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Cambodia faces ‘negative impacts’ if EBA suspended
The European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (EuroCham) expressed its “serious concerns” on Monday over the “long-term negative impacts” of the EU removing the Kingdom’s access to the preferential Everything But Arms (EBA} agreement. It also expressed “hope that a dialogue can be implemented to ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-faces-negative-impacts-if-eba-suspended
PM departs on European tour
Prime Minister Hun Sen has left for his European tour, which will include attending an Asia-Europe meeting organised by the EU. Departing at 12:20am, he will lead a delegation at the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, Belgium. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-departs-european-tour
Kratie authority bans gold mining operation
The Kratie provincial department of mines and energy warned on Tuesday of legal action against O’droun villagers who illegally dug gold mines in Sambor district’s Kbal Damrey commune. The warning came shortly after department director Sok Kirirath led a task force on a field visit ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-authority-bans-gold-mining-operation
EU reassures NGOs over timber trade with Vietnam
The European Union has quashed concerns of several Cambodia environmental NGOs over a trade deal on tropical timber with Vietnam, saying that the scheme is to promote legally harvested timber, EU Ambassador to Cambodia George Edgar said. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541199/eu-reassures-ngos-over-timber-trade-with-vietnam/
Boeng Prek Tup project opposed
The Cambodian Youth Party has requested the government reconsider the development of the Boeng Prek Tup lake area in Preah Sihanouk province. More than 16 hectares of Boeng Prek Tup lake was designated as a freshwater conservation area in 2016 by a government sub-decree. The ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541168/boeng-prek-tup-project-opposed/
Villagers again demand land resolution
Dozens of villagers representing 170 Prek Khsach community households in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district gathered at the Provincial Hall yesterday to petition authorities to speed up land dispute resolution involving two development companies. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541167/villagers-again-demand-land-resolution/
Government and FAO push for zero hunger
The government and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation have committed to eradicating hunger in Cambodia by 2030. The commitment was made yesterday at an event to mark World Food Day 2018 in Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541166/government-and-fao-push-for-zero-hunger/
Mondulkiri communities worried over forest clearing
Indigenous people in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district yesterday expressed concern over logging activities in the Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, which they claim is allowed by some commune authorities. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540804/mondulkiri-communities-worried-over-forest-clearing/
Ministry drafts directive to save Royal Turtles
The Agriculture Ministry’s Fisheries Administration is drafting a directive to turn more sections of the Sre Ambel river system into conservation zones for Royal Turtles following successes reported by the Wildlife Conservation Society and administration monitoring teams in existing zones. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540828/ministry-drafts-directive-to-save-royal-turtles/
Chinese imports are the salt of the Earth
Cambodia will ink an agreement with China next week to import 30,000 tonnes of salt by the end of November, said co-president of the Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community (KKSPC) Ly Sang. Sang told The Post on Monday that the KKSPC will receive Ministry of Industry ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-imports-are-salt-earth
Sam Rainsy, government group set to clash at IPU Geneva meet?
Opposition figure Sam Rainsy has been invited to speak at the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva, according to a former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker. A government delegation is also set to attend the meeting, a National Assembly press release ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-rainsy-government-group-set-clash-ipu-geneva-meet
James Ricketson fundraises for poor
Ricketson said after his release from prison in September that he started helping poor Cambodian scavengers many years ago and will resume again. He and three others started a fund-raising website “Family By Family”, hoping to initially raise $50,000. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/james-ricketson-fundraises-poor
Shortage of rangers leads to abundance of poachers
Rangers in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom National Park, local police officers, and residents, have found a hunting dog and two sacks filled with wild animals – mostly dead – after a search in Terk Laork village in Thmor Bang district’s Chi Phat commune. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shortage-rangers-leads-abundance-poachers
‘Positive impact’: Prey Lang forest app wins award
Danish researcher Ida Theilade has been bestowed the University of Copenhagen’s Innovation Award 2018 for inventing a smartphone app that can prevent illegal logging and preserve forest resources in the Prey Lang forest. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/positive-impact-prey-lang-forest-app-wins-award
Committee to relocate national park villagers
The Ministry of Environment and Siem Reap provincial administration have formed a joint committee to deliberate the relocation of 5,000 people from Kulen Mountain following deforestation in the tourist area. Ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra said on Sunday that the livelihood of the people affects the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/committee-relocate-national-park-villagers
Ministers to tackle sea pollutants
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities and members of local communities have collected 77 tonnes of water hyacinth at a Sihanoukville beach, Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall spokesperson Or Saroeun said. He told The Post yesterday that the aquatic weeds had been floating along some of the province’s ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministers-tackle-sea-pollutants
Officials inspect water services
Officials on Friday inspected clogged water treatment facilities in Preah Sihanouk province following complaints that Sihanoukville’s growing rubbish problem is affecting water services. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540411/officials-inspect-water-services/
Ministry addresses child labour
The Labour Ministry has reminded business owners not to employ minors, while also noting that it has not come across any cases of child labour so far this year. Labour Minister Ith Samheng on Friday said employers must respect and follow labour laws and directives ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540410/ministry-addresses-child-labour/
Good labour conditions should salvage EBA, experts say
Cambodia is not alone in looking to China for assistance in her economic development as other nations within the Asean sphere of influence and beyond is also looking at Beijing to provide global leadership to help steer their economic future. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540337/good-labour-conditions-should-salvage-eba-experts-say/
PM: Programme to recover Vietnam War missing back on
Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced the resumption of the MIA programme to recover the remains of American service personnel missing after action on Cambodian soil during the Vietnam War. The programme was suspended for more than a year after the US government imposed visa ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-programme-recover-vietnam-war-missing-back
Government urges end to wildlife trade
Interior Minister Sar Kheng said on Friday that the Kingdom had fallen victim to wildlife trafficking and called on relevant parties in Cambodia and beyond to help stop the crime. Speaking at the 4th Illegal Wildlife Trade conference attended by leaders from more than 80 ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-urges-end-wildlife-trade
EU timber deal in firing line
A committee of more than 20 national and international organisations filed a petition to the EU on October 10 to prevent it from signing a timber trade agreement with Vietnam, noting that the deal would be disastrous to the Kingdom’s forests. The petition claims Vietnamese ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-timber-deal-firing-line
PM wants more Japanese investment in Cambodia
Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the Mekong- Japan Business Forum in Tokyo on October 9, invited Japanese firms to visit Cambodia and convince themselves that it a worthy country for their investments. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540098/pm-wants-more-japanese-investment-in-cambodia/
Cambodia calls EU trade threat 'extreme injustice'
Cambodia’s foreign ministry on Thursday said a decision by the European Union to ramp up trade pressure on the country over human rights concerns was an “extreme injustice”, adding it risked destroying decades of development in the country. ...