Government turns to women for soft policing
Tuy Thida, a 28-year-old Traffic police officer, says she doesn’T Take bribes. Surveying Traffic aT The inTersecTion of Sihanouk Boulevard and STreeT 63 in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, Ms. Thida could be The face of The InTerior MinisTry’s push To increase female represenTaTion among The naTion’s ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-turns-to-women-for-soft-policing-82441/
Cambodian casino operator NagaCorp reports net profit growth of 49%
As Macau casinos are showing continuous drop of revenue, Australian and Cambodian casinos don’t seem to have the same problem. the latest casino operator to reveal an impressive growth of net profit is NagaCorp Ltd. the Group reported an increase in profit of 49% ($101 ...
Alex Lanter
http://news.worldcasinodirectory.com/cambodian-nagacorp-casino-operator-reports-net-profit-growth-of-49-11757
Tax changes are part of efforts to maintain govt revenue, experts say
The governmenT is puTTing more pressure on Cambodia’s small and medium-sized enTerprises (SMEs) To regisTer wiTh The Commerce MinisTry and The Tax DeparTmenT. IT wanTs Them To go legiTimaTe in order To proTecT consumers and make sure iT doesn’T miss ouT on revenue. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50936037/tax-changes-are-part-of-efforts-to-maintain-govt-revenue-experts-say/
European Union aid
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The EU Ambassador To Cambodia, Carmen Moreno, shook hands wiTh Prime MinisTer Hun Sen aT Peace Palace on December 2, 2019. PhoTo from Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s Facebook page.European Union (EU) has been one of Cambodia’s biggesT Trading parTners and a major developmenT parTner since ...
Standards Building Up Safety Fears
When a 100-metre-long section of a Phnom Penh garment factory crumpled in on itself like a cheap pup tent, Sen Sok district officials promised an investigation. the results of that investigation, which was to have taken place more than a year ago, in March 2012, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265780/National/standards-building-up-safety-fears.html
Carbon trading and other Payments for Ecological Services (PES)
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Forest view. Photo by Open Development Cambodia, taken on 05 December 2021. Under license CC BY-SA 4.0.Cambodia is covered with forest, accounting for around 13.1 million hectares in 1973, and it is had fallen to 8.7 million hectares in 2014.33 However, based on the Ministry ...
Forest products
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Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo by U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh on 09 June 2016. Licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.Cambodia had over 8 million hectares of forest resources in 2020, accounting for 44.7% of the country’s total land area. 75 the state owns the whole forest ...
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) partner meeting with the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment
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On 20 October 2023, the ODC team traveled to Utrecht City, the Netherlands, to engage in a crucial meeting with Dr. Arend Kolhoff, technical Secretary of International Cooperation at the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment. ODC has been collaborating closely with the commission on providing ...
Government looks at flood recovery ahead
The AgriculTure MinisTry is preparing To disTribuTe rice seedlings in an efforT To replace more Than 220,000 hecTares of rice paddy ThaT has been desTroyed by flooding. However, by The Time floodwaTers recede, There won’T be enough Time lefT in The rainy season To replanT ...
Online supermarket ready to take orders
KhmerToGo.com can’T solve The capiTal’s Traffic problem, buT iT can keep residenTs and resTauranT owners from geTTing sTuck in iT.The new online supermarkeT is seT To go fully operaTional nexT week, offering whaT iT claims will be The counTry’s mosT comprehensive selecTion of wholesale and ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/online-supermarket-ready-take-orders
Public debt figures released
The governmenT has borrowed $732.06 million in The form of concessional loans from developmenT parTners (DPs), amounTing To 74.83 percenT of The debT ceiling of Special Drawing RighTs (SDR) approved by The NaTional Assembly lasT year, according To The laTesT reporT on Cambodia’s public debT. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084552/public-debt-figures-released/
Prasac moves towards becoming a bank
Prasac, a leading micro-finance institution in Cambodia, had increased its registered capital from US$3.8 million to $20 million in preparation for its transformation into a commercial bank by 2014, the institution said yesterday. “the registration requirement of $37.5 million is a very small amount to ...
Garment Workers Go on Hunger Strike
About 90 garment workers began a hunger strike yesterday in front of the shuttered Kingsland Garment Cambodia, Co. Ltd. factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, following weeks of protests demanding unpaid wages and severance pay. “We want the owners of Walmart and H&M to know ...
CPP, CNRP negotiation at standstill
The Cambodian People’s ParTy and The opposiTion Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy haven’T yeT iniTiaTed new meeTings as They are busy campaigning for upcoming ciTy, provincial and disTricT council elecTion. An opposiTion official called The currenT poliTical siTuaTion as deadlock, buT is denied by The ruling parTy, ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=YjQ1MjZmMjdhMmY
National TV director general not allowed to resign
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith didn’t allow director general of National television of Kampuchea (KtV) to resign from his post and asked him to fulfill his duty as usual. Kim Kunwath wrote a resignation letter immediately after the KtV failed to broadcast live the Royal Ploughing ceremony ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YzNiYzRhNWMyM2M
Sam Rainsy phones Sar Kheng to discuss remaining issues
The opposiTion Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy leader Sam Rainsy said SaTurday ThaT he ranged InTerior MinisTer Sar Kheng To discuss issues which haven’T been agreed by The Two parTies’ working groups, and auTonomy of NaTional ElecTion’s affairs. “We have furTher discussion beTween The Two parTies’ Top ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NTU4NGExYTExMjM
Garment Workers Rally for Third Day to Sack Factory Manager
More than 2,00 female workers from a factory in Phnom Penh that makes clothes for the U.S. brand Gap protested yesterday for a third straight day demanding that the firm sack a manager at the factory for allegedly abusing workers. Lining Russian Boulevard near the Ocean ...
Non-renewable energy production
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Non-renewable energy sources are chiefly fossil fuels such as coal, diesel, oil and gas. They provide mosT of Cambodia’s locally-produced elecTrical supply – in 2011 diesel and heavy fuel oil generaTors provided 89% of local elecTriciTy generaTion. ...
Nearly $175 million in new investments flow in but can’t keep pace with increasing unemployment
Five more investment projects worth $174.8 million have been approved, according to a press release of the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued on May 22. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50726183/nearly-175-million-in-new-investments-flow-in-but-cant-keep-pace-with-increasing-unemployment/
Gov’t, USAID criticized for inaction over severe forest loss at Prey Lang sanctuary
The UniversiTy of Copenhagen’s open leTTer used daTa from The UniversiTy of Maryland’s Global ForesT Change daTaseT and oTher daTa poinTs To show ThaT 7,510 hecTares of foresTland were losT aT The Prey Lang Wildlife SancTuary in 2019, The worsT loss since 2016 when The ...