Cambodia inaugurates China-funded Mekong bridge, road
Cambodia inaugurated a 1.73-km Mekong River bridge, along with a 143-km road, here on Wednesday in a bid to boost economic development and reduce poverty in this far northeastern region. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Do883N
Kratie land dispute unsolved after latest talks
Representatives of villagers in Kratie province locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm said discussions with land management and provincial officials at the Snuol district hall ended Tuesday without a resolution. ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-land-dispute-unsolved-after-latest-talks-67198/
Police burn down Mondolkiri minority community’s shelters
Police in Mondolkiri province on Tuesday burned down more than 130 shelters belonging to a community of ethnic Bunong families in Keo Seima district that authorities accuse of squatting on a Vietnamese rubber plantation, a local official said. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-burn-down-mondolkiri-minority-communitys-shelters-81153/
Man who sold clinic license faces 10 years’ imprisonment
A Cambodian man who sold his license to operate a medical clinic in Stung Treng City faces up to 10 years in prison after a woman died following an abortion conducted illegally on the premises, a court official said. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/man-who-sold-clinic-license-faces-10-years-imprisonment-85889/
Thai and Cambodian traders sign tens of business deals, worth nearly THB2,000m
Nearly a hundred of senior Thai officials and entrepreneurs from six lower northeastern provinces met with counterparts from five Cambodian border provinces on June 26th in Siem Reap, Cambodia, to discuss their cooperation in trade, investment and tourism. ...
NNT News Staff
http://thainews.prd.go.th/centerweb/newsen/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNECO5806270010007
KR tribunal judge resigns amid police inaction
Mark Harmon, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s international co-investigating judge, announced Tuesday that he was stepping down from his position following almost a year of inaction by judicial police in executing arrest warrants in two government-opposed cases. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kr-
Two arrested as illegal-timber dealer escapes
Two men were arrested in Kompong Thom province on Tuesday after they drove their car to obstruct a team of officials in pursuit of a vehicle suspected of transporting illegally harvested luxury timber through Stung Sen City, police said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-arrested-as-illegal-timber-dealer-escapes-88548/
Journalists accuse Ratanakkiri forestry official of intimidation
Four reporters accused a forestry official in Ratanakkiri province of locking them behind the gate of the local Forestry Administration headquarters Thursday morning in an attempt to stop them from reporting on the transport of illegally logged luxury wood. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-accuse-ratanakkiri-forestry-official-of-intimidation-91095/
Ministry of environment collects inputs for a draft on environmental code
The Ministry of Environment today held a workshop to collect inputs from all stakeholders for drafting the environmental code for orienting Cambodia in walking in the right way, and reflecting the people’ need. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ministry-of-environment-collects-inputs-for-a-draft-on-environmental-code-8864
US and Cambodia hold talks to boost local aviation industry
Cambodia and the United States have discussed ways the two countries can further strengthen and cooperate future plans in the aviation industry, during a bilateral talk in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/724407/us-and-cambodia-hold-talks-to-boost-local-aviation-industry/
Thailand donates $100,000 for Cambodian migrant workers
The Thai government has contributed $100,000 in assistance to Cambodia to help improve the well-being of Cambodian migrant workers in different quarantine centres along the border. ...
Rhea Mae Soco
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50828069/thailand-donates-100000-for-cambodian-migrant-workers/
Kingdom received over 240,000 tourists last weekend
Showing signs of revival in tourism, the number of national and international visitors travelled across the country in the first weekend of this month rose to 246,195. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501129066/kingdom-received-over-240000-tourists-last-weekend/
Kingdom-Thailand ties help education sector growth
Growing collaboration between Cambodia and Thailand in education has strengthened the sector in the Kingdom, according to Hangchuon Naron, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports. ...
Hong Sovannary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501244560/kingdom-thailand-ties-help-education-sector-growth/
Power firms shifting focus to green projects with Cambodia standing to gain
Chinese companies’ investment in new energy globally surges 55.6% in 2022 ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501326667/power-firms-shifting-focus-to-green-projects-with-cambodia-standing-to-gain/
'Land Grabs' Mar Cambodia's Boom, Rattle Investors
Phnom Penh–Kong Song’s farmland was his family’s livelihood for three decades until the bulldozers moved in and tore down his home in rural Cambodia to make way for a multimillion dollar foreign-led business. His family was one of 253 forcibly evicted five years ago in southern ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/01/cambodia-evictions-idUSL3E8JD2DV20110901
Free Lunch Comes at a Cost for City Soup Kitchen Founder
Since its first day of operation in early December, the non-profit kitchen “Buckhunger” has provided nearly 22,00 lunchtime meals to hundreds of needy children and adults for free. There is no record of who comes and goes, and no condition to being fed. If you ...
Spirit of the Forest
Once a majority ethnic minority province where Tampoun, Jarai and Kreung speakers outnumbered the Khmer, Ratanakkiri is now one of the country’s fastest growing provinces where inhabitants of lowland provinces, particularly Kompong Cham, Svay Rieng and Prey Veng, are flocking in search of a better ...
Cambodia's Public Debt
According to the [inter]national Monetary Fund (IMF), at the end of 2011, the stock of Cambodia’s external public debt, including arrears, stood at around US 3.8 billion or 30 percent of GDP (24 percent in NPV terms). China remains the largest bilateral creditor, contributing to ...
Cambodian factory deaths shine spotlight on conditions
The deaths of at least two Cambodian workers and injuries sustained by 10 colleagues at a shoe factory southwest of Phnom Penh once more shine a light on conditions in the global garment manufacturing industry. Thursday’s accident at the Wing Star Shoe factory in the Cambodian ...
http://www.dw.de/cambodian-factory-deaths-shine-spotlight-on-conditions/a-16819017
Phnom Penh’s 5 New Districts Create Fears of Gerrymandering
Phnom Penh City Hall’s plans to undertake the largest redrawing of the city’s administrative boundaries in decades, by creating five new districts before May’s district and city-level council elections, is likely an effort to gerrymander voting constituencies, a senior opposition party member said Monday. Municipal government ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-5-new-districts-create-fears-of-gerrymandering-47269/