Pursat City Residents Threaten To Protest Electricity Prices
More than 500 residents of Pursat City have signed a letter addressed to Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy suy sem threatening to take to the streets in protest if the town’s privately owned electricity distributor does not reduce prices. Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...
Donors Face Mounting Pressure Over Rail Project
A group of NGOs on Friday called on Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to suspend work and funding for a government-led project to rehabilitate the country’s railway system should authorities in Poipet City follow through on an eviction notice delivered to 22 families ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry to monitor seniority payments
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training says it will monitor the implementation of seniority indemnity payments to all factory employees in line with the new policy which comes into force this month. The ministry is also ready to impose a fine on any factory ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-monitor-seniority-payments
Test results please many
More than half of the students who sat the grade 12 national exam last month passed the high-stakes test, marking a significant improvement on last year’s results, when nearly two-thirds failed amid sweeping anti-cheating reforms.The results, which were released on saturday, show that 55.8 per ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/test-results-please-many
Gov’t taskforce to address Prey Speu and homelessness
The Ministry of social Affairs yesterday announced that it would form a committee to address the lack of services available to the homeless and mentally ill. Yesterday’s meeting was precipitated by the revelation this week by rights organization Licadho that two more residents at Prey ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17542/gov---t-taskforce-to-address-prey-speu-and-homelessness/
Ministry riled over refugee deal money
Australia has so far disbursed more than $3.5 million in aid to Cambodia as part of the agreement for its unwanted refugees to be resettled here, but the Interior Ministry’s spokesman is livid that the money has come into the country via development agencies rather ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-riled-over-refugee-deal-money-102756/
Gov’t creates new forestry crimes task force
Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday announced the creation of a committee tasked with putting an end to the rampant illegal logging and cross-border timber smug­­gling taking place in the country’s northeast. លោកនាយករដ្ឋម ន្រ្តីហ៊ុនសែន នៅថ្ងៃសុក្រនេះ បានប្រកាស ការបង្កើតនៃ គណៈកម្មាធិ ការបញ្ចប់ ការកាប់ឈើខុសច្បាប់ ទោរទន់ រត់ពន្ធ និងជាកន្លែង ទទួលយក ឈើ ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-creates-new-forestry-crimes-task-force-105629/
Central bank takes breather as it reins in rural lenders
Cambodia’s central bank will temporarily suspend its eight-month campaign to bring informal moneylenders into its fold as it lacks the resources to review the mountain of registration applications it has received and needs time to tweak the licensing requirements, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-takes-breather-it-reins-rural-lenders
Villagers worry despite mining company promises
An Indian company planning to extract 500 tons of rock per day from beneath Pheak village in O Yadauv, Ratanakiri this year has promised locals, again, that their digging will have little effect on the mine’s surrounding forest and homes, and that they will replace ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20549/villagers-worry-despite-mining-company-promises/
Officials set for murder probe
The prime minister has selected 14 senior officials – all members of the ruling party – to probe the cold-case murders of three union leaders, including Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Vichea, though scepticism remains about the timing and motivation behind the new investigation.According ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-set-murder-probe
Farmers and fishermen warily eye changes to climate
In the Kampong Phluk fishing village on the Tonle sap lake, home to thousands of families in siem Reap province, fishermen say their catch this year has been too poor to live on. Ning Ny, chief of Kampong Phluk commune, in siem Reap, said almost ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/farmers-and-fishermen-warily-eye-changes-to-climate/3109070.html
Spinning straw into food security
An American horticulturalist is in Cambodia providing training in a unique farming method that proponents believe can improve food security in some of the country’s remotest regions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/spinning-straw-food-security
Angkor Wat bags $44 mil
Cambodia’s famed UNEsCO-listed Angkor Archaeological Park made a revenue of $44 million during the first nine months of the year from ticket sales to Angkor Wat. This represents a 2.5 per cent increase compared to the same period last year, according to an official report ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30293/angkor-wat-bags--44-mil/
PPSEZ sweetens its IPO plan
The book-build and upcoming listing of the capital’s port operator has taken some of the wind out of the sails of the IPO plans Phnom Penh special Economic Zone (PPsEZ), but the industrial park operator has charted a new course and sweetened its dividend policy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppsez-sweetens-its-ipo-plan
With soaring prices, local developers shift away from BKK1
The real estate market in the BKK1 area appears to be beginning to slow after years of accelerated growth as local investors look for more affordable alternatives within Phnom Penh.seng Bunna, CEO of Bunna Realty Group, said that while the history of BKK1’s foreign-oriented growth ss='cambodia-color'>...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/soaring-prices-local-developers-shift-away-bkk1
Rice bound for Indonesia?
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) hopes to export around 200,000 tons of milled rice a year to Indonesia, which is one of the biggest rice markets in Asean. This comes after the CRF announced late last month that it will not join the bid to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29485/rice-bound-for-indonesia-/
Two months to claim land certificates
City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming responsibility for losses, according to a statement ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29893/two-months-to-claim-land-certificates/
US investors look into tourism opportunities in Cambodia
US inveStorS are eyeing opportunitieS in Cambodia&rSquo;S touriSm Sector, while the number of US viSitorS in the country remained low and iS declining, Said the MiniStry of TouriSm.&nbSp;Data from the MiniStry of TouriSm Said US viSitorS who travelled to the Kingdom accounted for only 3.7 SS='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-investors-look-tourism-opportunities-cambodia
Contaminated stream leads to water scarcity
Some 100 familieS are left with no acceSS to clean water after fiSh were Spotted dead at their water SourceS &ndaSh; the O&rSquo;Droun and O&rSquo;KleS Klork StreamS &ndaSh; in Sambor diStrict&rSquo;S Kbal Damrei commune, Kratie province, O&rSquo;Por village chief Sok Yoeun Said on TueSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/contaminated-stream-leads-water-scarcity
Firm asked to pay fine for illegally mining in K Speu
Kampong Speu provincial authoritieS will once again allow Sok Chanly Co Ltd to mine marble in Oral diStrict&rSquo;S Trapaing Chor commune if the company payS a fine of 50 million riel ($12,500) after the authoritieS earlier detained five individualS who were caught mining without a SS='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-asked-pay-fine-illegally-mining-k-speu