UN promises to improve Cambodian agricultural production
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will continue its support for the Kingdom’s food security and agricultural sector, while also helping with market research to assist the export of Cambodian milled rice and geographically-protected pepper products, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry said lass='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23418//
Officials claim ignorance of illegal logging report by police
Police and government officials say they know nothing about a recent report published by the National Police accusing wealthy businessman Soeng Sam Ol of using government-approved economic land concessions in Mondolkiri province to illegally log a local wildlife sanctuary, but added that they would investigate lass='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-claim-ignorance-of-illegal-logging-report-by-police-104650/
RepRisk releases Special Report on the Lower Mekong Basin
RepRisk, the leading provider of dynamic business intelligence on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks, has released its Special Report on the lower Mekong Basin, the second in a series of reports on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an economic and political organization lass='cambodia-color'>...
Business Wire Team
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160223006393/en/RepRisk-releases-Special-Report-Mekong-Basin
Little promise in union law debate, says SRP senator
Following the National Assembly’s passage of the draft trade union law last week, the Senate is set to take up the law today, with the permanent committee scheduled to discuss it followed by a vote on Tuesday, said the Senate’s secretary-general Oum Sarith. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/little-promise-union-law-debate-says-srp-senator
‘Second-home Policy’ aims to entice more tourists
With a surge in visitors from the world’s most populous nation, the government is preparing a “second-home policy” to encourage more Chinese tourists to visit and stay longer, and for those who have already visited to do so more often, Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon lass='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21219/---second-home-policy----aims-to-entice-more-tourists/
Hun Sen promises weekly garment factory visits
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Friday that he will make weekly visits to garment factories across the country to better understand the demands and needs of workers, in what some observers said could be an attempt to appeal to potential voters before next July’s lass='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-promises-weekly-garment-factory-visits
India gives $50,000 to KRT
The Indian government has contributed $50,000 to the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s annual budget requirements.Neth Pheaktra, spokesman of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, said yesterday that India gave $50,000 to the national side of the tribunal for its operations in 2018. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Joint naval exercises underway
The US and Royal Cambodian Navy joined forces yesterday for the opening ceremony of the seventh annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness Training (CARAT) exercise at Ream Naval Base, a joint maritime training exercise that since 2010 has aimed to increase cooperation and strengthen security at sea lass='cambodia-color'>...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31490/joint-naval-exercises-underway/
Plan to defeat hunger
The government has unveiled four strategies to eliminate malnutrition in the country, especially among children. Prime Minister Hun Sen is enlisting state institutes, partners and NGOs to join the fight to eliminate malnutrition as the country holds national nutrition day today. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089136/plan-defeat-hunger/
Hope grows for three cities to be inducted into UNESCO list
Via the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and the Ministry of Tourism, the government is progressing with a set of relevant documents as a proposal to UNESCO to induct Battambang city, Kampot city and Kratie city on to the United Nations arm’s World Heritage lass='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/hope-grows-three-cities-be-inducted-unesco-list
Nhek Bun Chhay arrested
Khmer National United Party (KNUP) leader and former General Nhek Bun Chhay was arrested in Phnom Penh yesterday in relation to a 2007 drug bust in Kampong Speu province – a dramatic acceleration in a fall from grace that began with an alleged flirtation with lass='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea, Ananth Baliga and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nhek-bun-chhay-arrested
Kris says oil field tapped by 2020
Singapore’s KrisEnergy, the operator of Cambodia’s offshore Block A in the Gulf of Thailand, announced on Friday that in 24 months the Kingdom will be an oil producing nation after the firm made its final investment decision that day for extraction in the Apsara oil lass='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kris-says-oil-field-tapped-2020
Students lectured on ‘revolution’
Ruling party lawmaker Pen Panha gave a lecture yesterday at the Royal School of Administration to students on the opposition’s alleged attempt at “colour revolution” – an allegation used to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party in November, with virtually no evidence presented to the lass='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-lectured-revolution
World Bank urges government to accelerate reforms
The World Bank urged the Cambodian government Wednesday to accelerate reforms while taking a participatory approach to its National Strategic Development Plan. Speaking at a meeting of the Development Partner Coordination Committee, World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon congratulated the government on its current development plan lass='cambodia-color'>...
Fake outfits, real time
Two men were sentenced to three years in prison yesterday by Phnom Penh Municipal Court for impersonating a police officer by donning a National Police uniform, complete with a plastic pistol and fake number plate. “After stopping, checking and asking him, we knew he was lass='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fake-outfits-real-time
Tonle Sap Lake fisheries a concern for dam project
Already under attack by overfishing, pollution and deforestation, Tonle Sap lake fisheries face an even bigger threat in the form of hydropower dams, according to experts. laos’ planned Don Sahong Hydropower Project in particular has environmentalists fearing an emptier, less bio-diverse lake, and a nation pitched lass='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-lake-fisheries-concern-dam-project
CNRP, Comfrel call for delay to new voter list
The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) and the opposition CNRP on Sunday called on the National Election Committee (NEC) to suspend its annual update of the voter list until the new bipartisan election committee is created. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-comfrel-call-for-delay-to-new-voter-list-67355/
Commission set up to probe military police beating of truck driver
National military police commander Sao Sokha has set up an ad hoc commission to investigate a group of officers who allegedly shot at a truck that drove through a pair of checkpoints in Thbong Khmum province on Thursday night, then beat up the driver and lass='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commission-set-up-to-probe-military-police-beating-of-truck-driver-80570/
Education minister: no easing of anti-cheating campaign
In a few weeks, Cambodian high school seniors will sit down to take the national college entrance exam. last August, Cambodia’s Minister Hang Chuon Naron pulled off a revolution. He cracked down on cheating. Pass and fail rates neatly flipped, with only 25 percent passing lass='cambodia-color'>...
Emmanuel Scheffer
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11926/education-minister--no-easing-of-anti-cheating-campaign/
Three new Czech-funded takeo health centers
The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand has accused the country’s Khon Kaen Sugar of “serious human rights violations” at its two Cambodian plantations in a new report that urges the firm to return the land to the hundreds of families forced off their farms—some lass='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-rights-body-censures-firm-over-koh-kong-sugar-plantations-84968/