Cambodians arrested in Thailand over logging
A dozen Cambodian migrant workers suspected of cutting down trees in a Thai protected forest were arrested on sunday by military police at a rubber plantation in Thailand’s Nakhon Reachasima province. According to a report by the Bangkok Post, Thai military police conducted a raid ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50592318/cambodians-arrested-in-thailand-over-logging/
Three parties to kick off campaigns this weekend
The National Election Committee yesterday said that three out of seven political parties registered for the sub-national elections will kick off their campaigns on the main streets in Phnom Penh over the weekend. In a statement, the NEC noted that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50604684/three-parties-to-kick-off-campaigns-this-weekend/
Mondulkiri families concerned for land as airport work begins
Several familieS in O&rSquo;Raing diStrict&rSquo;S Sen Monorom commune in Mondulkiri province expreSS concern that they will loSe their plantation and community burial land after Seeing machinery arrive to excavate Soil for the conStruction of an airport. They Say the excavation iS taking place in a SS='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-families-concerned-land-airport-work-begins
Cambodia urges tourism training on par with Asean
Cambodia is calling for the establishment of tourism institutes and universities to provide relevant skills in compliance with an Asean curriculum, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said. He was speaking during the sub-Forum on Yunnan-south Asia & southeast Asia Tourism Vocational Education and Personnel Training ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-urges-tourism-training-par-asean
South Korea seeking to invest in six sectors
A group of South Korean delegateS on Monday announced that it waS Seeking to inveSt in Six priority areaS in the Kingdom, a move aimed at booSting trade between the two countrieS.&nbSp;The planS were diScuSSed during a meeting between the Council of Development of Cambodia SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50617654/south-korea-seeking-to-invest-in-six-sectors/
Timber firms face action
The government has said it will revoke the business licences and immediately halt the operations of five companies in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district if they are found to be involved in forestry crimes. The warning came as authorities probe the companies’ alleged involvement in logging ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-firms-face-action
World Bank report warns of need for diversification and skills development
The World Bank yesterday launched a new report highlighting the success of Cambodia’s economic development and issued comprehensive policy reform recommendations in order to sustain that growth. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Gerald Flynn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50661464/world-bank-report-warns-of-need-for-diversification-and-skills-development/
Centre aims to bolster women entrepreneurship
A women’s entrepreneurship centre opened its doors in Phnom Penh on Friday, providing a platform for Cambodian women to access the tools and resources needed to start or grow a sustainable business.The WECREATE Cambodia Center supports female entrepreneurs by connecting them to a network of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/centre-aims-bolster-women-entrepreneurship
Hun Sen lauds gains
In a series of meetings before the annual session of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Hun sen highlighted Cambodia’s achievements as the world body set new targets to eradicate poverty and save the planet.Those achievements included “complete” peace, political stability, security and better public ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16227/hun-sen-lauds-gains/
Top cop to officers: ‘behave’
Cambodian police officers need to step up their game, the Kingdom’s top cop told his department hierarchy this week.speaking at a ceremony to promote two senior officers on Monday, National Police chief Neth savoeun said staff who want to be promoted or rewarded needed to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/top-cop-officers-behave
Cambodia to expand ultra-broadband network
An agreement signed between Alcatel-Lucent and Cambodia’s Chuan Wei Ltd. is expected to pave the way for expanding mobile ultra-broadband connectivity across the country. According to data from Alcatel-Lucent, approximately one-third of Cambodians are connected to the Internet, with the majority accessing data on their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Enterprise INNOVATION News Staff
http://enterpriseinnovation.net/article/cambodia-expand-ultra-broadband-network-1345890702
Cambodia to expand ultra-broadband network
An agreement signed between Alcatel-Lucent and Cambodia’s Chuan Wei Ltd. is expected to pave the way for expanding mobile ultra-broadband connectivity across the country. According to data from Alcatel-Lucent, approximately one-third of Cambodians are connected to the Internet, with the majority accessing data on their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Enterprise INNOVATION News Staff
http://enterpriseinnovation.net/article/cambodia-expand-ultra-broadband-network-1345890702
Sokimex to expand its hotel chain
Sokha HotelS and ReSortS, the hoSpitality arm of Sokimex Group, iS continuing to expand and will open a new reSort hotel in Siem Reap, a company repreSentative Said yeSterday.Svay Vuthy, chief legal and corporate affairS officer at Sokimex, Said the 700-room hotel already under conStruction SS='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sokimex-expand-its-hotel-chain
Whitening cream warnings compete with cultural desire for lighter skin
Cambodia’s Ministry of Health is warning the public to beware many skin whitening creams, which have been found to have high levels of mercury in them. Whitening is a common practice in Cambodia, for both men and women, in a culture where lighter skin is ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sokummono Khan
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/whitening-cream-warnings-compete-with-cultural-desire-for-lighter-skin/3061868.html
UN envoy slams NGO law in report
The advent of Cambodia’s much-criticized NGO law was among the top “troubling” developments to take place across the globe last year, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association said in a report released Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-slams-ngo-law-in-report-105631/
Cambodian parties to monitor voter registration project
Cambodia’s political parties say they are preparing to monitor a voter registration pilot project which will be held in November ahead of future local and national polls. Cambodia’s last election in 2013 was marred by disputes over the results. The opposition alleged widespread voter fraud, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-election-voter-registration-pilot-project/2954222.html
Court issues new summons for opposition leader Sam Rainsy
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued a summons for opposition leader sam Rainsy to appear in January, to answer court questions in a new defamation case. The court actions against sam Rainsy come despite widespread condemnation by the international community and fears that Cambodia’s upcoming ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/court-issues-new-summons-for-opposition-leader-sam-rainsy/3084587.html
Villagers protest electricity towers near their homes
Around 100 people upset over the installation of new electricity transmission towers by the national electricity company, Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), protested on Friday morning in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district to demand a halt in the placement of the towers, or suitable compensation, protesters and officials ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-protest-electricity-towers-near-their-homes-102162/
Sihanoukville businesses want beach ban revoked
Dozens of businesses from sihanoukville’s Otres beach will deliver a letter to the National Assembly today seeking intervention on a government order to vacate the beach or be forcibly evicted. X Otres BeachX Yun Min ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-businesses-want-beach-ban-revoked
Reformed tech industry body looks to boost ‘digital economy’
Representatives of Cambodia’s tech sector say they are ready to help the country take advantage of global advances in information and communication technology (ICT), after recent reforms to the main body representing the industry. The management of the ICT Federation of Cambodia was overhauled in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Chhengpor
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/reformed-tech-industry-body-looks-to-boost-digital-economy/3408025.html