Paddy fields in Battambang rescued from drought
Officials said that the nearly 20,000ha of paddy fields in Battambang’s sangke district that faced drought have been rescued, with parts of the province receiving some rain recently. Chhim Vichara, the director of the provincial agricultural department, said on Tuesday that although some 18,000ha of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/paddy-fields-battambang-rescued-drought
CDC approves $1.8B investment this year
The Cambodia Development Council (CDC) has approved more than $1.8 billion in investment projects during the first six months of this year, research by The Post has shown. According to its calculations, the CDC’s data shows that during the period from January to this week, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-approves-18b-investment-year
Joint Asean action sought to fight fake medicine
Cambodia yesterday urged Asean member countries to jointly combat the spread of substandard and counterfeit medicines which are endangering people’s health and welfare and affecting economic growth in the region. Defence Minister General Tea Banh, representing Prime Minister Hun sen, made the call during the 14th ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50638362/joint-asean-action-sought-to-fight-fake-medicine/
Working group on cross-border drug crimes to be formed
The National Authority for Combating Drug and its counterparts in partner countries are set to establish a joint working group to investigate and share information on cross-border drug crimes in the region. NACD vice chairman General Chuon sovann on Tuesday led a delegation to attend a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642430/working-group-on-cross-border-drug-crimes-to-be-formed/
Oddar Meanchey animals threatened
All species of animals in the sorng Rukhavoan Wildlife sanctuary are facing danger no thanks to night hunters, despite concerted efforts to stop the crimes, say activists and environment officials. The 30,254-hectare sanctuary spans across the sorng Rukhavorn and Rattanak Rokha community forests, as well ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oddar-meanchey-animals-threatened
Ministry urges firms to apply for foreign worker permits
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has directed all companies or institutions that plan to hire foreign staff next year to apply for work permits between september 1 and November 30. Heng sour, the ministry’s spokesperson, told The Post yesterday that any employer who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-urges-firms-apply-foreign-worker-permits
PP garment workers continue wage protest
About 200 garment workers at a factory located in the capital’s steung Meanchey Commune1, Meanchey district, have been protesting since Monday after the owner fled without paying their August wages. The workers who were employed by a sub-contractor who supplies garments to a foreign buyer ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pp-garment-workers-continue-wage-protest
‘Trapped in debt bondage’
Cambodia’s construction boom has pushed thousands of families into modern slavery in the brick industry through debt bondage, a report by researchers from London’s Royal Holloway University say. The blood bricks report was released on Tuesday following the sharp rise in Cambodian brick prices in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trapped-debt-bondage
Baby dolphin found in Kratie
The newborn Irrawaddy dolphin which was discovered earlier this week in Kratie province is the first one recorded this year, a World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)-Cambodia report said. According to the report, a group of dolphin-watching tourist-boat operators on Monday spotted a dolphin calf, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/baby-dolphin-found-kratie
Cambodia orders rare investigation of shooting in land protest
Cambodian authorities have ordered an investigation into violent clashes over a land dispute in which a protester was shot, after a video clip of the incident sparked outrage on social media. A man was shot and a 10-year-old boy injured in the clash last week ss='cambodia-color'>...
Minsitry calls for more vigilance during storms
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology called on Wednesday for increased vigilance as Cambodia continues to be in a trough of low atmospheric pressure while facing high pressure from Thailand, leading to dry season rains, sudden strong winds and lightning strikes. The ministry’s notice ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minsitry-calls-more-vigilance-during-storms
Save The Children launches EU-funded welfare project
Save the Children launched an EU-funded project on WedneSday &ndaSh; ReSponSive and Effective Child Welfare SyStemS TranSformation (React) &ndaSh; which aimS to enSure proper legal protection and quality ServiceS for children, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU&rSquo;S diplomatic Service Said. The launch of SS='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/save-children-launches-eu-funded-welfare-project
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