Gov’t has identified suspect in M’kiri logging case
The head of the Forestry Administration’s Mondolkiri cantonment said Monday that he had accused one man over an August 1 incident in which military police freed the drivers of four trucks transporting illegally logged timber from the custody of anti-economic crime police and escaped with ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-has-identified-suspect-in-mkiri-logging-case-91353/
1 of 4 asylum seekers resettled in Cambodia under multimillion-dollar deal wants to go home
One of four asylum seekers resettled in Cambodia just three months ago in a multimillion-dollar deal that saw them sent from an Australian-run detention camp on the Pacific island nation of Nauru has decided he wants to go home, a Cambodian official said Sunday. ...
Sopheng Cheang
http://www.startribune.com/nauru-camp-asylum-seeker-in-cambodia-wants-to-go-home/324962481/
Adolescents aged between 12 and 17 in Cambodia urged to get vaccinated quickly to achieve herd immunity
A total of 1,573,131 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, of which 383,461 have been fully vaccinated. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50927911/adolescents-aged-between-12-and-17-in-cambodia-urged-to-get-vaccinated-quickly-to-achieve-herd-immunity/
Phnom Penh communities resist drug arrests, prompting review
Up till May this year, police would come into Andoung IV village for only one reason: to make a drug arrest, said San Va, a 45-year-old resident and construction worker. ...
Mech Dara and Danielle Keeton-Olsen
https://vodenglish.news/phnom-penh-communities-resist-drug-arrests-prompting-review/
Ecotourism gives ethic community new hope
Ecotourism has turned a struggling community into one with higher incomes, an upgraded road and new school and health services. ...
Sok Haingkheang
https://cambodianess.com/article/ecotourism-gives-ethic-community-new-hope
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 ...
Bank unaffected by partner's suspension
The senior manager of Tomato Specialized Bank yesterday said the bank would continue to operate in Cambodia despite a decision by South Korea’s financial regulator to suspend one of its partners. Korea’s Financial Services Commission on Sunday announced that seven banks, including the Tomato Savings Bank, ...
US, Cambodia to sign off on $20m in aid projects
The US is scheduled today to sign off on another $20 million in funding for aid projects in Cambodia, according to a US Embassy statement issued yesterday. One project will “strengthen the ability of civil society, the private sector, and the government to address food security ...
‘Maid brokers’ on the stand
A teenager was one of 13 girls locked inside a recruitment company’s offices in the capital last year after being promised work as a maid in Malaysia, she told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. The court yesterday tried three people over alleged illegal detention and human ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040655461/National-news/maid-brokers-on-the-stand.html
Workshop pair linked to illegal timber
The owner of a timber handicraft workshop and one of his workers were arrested yesterday for allegedly handling illegal luxury wood. Eam Bunly, 45, owner of the workshop in Spean Meanchey commune in Mondulkiri province, and Doeun Sokhim, 35, were detained by Sen Monorom city ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490570/workshop-pair-linked-to-illegal-timber/
Cambodia to conduct population census in March
Cambodia is going to conduct a population census in March next year, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said here on Tuesday. “We plan to spend 8.5 million U.S. dollars for the one-week census, which will be commenced from March 3, 2019,” he told reporters after a ...
Xinhua
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/14/c_137389562.htm
Amru bags rice deals worth almost $10M
Amru Rice Group, one of Cambodia’s largest rice exporters, on Thursday signed a contract purchase agreement with 4,000 organic rice farmers in Preah Vihear province. The agreement effectively means that the company will reserve nearly $10 million to purchase around 30,000 tonnes of organic paddy ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/amru-bags-rice-deals-worth-almost-10m
Cambodia earns UN economic council seat
The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday said that Cambodia has been elected to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council for a duration of one year. A ministry statement said that at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, 183 of ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501343/cambodia-earns-un-economic-council-seat/
Police raid lumber mill being operated illegally in wildlife sanctuary
Police forces on Sunday raided a lumber mill that was being operated illegally within Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Speu province. At least 100 timber logs, three wood processing machines – including one shredder – and several lumber planks had been found and confiscated, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-raid-lumber-mill-being-operated-illegally-wildlife-sanctuary
Kandal locals ask for government intervention as lake filled in
More than 300 families briefly blocked the entrance to the Kandal Provincial Hall on Monday morning to ask the governor to intervene in a land dispute with well-connected conglomerate ING Holdings, which they say has built a fence around Boeung Chi Po, one of multiple ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-locals-ask-government-intervention-lake-filled
Environment officials deny forest crimes
A letter sent to authorities in Siem Reap province on Monday by nine park rangers accusing two senior environment officials of involvement in illegally cutting down six trees for profit was dismissed as a lie by one of the accused yesterday, who instead insisted it ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28636/environment-officials-deny-forest-crimes/
Project aims to make Phnom Penh school ‘center of excellence’
The Ministry of Education has given a local education NGO $370,000 and one year to implement a pilot project aimed at replacing a long list of informal payments required of students at a Phnom Penh high school with a merit-based payment system that rewards high-performing ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/project-aims-to-make-phnom-penh-school-center-of-excellence-96350/
Massive boost in Cambodia-Thai trade sought
Trade officials from Cambodia and Thailand will begin two days of talks in Bangkok tomorrow in an attempt to boost bilateral increase by 30 per cent per year over the next five years, including drawing more investment from third countries in special economic zones (SEZ), ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18212/massive-boost-in-cambodia-thai-trade-sought/
Training in works for garment truck drivers
Reacting to a spate of garment worker transport truck accidents in the past 12 months, including one on Tuesday that took four lives, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) yesterday announced plans to provide truck drivers with road safety education, with the aim of having ...
Lay Samean and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/training-works-garment-truck-drivers
European bank adds Cambodia to network
France’s BRED Bank, one of the largest lenders in Europe, plans to open its first branch in Cambodia by the end of the year as it expands its network in ASEAN, its CEO said, adding that it aims to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19971/european-bank-adds-cambodia-to-network/