Viet Nam to boost textile and garment exports
Viet Nam expects to raise its textile and garment production by 20 per cent in order to boost the sector’s export value by US$4 billion to $28.3 billion this year. Viet Nam also intends to step up its textile and garment exports by 13 per ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/266663/viet-nam-to-boost-textile-and-garment-exports.html
Scores of ethnic Khmer Krom hold fresh rally against Vietnamese diplomat
About 500 ethnic minority Khmer Krom monks and activists on Monday staged a fresh protest here to demand a Vietnamese diplomat to recognize the “true history” of the former Kampuchea Krom provinces. It was the third rally in the last two months after Trung Van Thong, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/11/c_133547930.htm
Kuoy, Phnong air grievances
Minority Kuoy and Phnong community members from Preah Vihear and Mondulkiri provinces are demanding that the government cancel economic land concessions granted to two Chinese companies and a Vietnamese firm for allegedly violating land laws. In a press conference yesterday in Phnom Penh, representatives from the ...
Phak Seangly and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kuoy-phnong-air-grievances
New year holiday brought millions of dollars to Siem Reap, officials say
A three-day holiday in the tourist town of Siem Reap has garnered millions of dollars in economic value, officials said Tuesday. The Angkor Sankranta, held near the famed temples of Angkor Wat, celebrates the Khmer New Year, a lunar holiday that typically falls in April. It ...
Neou Vannarin
http://bit.ly/1JsdBoE
Tech designer hopes to create better data system for hospitals
Programmer Kong Divin recently returned from a trip to the US, where he won second place in a Microsoft Office context in Texas. He had entered the same competition last year, but did not win any prizes, though it gave him the drive to return. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/tech-designer-hopes-to-create-better-data-system-for-hospitals/2930672.html
Boundary markers create concerns for indigenous people
The Bunong indigenous people in Mondulkiri province have expressed concerns about deforestation in the Phnom Nam Lyr Wildlife Sanctuary after a forest community spotted machinery in an off-limits area and noticed markers planted in the surrounding land. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boundary-markers-create-concerns-indigenous-people
First financial leasing company for Cambodia
GL Finance (GLF), the first and only financial leasing company in Cambodia, opened its 11th branch in Phnom Penh on Friday, covering all authorized Honda and NCX dealerships in Phnom Penh and its vicinity. GLF, in partnership with Honda NCX, helps customers buy their own motorbikes and provides ...
Ten new factory approvals means ‘over 20K’ more jobs
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) notices issued in January reveal that it has greenlit 10 new projects worth nearly $100 million, all in the manufacturing industry: eight involved in textiles and two in light bulbs. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ten-new-factory-approvals-means-over-20k-more-jobs
A raft of complications
Riun Pau ran out of food last week. For the 13-year-old and her family, that moment was the culmination of weeks of distress caused by flooding that had already ravaged their Battambang home and farmland. Pau’s neighbours are experiencing similar problems. In Battambang, 67.3 per cent ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/raft-complications
Workers protest at ministry
About 100 workers from First Gawon Apparel gathered in front of the Ministry of Labour in Phnom Penh on Wednesday asking for intervention on their behalf in a dispute with their employer. The workers claim the company has not paid their salaries for more than ...
Yon Sineat
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-protest-ministry
Preliminary turnout said to be over 82% as votes are cast
Caretaker prime minister and president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party Hun Sen cast his vote in the 2018 national elections – in which preliminary turnout figures were said to be more than 82 percent – on Sunday morning, in front of some 100 national ...
Niem Chheng, Mech Dara and Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preliminary-turnout-said-be-over-82-votes-are-cast
Final poll results confirm first single-party Assembly
In an unprecedented situation in Cambodian politics, the official results of the July 29 national elections have declared that the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) will take all 125 seats in the National Assembly on the back of it receiving 76 per cent of the votes. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-poll-results-confirm-first-single-party-assembly-0
Preah Vihear province ends temple land dispute
Authorities in Preah Vihear province have begun assigning plots of land to 180 families in Sra Em commune, ending a dispute between them and the Preah Vihear Temple Authority. Representatives of the 180 families have rallied multiple times in front of various government offices and ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50609650/preah-vihear-province-ends-temple-land-dispute/
Ethnic land row forum created
The provincial government on Tuesday ordered the creation of a forum in a bid to find a resolution in the 10-year land dispute between 12 ethnic minority communities in Ratanakkiri province and Vietnamese agribusiness giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) over 20 ancestral “spirit mountains”. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-land-row-forum-created
Chinese Embassy petitioned
More than 20 protesters representing 140 families involved in land disputes in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy on Monday to submit a petition requesting it intervene and ask the Union Development Group (UDG) to provide them with ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-embassy-petitioned
Environment Minister mainstreams climate change with youth
More than 100 youth and civil servant from relevant institutions took part in a training course this morning on Climate Change for Youth, where the Environment Minister encourage youth to participate in solving issues in relation to climate change at Preah Sihanouk province. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/environment-minister-mainstreams-climate-change-with-youth-9121
Protest derails provincial sand dredging operation
After over 100 villagers in Kampong Thom province’s Sandan district spent three days protesting a sand dredging operation near their homes in Srey Chang village, the company responsible for allegedly affecting villager’s jobs and drinking water source agreed to stop their project in its entirety. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20548/protest-derails-provincial-sand-dredging-operation/
Another UN rights envoy arrives
The new Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for the United Nations in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, will touch down in Cambodia for the first time today and will stay until the 24th. Ms. Smith will examine the human rights situation in here and report her findings ...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15761/another-un-rights-envoy-arrives/
Protest derails provincial sand dredging operation
After over 100 villagers in Kampong Thom province’s Sandan district spent three days protesting a sand dredging operation near their homes in Srey Chang village, the company responsible for allegedly affecting villager’s jobs and drinking water source agreed to stop their project in its entirety. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20548/protest-derails-provincial-sand-dredging-operation/
Japan helps expand water supply
The launching ceremony of a project for the expansion of water supply systems in Kampong Cham and Battambang, financed with Japanese grant aid assistance, took place yesterday in Battambang City in the presence of Prime Minister Hun Sen and Kumamaru Yuji, Japan’s ambassador to Cambodia. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27549/japan-helps-expand-water-supply/