World Bank No Longer Funding State-Run Radio
The World Bank has ceased funding Radio National Kampuchea (RNK) as of last month due to a failure to comply to the bank’s Demand for Good Governance Project agreement. The funding ended on June 30. The World Bank granted RNK US $20 million with a ...
Siem Reap orders halt to state land grabs
The Siem Reap provincial administration has ordered its relevant authorities to take legal measures against anyone illegally clearing and grabbing wetland, community land or natural protected areas. It also urged them to immediately stop issuing ownership letters and documents for such land. The announcement, obtained ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-orders-halt-state-land-grabs
Medvedev concludes state visit; cold war debt discussed
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev concluded a three-day state visit to Cambodia on Tuesday, a trip that culminated with the signing of a number of agreements between the two countries and their respective ruling parties. ...
Kang Sothear and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/medvedev-concludes-state-visit-cold-war-debt-discussed-101249/
Cambodia and United States to sign investment treaty
Cambodia expects to conclude a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with the United States within the next month that is set to expand trade and investment between the two countries. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21770/cambodia-and-united-states-to-sign-investment-treaty/
U.S. secretary of state to visit Cambodia
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will pay an official visit to Cambodia later this month to boost bilateral ties, Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20012/u-s--secretary-of-state-to-visit-cambodia/
Troops mobilized to ‘disperse’ farmers clearing state forest
The governor of Kompong Speu on Tuesday ordered 10 armed soldiers to help a team of environmental officials confront a group of “anarchic” farmers clearing state forestland in the province. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troops-mobilized-disperse-farmers-clearing-state-forest-117983/
Kingdom sees major increase in United States investment
US investments in Cambodia increased 15-fold last year, due mainly to the construction of a new Coca-Cola plant in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, according to a statement from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35808/kingdom-sees-major-increase-in-united-states-investment/
Agro report reveals drop in state fisheries revenue
A report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture for the first nine months of this year showed a dramatic decline in government revenue from the fisheries sector, while providing incomplete information on revenue from other agricultural sectors. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agro-report-reveals-drop-state-fisheries-revenue
Secretary of state hits out at silk scheme
A government official has harshly criticised a prominent silk promotion project, implemented last year by the International Trade Center (ITC), saying it has not been fruitful. Mao Thora, secretary of state for the Ministry of Commerce, made his comments during a seminar on export diversification at ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012121860337/Business/secretary-of-state-hits-out-at-silk-sheme.html
Cambodian, Thai state-owned broadcasters ink cooperation deal
The National Television of Cambodia and the Mass Communication Organization of Thailand (MCOT) on Tuesday signed a television cooperation agreement, focusing on the exchange of TV programs and information. The deal was inked between director general of the National Television of Cambodia Kem Gunawadh and MCOT’s ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/21/c_132398350.htm
Boeng Kak Activists Protest State Violence Against Women
Less than a week after she was released from prison pending a retrial on controversial criminal charges laid down last year, housing rights activist Yorm Bopha on Thursday led a march of about 500 people to deliver a petition calling on the government to end ...
Khuon Narim and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boeng-kak-activists-protest-state-violence-against-women-48194/
City Hall Moves to Stop State Land Swaps
In an effort to put a stop to land swaps in Phnom Penh, City Hall has called on state institutions with offices in Chamkar Mon district’s Tonle Bassac commune to register or re-register for land titles, a municipal official said Sunday. A letter signed by ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-moves-to-stop-state-land-swaps-48329/
State regulator warned Smart over luring qb subscribers
The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) last week warned mobile operator Smart that it could face legal action for attempting to lure customers away from rival operator qb, and ordered Smart to resolve the issue “immediately,” according to a letter from TRC to Smart’s CEO ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/state-regulator-warned-smart-over-qb-dispute-59813/
CNRP lawmaker challenges minister on state of roads
An opposition lawmaker Wednesday used a sitting of the National Assembly—called to pass the third and fourth chapters of the new traffic law—to demand that Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek repair Cambodia’s dilapidated roads or resign from his position. The National Assembly on Monday passed the ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-challenges-minister-on-state-of-roads-73614/
NGOs urge UN states to set climate targets
Citing Cambodia’s vulnerability to climate change, civil society groups have called for global responses to the issue as the United Nations prepares for its annual climate change convention in Lima, Peru. ...
Shane Worrell
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-urge-un-states-set-climate-targets
CNRP member returning to the states for treatment
Cambodia National Rescue Party Chief of Information Meach Sovannara will return to the United States for medical treatment following a car accident last week, he told Khmer Times yesterday. ...
Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12284/cnrp-member-returning-to-the-states-for-treatment/
Number of ‘A’ grade earners on diploma exam quadruples
Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to meet with high school students who passed the Grade 12 exam with an “A” grade following the announcement of the results by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport on January 14, indicating a nearly four-fold increase in ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/number-grade-earners-diploma-exam-quadruples
Ministry sets dates for Diploma and Bac II exams
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has announced the annual schedule for junior high school Diploma and high school Baccalaureate (Bac II) final examinations. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501275975/ministry-sets-dates-for-diploma-and-bac-ii-exams/
The New Asian Century
With growing uncertainty in the US economy and an unfolding fiscal and debt crisis in the Eurozone after the global recession in 2008, Asia is expected to continue leading the global recovery. Under such circumstances, the 21st Century is emerging as the “New Asian Century”, ...
Asean declaration allows Cambodia to flout human rights, warn campaigners
Human rights groups in Cambodia fear a new south-east Asian declaration of human rights could conversely offer the government in Phnom Penh a figleaf to clamp down on dissent. Cambodia signed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) human rights declaration on Sunday, two days ...