Immigration department to introduce new visa for retirees
Immigration officials say they will introduce a new visa category for foreign retirees as soon as Monday—the latest push in a campaign to encourage more expatriates to settle in Cambodia. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/immigration-department-to-introduce-new-visa-for-retirees-115982/
New insurance product gives rice farmers a break
Farmers hit by drought in Battambang this year are already benefitting from a new crop insurance product for rice farmers introduced by Forte Insurance, with at least 60 families in two districts of the country’s main rice-growing province collecting payments so far. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16797/new-insurance-product-gives-rice-farmers-a-break/
Mills busy as new rice crop rolls in
Cambodia rice exports saw a small rebound in October, notching up 12 per cent as compared to a year earlier, as harvests from the delayed rainy-season planting began to reach the nation’s rice mills. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mills-busy-new-rice-crop-rolls
For Cambodian writers, new festival offers rare audience
Visitors and locals unaware that the inaugural Kampot Writers and Readers Festival, which wrapped up Sunday, was happening may not have noticed anything different about the relaxed riparian town at first. ...
Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-cambodian-writers-new-festival-offers-rare-audience-99758/
Cambodia-Korea forum looks at new investment opportunities
The ASEAN-Korea Centre held a Cambodia-Korea Investment Forum at the Raffles Le Royal Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Feb. 2. ...
Rachel Lee
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/02/176_197946.html
Holdouts reject new offer to leave dam site
More than 90 villagers in Stung Treng province on Tuesday rejected compensation packages for the land they will lose to the under-construction Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam, a local official said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/holdouts-reject-new-offer-to-leave-dam-site-110297/
Ministries announce new regulations for foreign business owners
The Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Labor have imposed new regulations and legal conditions on foreign investment and businesses in Cambodia, with the ministries requiring foreign-owned companies to file correct legal papers and to strictly follow Cambodia’s immigration and labor laws, including foreign ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23349/ministries-announce-new-regulations-for-foreign-business-owners/
Royal railway trials Sihanoukville run for new year
It’s almost Khmer New Year, and passengers are already lining up for the revival of the country’s passenger rail services – an eight-day trial operation by Royal Railway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville to coincide with the celebrations and the exodus of people from the ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23465/royal-railway-trials-sihanoukville-run-for-new-year/
New year stats show roads safer, police say
National Police on Sunday said Khmer New Year traffic figures were evidence that the New traffic law has been a success, with 98 traffic accidents reported over the four-day holiday this year, a drop from 123 in 2015, when it was a three-day holiday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-year-stats-show-roads-safer-police-say-111402/
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
A New Species of ant found in Cambodia
A new species of ant has been discovered in Cambodia by researchers from Japan. Its name is Crematogaster indosinensis, and it is described in Annals of the Entomological Society of America. ...
Entomology Today
https://entomologytoday.org/2016/07/21/a-new-species-of-ant-found-in-cambodia/
Hun Sen gives ousted director new Ministry job
Prime Minister Hun Sen appointed the former director of Phnom Penh’s health department to a new position at the Ministry of Health on Monday, two days after he stripped the official of his erstwhile position during an on-air call to the popular ABC radio station. ...
Kuch Naren and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-gives-ousted-director-new-ministry-job-116720/
Two arrested along new drug route in Pursat
A kilogram of methamphetamine was confiscated and two men were apprehended in Pursat province on Tuesday by police who said the arrests had uncovered a new drug supply route in the country. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-arrested-along-new-drug-route-in-pursat-96052/
Australia makes new PR push for Nauru refugees
Australia has begun another round of public relations campaigning in an attempt to persuade refugees on the Pacific island of Nauru to resettle in Cambodia under a controversial agreement signed last year. ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/australia-makes-new-pr-push-nauru-refugees
New traffic law hurts the poor, citizens say
The introduction of the new traffic law has hit a few potholes, with some citizens complaining that it is too tough on poor families, while analysts say people in rural areas have been left in the dark about the new law’s requirements. ...
Mom Kunthear and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19443/new-traffic-law-hurts-the-poor--citizens-say/
Railway denies report of new passenger train service
Royal Railway on Sunday refuted a state media report that commercial passenger train service between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville was imminent. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/author/zsombor-peter/
New report spotlights hidden workforce behind global brands
Global brands rely on a hidden workforce within their supply chains to avoid responsibility for poor working conditions and abuse, according to a new report from the International Trade Union Confederation. ...
Aria Danaparamita
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-report-spotlights-hidden-workforce-behind-global-brands-105909/
New tourism strategy to focus on Chinese market
A new five-year plan is being drafted to woo more Chinese tourists to the Kingdom, following a surge in visitors from the world’s most populous nation, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said yesterday. /Sum Manet ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20580/new-tourism-strategy-to-focus-on-chinese-market/
New factory to hog the pig leather market
Cambodia’s first factory to process leather from pig skin will open this year and will supply products to the European market, but local pig skin will not be used. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23062/new-factory-to-hog-the-pig-leather-market/
Doctors to be on standby during new year
The Ministry of Health has ordered provincial health department directors to organize officials and doctors to work during the four days of Khmer New Year so hospitals and health centers are able to respond to traffic accidents and other issues. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23703/doctors-to-be-on-standby-during-new-year/