Age is no barrier for candidates
Parties competing in the commune elections are pinning their hopes on young candidates winning the popular vote. Nhek Bun Chhay, president of the Khmer National United Party, said his party is focusing on youth candidates, with people aged between 25 and 32 making up 40 percent ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38910/age-is-no-barrier-for-candidates/
Call to end short-term work contracts
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on garment factory owners to reduce the use of short-term employment contracts. Speaking to more than 15,000 workers and employers representing 10 factories in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district, Mr Hun Sen said short-term contracts threaten the health of employees. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084729/call-end-short-term-work-contracts/
Parties pledge more power for women
For the ruling CPP, the promise was to appoint a woman as governor for one of the country’s 25 provinces. For the opposition CNRP, its boast was having 60 female commune chief candidates—up from fewer than 10—to run in Cambodia’s 1,646 communes for this year’s ...
Kuch Naren and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parties-pledge-more-power-for-women-126307/
Prospects bright for solar in Kep
The Ministry of Environment has announced its support for a new 10-megawatt solar power development project in the coastal province of Kep to be spearheaded by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a South Korea-based organisation set up by the UN in 2012 to chart ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prospects-bright-solar-kep
Raid nets illegal timber but no suspects
Police and forestry officials in Siem Reap province discovered more than 10 cubic metres of illegally logged second-grade timber yesterday in two trucks, one of them bearing a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces licence plate. No arrests were made. Police were now looking into the origins ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/raid-nets-illegal-timber-no-suspects
Press statement of Phnom Penh Capital Hall
Phnom Penh Capital Hall would like to inform the public that on 11 November 2014, 08:00 a.m., around 40 people of Boeung Kak community gathered in front of Phnom Penh Capital Hall protesting to demand the release of 7 people who were arrested on 10 ...
Phnom Penh Capital Hall
Thailand breaks silence on corpses
The Thai government yesterday broke its silence on charred remains found 10 days ago alleged to have been two Cambodians burned alive by Thai soldiers, saying no conclusion had been reached. Cambodia’s western neighbour has been slow to release investigative findings about what could prove to ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/thailand-breaks-silence-corpses
Foreigners, tourists to pay more for entry visas
Foreigners will have to pay additional costs to enter Cambodia following a government announcement earlier this week that visa fees will increase by $10 starting in October. Tourists will have to pay $30 for a one-month entry visa and business visitors $35, up from the $20 ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/foreigners-tourists-to-pay-more-for-entry-visas-66668/
NGO volunteer found guilty of child sex crimes
A man who volunteered at a Christian NGO that seeks to combat sex trafficking was found guilty yesterday by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and jailed for three years for raping four former street children younger than 10 years old who were meant to be ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-volunteer-found-guilty-child-sex-crimes
Press statement of Phnom Penh Capital Hall
Phnom Penh Capital Hall informs the public that, on 10 November 2014, around 40 people of Boeung Kak community gathered in front of the Capital Hall seeking for solutions of flooding issues in Boeung Kak area. The Capital Hall has accepted their requests to deal ...
Phnom Penh Capital Hall
Police to investigate market fire
The Phnom Penh police’s fire brigade is creating a new committee to determine the cause of a blaze at O’Russei market on Sunday night, an official said. The fire, he said, was extinguished within an hour and led to what vendors are saying equates to ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/police-investigate-market-fire
Hun Sen to attend Asian-African Summit, Conference
Prime Minister Hun Sen will attend the 10th Anniversary of the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership Summit to be held from 22-23 April in Jakarta and the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Asian-African Conference on 24 April in Bandung, Indonesia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/hun-sen-to-attend-asian-african-summit-conference-8423
Ten Ibis nests found in Ratanakkiri
Birdlife International Cambodia Programme has found 10 endangered White-shouldered Ibis nests at the Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary in Ratanakkiri province. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ten-ibis-nests-found-ratanakkiri
Mondulkiri land registry system underway
A working group from the Ministry of Environment is inspecting over 10,000ha of land in Mondulkiri province after the provincial administration requested the ministry to create a registry system that would enable the occupants of the land to gain legal title to it. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-land-registry-system-underway
Rainfall relieves drought for Battambang farmers
Cambodia has met 82 percent of its expected 250,000 hectares of cultivated rice after rains have relieved the drought struck province of Battambang. 400 hectares is all that remains still at risk, a small section of the 10,000 rice growing hectares in the province. According ...
Bonus agreement in garment worker strike
Zhen Yong Garment Factory Co Ltd has agreed to some of the demands of about 400 workers who went on strike last week, including paying annual bonuses early next month Prum Veasna, deputy of the labor dispute department at the labor ministry, said yesterday that the ...
Thousands of civil servants access free healthcare
Nearly 10,000 civil servants and those who had retired from service were treated in hospital in the first six months of the year after healthcare insurance for these groups came into effect. The National Social Security Fund said it was registering with more state clinics and ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50514562/thousands-of-civil-servants-access-free-healthcare/
Sihanoukville tourism First half of 2018 sees 1.3M visitors
The Preah Sihanouk provincial Department of Tourism says Preah Sihanouk province received more than 1.3 million tourists during the first semester of this year. Of this, over one million were domestic tourists and 290,782 foreign, with Chinese accounting for 84,664 – up 10.12 per cent ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-tourism-first-half-2018-sees-13m-visitors
Angkor Gold exploring oil and gas potential in Cambodia
Cambodia-focused mineral exploration company Angkor Gold is actively pursuing oil and gas opportunities in Cambodia in addition to its current roster of mineral exploration projects. The Canadian-listed explorer has been in operation in the Asian nation since 2012, closing 10 deals with a combined value of US$19.50 million within ...
Georgia Williams
https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/energy-investing/oil-and-gas-investing/angkor-gold-exploring-potential-cambodia/
Capital fish farms to relocate
Owners of fish farms in Boeung Samrong lake located in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district have been ordered to leave by the municipal authority. The Phnom Penh authority on Monday issued a notice ordering the owners of fish farms in the lake to move within ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-fish-farms-relocate