More than 200 deported as census continues
The Ministry of Interior has deported more than 200 foreign nationals over the past two months as part of its ongoing nationwide census, according to Sok Phal, director of the ministry’s immigration department. The Interior Ministry’s census was launched last month, at the same time ...
Mech Dara and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-200%E2%80%88deported-as-census-continues-68659/
Evictees prepping complaint
Former residents of two villages in Koh Kong province that were razed last week by security guards for Chinese firm Union Development Group are preparing to file a complaint to Prime Minister Hun Sen. Fourteen homes were destroyed by company security guards Thursday morning, according to ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/evictees-prepping-complaint
Cambodian rat meat: A growing export market
A unique harvest is under way in the rice fields of Cambodia where tens of thousands of wild rats are being trapped alive each day to feed a growing export market for the meat of rural rodents. Popularly considered a disease-carrying nuisance in many societies, the ...
Kevin Doyle
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28863315
Gov't audit shows Vietnam Rubber Group missing millions
Contentious plantation giant Vietnam Rubber Group reportedly “lost” nearly $391 million of state funds over five years, including $22.75 million from a rubber plantation in Cambodia, an official investigation into the firm’s dealings has found, according to Vietnamese media. Hanoi’s anti-corruption body, the General Inspectorate, last ...
Daniel Pye and May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-audit-shows-vietnam-rubber-group-missing-millions
Subedi talks rights with CCC president Kith Meng
The United Nation’s human rights envoy Surya Subedi met yesterday with the president of Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, Kith Meng, to discuss human rights and economic growth in the Kingdom. At the top of the agenda was the management of economic land concessions and the role ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/subedi-talks-rights-ccc-president-kith-meng
Experts say let bird fly
Wildlife experts fear for the health of a migratory vulture from Central Asia after it was captured by villagers in Kampot province’s Teuk Chhou district and taken to a notorious private zoo. The Himalayan vulture, also known as the Himalayan griffon, which rarely visits Cambodia, was ...
Mom Kunthear and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/experts-say-let-bird-fly
Unions wary of energy plan
Some labour unions are suggesting reforms to state energy provider Electricite du Cambodge’s (EdC) plan to grant energy discounts to garment workers in Phnom Penh, saying yesterday that the current arrangement is “too complex to implement”. According to the new plan, workers are entitled to ...
Sarah Taguiam and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-wary-energy-plan
NGOs give support to summonsed worker
Charges against outspoken Adhoc head of monitoring Chan Soveth are baseless, politically motivated and threaten to undermine human rights work in Cambodia, a coalition of NGOs said yesterday. Soveth, who has been summonsed to court on August 24 over the vague charge of assisting “specific perpetrators”, ...
ASEAN affected by slowdown
The IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecasts that uncertainty surrounding growth in advanced economies will slightly affect the growth of some ASEAN nations, particularly low-income countries such as Cambodia. A senior IMF official told reporters on the sidelines of the fund’s annual meeting yesterday that some ASEAN economies relying heavily ...
Innovation crucial for future of Kingdom’s farming
Approximately 1.9 million households in Cambodia are currently engaged in agriculture production and feed around 15.8 million people. In 2012, one agri-food sector worker had to produce enough food to feed 2.8 people. And by 2030, predicted growth of towns and urban areas will mean ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/innovation-crucial-future-kingdoms-farming
Over 300 converge for fifth annual crane festival
More than 300 people took part in the fifth annual Crane Festival in Anlung Pring Protected Landscape in southeastern Kampot province on May 19, to build public support for the conservation of the “venerable” sarus crane and in observation of World Migratory Bird Day five ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-300-converge-fifth-annual-crane-festival
Int’l trade rises as commerce ministry lays out 2023 plans
Cambodia’s 9.19 per cent on-year rise in foreign trade value to the $52.425 billion logged by Customs for 2022 was driven by “in-depth reforms in all areas”, improvements in export competitiveness, and an increasingly favourable business and investment environment, according to Minister of Commerce Pan ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/intl-trade-rises-commerce-ministry-lays-out-2023-plans
Ministry of Environment and Battambang Province launch urban solid waste management system testing
The Ministry of Environment, in cooperation with the Battambang Provincial Administration, announces the launch of a trial of the urban solid waste management system (NSWM-PLATFORM) in the national nursery system of the Battambang Municipal Administration in order to strengthen solid waste management in accordance with ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501339847/ministry-of-environment-and-battambang-province-launch-urban-solid-waste-management-system-testing/
Cambodian exports to ASEAN markets rise 13%
The value of Cambodian trade with the nine other ASEAN countries reached $16.053 billion in 2022 – up 1.4 per cent from $15.838 million in 2021 – accounting for a 30.62 per cent share of the Kingdom’s $52.425 billion in total foreign trade for the ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-exports-asean-markets-rise-13
Japan firm chooses Battambang for cashew nut shell fuel project
Japanese firm Top Planning Japan Co Ltd’s (TPJ) apparent interest in investing in facilities in Battambang province to convert cashew nut shells into fuel and process the fibre-rich seeds for export has been greeted with much enthusiasm among local authorities and has dramatically heightened prospects ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-firm-chooses-battambang-cashew-nut-shell-fuel-project
Farmers freed after ‘injustice’
The last of the Chi Kraeng villagers has been freed by the Appeal Court after it upheld their acquittal. The villagers had originally been convicted of forcibly detaining two businessmen over a land dispute involving 475 hectares of rice paddies in Siem Reap in 2009. ...
Farmers respond to lobster price hikes
As prices continue to climb for freshwater lobster, farming of the crustacean in Cambodia is increasing. A kilogram of top-quality lobster sells for about US$30, up from $10 in 2005, according to lobster farmers. The government is seeking to foster new growth in Cambodia’s wild ...
Nonperforming microloans swell due to floods
Total outstanding loans in the microfinance sector reached $815.47 million in the third quarter, a 25.8 percent rise compared to beginning of the year, according to data released yesterday by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) Despite growth in the sector, microfinance institutions said nonperforming loans were ...
Not enough high-quality jobs, group warns
Cambodia does not have enough productive or high-quality jobs available and most employment is informal, which will prevent Cambodians from rising out of poverty, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Monday at a workshop in Phnom Penh. To help solve the issues affecting the labor market, ...
Hun Sen sets out northeast development plans
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday outlined the government’s plans to spur economic growth in the northeast of the country through implementing a wide range of projects in sectors such as agriculture and the extractive industries. Rights workers have warned that little information on the plans for ...