Lawyer asks municipal court to consider tycoon’s son’s obesity
The lawyer for Duong Udomchorvin, who slapped the son of logging tycoon Try Pheap in a Phnom Penh tattoo parlor in April, told a hearing at the municipal court Thursday that his obese client’s poor health should be taken into account in sentencing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawyer-asks-municipal-court-to-consider-tycoons-sons-obesity-91097/
Ministry of Education announces funding for scientific research projects for 2023
The Ministry of Education, Youth, and sports on Aug 7, issued a notification on funding for scientific research projects for 2023 in order to contribute to the promotion of research culture, inspire innovation, and promote innovation in response to the labour market and globalisation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501338993/ministry-of-education-announces-funding-for-scientific-research-projects-for-2023/
Factory demand soars in 2023, despite slower overall investment
Demand for industrial property in 2023 is rising compared to 2022, said stephen suen, long-time commercial and industrial property expert and co-owner-operator of Yi Fung Real Estate services in Phnom Penh since 2015. ss='cambodia-color'>...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501344749/factory-demand-soars-in-2023-despite-slower-overall-investment/
Cambodia may start building high speed rail as early as 2023
Construction on high-speed rails in the Kingdom could begin as soon as next year, with studies well underway on the conversion of existing railway and the creation of two new lines – one of which runs to the Vietnamese border – to optimally boost rail ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-may-start-building-high-speed-rail-early-2023
Notification on the water supply situation in the dry season of 2023
On 23 March 2023, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority iSSued a notification on the water Supply Situation in the dry SeaSon of 2023.From the beginning of February and March 2023, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority haS received information about cuStomer diSSatiSfaction related to water Shortage, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority
Record farming exports seen for 2023
Cambodia’s agricultural exports surpassed 6.2 million tonnes during the first ten months of the year, amounting to more than $3.5 billion across 74 countries, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/record-farming-exports-seen-for-2023
CDC okays projects valued $5b in 2023
Up to $4.9 billion of total investment capital for 268 investment projects have been approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) in 2023, with some 307,000 jobs created, according to its statement on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thang Sinorn
https://kiripost.com/stories/cdc-okays-projects-valued-5b-in-2023
Cambodia exports rubber worth $490.6 million in 2023
Cambodia exported 368,048 tonnes of dry rubber in 2023, a slight decrease of 1.3 percent from 372,903 tonnes in a year earlier, said a report from the General Directorate of Rubber on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501425159/cambodia-exports-rubber-worth-490-6-million-in-2023/
Cambodia, China to expand cooperation in education sector
China’s ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian said China and Cambodia will push for closer cooperation in the education sector as the two countries observe the “China-Cambodia Friendship Year” in 2023. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-china-expand-cooperation-education-sector
Garment sector minimum wage to Rise to $200 a month in 2023
The minimum wage for workers in Cambodia’s billion-dollar garment sector will rise to $200 a month next year, a $6 raise that unions said was insufficient while employers raised concerns about profits and regional competitiveness. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Matt Surrusco
https://cambojanews.com/garment-sector-minimum-wage-to-rise-to-200-a-month-in-2023/
Charting the next seven years of environmental policy
Work began yesterday on Cambodia’s first national environmental plan in more than a decade. Once completed, the National Environmental strategy and Action Plan (NEsAP) will form the backbone of Cambodia’s environmental policy until 2023. The far-reaching plan – which is expected to be put into ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17414/charting-the-next-seven-years-of-environmental-policy/
Charting the next seven years of environmental policy
Work began yesterday on Cambodia’s first national environmental plan in more than a decade. Once completed, the National Environmental strategy and Action Plan (NEsAP) will form the backbone of Cambodia’s environmental policy until 2023. The far-reaching plan – which is expected to be put into ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17414/charting-the-next-seven-years-of-environmental-policy/
Access to Information draft law ready
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith yesterday confirmed that the draft law on Access to Information has been inserted into the 6th mandate of the government’s strategic plan. In an announcement dated yesterday that addressed public and civil society groups’ requests, Mr Kanharith said the ministry had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50577422/access-to-information-draft-law-ready/
Protesters Want Obama’s Support Over Evictions
About 100 residents embroiled in land disputes in Phnom Penh submitted a petition to the U.s. Embassy yesterday requesting that President Barack Obama raise the issue of evictions and reform of the country’s land concession policy when he visits Cambodia later this month. The plea comes ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-want-obamas-support-in-evictions-5252/
Stonewalling at Angkor complex’s temple
THIRTY workers involved in the restoration of the Angkor complex’s Ta Prohm temple were barred by their manager from entering the work site yesterday because of their unionism, labour representatives said. The stand-off followed the manager’s announcement that on February 1, he would dismiss the 30 ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013012560975/National/stonewalling-at-temple.html
Australian Investor Jailed After Business Dispute
An Australian businessman who once fronted a telecommunications firm in Cambodia has been sent to Prey sar prison on fraud charges in a case one of his associates said was triggered by a disgruntled partner in a failed business venture. Frank May, 63, the former chief ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australian-investor-jailed-after-business-dispute-7759/
Lawmakers to Discuss Sesan 2 Dam Draft Law
The National Assembly has announced that it will discuss a draft law on the financing of a controversial dam project in stung Treng province on February 15, a move environmental groups called premature. Meach Mean, coordinator for 3s Rivers Protection Network – which has been ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shopping shapes up in Phnom Penh
With demand for shopping space in Cambodia on the rise and investor interest growing, the Japanese developer Aeon Mall (Cambodia) Co Ltd last week broke ground on the construction of a Us$205-million mall in Phnom Penh. “We are happy to contribute to the development of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/retail/326570/shopping-shapes-up-in-phnom-penh
Australia Drops Cambodian Bribery Allegations
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have closed an investigation into suspicious payments to officials in Cambodia by the world’s largest mining company BHP Billiton, according to a report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Although the report, released last month, does not ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/australia-drops-cambodian-bribery-allegations-5337/
Cambodia: shrinking forests breed violence
Hang Serei Oudom told hiS 7-month pregnant wife that he waS going out to meet a Source. A journaliSt for Vorakchun Khmer Daily, he waS inveStigating illegal logging for luxury woodS in the jungleS of Cambodia&rSquo;S northeaStern Ratanakkiri province. Three dayS later, on Sept. 11, he SS='cambodia-color'>...