Cambodia looks to be winner for growth for AEC: ILO
Cambodia stands to be the biggest beneficiary, in terms of GDP growth, for the first decade following ASEAN Economic Integration in 2015, according to a study released publicly today by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The ILO’s 160-page report says Cambodia could see a 19.9 per ...
Eddie Morton and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-looks-be-winner-growth-aec-ilo
Dolphin found dead
The body of a 100-kilogram Irrawaddy dolphin from Cambodia was found dead in Vietnamese territory and repatriated to its home waters yesterday, officials said. Im Phat, deputy chief of the Fishery Administration in Takeo province’s Angkor Borei district, said two endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins – fewer ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dolphin-found-dead-0
City hits brakes on illegal gas
The Phnom Penh government is planning to take action against illegal petrol stations around the city, and has counted 205 of them so far. Chreang Sophan, Phnom Penh deputy governor, said at the opening of a Total station in Tuol Kork district on Monday that the ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hits-brakes-illegal-gas
Cambodia to host rice event
After winning the World’s Best Rice Award for two years running at the World Rice Conference, Cambodia has been selected to host this year’s annual event. The World Rice Conference is a networking event that brings together rice industry professionals from all over the world. Initiated ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-host-rice-event
Mass firing at Xin Fang factory
In a mass firing the scale of which has not been seen since January, Phnom Penh’s Xin Fang garment factory yesterday terminated 106 employees for protesting in front of the factory. Management at the Por Sen Chey district factory on Thursday already sacked nearly 30 striking ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/mass-firing-xin-fang-factory
Logging deals cancelled
Six economic land concessionaires in Preah Vihear and Oddar Meanchey provinces have had their contracts to supply the government with wood to build housing for soldiers and their families cancelled. In 2011, after the conflict with Thailand over the Preah Vihear temple, the government encouraged the ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-deals-cancelled
Opposition commission heads leaked
The names of lawmakers selected to head five new opposition-led commissions in the National Assembly have been officially announced to Cambodia National Rescue Party members, a senior party official told the Post yesterday. According to the CNRP official, who asked to remain anonymous, of the five ...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-commission-heads-leaked
Cambodia economy bucks regional trend
Driven by garment and improved agricultural export markets, Cambodia has bucked the wider trend of slowing Southeast Asian economies, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). ESCAP’s semi-annual Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, published ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-economy-bucks-regional-trend
Dengue falls, encephalitis up
The number of dengue cases in the Kingdom is continuing to dwindle, but health officials noted a spike of rainy season-induced Japanese encephalitis over the weekend. On Saturday alone, 112 children at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital were diagnosed with encephalitis – brain-swelling – that was caused ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-falls-encephalitis
Gov’t seeks a greener tourism industry
The Tourism Ministry will announce a new “Green Hotel” standard later this month in an effort to make the industry more environmentally friendly, senior officials say. Tourism Minister Thong Khon said on Friday that while it will not be immediately compulsory for all hotel venues to ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-seeks-greener-tourism-industry
Draft law puts high price on drunk driving
Drunk drivers could be fined $1000 under a new draft traffic law approved yesterday by The Council of Ministers. The legislation includes a raft of measures aimed at reducing the number of deaths and injuries on the roads. Among the draft law’s 92 articles are new ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/draft-law-puts-high-price-drunk-driving
‘Solvable problems’ focus of fainting review
Amid reports of increased mass-fainting incidents in Cambodia’s garment sector, workers, employers and government officials gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday for a roundtable discussion on the issue. The conference, which was organised by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, identified issues such as workday lengths and ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98solvable-problems%E2%80%99-focus-fainting-review
Call to cap CP’s export of swine
A livestock industry representative has called on the government to cap Cambodia’s only live pig export company’s trade with Laos, citing shortages in the local market. CP Cambodia, a subsidiary of the Thai conglomerate CP Global, exported some 25,000 head of live swine – boars, sows ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/call-cap-cp%E2%80%99s-export-swine
First buses, now trains could come to capital
As part part of its multibillion-dollar Urban Transport Master Plan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) unveiled a modern rail system for Phnom Penh yesterday that could begin operation as soon as 2023. The trains would thin out traffic on the capital’s choked-up roads, which currently lack ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-buses-now-trains-could-come-capital
Holiday brings street sweeps
In an effort to “clean” Phnom Penh’s streets ahead of the coming Pchum Ben celebrations, authorities in Daun Penh district yesterday rounded up 27 homeless people. Kim Vutha, district security chief, told the Post that authorities conducted the roundup in Wat Phnom, Srah Chak, Boeung Raing and Chey ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/holiday-brings-street-sweeps
Civil society, tech team up
With security footage of elephants, clouded leopards and other wildlife caught on hidden cameras in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains flashing on a TV screen, Toby Eastoe of Conservation International noted that their cameras also catch other activity. Presenters ranging from anti-corruption advocates to health service workers ...
Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-society-tech-team
Anti-corruption
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Anti-Corruption Unit, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo by Michael Coghlan, taken on 9 January 2014. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0In the 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International, released in January 2017, Cambodia ranked 156th out of 176 countries.1 Cambodia has the lowest score of all ...
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)” adding 1 new map features in Pursat Province from sub-decree no. 144 on the establishment of Bakan protected landscape. This dataset contains data of eight types of protected areas in ...
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated a dataset on “Allocated land for social land concession”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated a dataset on “Allocated land for social land concession” by added the one new map features in Kampong Chhnang from the sub-decree no. 124 issued on 07 June 2023. This dataset shows information about the land concession implemented by The ...
Cambodian Rice Federation reports record rice exports, on track to reach 1 million tonnes by 2025
Cambodia is poised to achieve its goal of exporting 1 million tonnes of rice annually by 2025, as indicated by the country’s rice exports reaching over 400,000 tonnes in the first eight months of the year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501361211/cambodian-rice-federation-reports-record-rice-exports-on-track-to-reach-1-million-tonnes-by-2025/