SIV Vatana
Research and Web Content ManagerVatana has been working with ODC as an Editor-Researcher and Research and Content Officer since 2016. Vatana has been acknowledged for her leadership in organizing and overseeing the content and web development teams in the expansion of online resources. She was ...
Terms and definitions
Defining and measuring forests is not an easy business. Definitions that initially sound very similar can turn out to have crucial differences. Understanding the terms is important for understanding forest use, forest cover, forest laws and policies and deforestation. ...
‘Price Dumping’ in Telecoms Market Still Persists
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications implemented a law preventing mobile phone service providers from selling at less than cost over a year and a half ago, though the companies are still lowering their tariffs in an effort to remain competitive in the highly saturated ...
First 10 months of year's exports up 32.9 percent
Exports from Cambodia increased 32.9 percent to $3.7 billion during the first ten months of this year compared to the same period in 2010, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday. Milled rice exports saw the biggest increase with a 161.5 percent jump ...
EU officials: Ending EBA an 18-month procedure
EU officials have confirmed that it will take a total of 18 months to complete the procedure if Cambodia’s preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) trade agreement is to be withdrawn. According to EU Agriculture and Rural Development spokesman Daniel Rosario, the formal process has not ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-officials-ending-eba-18-month-procedure
Paddy rice production reaches 7.4 million in 2018
Cambodia produced 7.4 million tonnes of paddy rice in 2018, a 3.5 percent increase, according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s annual report. In its report, the ministry said total production in 2018 was only 88.47 percent of what the government expected, adding that 2.4 million ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575496/paddy-rice-production-reaches-7-4-million-in-2018/
Export of fishery products sinks in first nine months
Cambodia exported 10,980 tonnes of fishery products in the first nine months of this year – down 0.5 per cent from the same period last year – a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report said. The Kingdom exported 7,000 tonnes of fresh fish (60 ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/export-fishery-products-sinks-first-nine-months
Mondulkiri land decision annulled
Mondulkiri provincial governor Svay Sam Eang has issued an announcement nullifying the provincial administration’s 2015 decision that granted a portion of the Doh Kramom Mountain area to the Ministry of Mines and Energy. On June 3, 2015, the provincial hall agreed to cede a 5.07ha ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-land-decision-annulled
New cement factory opens in Kampot
Chip Mong Insee Cement Corporation (CMIC) launched a new factory in Kampot province yesterday, with a total production capacity of 5,000 tonnes of cement per day.The official opening of the $262-million factory was presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen in the Banteay Meas district ...
Hor Kimsay and Hin Pisei
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-cement-factory-opens-kampot
Government warns of bird flu
The Ministry of Health has called on all travelers to beware of a new strain of bird flu that is now spreading in South Korea and Japan. In a notice released yesterday, the Health Ministry said the discovery of H5N6, a new strain of the bird ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33918/government-warns-of-bird-flu/
Villagers hit with charges to use local road
Villagers in Mondulkiri province have pleaded with local authorities to intervene after a company behind a nearby rubber plantation began charging them 20,000 riel ($5) to use a local road. Security guards at the Tong Min Group property told villagers from Pech Chreada district’s Pou ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38528/villagers-hit-with--charges-to-use-local-road/
Efforts to formalise SMEs fall short
The Cambodian government has made negligible progress in bringing small- and medium-size enterprise (SMEs) into the regulatory fold, reporting a less than 0.5 percent increase in the total number of companies registered in the last five years – a sign business professionals claim shows that ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/efforts-formalise-smes-fall-short
New skytrain gets investors on track
At the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on May 5, during an official visit between Cambodian Minister Hor Namhong and Japanese Minister Keiichi Ishii, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and the Tourism Minister in charge of the Water Cycle Policy of Japan, an agreement ...
Ky Kosal
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38437/new-skytrain-gets-investors-on-track/
Cambodia's Tourism Slows
Cambodia’s Statistics and Tourist Information Department, Ministry of Tourism, reported arrivals increased 15.7% in September, the lowest growth rate so far for this year based on 242,747 visits during the month. The percentage increase for the nine-month period was pulled down from 24.5% at ...
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2012/11/cambodias-tourism-slows/
Factory name change fires up workers
More than 5,000 workers went on strike in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district yesterday after discovering the owners had changed the name of their factory almost two years ago, a union representative said. Concerned that the name change from Tai Yeng to Tai Nan in 2010 ...
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 ...
Clash erupts at SL factory
Security guards clashed yesterday with workers from two SL Garment factories that supply Levi’s, Gap and H&M, as the number of employees protesting exceeded 5,500 – or more than 90 per cent of the staff. Protester Kim Voeun, 32, said security guards, in the presence of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052456366/National-news/clash-erupts-at-sl-factory.html
Viet Nam invests over VND110 billion in sugar planting in Cambodia
Sugar factories from Tay Ninh Province have spent over VND110 billion (US$5 million) to plant sugar cane in Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Province for the 2012-2013 crop, said the Tay Ninh People’s Committee. Vietnamese sugar producers have planted the crops in Cambodia as sugar cane in ...
Hun Sen: No to industry along coast
Hun Sen asked authorities to maintain the pristine beaches along coastal provinces by not allowing any industrial factories to be constructed on or near them. The comment was aimed towards an agreement signed by Cambodian and Chinese companies late last month to build a $2.3 ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZmQ1NGIxODRiYTk
Cambodia considering development of expressway to serve growing economy
Cambodia is considering the development of an expressway network to meet the need for the country’s growing economy, Minister of Public Works and Transport Tram Iv Tek said here Wednesday. The minister said many Asian countries, including neighboring Vietnam and Thailand, have formulated their national ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/08/c_133029001.htm