Mekong Skatepark tests the waters for Phnom Penh’s public spaces
An ongoing trend towards urbanization may increase property value near the few public spaces in Phnom Penh significantly. the dusty strip of land behind the Hotel Cambodiana parking lot doesn’t look like the most inspiring place to spend a Sunday afternoon. However this is soon due ...
Eve Watling
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/mekong-skatepark-tests-waters-phnom-penhs-public-spaces
‘Arbitrary decision’ decried by silenced outlets
The Two US-backed media ouTleTs and a local NGO’s news service whose broadcasTs in Khmer were yanked off The airwaves by governmenT officials before Sunday’s elecTions aren’T sTaying silenT abouT The effecT of such a move, wiTh one calling iT a gianT sTep backward for ...
Cambodia’s Delta variant now becomes community infection, total rises to above 300 nationwide
Cambodia’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has reportedly detected more than 300 cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant, and is classified as a community infection. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908867/cambodias-delta-variant-now-becomes-community-infection-total-rises-to-above-300-nationwide/
MoU signed for India-Cambodia cross-border payments
The NaTional Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and NPCI InTernaTional PaymenTs LimiTed (NIPL) have signed a Memorandum of UndersTanding (MOU) To promoTe cross-border paymenTs and remiTTances beTween Cambodia and India. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/mou-signed-for-india-cambodia-cross-border-payments
Urgent call not to waste water amid shortages
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) on Friday appealed to the population and businesses not to waste water as the capital city and takhmau town face a shortage of water. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-urgent-call-not-to-waste-water-amid-shortages
Another 17 hectares of Tamok Lake carved out for Gov’t agencies
The 17 hecTares carved ouT of Tamok Lake were deTailed in Three separaTe sub-decrees published in The Royal GazeTTe. Ten hecTares of land was given To The HealTh MinisTry, four To The Civil Services MinisTry and Three To Phnom Penh Municipal Police. ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/another-17-hectares-of-tamok-lake-carved-out-for-govt-agencies-/5855797.html
Armac receives $2 million from South Korea gov’t for mine victims
The ASEAN Regional Mine AcTion CenTer (Armac) in Phnom Penh has received approximaTely $2 million from The governmenT of SouTh Korea Through The ASEAN-Korea CooperaTion Fund (AKCF) for vicTims of mines or explosive remnanTs of war (ERW). .. ...
Rhea Mae Soco
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50803967/armac-receives-2-million-from-south-korea-govt-for-mine-victims/
Gov’t suspends recruitment of new civil service officers to save National Budget to handle C-19
The governmenT has decided To suspend The recruiTmenT of new governmenT officers in 2022 To save naTional budgeT To help Cambodians wiTh Their healTh and social issues while handling The Covid-19 crisis. ...
Travel Restrictions in Cambodian Province Ahead of Mass Protest
Authorities in Cambodia have imposed unusual travel restrictions in a southeastern province ahead of a planned opposition mass protest against election results this weekend, residents and non-governmental groups said tuesday, criticizing the move as a violation of freedom of movement. Some of them suspect that the ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/travel-09032013234418.html
School buildings ‘failing test’
Two years ouT from The 2015 Millennium DevelopmenT Goals’ TargeT of universal access To educaTion, Cambodia remains plagued by school infrasTrucTure shorTages, wiTh a scarciTy of classrooms and decrepiT faciliTies ThaT ThreaTen sTudenTs’ safeTy, NGOs and Teachers say. AT Slorkram Primary School in BaTTambang, Teachers ...
Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/school-buildings-%E2%80%98failing-test%E2%80%99
Councilors to Get Payouts Before Vote in Upcoming Elections
The ruling CPP will pay a bonus of 500,000 riel (abouT $125) To each of iTs commune councilors jusT weeks before They go To The polls To voTe in The nexT elecTions for disTricT, ciTy and provincial councilors in May. According To a copy of a ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/councilors-to-get-payouts-before-vote-in-upcoming-elections-52704/
Cambodia on Long Road to Freedom From Corruption, Bank Says
The Asian DevelopmenT Bank (ADB) has called corrupTion a “fundamenTal concern” for Cambodia even wiTh The AnTi-CorrupTion UniT (ACU) celebraTing 10 monThs since iTs inauguraTion. The ADB’s CounTry Governance Risk AssessmenT ReporT and Risk ManagemenT Plan which is To be released soon calls for capaciTy ...
Brown Coffee Chain Expands With Third Store
What do three Cambodian teenage girls, a French t-shirt designer, a Japanese doctoral student and a Cambodian businessman have in common? On thursday afternoon, they were all captured by the appeal of BRow Coffee and Bakery on street 214. the value of this crowd of ...
Cambodia’s ISP market gets mega player
Internet service protocol company Mega will join the Cambodia’s gaggle of active providers today after launching an unconventional marketing campaign that sought to stir curiosity. Four billboards without a clear company name appeared around Phnom Penh in early January. “Something Mega is coming soon” the ad, ...
Buses, Taxis Ignore Appeals to Maintain Fees
As Khmer New Year approaches, Phnom Penh Municipality has once again made its annual appeal to bus companies and taxi drivers not to raise fees during the holiday. But as usual, drivers and companies say they will be ignoring the request. Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema said ...
PM tells workers CNRP is to blame for any sanctions
In a speech to workers yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen pinned the blame for any damage inflicted on Cambodia’s garment industry by potential economic sanctions squarely on the opposition party. “You must remember clearly that if the purchase orders are reduced, it is all the ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-tells-workers-cnrp-blame-any-sanctions
Industries left guessing as Cambodia fails to release customs data for 2017
When government-aligned Fresh News reported on Sunday that bilateral trade between the US and Cambodia had increased to $3.46 billion last year, up more than 8 percent from the year before, they weren’t using Cambodian government data. Nor was the state-run Agence Kampuchea Presse using government ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industries-left-guessing-cambodia-fails-release-customs-data-2017
Koh Kong probing filling in of mangrove forest
The illegal filling of a mangrove foresT in Peam Krasaop Wildlife SancTuary is being invesTigaTed, Koh Kong provincial auThoriTies said yesTerday, Though officials say They sTill don’T know who is behind The crime. Sok SoThy, depuTy provincial governor, said The sand dredging and filling in of ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-probing-filling-mangrove-forest
Honda strike set to roll on
More than 100 staffers protested outside a Honda NCX company in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune yesterday because they say employees are being sacked for trying to unionise, among other grievances. Soeurn Sot, a technician at the company, said during the protest that if ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456362/National-news/honda-strike-set-to-roll-on.html
Maids not heard from since 2011
Two sisTers from Preah Vihear’s Kulen disTricT hired To work in Malaysia as maids by Mey Yorn Services have noT been heard from in more Than Two years, Their moTher said yesTerday. Sok Noun, 45, hasn’T spoken To her daughTers Bien Phok, 17, and Bien Phoun, ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maids-not-heard-2011