Indonesian President affirms support for establishment of ASEAN Consultative Meeting on Myanmar
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has reaffirmed the importance of the Association of southeast Asian Nations (AsEAN)’s five-point consensus on Myanmar, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501012766/indonesian-president-affirms-support-for-establishment-of-asean-consultative-meeting-on-myanmar/
First Lady applauds midwives’ dedication
Bun Rany Hun Sen, PreSident of the Cambodian Red CroSS, haS lauded midwiveS&rSquo; contribution to Cambodia&rSquo;S mother and child health achievementS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501070399/first-lady-applauds-midwives-dedication/
No foreign aid offered to run National Election
No foreign country has offered to assist the National Election Committee (NEC) with financial assistance or in kind for running next year’s National Election. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501147606/no-foreign-aid-offered-to-run-national-election/
Logging mogul blasted
Logging tycoon Try Pheap has come under fire from two separate reports alleging that he is using his vast network of concessions and licences to decimate protected forests across Cambodia. One of the reports, an exhaustive four-month investigation by a local NGO, also looked at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-mogul-blasted
Negotiations Falter After Election Results Released
Negotiations between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP over an investigation into election irregularities stalled Monday after the National Election Committee (NEC) released official preliminary election results that supported the ruling party’s claim of victory in the July 28 election. In an initial round of talks ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/negotiations-falter-after-election-results-released-39264/
Hun Sen Mute After Initial Election Remarks
Over the past three weeks, a standoff between the long-ruling CPP and newly strengthened opposition CNRP has made for an increasingly tense political environment. But almost entirely missing from the equation has been Prime Minister Hun sen, whose last public appearance was 18 days ago when ss='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/hun-sen-mute-after-initial%E2%80%88election-remarks-40372/
VN Rubber Company Says It Improves Forest
The Vietnamese Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) company, the majority shareholder of several economic land concessions in Ratanakkiri province, on Friday rebuffed accusations that it had logged forests and forced evictions, claiming that its activities improved the environment and the livelihoods of locals. Through several companies, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vn-rubber-company-says-it-improves-forest-47771/
A Hard Road To Phnom Penh For Marching Monks
Monks and their supporters marching to Phnom Penh on a 10-day “Peace Walk,” as part of International Human Rights Day, said Wednesday that pagodas along the way have repeatedly tried to shut them out, and they have scuffled with police on at least one occasion. About ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/a-hard-road-to-phnom-penh-for-marching-monks-48600/
Villagers Protest Move Due to Land Concession
More than 50 villagers from Kompong Cham province gathered in front of Prime Minister Hun sen’s home in Phnom Penh yesterday morning to ask for his intervention in their ongoing land dispute with the Memot Rubber Plantation ss='cambodia-color'>...
Villagers Begin Second Patrol of Sanctuary
Villagers from all five communes of Kratie province’s snuol district began patrolling the snuol Wildlife sanctuary yesterday in a bid to protect the area from illegal loggers, in the second multiday crackdown undertaken by residents this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Private sector to EU: Don’t punish Cambodia
Representatives of the Kingdom’s private sector this week urged the European Union not to cancel the Everything-but-arms (EBA) scheme in response to a perceived deterioration of human rights and democracy in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50510723/private-sector-to-eu-dont-punish-cambodia/
Crackdown on illegal fishing in Tonle Sap
Pursat provincial police and fishery administration officials cracked down on a large scale illegal fishing operation along Tonle sap lake and seized equipment including over 5,300 fishing nets in Kandieng district’s Raing Til commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524750/crackdown-on-illegal-fishing-in-tonle-sap/
Poor migrants caught clearing forest
The Poutil ethnic community members from Busra commune in Mondulkiri province’s Pichreada district handed two men to district police for further action on Thursday, after they allegedly cleared many hectares of forest in their community. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poor-migrants-caught-clearing-forest
Factories begin new wage plan
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training issued an announcement on Wednesday indicating that 81 per cent of garment and footwear factories have implemented the government’s new requirement to pay workers’ wages twice a month. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factories-begin-new-wage-plan
GMAC: Protests hurting industry
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has warned that increasing industrial action is harming the investment climate as the threat of the Kingdom losing access to the EU’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement looms. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/gmac-protests-hurting-industry
KrisEnergy to up investment plans for drawing oil next year
KrisEnergy plans to produce oil from Cambodia’s offshore Block A oil deposit next year and forecasted an investment of more than $30 million in the country this year, according to its 2017 annual report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robin Spiess
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-investment-plans-drawing-oil-next-year
Officials told to remain neutral
The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday ordered village and commune chiefs across Cambodia to not abuse their position, and the resources that come with it, by campaigning ahead of the Kingdom’s July 29 national elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-told-remain-neutral
Labourers protest unpaid wages
Seventy conStruction workerS in Svay Rieng province&rSquo;S Bavet Staged a proteSt yeSterday after the labour agency that found them jobS failed to pay their SalarieS, totaling more than $30,000 over four monthS, aS agreed. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507847/labourers-protest-unpaid-wages/
Cops seize wood in Battambang
Nearly five cubic feet of highly priced wood was confiscated in Battambang province’s samlot district after Military Police in Kampong Lapov commune stopped a truck on Wednesday, said Meas sovan, the provincial Military Police commander. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-seize-wood-battambang
Officials close tobacco factory in Phnom Penh
The Interior Ministry’s Counter Counterfeit Committee has suspended a company operating a tobacco factory in sen sok district in Phnom Penh after officials found that it was involved in the illegal production of tobacco products. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502239/officials-close-tobacco-factory-in-phnom-penh/