Motor insurance slows to a crawl
Insurance providers sold far fewer motor vehicle and personal accident policies in 2013 than in the previous year, sparking concern among some in the industry that the importance of being covered in case of a road accident isn’t getting through to drivers. According to the General ...
May Kunmakara and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/motor-insurance-slows-crawl
Oversupply leads to a fall in pork prices
Pig prices in Cambodia have fallen by 18 percent in the past three months due to a massive oversupply of pork in the country, an official at the Cambodian Pig Raisers Association said yesterday. The reason for the oversupply is twofold: Thailand increased its pig exports ...
GMS gets closer to a food safety strategy
A draft five-year strategy for promoting safe and environment-friendly agriculture products in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) that would enhance regional food safety and promote trade is expected to be finalised today, according to the Asian Development Bank. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40334/gms-gets-closer-to-a-food-safety-strategy/
Agriculture firm fraud case draws to a close
Cambodian-American businessman Richer San, one of four men accused of defrauding a Phnom Penh dentist of $1 million, sat alone at the stand in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday as lawyers delivered their closing arguments. ...
Khuon Narim and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/agriculture-firm-fraud-case-draws-to-a-close-87323/
Confined To A Thai Fishing Boat, For Three Years
Cambodian Vannak Prum’s destiny changed in a dirt-road town called Malai. It’s a Cambodian outpost on the border with Thailand that is known for its involvement in the trafficking of human beings. Prum arrived in Malai seven years ago searching for work. His wife was pregnant, ...
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/19/155045295/confined-to-a-thai-fishing-boat-for-three-years
After 40 years, broadcaster brings cambodian story to a close
Greg Barron, an award-winning radio producer, was 32 when he reported the despair of Cambodian refugees fleeing across the Thai border to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide in late 1979. ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/after-forty-years-broadcaster-brings-cambodian-story-close/3808414.html
Cambodia, the next setting to a ‘Battle of the Rails’
As Australian operator Toll Royal Railways looks at a possible withdrawal from in Cambodia, a new China-backed company tries to take over and promise to rehabilitate more tracks including Phnom Penh-Saigon Toll Royal Railway won in 2010 a concession to operate and upgrade the Cambodian rail ...
http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/50249/cambodia-the-next-setting-to
Cambodia has boosted the “Belt and Road” to a new high
In August 2014, China Wind Global Investment Group Co., Ltd. officially landed in Cambodia and opened another new voyage of its “Belt and Road”. It is reported that “China Wind Global Investment Group” was established in August 2013 and was established after Chinese President Xi ...
Khmer Times
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50531942/cambodia-has-boosted-the-belt-and-road-to-a-new-high/
Cambodia's 'Elephant Valley' brings new hope to a last precious rainforest
An initiative to re-home abused, over-worked domestic elephants is supporting the conservation of one of Cambodia’s last and most species-rich rainforests, writes William Laurance. Growing ecotourism in the area, attracted by the elephants, is engaging indigenous communities in forest protection and helping to stave off ...
William Laurance
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2985902/cambodias_elephant_valley_brings_new_hope_to_a_last_precious_rainforest.html
Farmers of cassava afraid of losing out to a lack of rainfall
The price for cassava plants is increasing in the Kingdom’s north-western provinces, where the new season started. Due to the lack of rain many were damaged, according to farmers and officials. Sreng Sreang, deputy director of the Pailin longan collective, which planted about five hectares of ...
Press release related to a news article on "Ethnic cultural centre in land dispute"
On 6 March 2019, the Ministry of Mines and Energy published an press release on a news article of Phnom Penh Post on “Ethnic cultural centre in land dispute” which posted on page 8, released on Wednesday, 06 March 2019. In the news article, quoted ...
Ministry of Mines and Energy
Cambodia and China pledge to enhance bilateral friendship to a much higher level
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has reaffirmed the Kingdom’s commitment to enhance more cooperation, especially the iron-clad friendship with China. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50933962/cambodia-and-china-pledge-to-enhance-bilateral-friendship-to-a-much-higher-level/
Water security in the Mekong and ASEAN key to a safe and sustainable future
The inaugural ASEAN-MRC Water Security Dialogue held last week has tabled three thematic solutions related to policy, technology, and partnership that can help countries in the Mekong and broader ASEAN address existential water security challenges that confront the region. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922336/water-security-in-the-mekong-and-asean-key-to-a-safe-and-sustainable-future/
Salt off to a shaky start as weather disappoints
Less-than-ideal rainfall patterns in January and early February have kept salt production in Kampot province at a pretty low level this season, or below two kilotonnes by some approximations, whereas an estimated 70-100 kilotonnes per annum are required to meet domestic consumption demand. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/salt-shaky-start-weather-disappoints
Bringing Cambodia-Australia ties to a higher level, 70 years on
This year, Cambodia and Australia celebrated the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. Ties were first established in 1952, a year before Cambodia attained its independence from the French. Over the decades, the two countries in the Indo-Pacific have proven to be great cooperative partners ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501035548/bringing-cambodia-australia-ties-to-a-higher-level-70-years-on/
From an engineer to a leading woman in the field of open data
On behalf of Open Development Cambodia’s management team, we are excited to announce the promotion of Vatana to Research and Web Content Manager. She has been proactively working for ODC since 2016 in the position of Editor-Researcher and Research and Content Officer. ...
Government cuts 67 hectares of Boeung Ta Mok to a director of a real estate company
The government, through a sub-decree, cut off 67 hectares of Boeung Ta Mok in Phnom Penh to a businessman who have ties to Prim Minister Hun Sen’s daughter. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.vodkhmer.news/2022/10/18/orkide-director-gets-67-hectares-on-boeng-tamok/
PM outlines plans to increase education to a full day in 50 primary schools
Authorities have revealed plans to increase primary education from half a day to a full day in 50 schools to increase the level of learning, with calls being made for teachers’ pay to be increased in accordance with the additional time spent teaching. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/pm-outlines-plans-to-increase-education-to-a-full-day-in-50-primary-schools
Press release responses to a news article posted by the VOD last Friday
On 14 December 2020, the General Department of Agriculture released a press release responding to the VOD’s news article posted on 11 December 2020, entitled “Vegetables left to spoil on Kandal farms as farmers can’t find buyers“. According to the announcement, the Agricultural General Department ...
General Department of Agriculture
Cambodia to study upgrade of existing railway to a high-speed railway from Poipet-Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville
Prime Minister Hun Sen , Head of the Royal Government has instructed the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to study the feasibility of improving the existing railway system in Cambodia into a high-speed railway. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501065341/cambodia-to-study-upgrade-of-existing-railway-to-a-high-speed-railway-from-poipet-phnom-penh-sihanoukville/