Report slams Boeung Kak 13 sentencing
The 13 Boeung Kak lake women imprisoned after a three-hour trial on May 24 were tried unjustly on charges that had no basis, according to a Cambodian Center for Human Rights report released yesterday. Ou Virak said the women’s sentencing, which came two days after ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ahead of aid meet, NGOs urge reform
More than 100 NGOs and human rights groups yesterday urged foreign donors to flag issues regarding land policies, democratic processes and human rights during today’s Government-Development Partner Coordinating Committee (GDCC) meeting. Intended as a preparatory meeting for Cambodia’s main government and donor summit, the GDCC is generally ss='cambodia-color'>...
Family of Battambang doctor flees home
As resentment continues to fester among villagers who have tested positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune, the family of the unlicensed doctor accused of spreading the virus has fled their home out of concern for their safety. Mr. Chrin’s daughter, Chrin Reaksa, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/family-of-battambang-doctor-flees-home-76258/
HIV tragedy tops 200 in Cambodia
In a small village in Cambodia’s west, a tragic tale of international significance has caught the local authorities off-guard. An unlicensed doctor has been charged with causing an outbreak of HIV and murder after lax practices resulted in at least 201 people contracting the potentially ss='cambodia-color'>...
Luke Hunt
http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/hiv-tragedy-tops-200-in-cambodia/
Controversial Pöyry tapped for Xayaburi
Multinational consulting and engineering firm Pöyry has signed a contract with the Lao government to supervise construction of the divisive Xayaburi hydropower dam in the country’s north, it announced Friday. This work, carried out by its Energy Business Group, will include reviewing the design and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Exit of ANZ Royal CEO unexplained
ANZ Royal Bank chief executive Damian Bell has resigned from the post he held for not much more than a month, a company spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. He resigned “several weeks ago”, Libby Armstrong, a Hong Kong-based ANZ spokeswoman, said by phone. No explanation was offered for ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012041855621/Business/exit-of-anz-royal-ceo-unexplained.html
Small growth for Phnom Penh's water utility
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority Saw 8.2 per cent revenue growth during the firSt quarter of the year, a welcomed diScloSure after the retirement of the State-owned firm&rSquo;S general director waS announced laSt week. The firm took in US$7,725,500 between January and March, up from $7,140,473 SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070357153/Business/small-growth-for-ppwsa.html
FASMEC partners to introduce SME clusters
The Federation of Associations of small and Medium-size Enterprise of Cambodia (FAsMEC) will cooperate with the Thailand-based Mekong Institute to train master teachers in an effort to implement a small and medium enterprise (sME) cluster and export consortia in the coming years, according to officials. The two-day workshop ss='cambodia-color'>...
Announcement on the signing of the 2020 development objective agreement grants between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Government of the United State of America
On 25 June 2020, the Royal Government of Cambodia, through Council for the Development of Cambodia, and the U.S government through the U.S Agency for International Development, Signed an agreement to provide $38 million for health and education program, $18 million for agriculture and environment SS='cambodia-color'>...
Council for the Development of Cambodia
Sex claims a conspiracy: boss
The Ocean Garment manager facing a slew of sexual harassment charges has lashed out at the union representing the 2,500 workers on strike over the past two weeks, claiming its delegates provoked the strike after management cracked down on absent workers and overtime requests. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Car industry slumps by 30% as purchasing power wanes
The Kingdom’s vehicles business has seen a drop in both sales and imports by an estimated 30 percent because of the impact of COVID-19. Figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) shows that the COVID-19 crisis has caused the country’s imports to fall ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50770579/car-industry-slumps-by-30-as-purchasing-power-wanes/
Exploration permits for gold-polymetallic mines offered
The Ministry of Mines and Energy on Monday put on offer concession licences for some 207sq km of gold-polymetallic mining areas in Tbong Khmum and Ratanakkiri provinces. It said the areas of tenement are 107.10sq km in Tbong Khmum’s eastern Memot district and 100sq km ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exploration-permits-gold-polymetallic-mines-offered
Burning Homes in the Name of Conservation: NGO Wildlife Alliance Cracks Down on the Poor
The farmers of Knong Riel run when they see white faces. A white face, for many farmers, means staff from Wildlife Alliance, one of Cambodia’s leading conservation NGOs, have entered the northern edge of the Cardamom National Park where dozens of families grow cassava, corn ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry agrees to meet Candlelight Party
The Ministry of Interior has granted the Candlelight Party’s (CP) request for a meeting with its representative to discuss their party’s registration. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-agrees-meet-candlelight-party
Ministry: Snares threaten biodiversity
SnareS remained a challenge for wildlife in Cambodia&rSquo;S protected areaS, and reSult in the loSS of many of the Kingdom&rSquo;S endangered SpecieS.&nbSp;In order to addreSS the problem, in 2021, the MiniStry of Environment and partner organiSationS removed over 60,000 SnareS from 72 protected areaS and SS='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-snares-threaten-biodiversity
3,000 saplings planted in Mondulkiri in effort to ‘undo deforestation’
In a spirited effort to revitalise a crime-ravaged landscape, Wildlife Conservation society (WCs) Cambodia – alongside UsAID Morodok Baitang, the Mondulkiri provincial environment department and Keo seima district authorities – embarked on a rejuvenating mission on June 19. They began the resurrection of the sre ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/3000-saplings-planted-mondulkiri-effort-undo-deforestation
South Korean investors eye automotive expansion
South Korean inveStorS have Shown a Strong intereSt in expanding their inveStment in the automotive Sector, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). SS='cambodia-color'>...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-investors-eye-automotive-expansion
South Korean investors eye automotive expansion
South Korean inveStorS have Shown a Strong intereSt in expanding their inveStment in the automotive Sector, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). SS='cambodia-color'>...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-investors-eye-automotive-expansion
PA Settevin
Admin & Finance OfficerTevin’s main responsibility is to assist the Finance & Admin units in providing admin/logistic support for the events, preparing Travel Authorization (TA) form and clearance, scanning and copying financial documents, maintaining fixed asset and inventory lists, procurement works, monthly tax declaration, National ss='cambodia-color'>...
Third worker killed at hydrodam
Ouch Nob, an electrician, was killed while working at the Russei Chrum Kraom river hydropower construction site. Last week two Chinese nationals also working at the site died. China Huadian Hong Kong Limited has agreed to pay the victim’s family $4,700 in compensation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/third-worker-killed-hydrodam