. dollars, local online newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) News reported Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15269/expressway-planned-from-saigon-to-cambodian-border/
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/