Putting women in the driver's seat in Cambodia
How can one push for greater political participation of women in a patriarchal state that believes government is a fraternity? The Cambodian Committee to Promote Women in Politics faced this exact problem when it first started its work to encourage women to get more politically involved ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daphne Davies
https://www.devex.com/news/putting-women-in-the-driver-s-seat-in-cambodia-85867
Persecution of Montagnards on rise, report says
An intensified campaign of religious and political persecution of Montagnards by security forces in Vietnam is responsible for more than 150 of the group fleeing to Cambodia, while authorities in both countries are working together to track down asylum seekers crossing the border, Human Rights ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/persecution-of-montagnards-on-rise-report-says-86712/
Logging baron claims tree-felling days over
Preah Vihear province Try Pheap wants to turn over a new leaf.In an exclusive interview with the Post at the opening ceremony of his vast plantation in Preah Vihear province on sunday, the media-shy tycoon spoke of a desire to cultivate a new image – ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-baron-claims-tree-felling-days-over
Land Ministry issues more than 450,000 land titles
The Land Management Ministry has issued 456,210 land titles so far this year. The ministry’s annual report, launched yesterday, said that it also resolved 105 out of 817 land disputes it received; the National Land Dispute Authority solved two out of 81 cases. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50673867/land-ministry-issues-more-than-450000-land-titles
GDT says revenues up 15% in January
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected about 956.76 billion riel ($239.19 million) in tax revenue in January, up 14.74 per cent compared to the same period last year. This is a positive step towards its target of collecting more than $2.885 billion by year’s end, ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-says-revenues-15-january
Red-tape eliminated for agro-product exporters
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced that rice exporters and agro-product exporters can now attain sanitary and phytosanitary certificates at one window service centres to streamline the process. The ministry’s decision was made after a Cambodia Rice Federation proposal last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/red-tape-eliminated-agro-product-exporters
Crimes up with 211 deaths, influx of foreigners to blame
Minister of Interior sar Kheng on Wednesday said crimes increased by eight per cent last year, resulting in 211 deaths. He revealed the figures during the ministry’s 2019 review and laid the blame for the increase on an influx of foreigners into the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crimes-211-deaths-influx-foreigners-blame
Rice farmers struggle during drought season
For more than four months, people living in some rural areas in the provinces of Pursat and Battambang have been suffering from water shortages. Canals, streams and ponds have dried due to high temperatures during this year’s dry season. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700262/rice-farmers-struggle-during-drought-season
Poor families claim land concession sold to others
A group of 160 poor families from the Bunong indigenous community in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have filed a complaint against their representative, accusing him of selling land earmarked for them as part of a social land concession. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poor-families-claim-land-concession-sold-others
Senate set to review emergency law
The Senate&rSquo;S Standing Committee iS Set to convene a meeting on Monday to review the State of emergency draft law after it waS unanimouSly paSSed by the National ASSembly (NA) on ThurSday. Senate SpokeSman Mam Bun Neang Said the committee will put the law up SS='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senate-set-review-emergency-law
NGO to sue ‘land grab’ officer
National Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organisation (NRWPO) director Chea Hean plans to sue Trapaing Chor commune council officer sorn sim for allegedly inciting some 100 people to occupy and protest on 120ha owned by 16 families in the province’s Trapaing Chor commune in Oral district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-sue-land-grab-officer
Union appeals to casinos over suspended workers’ wages
The Collective Union of Movement of Workers is appealing to casino owners to disburse last month’s wages of suspended employees amid the temporary closure of gambling venues across the Kingdom over novel coronavirus fears. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50709040/union-appeals-to-casinos-over-suspended-workers-wages/
New GDP prediction is not optimistic
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has predicted that the real economic growth of Cambodia will reach 2.3 percent this year and will be around 5.7 percent in 2021, according to the newly released report on ADB’s flagship annual economic publication titled, Asian Development Outlook 2020. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50709859/new-gdp-prediction-is-not-optimistic/
Big fall in petrol prices
Cambodia’s retail gasoline price has strongly declined for the first time because of the fall on the international market, according to the monthly oil prices set by the Ministry of Commerce revealed yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50708398/big-fall-in-petrol-prices/
UNESCO list request could help dolphins
The ministries of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Environment, as well as the World Wide Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF Cambodia), will request the Anlong Kampi Irrawaddy dolphin conservation area in Kratie province be added to UNEsCO’s World Heritage List. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unesco-list-request-could-help-dolphins
Workers waiting for a bargain
Informal workers, a class that includes beer promoters, tuk tuk drivers and farmers, are among those who stand to benefit most from the upcoming trade-union law, observers say – and workers say it can’t come soon enough. Dave Welsh, country director of the American Center for ss='cambodia-color'>...
MFIs defy typically slow first quarter
Total loans and deposits at the Kingdom’s microfinance institutions jumped in the first quarter of 2012 despite what is typically a slow season for the industry, insiders said yesterday. Loans outstanding reached Us$708 million for the period ending on March 31, climbing 9.8 per cent from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Local property market best described as ‘flat’
Cambodia’s local property sector has been described as “flat” while condominiums and boreys are tagged to be the hardest hit during the COVID-19 pandemic because the listings will eventually need to be put up for sale under current market prices in the coming months, according ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50728836/local-property-market-best-described-as-flat/
Newest ASEAN fund may be out of reach for Cambodian govt
The ASEAN InfraStructure Fund, the largeSt pooling of financial reSourceS among SoutheaSt ASia&rSquo;S 10-member bloc, held itS firSt board meeting in Manila laSt week, but the extent to which Cambodia will borrow from the non-conceSSional fund haS yet to be determined, expertS Said. ASEAN countrieS and SS='cambodia-color'>...
Leader lost, but activists fight on
An estimated 600 people will travel to parts of the Cardamom Mountains in Koh Kong province to investigate illegal logging and commemorate the death of slain environment activist Chut Wutty tomorrow. Communities from eight provinces that have been affected by deforestation will travel to Koh Kong ss='cambodia-color'>...