Announcement: photographs of the victims at the former Khmer Rouge prison S-21 to be colorized and edited in part from the actual situation
On 11 April 2021. the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts release an announcement on the photographs of the victims at the former Khmer Rouge prison s-21 to be colorized and edited in part from the actual situation while the victims were threatened by the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
ADB forecast: 4% economic growth in 2021
Cambodia’s economy is forecast to grow 4.0 per cent this year and 5.5 per cent in 2022, as economic recoveries in major trading partners boosts demand for the Kingdom’s exports, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on April 28. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-forecast-4-economic-growth-2021
Sar Kheng tells officials to solve encroachment in Battambang province area
Minister of Interior sar Kheng urged authorities in Battambang province to resolve land disputes in a transparent and fair manner and to improve delivery of public services. His message was particularly aimed at commune councils, clerks and village chiefs. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-tells-officials-solve-encroachment-battambang-province-area
$2.1 million aid for demining work in Cambodia’s northwest
Norwegian People Aid (NPA), a Norway-based non-governmental organisation, signed a partnership cooperation agreement with Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) with a grant of $2.1 million for demining activities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501342163/2-1-million-aid-for-demining-work-in-cambodias-northwest/
CPP welcomes 2,000 new members ahead of 2023 nat’l election
A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) official said at least 2,000 people from Candlelight (CP), currently the country’s second-largest party, have joined the ruling CPP, just days after the latter was warned of supposed links to former opposition leader sam Rainsy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-welcomes-2000-new-members-ahead-2023-natl-election
Microfinance sector plays important role in economic development: NBC
The microfinance sector in Cambodia has been playing an important role in contributing to economic and social development, especially the reduction of poverty in rural areas, said a senior official at the National Bank of Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501268058/microfinance-sector-plays-important-role-in-economic-development-nbc/
WB sticks to Cambodia’s 5.2% growth forecast for 2023
World Bank has maintained the 2023 economic growth rate forecast for Cambodia at 5.2 percent while it lowered the prospects for the neighbouring countries Vietnam and Thailand from its October 2022 estimates. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501266499/wb-sticks-to-cambodias-5-2-growth-forecast-for-2023/
Press statement on the 2023 general election is a true reflection of the country's democratic maturity
On 24 July 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press statement that the 2023 general election reflects the country’s democratic maturity.The Ministry would like to highlight factual and first-hand observations of this historic event through five points:Higher voter turnout and a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Six arrested in Phnom Penh over bride-trafficking ring
Three Chinese men and three Cambodians were arrested in Phnom Penh on Wednesday on suspicion of running a trafficking ring in which Cambodian women are married off to Chinese men, police said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-arrested-in-phnom-penh-over-bride-trafficking-ring-93807/
Arrests of sex workers surge
Kheo Tha was driving outside Phnom Penh yesterday when she received a frantic phone call from her friend, a sex worker who works near Wat Phnom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox and Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14744/arrests-of-sex--workers-surge/
PM lauds women’s contributions
Women form an incalculable part of Cambodia’s economy, Prime Minister Hun sen has declared, as he praised efforts of the Cambodian National Council for Women’s (CNCW) in contributing to the Kingdom’s development over the years. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-lauds-womens-contributions
Cambodia, China agree to strengthen strategic mutual trust, traditional friendship
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen and visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed on sunday to further strengthen the strategic mutual trust and carry on the traditional friendship between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501342016/cambodia-china-agree-to-strengthen-strategic-mutual-trust-traditional-friendship/
Fire leaves 48 families homeless
The Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) said on Tuesday that 48 families have been made homeless after a fire swept through their homes in Phnom Penh on sunday afternoon. No one was injured in the blaze, which happened in the sambok Chab area of Meanchey district’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fire-leaves-48-families-homeless
Schools get climate change textbook
The Environment and Education ministries have unveiled the official textbook on climate change for upper secondary schools. Under-secretary of state of the Environment Ministry Khut Chandara said at the official launch of the book on Monday that education played an important role in social, economic ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507849/schools-get-climate-change-textbook/
Dengue outbreak sees 1,691 kids hospitalised in a month
A total of 1,691 children were hospitalised at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital between October 21 and November 21 after an outbreak of haemorrhagic dengue fever. Another 1,626 children were hospitalised at other Kantha Bopha hospitals during the same period, according to a report from the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-outbreak-sees-1691-kids-hospitalised-month
Lull in battle for Battambang forest
Several weekS after villagerS on the outSkirtS of a community foreSt in Battambang Province began clearing treeS and Seizing land, foreStry adminiStration officialS Say there haS been a lull in deforeStation. SS='cambodia-color'>...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17648/lull-in-battle-for-battambang-forest/
Refugees from Nauru move out of Phnom Penh villa
The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with Australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the Australian government said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/refugees-from-nauru-move-out-of-phnom-penh-villa-97334/
Immigration police raid Cambodia beer site
Immigration police rounded up nearly 80 Vietnamese migrant workers along with six European engineers at the construction site of a new Cambodia Beer factory in Phnom Penh on Monday afternoon because they did not possess work permits, according to an immigration official. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/immigration-police-raid-cambodia-beer-site-97743/
Commission makes changes in first union draft law meeting
A joint commission of 10 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties yesterday met for the first time to review the draft law on trade unions, and two of 21 articles that were flagged as controversial by unions have changed slightly. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19441/commission-makes-changes-in-first-union-draft-law-meeting/
Environmental experts concern of the extinction of rare fish in the northeast province
Environmental experts concern of a drop in the number of rare species of fish in the river in the northeastern province including of the Upper Mekong Basin, srepok River and se san river. The worry after a number of exotic fish caught in the area’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Men Sothy
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/environment/concern-over-fishes-losing-02062016035808.html