Flooding takes a toll
Ten days ago, Loun somaly, 33, left his house to deliver a deposit to the glass workers he hired to replace a window on his rickety sheet metal-panelled house. Ly sophal, somaly’s tenacious three-year-old son, followed him outside, asking if he could join. But with floodwater ss='cambodia-color'>...
Toll may lose rail rights
A company with ties to one of China’s top state-owned firms will look to push Toll Royal Railways and its local partner Royal Group of Companies out of a 30-year railroad concession with pledge to invest nearly Us$850 million to revamp existing lines and build an additional ss='cambodia-color'>...
Government Aims to Increase Silk Production
Cambodia’s Agriculture Ministry has announced plans to increase the annual production of silk from 4 tons to 400 tons by 2020. Cambodia primarily relies on silk from Vietnam and China. The project is entitled the silk Rehabilitation Project and is funded by the UN Food ss='cambodia-color'>...
Basic Concerns Remain Priority in Rural Areas
Roads, bridges, schools, sanitation and other forms of basic infrastructure are still top priorities for many rural citizens of Cambodia. Comfrel has done a study of issues that voters are concerned with and found that infrastructure is a key area. Traditionally the rural areas have ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Maid brokers’ on the stand
A teenager was one of 13 girls locked inside a recruitment company’s offices in the capital last year after being promised work as a maid in Malaysia, she told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. The court yesterday tried three people over alleged illegal detention and human ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040655461/National-news/maid-brokers-on-the-stand.html
We’re going to Wisney World!
More than 6,000 mostly Chinese attendees witnessed the inauguration ceremony of a $1 billion sihanoukville resort project called Wisney World in the capital on Wednesday. The event on Koh Pich, attended by several senior Cambodian government officials, is a joint venture between China’s AMC International ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/were-going-wisney-world
Airport in Sihanoukville gets a major facelift
Sihanoukville International Airport iS Set to See higher paSSenger arrivalS, thankS to the refurbiShment of itS paSSenger terminal, Cambodia AirportS announced. In a preSS releaSe on WedneSday, the operator of the Kingdom&rSquo;S three airportS Said the refurbiShment iS in preparation for an increaSing number of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airport-sihanoukville-gets-major-facelift
ADB disburses $90 million loan to modernise agriculture industry
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) approved a $90 million loan on Wednesday to help Cambodia modernise the agriculture sector and enhance climate resilience. The Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chains sector Project will cost more than $141 million to implement, with the government of Cambodia and beneficiaries ss='cambodia-color'>...
Authorities in Ratanakkiri find stash of 160 pieces of timber
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on saturday commandeered 160 pieces of first-grade timber they stumbled upon. They believe the timber was a collected stash that illegal loggers had hidden in the forest as they waited for rain to cease before transporting it out, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-ratanakkiri-find-stash-160-pieces-timber
Families displaced in Siem Pang
Thousands of families along the sekong river were evacuated last week after the collapse of a dam in Laos led to a deluge in the district. A member of the Kavet ethnic minority, Ms Doung and her family were among 15 other families in santepheap ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50517410/families-displaced-in-siem-pang/
Cambodia to conduct population census in March
Cambodia is going to conduct a population census in March next year, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said here on Tuesday. “We plan to spend 8.5 million U.s. dollars for the one-week census, which will be commenced from March 3, 2019,” he told reporters after a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/14/c_137389562.htm
Local government halts lake filling
Siem Reap provincial authoritieS have Stopped three companieS from illegally filling in a natural reServoir in Trav Kod reSort. The province&rSquo;S deputy adminiStration director Sok Thol told The PoSt yeSterday that the three companieS had filled in the 30ha lake and built wooden cabinS on SS='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-government-halts-lake-filling
Homes in Phnom Penh to be torn down
Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district administration will tear down illegal houses and shops built on the bank of Prek Thnot river, said its administrative director Mok Puthea. He said illegal homes, shops, cafes and canteens in Teuk Thla village along the river in Kraing Pongro commune ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homes-phnom-penh-be-torn-down
Road repairs increased last year
The Transport Ministry repaired more roads last year when compared to work done in 2017, according to its annual report. In the report issued on Wednesday, the ministry noted it repaired a total of 9,671 kilometres of national and provincial roads, an increase when compared ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50568071/road-repairs-increased-last-year/
EU never envisaged putting trade sanctions on Kingdom: Mogherini
In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review on July 31, Mogherini – who is also the Vice-President of the European Commission – was asked whether the EU’s possible sanctions would lead to reforms in Cambodia, to which she said the Kingdom “needed to respect ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/eu-never-envisaged-putting-trade-sanctions-kingdom-mogherini
Certificate of origin issuance poised to be decentralised
The Ministry of Commerce has intensified its decentralisation policy and shifted its responsibility for issuing certificates of origin (COs) to provincial commerce departments, it said on Monday. To promote the Kingdom’s agricultural exports, the ministry announced a pilot launch from November 1 in three border ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/certificate-origin-issuance-poised-be-decentralised
Dolphin calf found dead in Stung Treng
With no immediate cause ascertained for the death of an Irrawaddy dolphin calf in the Mekong River in stung Treng province, conservationists on sunday requested the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) to investigate further. The dolphin was found floating on the river on saturday in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dolphin-calf-found-dead-stung-treng
Cambodia Startup Advisers set to launch non-technical, practical guide for start-ups
Cambodia Startup AdviSerS (CSA) iS Set to launch itS Cambodia Startup Handbook aS a tool for the Kingdom&rSquo;S entrepreneurS, itS preSS releaSe Said on Friday. Scheduled to be launched on TueSday, the book iS co-authored by Sreypeou Chaing, Junro Binang, Pheng Thea and David HaSkel SS='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-startup-advisers-set-launch-non-technical-practical-guide-start-ups
Amru bags rice deals worth almost $10M
Amru Rice Group, one of Cambodia’s largest rice exporters, on Thursday signed a contract purchase agreement with 4,000 organic rice farmers in Preah Vihear province. The agreement effectively means that the company will reserve nearly $10 million to purchase around 30,000 tonnes of organic paddy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/amru-bags-rice-deals-worth-almost-10m
Cambodia earns UN economic council seat
The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday said that Cambodia has been elected to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Economic and social Council for a duration of one year. A ministry statement said that at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, 183 of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501343/cambodia-earns-un-economic-council-seat/