Mixed reaction to coal-fired plant
Cambodia’s first coal-fired power plant, which is expected to fill shortages in demand by producing an additional 100 megawatts of electricity every year, commenced full-time operations yesterday. Representatives from Malaysian company Leader Universal Ltd (LU), which built the plant, joined Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...
Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mixed-reaction-coal-fired-plant
CPP says public forums on reform underway
Officials from the ruling CPP said Wednesday that a series of public forums announced by Prime Minister Hun Sen earlier this year, which he said would help gather input for his promised plans to introduce widespread political reform, are now being held around the country. The ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-says-public-forums-on-reform-underway-54049/
ACU says tainted health officials were never investigated
An official with the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said Tuesday that staff there were specifically instructed not to investigate allegations of large-scale bribery inside the Health Ministry so that the unit could settle the case out of court. On Sunday, ACU chief Om Yentieng told reporters ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-says-tainted-health-officials-were-never-investigated-54909/
Tours aimed at attracting workers
As cooks prepped for lunch yesterday at an outdoor cafeteria for workers employed by the Japanese-owned Taica factory, more than a dozen commune-level officials inspected the premises. Seemingly satisfied with the dining operation, they moved into a recreational room with a large, flat-screen television. Taica ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tours-aimed-attracting-workers
Workers demand bonus increase, labor laws
About 7,000 workers protested in front of the Wing Star Shoes Co. Ltd. factory in Kompong Speu province on Monday, demanding that the company raise their bonuses by $5 and properly enforce a number of labor laws, a union official said. The strike comes ten months ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-demand-bonus-increase-labor-laws-54431/
Anti-Phanimex roadblock causes traffic snarl
About 200 villagers blocked National Road 5 in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district for about two hours Tuesday, lighting fires with wood and tires and causing a large traffic jam as they called for authorities to intervene in their ongoing land dispute with the Phanimex ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-phanimex-roadblock-causes-traffic-snarl-57772/
Leaked draft of Cambodia's proposed cyber law reveals threat to free expression
TV news viewers in Cambodia are fed a steady diet of praise for the government and top officials. Whether they’re giving speeches that go on for hours, cutting a ribbon at a new development project, or shaking hands with foreign dignitaries, government leaders are presented ...
Kyle James
http://www.dw.de/leaked-draft-of-cambodias-proposed-cyber-law-reveals-threat-to-free-expression/a-17629723
Cambodia’s election reform chief appeals to U.S. to tie aid to reforms
The director of Cambodia’s election reform movement asked the U.S. government on Wednesday to make any financial aid to the country conditional on the implementation of planned electoral reforms. The request by Koul Panha, director of the Committee on Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) ...
Roseanne Gerin
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/koul-panha-visit-11062014182102.html
Ministry grants M’kiri communities right to manage natural resources
Twelve of 19 representatives from protected areas in the Phnom Prich, Srepok and Keo Seima wildlife sanctuaries in Mondulkiri province – consisting of nearly 13,000 people – signed an agreement with the Ministry of Environment on the sustainable management of natural resources. The agreement was ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-grants-mkiri-communities-right-manage-natural-resources
LNG imported from China to Cambodia
Local business Cambodian Natural Gas Co Ltd and Chinese firm CNOOC Gas Power Group Co Ltd teamed up in importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to distribute within Cambodia’s market. The company’s officers said the cooperation is to import the LNG to supply demand in the ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50680059/lng-imported-from-china-to-cambodia
Government’s study aims to expand rubber revenue
The General Directorate of Rubber announced a joint study on family-owned rubber plantations in three provinces to better understand how growers have responded to the sharp drop in rubber prices over the past nine years. The average cost of rubber has fallen from around $4,600 ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/governments-study-aims-expand-rubber-revenue
New spin on an old traditionArtisan Designers (AND)
Putting a new spin on a traditional art form isn’t a simple thing to achieve, but for niche fashion enterprise Artisan Designers (AND) an ambitious new branding campaign is seeing Cambodian handicrafts pushed in a new direction. Opening eight months ago on the tourist-friendly street 240, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012080657820/Business/new-spin-on-an-old-tradition.html
Insight: Cambodia's $11 billion mystery
The remote district of Rovieng was once a battleground between Cambodian government troops and Pol Pot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge. Unexploded bombs still lurk in its fields and forests. So does something more desirable – iron ore – and supposedly in such huge quantities two Chinese companies ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-cambodia-china-idUSBRE91C1N320130213
Police visit Phnum Prech to inspect logging
Indigenous people in Mondulkiri province called in the police and environment officials to visit a logging site in the Phnum Prech Wildlife Sanctuary after reports to a village leader were acted upon. Pu Neav village secretary Liv Kheam said on Monday that 10 indigenous people ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-visit-phnum-prech-inspect-logging
Joint statement: Lack of a rigorous transboundary impact study of Sanakham put Mekong River at risk
On 24 November 2020, Eleven Non-Governmental Organizations in Cambodia issued a joint statement on the proposed Sanakham hydropower project on the Mekong mainstream in Laos concerning the transboundary impact on lower countries. This joint statement was issued in parallel with MRC who has been organizing ...
NGO Forum on Cambodia
Press release APSARA National Authority responds to Radio Free Asia (RFA)
On 12 September 2023, the APSARA National Authority issued a press release to national and international journalists in response to Radio Free Asia‘s coverage of “Amnesty International’s request to the World Heritage Committee to Check for forced evictions in the Angkor area.” ...
APSARA National Authority
Mr. Norbert KLEIN
Mr. Norbert KLEIN, also one of ODC’s original advisory board members, is a patriarch of the Internet community in Cambodia, having been instrumental in setting up Cambodia’s Internet system in the 1990s. Norbert was also a founder and long-term head of the Internet Society of ...
Announcement on the detection of the 4th case of monkeypox
On 23 January 2024, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the detection of the 4th case of monkeypox in Cambodia on their official social media site. According to the announcement, another case of monkeypox was detected in a male patient and is currently being ...
Ministry of Health
MEF bullish on medium-term growth amid diversification
The Cambodian economy is demonstrating signs of a recovery in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and the following periods, according to new statistics released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s (MEF) General Department of Policy which have predicted the country’s ...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501520198/mef-bullish-on-medium-term-growth-amid-diversification/
PA Settevin
Admin & Finance OfficerTevin’s main responsibility is to assist the Finance & Admin units in providing admin/logistic support for the events, preparing Travel Authorization (TA) form and clearance, scanning and copying financial documents, maintaining fixed asset and inventory lists, procurement works, monthly tax declaration, National ...