Vietnam border boost for farms
Cambodia and Vietnam yesterday inaugurated the O’Yadav International Border Checkpoint in Ratanakkiri province in a move hailed as a boon to the northeastern agriculture industry. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074019/vietnam-border-boost-farms/
Stung Treng airport awaits revamp by ADB
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is considering plans to revamp the airport in Stung Treng province to increase air connectivity in the Great Mekong Subregion (GMS). ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089585/stung-treng-airport-awaits-revamp-adb/
Mothers of jailed environmental activists petition for release
The mothers of two environmental activists, who have languished in prison since their September arrest, yesterday delivered petitions to various ministries in Phnom Penh seeking intervention. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mothers-jailed-environmental-activists-petition-release
Timber raids log multiple arrests
Forestry officials in Stung Treng province arrested two people and confiscated three SUVs loaded with timber on Saturday night during a raid in Siem Pang district. ...
Niem Chheng and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-raids-log-multiple-arrests
Indian envoy seeks direct flights to Cambodia
India’s Ambassador Dinesh K. Patnaik pledged Tuesday to urge Indian airlines to operate direct flights to Cambodia in order to boost bilateral relations in trade, investment and tourism. ...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/indian-envoy-seeks-direct-flights-cambodia-061659956.html
Alleged land dispute victims file petition
Alleged victims in seven separate land disputes in Kampong Cham province yesterday agreed to file a petition to the provincial governor, following a meeting with rights group Adhoc. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alleged-land-dispute-victims-file-petition
Troops sent to Ratanakkiri border area
Almost 1,000 Cambodian soldiers have been deployed along the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province in an effort to combat crimes including “illegal immigration”, military officials said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/troops-sent-ratanakkiri-border-area
Suspect accused of instigating squatting
A man was arrested in Kampong Cham’s Batheay district on Tuesday by police who allege that he was the ringleader of an illegal land grab in Mondulkiri. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/suspect-accused-instigating-squatting
More Vietnamese rounded up for deportation
Cambodia’s campaign against illegal Vietnamese workers continues with 26 Vietnamese arrested in two days of raids on furniture factories in central and southern Phnom Penh. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13297/more-vietnamese-rounded-up-for-deportation/
Police seek grave smashers after video goes viral
Police in Kandal province are seeking to arrest three men after footage emerged last week of them running through a Vietnamese graveyard in Sa’ang district damaging headstones. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seek-grave-smashers-after-video-goes-viral-88168/
Voter registration test delayed
A voter registration system test originally slated for October will instead occur in November, the National Election Committee (NEC) announced in a press release on Wednesday. ...
Alessandro Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voter-registration-test-delayed
Tariffs May Prompt Thaicom Move
Steep price cuts by mobile operator Hello may prompt Thaicom to sell its majority stake in Mfone, according to investment firm Cambodia Capital. Cambodia Capital claims Hello’s drop in the tariffs it charges customers this year has heavily impacted Mfone’s operations, as well as those ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011081951137/Business/tariffs-may-prompt-thaicom-move.html
EU organizes a seminar on food security
The Delegation of the European Union to Cambodia in collaboration with the Council for Agricultural and rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and three of the EU-funded projects (CEDAC, HKI, WHH) on October 6 organized a Food Security Project Workshop “Improving Food Security—Lessons ...
National Census Identifies Half-Million Businesses
Cambodia has a total of 505,134 businesses supported by a workforce of 1,676,263, just 11.56 percent of the total population, according to a nationwide economic census released yesterday by the Ministry of Planning. Of the total number of people employed in the country, 1,026,084, or 61.2 ...
Hul Reaksmey and Philip Heijmans, P.1
Clogged, creaking airports hamper SE Asia carriers
It’s a scene repeated endlessly at most of Southeast Asia’s main airports – planes forced to circle overhead or idle on the tarmac and travellers stuck in serpentine queues at immigration desks, security checkpoints and baggage carousels. And it’s likely to get worse in capitals like ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/uk-airlines-southeastasia-idUSLNE82P00P20120326
Press release: discussion meeting between His Excellency CHEA Sophara and the EU Fact-Finding Mission on the Implementation of the Everything But Arms (EBA) Scheme
On 06 June 2019, His Excellency CHEA Sophara, with His Excellency Say Samal; representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation met the EU Fact-Finding Mission on the Implementation of the ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Cambodia
Japan grants $190K for environment education
The government of Japan, via its embassy in Cambodia, granted more than $190,000 on Tuesday to Nature Centre Risen, an NGO for environmental education at kindergarten and secondary schools in the Kingdom. The grant is for the project, “Realisation of Sustainable Life Environment through the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-grants-190k-environment-education
Local Farmers Can't Compete With Cheap Pork
Cambodians like pork. The average Cambodian consumes almost 9.29 kg of the meat each year, and local farmers supplied about 2 million pigs, more than 90 percent of the domestic demand, in 2008. But the market for small-scale pig farmers has flown. Live pig prices have fallen ...
Biomass is more than energy
Rural Cambodian communities are seeing economic benefits as a result of a biomass and farming resilience project run by GERES, a French NGO. As part of the AREA project, 200 households in Kampong Chhnang province are growing 22 varieties of trees to negate the effects of ...
Erika Mudie, P. 10
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/biomass-benefit-rural-cambodia
Conference urges Cambodia to boost energy efficiency
Officials at a recent energy conference in Phnom Penh stressed that Cambodia needed to use energy more efficiently to meet regional goals, boost economic development and lower overall harm to the environment. More than 150 energy officials from the public and private sectors came together for ...