Cambodia takes tentative steps to tackle corruption
Luxury cars and fancy homes are among the lavish gifts Cambodia’s political and business elite shower each other with on special occasions but there are hints the government is moving to curb such excesses. Patronage has long been a problem in impoverished Cambodia, with bribery ...
Worldbulletin News Staff
http://www.worldbulletin.net/america-canada/146002/cambodia-takes-tentative-steps-to-tackle-corruption
Rice exports miss the mark again
Five years after setting out an ambitious 1 million-tonne milled rice export target, the rice sector fell well short of the mark last year, exporting close to 550,000 tonnes, with industry experts cautiously optimistic over export increases in 2016. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-exports-miss-mark-again
Fewer Cambodians Cross Poipet to Work in Thailand
The number of Cambodian workers passing through Poipet international checkpoint to work in Thailand decreased by 10 percent during the first six months of the year compared to 2011, an immigration police officer said yesterday. Leak Romnea, chief of administration of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet immigration ...
Oknha detained in Kratie prison for forestry crimes
A kratie provincial investigating judge has ordered well-known timber trader and oknha (tycoon) Kong Kroeng, and his son-in-law Math Naseat, to be detained at the provincial prison after they were questioned last week about their alleged role in forestry crimes. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oknha-detained-kratie-prison-forestry-crimes
Govt disburses land to over 70 Kandal families
Seventy-TWO families in Kandal province left homeless by flooding have received land from the government to build houses after participating in a lottery for land allocation organised by the Provincial Administration on Monday. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501428068/govt-disburses-land-to-over-70-kandal-families/
Press statement: “Free and independent press is not a license to break the law with impunity” States the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson
On 14 February 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has issued a press statement related to the revoked license of a Foreign-funded media outlet in Cambodia. According to the press statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson is utterly dismayed at and dismissed ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Factory bows but strike continues
Workers striking for a second day at a garment factory in suburban Phnom Penh succeeded yesterday in having one of their eight demands met, as Taiwanese-owned Meroson Cambodia Co Ltd agreed to reinstate three employees allegedly fired for joining a union, a union official said ...
Donor diversity powers Angkor Hospital for Children
In the first half of this year, Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Siem Reap successfully raised approximately $4 million through local and international donations. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/donor-diversity-powers-angkor-hospital-children
Outbreaks of lethal virus cyclical: study
A recently published study of a 2012 enterovirus outbreak that killed at least 54 Cambodian children has found that flare-ups of the virus tend to occur in a cyclical pattern, and that another one could be in store soon.Widespread in the Asia-Pacific region, the virus ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outbreaks-lethal-virus-cyclical-study
Kratie tycoon summoned over logging
Tycoon Kong Kroeng, a well-known timber trader, was summoned to the Kratie provincial Military Police headquarters for questioning on August 15 for his alleged involvement in forestry crimes. The summons was obtained by The Post on Tuesday. It was signed by National Military Police deputy ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-tycoon-summoned-over-logging
Workshop on using open EIA reporting to drive accountable and transparent environmental governance in Cambodia
On 01 October 2020, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) hosted a half-day workshop on “Using Open EIA Reporting to Drive Accountable and Transparent Environmental Governance in Cambodia”. The event brought together 35 participants coming from various institutions, including local and international NGos, grassroots organizations and media ...
Debts rise along with water level
With pant legs rolled up to his knees, Hoeuy Mon trudges through a brown and green patchwork of rice fields. His four hectares are in Tkov village, Prey Veng province, about 300 metres from his home. On most of the journey, walkways enclosing each square plot ...
Hor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/debts-rise-along-water-level
Environment officials to monitor conditions
The Ministry of Environment is set to join the Ministry of Labour in the monitoring of garment factory workplaces, after creating a working group that will probe the environmental safety of all plants in Cambodia. At a press conference at the ministry yesterday, Minister of Environment ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/environment-officials-monitor-conditions
Floods to hit provinces
The Ministry of Water Resources yesterday announced that floods will hit several provincial areas due to strong weather and water flow from Thailand. The ministry warned that heavy water flow in Pailin province have affected areas surrounding the Stung Takouy river. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50512115/floods-to-hit-provinces/
Construction of Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia nearing completion
The progress in the project to build the Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia was discussed in a meeting between Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Igor Petrishenko and Ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia to Russia Thay Vanna, BelTA learnt from the press service of the ...
BelTA News Staff
http://news.belta.by/en/news/econom?id=739642
Government decides to release additional $30 million for mine clearance
The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to release an additional $30 million from its savings for mine and UXO clearance to reach the Goal of mine-free Cambodia by 2025. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501195307/government-decides-to-release-additional-30-million-for-mine-clearance/
Resettlement offer to asylum seekers may have breached Cambodia deal
Australian immigration officials have approached asylum seekers within the Nauru detention centre about resettlement in Cambodia, apparently in contravention of the agreement between the two countries. The settlement agreement with Cambodia specifies that offers should be made only to people with refugee status. But it ...
Paul Farrell
http://bit.ly/1DQq6ZR
Cambodia faces turning point on foreign aid
Despite failing to meet many of the expectations of its foreign donors over the past two decades, Cambodia’s government has never struggled to secure aid from abroad. ...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-faces-turning-point-on-foreign-aid-100205/
City Hall urges public to resume bus riding
The Phnom Penh Municipal Hall has called on people to start using public bus services again, saying it will reduces people’s cost of living and that the service provides safety for travellers. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-urges-public-resume-bus-riding
Sihanoukville’s new sewage systems ‘almost complete’
Following public outcry after waste from construction projects in Sihanoukville was found being dumped directly into the sea, provincial authorities have said four sewage systems are now almost complete. The construction of sewage systems at four beaches was 80 per cent finished, while two pumping ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukvilles-new-sewage-systems-almost-complete