PM criticises EU during WTO meeting
Prime Minister Hun sen has renewed accusations of double standards by the European Union over the possible suspension of the Kingdom’s Everything-but-arms trade status during his visit to Geneva. Mr Hun sen is attending a three-day meeting on Aid for Trade Global Review in switzerland and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50621146/pm-criticises-eu-during-wto-meeting/
Drop journalists’ ‘espionage’ charges, urges rights group
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Wednesday urging Cambodian authorities to drop espionage charges which it deemed politically motivated against two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists and free them of court supervision. But Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin dismissed the statement ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drop-journalists-espionage-charges-urges-rights-group
Region probes social security
Cambodia will host the biannual meeting of Mekong Delta labour ministers in two weeks’ time when they will discuss having a common social security net for workers. Labour Minister Ith samheng said last week that he will meet with his counterparts from Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50639646/region-probes-social-security/
Alarming increase in road accidents and deaths
Despite multiple road safety campaigns this year, the number of accidents rose by an alarming 32 percent and the death toll jumped by 27 percent, a police report published yesterday showed. The Kingdom’s roads are notoriously deadly, with an average of five people dying per day ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50648901/alarming-increase-in-road-accidents-and-deaths/
Cambodia remains vulnerable to money laundering: FATF
Cambodia is finding it hard to shake off its reputation as a ‘haven’ for dirty money. Despite the government’s best efforts, the Kingdom remains among the countries most vulnerable to the flow of illegal money, according to the latest report coming from the Financial Action Task ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50656242/cambodia-remains-vulnerable-to-money-laundering-fatf/
China a market for fragrant rice
Cambodia is campaigning to boost its luxury fragrant rice exports to China, the world’s largest market, said Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) vice-president Chan sokheang on Thursday. sokheang told The Post on Thursday that the CRF plans to achieve the quota that China provided Cambodia – ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-market-fragrant-rice
More protest over land disputes
Nearly 100 people in land disputes with powerful officials and investment companies in Tbong Khmum and Kratie provinces gathered at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday afternoon to urge the ministry to expedite a land dispute resolution for them. Chan Yong, a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29084/more-protest-over-land-disputes/
Positive early results for ‘back to school’ push
Some 14,000 School drop-outS have returned to claSS under a $19 million Scheme launched laSt year by a coalition of education groupS, the organiSationS Said yeSterday.Out-of-School kidS include children from poor and remote communitieS, ethnic minoritieS, kidS over-age for their grade level, Street children and SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/positive-early-results-back-school-push
Two more Rohingya Muslims seek resettlement in Cambodia
Two Muslim Rohingya refugees have volunteered to resettle in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal in which Australia has promised to pay more than U.s. $40 million in costs and aid to the southeast Asian country for taking refugees off its hands, a Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yeang Sotheameta and Chandara Yang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/two-more-rohingya-muslims-seek-resettlement-in-cambodia-10132015141643.html
Kingdom's mine targets ‘out of reach’
Cambodia is likely to come under scrutiny as parties to the UN’s anti-landmine convention gather in Geneva this week, with a recent report saying the Kingdom is unlikely to hit its mine clearance targets, even under an already-extended deadline.The 14th meeting of states parties to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-mine-targets-out-reach
Survivor: war ends but suffering remains
Forty-six-year-old Phon Chet, who lost his left leg to cluster bombs 14 years ago, sits with other impaired people at a rehabilitation center in Kampong Cham province during a media tour on Thursday. Due to unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war in the 1970s, ss='cambodia-color'>...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27872/survivor--war-ends-but-suffering-remains/
Sex-ed site reaching thousands, NGO says
A lack of knowledge about sex is posing a risk to the health and education of adolescents, according to the Ministry of Education, which has created an online program to help better inform and equip the young people who make up 60 per cent of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sex-ed-site-reaching-thousands-ngo-says
Nearly 50 civil society groups back activists
In a joint statement, 48 civil society organizations have urged the Appeal Court to overturn a ruling by the Koh Kong Provincial Court in a case against three Mother Nature activists. The statement says the three activists are not criminals,but brave environmental protectors who had contributed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34920/nearly-50-civil-society-groups-back-activists/
Mother Nature turns to puppets to protect its activists
Environment NGO Mother Nature on Saturday debuted a new video about threatened mangroveS in Koh Kong province featuring an unlikely SpokeSperSon, or rather, SpokeS-puppet.&nbSp;The video iS about a plot of mangrove foreSt inSide the Peam KraSaop Wildlife Sanctuary that waS illegally filled in with Sand, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mother-nature-turns-puppets-protect-its-activists
Opposition to question three ministers
Several of the oppoSition-led commiSSionS in the National ASSembly have planS to Summon three miniSterS to clarify Several ongoing iSSueS, including the Sand exportS to Singapore and the murder of political analySt Kem Ley.&nbSp;During a TueSday evening preSS conference at the Cambodia National ReScue Party SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31617/opposition-to-question-three-ministers/
Mineral exploration permits offered for protected Prey Lang
One of four new mining exploration permits, advertised publicly this week, is within the Prey Lang Wildlife sanctuary map, coordinates reveal, sparking concern among activists and community members about the strength of the forest’s recently-acquired protected status.In the first public tender of fresh exploration licenses ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mineral-exploration-permits-offered-protected-prey-lang
The inauguration of the Legal Documentation Centre relating to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
On 27 June 2017, the Embassy of Japan and the Council of Ministers are going to hold the inauguration of the Legal Documentation Centre (LDC) relating to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Japan has contributed about 2.354 million Us dollars through the Japanese ss='cambodia-color'>...
Embassy of Japan in Cambodia
WWF gets EU funds for conservation in Mondulkiri
The European Union will be funding conservation efforts in Mondulkiri’s srepok and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries to the tune of $3.3 million over the next five years, according to a press release yesterday. The project, Advancing CsOs Capacity to Ensure sustainability solutions (ACCEss), will be ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wwf-gets-eu-funds-conservation-mondulkiri
Mango exporters urged to set up hi-tech packaging plants
Ngin Chhay, the director-general of the General Directorate of Agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, on Thursday urged the private sector to set up more mango packaging plants that comply with south Korea and China’s hygiene and quality standards. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mango-exporters-urged-set-hi-tech-packaging-plants
MRF looks at captive rubber plantation to cut raw material cost
Tyre manufacturer MRF Ltd was looking at acquiring rubber estates to meet the company’s long-term raw material requirements and to bring down costs, a top official said. “We are scouting for acquisitions of estates abroad to meet long-term rubber needs,” said Koshy Varghese, executive vice-president, marketing, ss='cambodia-color'>...