A hard lesson in arithmetic
When Reaksmey (not his real name) was in high school two years ago, he and his classmates were urged to attend the supplementary classes taught by their teachers before and after regular school hours. For an hour before school and two to three hours after each ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012031455021/National-news/a-hard-lesson-in-arithmetic.html
National Census Identifies Half-Million Businesses
Cambodia has a total of 505,134 businesses supported by a workforce of 1,676,263, just 11.56 percent of the total population, according to a nationwide economic census released yesterday by the Ministry of Planning. Of the total number of people employed in the country, 1,026,084, or 61.2 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey and Philip Heijmans, P.1
Cambodia-Linked Investors Sentenced in Seoul
The chief executives of the firms behind two large-scale real-estate projects in Cambodia have been sentenced to jail in seoul for obtaining illegal loans and using the money to finance fictitious companies abroad, according to a south Korean court official. The two executives were among a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Assembly Approves 2010 Gov’t Spending
Following a three-hour debate at the National Assembly, lawmakers passed a draft law approving the $2.5 billion the government spent in 2010. During the debate, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap presented a 10-page document that he said justified the $2.5 billion in spending, which was 25 percent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Save the Mekong statement on the collapse of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy hydropower project
Save the Mekong, a coalition of non-government organizationS, community-baSed groupS and&nbSp;concerned citizenS within the Mekong region, wiSh to expreSS our Shock and concern at the recent&nbSp;collapSe of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy hydropower project in LaoS, and our deep condolenceS to&nbSp;communitieS affected by SS='cambodia-color'>...
Save the Mekong
Power trade talks with Thailand are planned
Cambodia is planning talks with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) to purchase 300MW of power, Ministry of Mines and Energy official Victor Jona said on Tuesday. Jona, the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that the talks could ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/power-trade-talks-thailand-are-planned
Minister wants better business relationship with Hunan province
Minister of Public Works and Transport sun Chanthol on Tuesday called on China’s Hunan province to promote bilateral trade, cooperation and investment, and seize opportunities in many potential sectors. He was speaking at the Hunan Investment Promotion and Machinery Expo in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-wants-better-business-relationship-hunan-province
Trump: US does not want regime change in Kingdom
US preSident Donald Trump haS expreSSed the US&rSquo; commitment to reSpecting Cambodia&rSquo;S Sovereignty and invited Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to attend the US-ASean Summit in the US next year. Trump made the pledge and invitation in two Separate letterS addreSSed to Hun Sen early thiS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/trump-us-does-not-want-regime-change-kingdom
Apsara raises concerns over illegal construction in Angkor
The Apsara National Authority expressed concern over illegally built structures along siem Reap’s Angkor resort area. Apsara National Authority spokesman Long Kosal told The Post on Monday that many residents of the Angkor resort area, who had requested building permits from the Apsara National Authority, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/apsara-raises-concerns-over-illegal-construction-angkor
Chi Khor Leu land dispute resolution reached
Ninety-five out of the 317 families who were locked in a long-running land dispute with Oknha Ly Yong Phat’s sugar company since 2006 accepted the solution to end the dispute under a compromise negotiated by the Koh Kong provincial authority. Provincial deputy governor sok sothy, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chi-khor-leu-land-dispute-resolution-reached
Korea assists Cambodia on occupational safety
Cambodia and Korea have joined hands to study the legislation of occupational health and safety regulations for employees at factories and business enterprises. The project was initiated on Thursday at the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training when Minister Ith sam Heng met with Choi Heaeun, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korea-assists-cambodia-occupational-safety
Kratie resolves Memot Rubber Plantation land dispute in Snuol
Kratie provincial authorities have resolved a land dispute between more than 1,800 families and the Memot Rubber Plantation Company in snuol district’s Pi Thnou commune. Khan Chamnan, provincial deputy governor, yesterday said that each family will receive two hectares of social Land Concessions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50664714/kratie-resolves-memot-rubber-plantation-land-dispute-in-snuol/
Kingdom expands school feeding programmes
The Ministry of Education, Youth and sport Hang Chuon Naron said on Monday that with the government’s long-standing partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) and many other partners, Cambodia is now preparing its school feeding implementation to be fully homegrown. speaking on the sidelines of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-expands-school-feeding-programmes
Firm's 'hostage' awaits justice
Heng Hak wore a blank expression yesterday, her hair recently dyed a shade of blonde. Though her appearance suggested composure, a lift of her pant leg revealed the manifestation of the trauma she tried to escape last year. In March 2011, Hak jumped from the third ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012083158412/National-news/firms-hostageawaits-justice.html
Casinos flush with locals
At 7am, the border crossing from Vietnam to svay Rieng’s Bavet town is already buzzing with the activity of foreign gamblers arriving for a day at the casinos along National Highway 1. But throughout the day, a steady trickle of Cambodian players make their way ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Fashion Mobs’ to press for living wage in Cambodia
Christmas shoppers stand to be taken by surprise this month as campaigners take action in shopping centers around Europe to raise awareness of poverty wages of Cambodian garment workers. With these ‘fashion mobs’, they pressure H&M, Inditex (Zara), Levi’s and Gap to introduce a living ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=118895
Questions follow on heels of hydropower dam Sesan 2 vote
Villagers near the sesan River in stung Treng province are a step closer to being forced to make way for a hydropower dam following a National Assembly vote on Friday, but they are no closer to learning the details of such a move, a community ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021861415/National/questions-follow-on-heels-of-sesan-2-vote.html
Solving problems brings in wealth
One of Cambodia’s true rags-to-riches success stories is that of Din somethearith, co-founder and executive director of Frangipani Villa Hotels. Frangipani, named for the blossoming tree, is a chain of boutique hotels, one of which is located just off street 178 at number 43, down a ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051456140/Business/solving-problems-brings-in-wealth.html
UN Envoy Notes Human Costs of Land Concessions
U.N. human rights envoy to Cambodia surya subedi wrapped up his seventh mission to Cambodia on Friday, saying that his own assessments of land concessions confirmed that they are being unfairly granted and leaving many communities out in the cold. Mr. subedi said that meetings held ss='cambodia-color'>...
Satellite Shots to Help Settle Deforestation Claims
New satellite images of Oddar Meanchey province promise to help settle wildly conflicting deforestation estimates inside a 64,000-hectare area, which is set to anchor the country’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme. With the project potentially ready to sell carbon credits to foreign firms in a matter ss='cambodia-color'>...