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Kingdom’s economy set to slow despite robust growth
The Cambodian economy is projected to slow slightly this year compared to last year, despite robust growth of around seven per cent, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on Wednesday said. ADB said economic expansion last year hit 7.3 per cent on the back ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-economy-set-slow-despite-robust-growth
Chroy Changvar bridge is reopened
The Cambodia-Japan Friendship Bridge – also known as Chroy Changvar Bridge I – was reopened at a cost of $30 million on Wednesday morning, after being closed for more than a year for repairs and renovations. The reopening ceremony was held on Wednesday and presided ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-bridge-reopened
Government notes 25 UN UPR rights recommendations as political
The government on Tuesday said it had “noted” 25 recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), saying they were part of a political agenda and linked to the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). It accepted the other 173 recommendations ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-notes-25-un-upr-rights-recommendations-political
Save The Children launches EU-funded welfare project
Save the Children launched an EU-funded project on Wednesday – Responsive and Effective Child Welfare Systems Transformation (React) – which aims to ensure proper legal protection and quality services for children, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s diplomatic service said. The launch of ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/save-children-launches-eu-funded-welfare-project
Minsitry calls for more vigilance during storms
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology called on Wednesday for increased vigilance as Cambodia continues to be in a trough of low atmospheric pressure while facing high pressure from Thailand, leading to dry season rains, sudden strong winds and lightning strikes. The ministry’s notice ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minsitry-calls-more-vigilance-during-storms
Siem Reap authorities research ways to clean town’s main river
Siem Reap town’s civil society organisations and citizens have criticised the release of wastewater from guesthouses, hotels and restaurants into Siem Reap River, which has contaminated its water. Authorities are looking into measures to improve the main river of the Kingdom’s principal historic tourism city. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-authorities-research-ways-clean-towns-main-river
Lorry with illegal wood confiscated
A lorry discovered to be secretly transporting illegally logged wood on Monday was impounded by Kampong Thom provincial authorities, with the vehicle’s driver now in hiding, according to a provincial forestry administration official. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lorry-illegal-wood-confiscated
CMAC destroys 9,400 mines, UXO
Experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) have cleared mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) from 25sqm of farmland and land set to be designated as economic zones in the first three months of this year, CMAC director Heng Ratana said on Monday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-destroys-9400-mines-uxo
Cambodians arrested in Thailand over logging
A dozen Cambodian migrant workers suspected of cutting down trees in a Thai protected forest were arrested on Sunday by military police at a rubber plantation in Thailand’s Nakhon Reachasima province. According to a report by the Bangkok Post, Thai military police conducted a raid ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50592318/cambodians-arrested-in-thailand-over-logging/
PM: Beware of thunderstorms
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on people to be careful in thunderstorms, which have so far this year killed at least three people and destroyed scores of homes, with more predicted in April and May. The prime minister also ordered the Cambodian Red Cross ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-beware-thunderstorms
Preah Sihanouk authorities warn land grabbers of legal action
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities have announced they would not recognise the more than 200 families who had illegally built makeshift huts and planted boundary markers on state and private land at Rithy II village in Stung Hav district’s Keo Phos commune. Stung Hav district governor ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-authorities-warn-land-grabbers-legal-action
Government to drop VAT on agricultural exports
Local firms will no longer be charged value-added tax (VAT) on exports of agricultural goods, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Friday. The premier said dropping VAT charges on exports of agricultural products – including milled rice, corn, cassava, and pepper – will enhance the competitiveness ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50591970/government-to-drop-vat-on-agricultural-exports/
Kampot water plant online soon
After three years, a Japanese-funded water treatment facility in Kampot province is set to begin operations after being expanded through a grant worth $26 million. The grant for the expansion was given by the Japanese government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency to expand the ...
Khmer Times
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50592097/kampot-water-plant-online-soon/
Dolphin calf found dead in Stung Treng
With no immediate cause ascertained for the death of an Irrawaddy dolphin calf in the Mekong River in Stung Treng province, conservationists on Sunday requested the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) to investigate further. The dolphin was found floating on the river on Saturday in ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dolphin-calf-found-dead-stung-treng
Angkor Wat moat drying ‘could affect foundations’
A historian has raised fears that the drought currently gripping Cambodia could affect the foundations of the Kingdom’s globally renowned Angkor Wat, while the temple complex’s Apsara Authority management has said that, while it was prepared, it was not expecting such a problem. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/angkor-wat-moat-drying-could-affect-foundations
Missing land activist found
A land activist involved in a dispute who disappeared in January reunited with his wife in Phnom Penh on Friday. Sum Meun disappeared in Oddar Meanchey province on January 20, with Human Rights Watch (HRW) calling on the government to reveal his whereabouts, while a ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/missing-land-activist-found
KrisEnergy set to draw first drop of oil this year
Singapore-based firm KrisEnergy Ltd, which operates Cambodia’s offshore Block A, claims it will be able to meet its schedule to extract its first drop of oil late this year. The firm has actively prepared all necessary facilities for the production, Ministry of Mines and Energy ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-set-draw-first-drop-oil-year
Gov’t, WFP ink $50M strategic plan
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a $50 million aid plan aimed to reduce food security and nutrition. The Cambodia Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023 was approved by the WFP council on February 27 in Italy. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-wfp-ink-50m-strategic-plan
Sihanoukville authorities close canal to transfer flow of polluted water
Local authorities on Tuesday decided to close a canal at Sihanoukville’s Sokha Beach following the completion of four facilities in Preah Sihanouk province designed to treat wastewater before it reaches the sea. Four more facilities are still under construction. The first four water treatment plants, ...
Ethnic land row forum created
The provincial government on Tuesday ordered the creation of a forum in a bid to find a resolution in the 10-year land dispute between 12 ethnic minority communities in Ratanakkiri province and Vietnamese agribusiness giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) over 20 ancestral “spirit mountains”. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-land-row-forum-created
Kuoy villagers in court over alleged seizure of bulldozers
Four ethnic Kuoy villagers appeared in Preah Vihear provincial court on Wednesday for allegedly seizing two bulldozers from a Chinese-owned company in a December 2014 dispute that saw a group of locals attempt to prevent the firm from clearing their rice fields. The four were ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kuoy-villagers-court-over-alleged-seizure-bulldozers
Japan’s grants aim to ease Phnom Penh’s traffic woes
Workers are putting the finishing touches to the capital’s Chroy Changvar Bridge before its official reopening on April 4, in time for Khmer New Year. The bridge has been under renovation since October 2017, thanks to a $30 million grant aid issued by the Japanese ...
Husain Haider
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japans-grants-aim-ease-phnom-penhs-traffic-woes
‘Factories, fossil fuels mostly to blame for climate change’
Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra on Wednesday blamed climate change and global warming on greenhouse gas emissions from heavy industrial factories and the burning of fossil fuels in developed countries. He said deforestation is only a small contributing factor. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factories-fossil-fuels-mostly-blame-climate-change
Vietnamese held over illegal fishing in Pursat
Police on Saturday detained 19 Vietnamese including two women in Pursat province for fishing with illegal equipment in a protected area in Koh Ka Ek Village in Kandieng district’s Raingtoel commune. The General Commissariat of the National Police said on Monday that the authorities also ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnamese-held-over-illegal-fishing-pursat