Bird’s nest producers eye China market
Edible bird’s nest producers have called on the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) to facilitate the industry’s access to the Chinese market. Nang Sothy, president of the Cambodia Bird’s Nest Federation, said yesterday that the association had requested the MoC to include the delicacy on the list ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/bird%E2%80%99s-nest-producers-eye-china-market
PM: Fight against fake news
Prime Minister Hun Sen raised cyber-security and access to information in his address to nearly 5,000 participants at the correspondents’ dinner held on Friday in Phnom Penh. In his speech, Hun Sen called on officials and members of the press to wage a fight against ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-fight-against-fake-news
Cambodian legislature strips detained opposition senator of immunity
Cambodia’s legislature voted to strip an opposition senator in police custody of his immunity Monday, prompting criticism from rights groups, after Prime Minister Hun Sen accused him of treason for posting a disputed diplomatic document online relating to the country’s border with neighboring Vietnam. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/immunity-08172015150909.html
Hundreds of villagers demand their land
More than 100 Koh Kong province villagers returned to the Land Management Ministry office in Phnom Penh demanding that the authorities speed up the distribution process of three hectares of land owed to each family as compensation in two districts after authorities declared it had ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490635/hundreds-of-villagers-demand-their-land/
Hydroponic farming to be tested in Cambodia
Japanese company Asian Gateway (Cambodia) will soon conduct a pilot project with a hydroponic farm in Cambodia. It will be tested at the Royal University of Agriculture (Chamkar Dong campus) in the first stage and after that will be used as a model for farmers and ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079873/hydroponic-farming-tested-cambodia/
Hydro dam does little for locals, study finds
Most families immediately downstream of Cambodia’s first major hydropower dam are worse off than they were before the project, according to a new study by U.K. researchers that urges the government to pay more attention to impacts on local residents as it gears up for ...
Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hydro-dam-does-little-for-locals-study-finds-92523/
Battambang university to host national library branch on campus
A large national library on the campus of the National University of Battambang (NUBB) in Battambang province will be inaugurated next month to let students conduct more research on subjects and technical skills in areas such as agriculture and technology. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-university-host-national-library-branch-campus
Investor Decries Export Tax on Cambodian Seafood
A major Hong Kong investor in Cambodia has claimed that a government duty on seafood exports is stunting the country’s fish processing industry. Hong Kong-based Sunwah Group began operating a shrimp-processing factory in Sihanoukville in 1994, and its plans in the country now include building a ...
Cambodian buses in Saigon to be strictly controlled
In the petition to the National Road Administration, Deputy Director of the HCM City Department of Transportation – Mr. Duong Hong Thanh, reported that at the time the Vietnam-Cambodia agreement on land transportation took effect, only 40 cars of each country were allowed to cross ...
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/74337/cambodian-buses-in-saigon-to-be-strictly-control.html
Press release on meeting between Minister of MLUPC and representatives in land disputes
On 05 June 2018 H.E. Senior Minister Chea Sophara, Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction met with the representatives of 317 households who have had land disputes with Koh Kong Plantation Co.,Ltd and Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co.,Ltd which located in Sre Ambel ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Press release on identifying land owners in land disputes
On 18 May 2018 Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction set up a working group cooperated with Koh Kong province authority in order to identify the land owners and land plots related with land disputes from 21 May 2018. The land disputes happened ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Cambodian court charges opposition senator with 3 counts of crimes
A Cambodian court on Sunday charged opposition senator Hong Sok Hour with three counts of crimes and ordered to place him in a pre-trial detention, according to court officials and a defense lawyer. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-court-charges-opposition-senator-with-3-counts-of-crimes-8841
Border guards get 500 homes
Soldiers and police officials were granted 500 houses on Tuesday by the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction and Stung Treng authorities on land allocated for social land concessions. The houses on land in Stung Treng province’s Sre Sambor and Prek Meas communes ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-guards-get-500-homes
Cambodia's export up 30 pct in 10 months
Cambodia’s export has seen a 30 percent rise in the first 10 months of 2013 thanks to the surges in the exports of garment, milled rice, and rubber, trade data showed Wednesday. The Southeast Asian nation has exported goods in a total value of 5.87 billion ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-11/13/c_132885668.htm
Senator arrested, charged on Hun Sen’s orders
Following orders from Prime Minister Hun Sen, opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour was arrested and charged with forgery and incitement over the weekend for posting an apparently fake treaty with Vietnam to Facebook. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senator-arrested-charged-on-hun-sens-orders-91784/
Fake social media post promises $1,000 for free
A social media post appeared recently promising all Cambodian citizens a cash donation from the government. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501424905/fake-social-media-post-promises-1000-for-free/
Thailand joins Cambodia and Vietnam to combat call center scams, fake news
Thailand is set to collaborate with Cambodia and Vietnam to curb the menace of call center scams and fake news, as part of a recent regional initiative. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501365951/thailand-joins-cambodia-and-vietnam-to-combat-call-center-scams-fake-news/
China urged to fund mining school
The Ministry of Mines and Energy is in talks with the Chinese government to build a research and training school, in order to boost the staffing capabilities of the country’s growing mining industry, according to a senior ministry official. Following recent news that gold deposits ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28625/china-urged-to-fund-mining-school/
After ministry’s intervention, families ask Hun Sen for help
A representative of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet yesterday advised 163 families involved in a 6-year land dispute with a businesswoman in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district to seek the Justice Ministry’s expertise after the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday it had swapped the contested ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-ministrys-intervention-families-ask-hun-sen-for-help-79793/
PM raises fake news at summit
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday addressed the Asia Media Summit in Siem Reap, outlining his priorities to increase cooperation in the region and the world to combat fake news and cybercrime, which he said are becoming a serious threat. In his speech at the ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-raises-fake-news-summit