Banteay Meanchey gets free TV
The tower in the provincial capital of Sisophon will provide – for the first time in the province – free national public programming such as local and national news broadcasts, according to Sek Sokhum, the province’s information department director. Previously, those hoping to watch TV ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/banteay-meanchey-gets-free-tv
Rights must improve: UN
The UN’s special rapporteur for human rights yesterday told Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn that Cambodia is the top ranking country in terms of freedom of expression in the Asean region, but must improve in other areas of human rights which have been raised by the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30914/rights-must-improve--un/
Finland to help develop energy plants
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn yesterday met with the newly appointed Finnish ambassador Satu Suikkari-Kleven, who is based in Bangkok. “Ms Suikkari-Kleven told the Foreign Minister that some Finnish companies are interested in cooperating with Cambodia to invest in energy and electricity from waste,” Foreign Affairs ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39177/finland-to-help-develop-energy-plants/
Deminer among three Cambodians arrested for arms sale
Banteay Meanchey police have arrested three men, including a deminer from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), for their alleged involvement in selling three mortars seized last week by Thai authorities, who, in a separate raid in Thailand near the country’s border with Myanmar, detained ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deminer-among-three-cambodians-arrested-arms-sale
Garment sector’s lackluster results
Cambodia’s garment exports grew slower than expected by about 4 percent in the first half of the year compared with 9 percent in the same period last year while foreign investment in the sector fell by 30 percent, according to a report released by the ...
Sok Chan and Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074380/garment-sectors-lackluster-results/
GMS to enhance cooperation
With leaders from the Greater Mekong Sub-region gathering next week in Phnom Penh for a new summit on Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, leading political thinkers and researchers say the LMC mechanism plays a crucial role in enhancing economic cooperation in the region and complements the work being ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100170/gms-enhance-cooperation/
Cambodia needs markets to export remaining 3 million tons of cassava products
Cambodia, the export of cassava in Cambodia is in low cost this year due to low demand and local farmers grow high production Prime Minister Hun Sen said: In Pursat and Battambang provinces alone have three million tons of cassava products for export Most cassava product exported ...
Siem Reap sees strong gains
Commercial property prices and rents in Siem Reap have increased by 10 to 20 per cent in the last year, according to the town’s newest real estate agency. Cambodia Properties Limited (CPL) opened its first Siem Reap branch three months ago, recognising a need for sound ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Real-Estate/siem-reap-sees-strong-gains.html
Investors eye Meoun Chey border
Chinese, Korean and local investors have shown interest in Meoun Chey border crossing in Prey Veng province’s Komchay Mear district between Cambodia and Vietnam, provincial officials said yesterday. Komchay Mear district governor Prak Savann said the potential investors are looking for land in the area to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051756211/Business/investors-eye-meoun-chey-border.html
Unpaid Factory Workers Ask US Embassy for Help
More than 100 workers from Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory, which was a supplier to U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart, demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday, appealing for help in getting their severance payments. In December, workers found out the company had declared bankruptcy ...
Tourist arrivals up 18 per cent
International tourist arrivals soared nearly 18 per cent in the first quarter in this year compared to the same period the year before, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism. The ministry’s official statistics report showed that Cambodia received 1,172,072 tourists in three-month period, compared ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052365790/Business/tourist-arrivals-up-18-per-cent.html
Army, villagers cut land deal
A hotly debated land dispute between villagers and the military in Banteay Meanchey province was solved – for many villagers at least – with a win-win strategy on Friday, according to the provincial governor. In negotiations, village and provincial officials divided up 80 hectares of land ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/army-villagers-cut-land-deal
Grenade attack kills 1, injures 5
A man, 18, was arrested in Kampong Chhnang province on Friday after a grenade attack killed a 69-year-old man and seriously injured five others. [Khov] Thim [the suspect] allegedly found the grenade in a field some months ago when tending to his cows and kept ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grenade-attack-kills-1-injures-5
Appropriate technology is a mechanism to promote nationally appropriate actions for greenhouse gas emission reduction
Phnom Penh – 21 March 2014, a workshop on Energy and Environment Technology: Capacity-Building Cooperation for the Development of NAMA in a MRV manner was organized by the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Environment (CCD) in cooperation with the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, ...
Ministry of Environment
Temple to be restored
A stone wall from the Angkorian-era Banteay Chhmar temple that was damaged in a rainstorm last month will be repaired in July, an official said yesterday. Yang Tangkouy, a provincial official, said the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts is cooperating with UNESCO on the restoration ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/temple-be-restored
Thai, Cambodian authorities meet to boost border stability
Authorities from two provinces in southeast Thailand met recently with representatives of Cambodia’s Third Military Region in Chantaburi, the National News Bureau of Thailand says. In a report Tuesday, the official news agency said the meeting was to “boost stability and strengthen security along the Thai/Cambodia ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZjIyZDI2YTMzYzQ
Log stash discovered
Secret storage depots for illegal timber hidden in the forest in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district were discovered by ethnic minority villagers on Friday, prompting a rights worker to suggest local officials were involved in the illicit trade. ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/log-stash-discovered
Cambodian activists win award for work to combat violence against women
In Cambodia, three women have been recognized for work that combines technology with efforts to combat violence against women, a major problem in the Southeast Asian country. Winning the inaugural VXW Award means the women will get assistance to further promote their efforts on smartphones ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodian-activists-win-award-for-work-to-combat-domestic-violence/2631478.html
Still work to do on land issue: envoy
Germany’s ambassador to Cambodia, Joachim Baron von Marschall, yesterday cautioned against too much optimism in the land sector in the face of ongoing disputes and forced evictions. The ambassador made the comments at a workshop on sustainable land policy in the capital, where speakers from ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/still-work-do-land-issue-envoy
Hun Sen to attend Asian-African Summit, Conference
Prime Minister Hun Sen will attend the 10th Anniversary of the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership Summit to be held from 22-23 April in Jakarta and the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Asian-African Conference on 24 April in Bandung, Indonesia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/hun-sen-to-attend-asian-african-summit-conference-8423