Angkor Wat temple graffiti causes stir
The foreign letters written on the stones of the Angkor Wat temple were written during the 17th century and before the 1990s and there are no recent letters written by foreigners, the Apsara Authority has said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504376/angkor-wat-temple-graffiti-causes-stir/
Workers to get cash compensation
The Ministry of Labour on Friday announced that more than 1,000 workers from three factories in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district can come to collect cash compensation at a district hall following the absconding of their employers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50506950/workers-to-get-cash-compensation/
Koh Rong families fear losing their land
About 40 families in sihanoukville’s Koh Rong commune who fear losing their land have requested intervention from provincial authorities in order to stop the activities of tycoon sok Bun and officials from the Ministry of Land Management. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50202044/koh-rong-families-fear-losing-their-land/
China leader lays praise on Kingdom
Marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Hua Chunying, spokesman for China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, said: “Although Cambodia is a small country, it showed its strong will in resisting pressure and other political influences.” ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-leader-lays-praise-kingdom
EU urged to help with 2030 targets
The European Union (EU) should not falter in its support of the government’s target to transform the country into a higher middle-income nation by 2030, said the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50519680/eu-urged-to-help-with-2030-targets/
Gibbons facing threat
While hunting in the Kingdom’s wildlife sanctuaries has abated, the use of traps have become widespread. That, coupled with deforestation, has caused grave concerns among conservationists who fear the extinction of the endangered yellow-cheeked crested gibbons. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gibbons-facing-threat
Flooded forest illegally cleared in Kampong Chhnang
The Kampong Chhnang provincial department of agriculture, forestry and fishery is working to identify suspects who had mobilised tractors to illegally clear flooded forest in Toek Phos district’s O’krabey Ngob and O’Klong in Chieb communes. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooded-forest-illegally-cleared-kampong-chhnang
ADB says Cambodia to grow at 7% in 2018, 2019
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecasts that Cambodia’s gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 7 percent in 2018 and 2019, backed by strong export growth, robust tourist arrivals, buoyant domestic demand, and an expansionary fiscal policy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536840/adb-says-cambodia-to-grow-at-7-in-2018-2019/
Rangers prepare incitement action against ‘armed mob’
Environmental rangers in Preah Vihear’s Prey Lang Wildlife sanctuary are preparing to file a complaint against 15 people for inciting an armed mob of villagers on saturday to “liberate” three rice tractors impounded at an environmental office. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rangers-prepare-incitement-action-against-armed-mob
Ministry sees strong growth for Kingdom
Cambodia should continue to see steady economic growth at about 7 percent this year despite potential investor caution that could arise ahead of July’s national election, officials from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-sees-strong-growth-kingdom
World Bank: more skilled worker training needed to sustain Cambodia growth
Cambodia’s economic health remains strong at about 6 or 7 percent annual growth, but the country needs to harness its young population and invest in training and skills to ensure this trend continues, the World Bank said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/more-skilled-workers-training-needed-to-sustain-cambodia-growth-says-world-bank/4394843.html
NEC warns press on elections
The National Election Committee (NEC) has reminded media outlets to abide by the Code of Conduct for Media during the coming campaign season for July’s national elections, and called on reporters to remain professional, fair and transparent. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-warns-press-elections
Hun Manet promoted after royal decree
Hun manet, the son of Prime Minister Hun sen, rose to the rank of Commander of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) – the second most powerful position in the Kingdom’s military – on Thursday after a royal decree. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-manet-promoted-after-royal-decree
Beat Richner: doctor to the poor children of Cambodia
Beat Richner, a SwiSS pediatrician who opened a network of children&rSquo;S hoSpitalS in Cambodia at a time when quality health care waS all but non-exiStent in that country, died Sept. 9 in Zurich. He waS 71. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Julia Wallace
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-beat-richner-doctor-to-the-poor-children-of-cambodia/
Villagers complain against sanctuary head
The Kampong Cham commune council in Kratie province’s sambo district is representing 1,294 families to lodge a complaint against Prey Lang Wildlife sanctuary head Nhem Visal for abusing villagers and allowing traders to haul timber illegally. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-complain-against-sanctuary-head
Endangered gaur gives birth
The Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre has announced the arrival on Monday of a male gaur calf to a female that was brought from the Kingdom’s northeastern region seven years ago as part of a pioneering breeding programme. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/endangered-gaur-gives-birth
Boeung Tamouk reclamation project worries villagers
The government is going ahead with its plans to revamp part of Phnom Penh’s largest water reservoir into a vegetable market, despite complaints from villagers, fishermen and vegetable vendors that the market would be counterproductive to their livelihoods. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50567134/boeung-tamouk-reclamation-project-worries-villagers/
NGOs call for speedy passage of information freedom law
A group of 19 non-governmental organisations and associations have urged the Kingdom’s legislative and executive bodies to expedite the passage of a draft law on freedom of information, which the group said had been delayed for years. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-call-speedy-passage-information-freedom-law
Mondulkiri forest community claim they received death threats from sawmill boss
Three community activists from Bou sra commune in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have claimed that they received death threats from the owner of four sawmills after they took photographs of alleged illegal logging from the community forest. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Protestors demand land titles
Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Borey Kang Meng construction site in the capital’s Dangkor district on Monday to demand the developer honour its promise to divide the site into plots and give them land titles. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protestors-demand-land-titles