Anti-loggers held back by FA officials
Forestry Administration officials reportedly blocked vehicles in three provinces from travelling to Koh Kong town yesterday on their way to the site where prominent environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot last month. But hundreds of others from six provinces in a convoy of 27 vans made it ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chut Wutty slain: another chapter in bloody history
With his slaying yesterday in the jungles of Koh Kong province, Chut Wutty becomes one of the highest-profile members yet on a dark list of Cambodian activists who have been killed for making a stand against greed and corruption. Although the details of his death remain ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia deal says refugees will be settled outside Phnom Penh
The deal signed with Cambodia by immigration minister scott Morrison will see refugees held on Nauru resettled “outside” Phnom Penh. As foreign minister Julie Bishop defended the deal on sunday, a copy of the memorandum of understanding with Cambodia, which has been posted on Morrison’s official ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/27/cambodia-deal-says-refugees-will-be-settled-outside-phnom-penh
Massive crack in ‘White Building’ widens
A four-story crack in the south-facing side of Phnom Penh’s aging “White Building”—which first appeared in early February as a pile driver broke up earth inside an adjacent construction site—widened over the weekend, shortly after a meeting between worried tenants and the firms behind a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/massive-crack-in-white-building-widens-79358/
Toll trains said to stop March 31
Toll Group has informed the Cambodian government that it will suspend all railway operations and lay off half of its Cambodian staff at the end of the month, according to a source familiar with the situation. The Australian logistics firm, which in partnership with Royal Group ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032055123/Business/toll-trains-said-to-stop-march-31.html
PM calls for tougher scrutiny on pardons
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday told the Ministry of Justice to re-check pardon applications from convicted robbers and drug dealers, saying that recidivism is a big problem in the Kingdom.The premier’s statement, made in a speech on Koh Pich, follows a turbulent weekend rife with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-tougher-scrutiny-pardons
Preah Vihear villagers band at PM residence in Phnom Penh, seek resolution to land dispute
Some 200 villagerS from Preah Vihear province gathered at Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S reSidence in Phnom Penh on ThurSday to deliver a petition Seeking a reSolution to their long-running land diSpute. They alSo Sought the&nbSp;releaSe of 13 villagerS&nbSp;who had been detained Since January 19 for SS='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-band-pm-residence-phnom-penh-seek-resolution-land-dispute
Preah Vihear court drops charges against villagers
The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has dropped all charges against eight ethnic Kuoy villagers who were in a land dispute with the Hengfu Group sugar Industry Co Ltd since 2014. Wednesday’s decision was made by the judge who tried the case on June 10. The eight ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-court-drops-charges-against-villagers
Rural electrification aims to be complete by 2023
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced a 2023 target date for the electrification of the Kingdom’s rural villages. Victor Jona, director-general of energy and spokesman for the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said the 2023 target date will see electrification having been delivered ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50802348/rural-electrification-aims-to-be-complete-by-2023/
CBC wins consumer credit reporting award
Independent financial information provider Credit Bureau (Cambodia) Co Ltd (CBC) scooped an award for “Excellence in Consumer Credit Reporting”, CBC said in a January 5 press release. UK-based “reputed international business magazine” Global Business Outlook (GBO) honoured the locally-owned CBC for its “exceptional performance” in Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cbc-wins-consumer-credit-reporting-award
Domestic salt industry feeling the pinch of the pandemic
A local salt producer says that her company’s exports have been stuck in stasis by the COVID-19 pandemic and tough competition among local producers is making things even tougher. Thaung Thyda, the founder of Thaung Enterprise, says her company was focused on exports but with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50803231/domestic-salt-industry-feeling-the-pinch-of-the-pandemic/
CRF: Bumper 2021 for organic rice
Cambodia exported 11,200 tonnes of organic milled rice to international markets in 2020, a slight 1.2 per cent increase over 2019, according to the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). While the milled-rice export sector by and large chalks up 2020’s lacklustre growth performance to the ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/crf-bumper-2021-organic-rice
Families locked in Kandal land row seek compromise
Most of the 329 families from seven villages with crops planted on state land in the Chamkar Barang area of Tuol Prich commune in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district have refused to accept the inter-ministerial settlement policy that seeks to relocate them to make way ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-locked-kandal-land-row-seek-compromise
GDT collected $2.7B in tax revenue in 2021
The Minister of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected 11.402100 trillion riel ($2.781 billion) in tax revenue in 2021, 24% more than the plan of $538 million. However, this revenue is slightly less when compared to the same period of year 2020 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501015758/gdt-collected-2-7b-in-tax-revenue-in-2021/
Cambodia skilfully marketed during 43rd ASEAN Summit
Prime Minister Hun Manet said last saturday that he along with the top officials from public and private sector institutions promoted various sectors of Cambodia’s economy during 18 bilateral and multilateral meetings out of the 34 on-the-sidelines meetings during the 43rd AsEAN summit and Related ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501357932/cambodia-skilfully-marketed-during-43rd-asean-summit/
Union calls for NSSF registration for every construction worker
Trade unions are working to educate construction workers and their employers on the benefits of the Kingdom’s social protection systems. Various stakeholders met on March 3 for the final review of the 2023-2027 occupational safety and health master plan, while one union revealed that less than ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-calls-nssf-registration-every-construction-worker
Stung Pursat I dam ‘in 2026’
South Korean-owned SPHP (Cambodia) Co Ltd&rSquo;S under-conStruction $231 million, 80 megawatt (MW) Stung PurSat I hydropower dam iS Scheduled to be commiSSioned and operational in 2026, according to PurSat provincial governor Khoy Rida. SS='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara and Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-pursat-i-dam-2026
Exports near $11.5B on May-Jun lift
The value of Cambodia’s total goods exports in the first half of the year reached $11.464 billion, up more than 0.75 per cent on an annual basis from $11.379 billion and up nearly 3.25 per cent from $11.104 billion in the second half of 2022, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-near-115b-may-jun-lift
Cambodia urges ADB to expand investment to combat climate change and natural disasters
Thor Chetha, Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology, highlighted the Ministry’s priority of strengthening the forecasting system, early warning system, and early warning to vulnerable people to be vigilant as needed to reduce natural disasters and economic losses, and urged the Asian Development Bank to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501488991/cambodia-urges-adb-to-expand-investment-to-combat-climate-change-and-natural-disasters/
Siem Reap tourism vendor loans to be more accessible in 2024
The Small and Medium EnterpriSe Bank of Cambodia Plc. (SME Bank), loan termS for touriSm vendorS in Siem Reap Province will be looSened from the beginning of 2024 to encourage more uptake of fundS excluSively by Siem Reap-baSed entitieS to bolSter the Sector&rSquo;S return to SS='cambodia-color'>...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501418092/siem-reap-tourism-vendor-loans-to-be-more-accessible-in-2024/