Fleet of more than 100 fire trucks arrive from China
The first tranche of fire trucks headed to Cambodia in a deal the government struck with China last year to furnish the country with fire-fighting vehicles for the provinces arrived on Wednesday, the head of the national police force’s fire department said. ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/112499-112499/
Oil firm ready to push ahead with offshore drilling
Singapore-listed oil and gas firm KrisEnergy Ltd is moving closer to finalising its deal with the Cambodian government that will pave the way for extraction from the Block A offshore oil field once negotiations over a technical strategy and fiscal regime have been finalised. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oil-firm-ready-push-ahead-offshore-drilling
Rice Federation raises alarm about Vietnam’s FTA with EU
The Cambodia Rice Federation yesterday raised fresh concerns about the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (FTA), after an online rice-industry portal said the deal will scrap import duties on about 80,000 tons of rice from Vietnam per year and that this could start this year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21216/rice-federation-raises-alarm-about-vietnam---s-fta-with-eu/
New five-point plan to tackle drug slum
The government has announced a new action plan to deal with the drug problem in Trapaing Chhouk, a slum in the capital’s Sen Sok district that has been an open market for drug use and distribution for over a decade. ...
Niem Chheng and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-five-point-plan-tackle-drug-slum
GSP exemption pitched
A roadshow to Hong Kong this week to pitch Cambodia’s newly received duty-free access on travel goods to the US market was successful, but manufacturers have yet to sign concrete deals to establish new production lines here, a delegate of the returning business mission said. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gsp-exemption-pitched
Cambodia ‘invited to join TPP
Cambodia has been invited to join the Washington-brokered Transpacific Trade Partnership (TPP), which has been described as a deal that will create the largest free-trade zone in the world if it is implemented, a senior official from the Ministry of Economy and Finance said. ...
Vincent MacIsaac
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20054/cambodia----invited-to-join-tpp---/
As deadline passes, O’tres beach businesses fight on
Although an eviction deadline passed on Sunday for guesthouses, restaurants and bars along Sihanoukville’s popular O’Tres Beach, less than half of the businesses had left as of the evening, with others seeking to negotiate a deal with authorities that would allow them to stay. ...
Kang Sothear and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-deadline-passes-beach-businesses-fight-on-109828/
H&M to step up monitoring of local suppliers
H&M and global union federation IndustriALL on Tuesday signed off on a deal aimed at improving conditions for the 1.6 million workers at the 1,900 factories around the world filling orders for the Swedish clothing giant that will include a new oversight committee in Cambodia. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hm-to-step-up-monitoring-of-local-suppliers-99405/
Bavet SEZ unequipped to treat its wastewater: ministry
The Ministry of Environment said yesterday that a recently constructed water-treatment facility at the Manhattan Special Economic Zone in Svay Rieng is unable to deal with most of the polluted water generated by factories at the site, and that 70 per cent was being dumped ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bavet-sez-unequipped-treat-its-wastewater-ministry
China to fund skills training centre
The Chinese government has pledged to build a vocational training centre in Preah Sihanouk province to help Cambodians develop skills for the workplace. Labour Minister Ith Samheng signed the deal to build the centre as he led ministry delegates on an official visit to China this ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39857/china-to-fund-skills-training-centre/
Social services to be improved
The government, Hagar International and Save the Children are teaming up to address the country’s lack of social workers, hoping to beef up the social service sector and deal with the growing number of children in residential care facilities – informally known as orphanages. ...
Jonathan Greig
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35326/social-services-to-be-improved/
US activists disappointed with opposition in Cambodia
Cambodian human rights and democracy activists in the US have split opinions on the deal cut between the ruling party and the opposition in July, ending a political deadlock that had lasted since the July 2013 elections. ...
Pin Sisovann
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/us-activists-disapponted-with-opposition-in-cambodia/2452967.html
Families to rejoin protests against sugar farms
Villagers in Koh Kong province left out of compensation deals that some of their neighbors are receiving for land lost to sugar plantations have gathered about 300 signatures on a petition demanding to be included in the payouts and hope to gather more before submitting ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-to-rejoin-protests-against-sugar-farms-77251/
Families to rejoin protests against sugar farms
Villagers in Koh Kong province left out of compensation deals that some of their neighbors are receiving for land lost to sugar plantations have gathered about 300 signatures on a petition demanding to be included in the payouts and hope to gather more before submitting ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-to-rejoin-protests-against-sugar-farms-77251/
Cambodian forest activists urge authorities to tackle illegal logging
A group of activists in northwestern Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province said Tuesday that their forest is under threat from illegal loggers in neighboring provinces and could be completely cleared within months if authorities do not step in to deal with the problem. ...
Savyouth Hang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/logging-06162015131714.html
Cambodia tightens pandemic prevention measures as Omicron rages
Authorities of Phnom Penh capital city has just issued a regulation to deal with the growing number of Omicron variant infections in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501023368/cambodia-tightens-pandemic-prevention-measures-as-omicron-rages/
Hun Sen rejects opposition calls to hold new election, step down
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday rejected opposition calls for him to dissolve the National Assembly to pave the way for a new election and to step down from power. “I want to stress that there is no re-election, no one dissolves the legislature and ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/131220/hun-sen-rejects-opposition-calls-hold-new-election-ste
As Foreign Aid Increases, Questions About Conditions
Cambodia has seen huge growth of foreign aid and loans over the past two decades, but experts are beginning to question its worth—and what conditions might be attached. Total aid from 1993 to 2012 amounts to around $10 billion, with the percentage of aid coming as ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/as-foreign-aid-increases-questions-about-conditions/1664821.html
After strong start, city bus’ future unclear
After a monthlong test run saw 10 buses often filled with passengers, a Chinese-owned company promised in early March to inject millions into the project and add hundreds of new buses. But Global Trade Development left the project last month after the municipality refused to grant ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-strong-start-city-bus-future-unclear-58640/
Fruitful trip: Seven important deals inked during Vietnam President’s visit
Cambodia and Vietnam signed seven important deals to boost and expand cooperation between both nations during Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s official visit to Cambodia yesterday. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50992734/fruitful-trip-seven-important-deals-inked-during-vietnam-presidents-visit/