Stung Treng authority agrees to Bunong request
Stung Treng provincial authorities have unanimously agreed to the request and conditions of the ethnic Bunong community members from Kbal Romeas village who have been impacted by the Lower Sesan II dam in the province. However, the authorities are still considering requests and conditions laid down ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-treng-authority-agrees-bunong-request
Community forest woes
In the latest chapter of what is proving to be an arduous struggle to protect a government demarcated Community Forest in Battambang province, 36 hectares of the land have reportedly been given over to outsiders including a military official. ...
David Boyle
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012121060181/National-news/community-forest-woes.html
Best tourism communities to be chosen in new contest
The Ministry of Tourism recently announced a new contest to find the best community-based tourism sites in the Kingdom and has called on villages and communities around the country to submit their application. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492441/best-tourism-communities-to-be-chosen-in-new-contest/
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. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poor-migrants-caught-clearing-forest
Royalties concern forest activists
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in the first three quarters of this year, Cambodia earned $5.7 million in royalties from forest produce – an increase of nearly $2 million compared to the same period last year when it earned $4 million. The ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royalties-concern-forest-activists
Areng Valley residents push to save office
An Areng Valley representative on Monday visited the Chumnoab commune office in Koh Kong province to plead with authorities not to remove a community office that has been slated for demolition to make way for a new commune office. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50202042/areng-valley-residents-push-to-save-office/
Fishing communities given 100 motorboats
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has provided 50 communities in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces with 100 motorboats from the World Bank to strengthen preservation and combat fisheries crimes. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fishing-communities-given-100-motorboats
Officials aided Vietnamese loggers, villagers say
Evidence of illegal logging perpetrated by Vietnamese lumberjacks in collusion with local authorities in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district was submitted to a local rights group by an ethnic Jarai community yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-aided-vietnamese-loggers-villagers-say
Thitikorn to open two branches in Cambodia
Listed hire-purchase company Thitikorn plans to open two branches in Cambodia next year, after being in the market for one year and finding huge opportunity and high demand for motorcycle lending there, managing director Prathama Phornprapha said yesterday. ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Thitikorn-to-open-two-branches-in-Cambodia-30275540.html
Index Creative Village to tap Cambodian market next year
Index Creative Village, the country’s leading event management company, will expand its business into Cambodia next year by organising trade fairs in response to its clients’ need to capitalise on the Asean economic integration. ...
Watchiranont Thongtep
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Index-Creative-Village-to-tap-Cambodian-market-nex-30271560.html
Cambodia pins economic hopes on AEC
Cambodians are expecting a ‘seamless transition’ when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is launched in two months and hopefully heralds a second investment wave, capable of transforming this country’s pool of unskilled labor into a manufacturing hub. ...
Luke Hunt
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-pins-economic-hopes-on-aec/3031723.html
Hun Sen calls for ASEAN cooperation in times of disaster
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday called on Asean member states to work together on cross-border rescues of citizens in the wake of natural or man-made disasters. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-calls-for-asean-cooperation-in-times-of-disaster/3105429.html
Villagers to contest authorities’ assessment in Battambang
More than 200 families in Battambang’s Rokhakiri district are preparing to file a petition against local officials who they allege destroyed their homes on Monday in the Prey Tralach community forest. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-contest-authorities-assessment-battambang
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/
News analysis: AEC to boost bloc's influence on global economy-- Cambodian experts
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which will become a reality at the end of this year, would boost the ten- nation bloc’s influence and prestige in the global stage, according to Cambodian scholars here. ...
Xue Lei, Nguon Sovan
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6687807/2015/11/14/news-analysis-aec-boost-blocs-influence-global-economy-cambodian-experts
Accusations fly over logging of Battambang forest
A mass eviction in Battambang province yesterday saw 100 locals kicked out of the Prey Tralach community forest, which local authorities claim was illegally inhabited and deforested by villagers. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/accusations-fly-over-logging-battambang-forest
ASEAN creates 'community' encompassing 600+ million people
Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sunday signed a declaration establishing a formal economic, political, security and socio-cultural community. The AEC is set to become fully functional December 31. ...
Steve Herman
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/asean-economic-community/3069046.html
ASEAN integration will require human resources, scholar says
With Asean integration fast approaching, analysts say Cambodia has more to do to strengthen its human resources and be competitive in the region’s open markets. ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/asean-integration-will-require-human-resources-scholar-says/3099035.html
Labour market unfazed by AEC
As ASEAN member states race to get ready for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) integration later this month, one of the pillars of the new economic bloc is the free flow of skilled labour across borders, with Cambodian industry experts unperturbed by the possibility of ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/labour-market-unfazed-aec
AEC presents migrant hurdles
With cross-border flows of migrant workers rapidly increasing since the founding of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, industry insiders claim that this change has had both positive and negative effects on the Kingdom by reducing the levels of unemployment while highlighting the need ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aec-presents-migrant-hurdles