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China leader lays praise on Kingdom
Marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Hua Chunying, spokesman for China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, said: “Although Cambodia is a small country, it showed its strong will in resisting pressure and other political influences.” ...
Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-leader-lays-praise-kingdom
CMAC unveils new demining project
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) on Friday incorporated more than 250 retired and disabled officers and staff into the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). It also announced a 10-year (2016-2025) demining project that requires around $100 million in funds for the first five years. ...
HongTholly Sonit and Oung Dane
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-unveils-new-demining-project
Alcoholic beverages banned before and on national elections day
The Ministry of Tourism has directed restaurants, canteens, KTVs, discos, bars and beer gardens not to sell alcoholic beverages on July 28-29, in conjunction with the national elections. If such business owners sell alcohol on the specified days, they face having their operating licenses suspended ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alcoholic-beverages-banned-and-national-elections-day
Inflow of FDI up in first half
The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Cambodia witnessed solid growth in the first half of this year due to strong funds flowing into the financial and real estate sectors, said a central bank report. It said this was despite the agriculture and garment ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/inflow-fdi-first-half
Corn harvest begins in northeast amid price dip
Corn harvest season has begun in the Kingdom, but farmers in the northwest are facing a price decline, and hinting they may seek markets in neighbouring Thailand for their crops. Prior to the harvest, provincial authorities reported corn prices at around 630 riel per kilogram ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/corn-harvest-begins-northeast-amid-price-dip
Trapping contributes to tiger decline
The World Wide Fund for Nature in Cambodia has urged the government to crack down on wildlife trapping, trafficking and illegal logging to conserve wildlife and natural resources. Tigers especially had been seriously threatened by hunting and trapping. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50514520/trapping-contributes-to-tiger-decline/
Global Witness calls on the US to sanction tycoons
Global Witness has called on the United States to impose sanctions against four Cambodian tycoons for their alleged roles in the demise of Cambodian democracy and for human rights abuses. Its allegations, in a report on Friday, were brushed off by a ruling CPP spokesman ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50514516/global-witness-calls-on-the-us-to-sanction-tycoons/
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/
Friends with benefits
For a more than 25 years, the West has helped rebuild Cambodia as it recovered from the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The United States and Europe sent billions of dollars in aid to help transform Cambodia into a liberal democracy, an effort that has largely failed. ...
Neou Vannarin
https://projects.voanews.com/cambodia-election-2018/english/feature/chinese-influence.html
GDP stays in election race
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has turned back from its earlier warning that it could withdraw from participating in the July 29 national elections, it announced on Sunday. The party said it made the decision as the atmosphere of resistance from the Kingdom’s authorities had ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-stays-election-race
Authorities in Ratanakkiri find stash of 160 pieces of timber
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on Saturday commandeered 160 pieces of first-grade timber they stumbled upon. They believe the timber was a collected stash that illegal loggers had hidden in the forest as they waited for rain to cease before transporting it out, said ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-ratanakkiri-find-stash-160-pieces-timber
Government rips into WWF report
The Ministry of Agriculture’s Forestry Administration spokesman Keo Omaliss hit back on Thursday at a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report that claims the Greater Mekong will lose 30 percent of its forests by 2030 without drastic action. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-rips-wwf-report
Report shows skills gap as companies struggle to find competent candidates to fill key positions
As if highlighting the lack of work skills and experience in the Kingdom, of more than 1,000 job openings in Phnom Penh alone as of last month, only 150 young applicants were successful at the interview stage. Phnom Penh Job Center director Aing Pheareak told ...
Acleda looking to go public
Twenty-five percent of Acleda Bank’s shares will soon be available for trading as stakeholder ASA Plc announced late Wednesday, its plan to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX). Acleda Securities Plc president and CEO Prom Visoth noted that the move could potentially double the ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-looking-go-public
The Japan-China rivalry is playing out in Cambodia's election
Cambodia’s general election on July 29 has become a proxy theater for competition between China and Japan as the two vie for influence in the Southeast Asian state. ...
Nyshka Chandran
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/japan-and-china-compete-for-influence-incambodia.html
Preah Vihear families agree to end land dispute
More than 100 families in Preah Vihear province have accepted a resolution from provincial authorities after about eight years of protests over a land dispute with authorities and a CPP lawmaker. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50513992/preah-vihear-families-agree-to-end-land-dispute/
What lies ahead for Cambodia after its next election?
Cambodia’s upcoming general election on 29 July looks set to be its most controversial since its first national election in 1993. In late 2017, the main opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was dissolved and 118 of its senior members were banned from ...
Chheang Vannarith
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/07/20/what-lies-ahead-for-cambodia-after-its-next-election/
Veasna hits out at CPP, CNRP
The leader of the League for Democracy Party (LDP) on Thursday used a press conference to hit out at the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) for “vote buying” and the court-dissolved opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) for having “no morals or vision”. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/veasna-hits-out-cpp-cnrp
Chinese Ambassador: EU Should Not Mix Politics,Trade in Cambodia
China’s Ambassador in Phnom Penh says the European Union should not mix politics with trade as it mulls withdrawing Cambodia’s vital preferential single market access in response to the country’s autocratic backslide. ...
David Boyle
https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-ambassador-eu-should-not-mix-politics-trade-in-cambodia/4489291.html
Activists claim logging rampant before polls
At least 66 resin trees in the Prey Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province’s Tbeng Meanchey district, have been felled so far this month, according to environmental activists. They say deforestation continues to grow unabated, as authorities suspended or cut the number of ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-claim-logging-rampant-polls
Salt body to import 30k tonnes from Thailand, China
The Kingdom will import 30,000 tonnes of salt to meet domestic demand as stockpiles are expected to empty by November, a leader from the Salt Producers Community of Kampot-Kep said. Citing the impact heavy rains have had on the industry, co-executive director of the body, ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/salt-body-import-30k-tonnes-thailand-china
Local officials urged to work with everyone regardless of politics, religion
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Wednesday instructed police officials and local authorities to serve the people without considering political affiliations or religion. In the handover ceremony of 1,646 motorbikes to police stations nationwide, Kheng told police officials that they must serve the people regardless ...
HRW to EU: End migrant abuse
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the European Union (EU) to renew efforts to eliminate forced labour and other abusive treatment within the Thai fishing industry, noting that a large number of workers were from Cambodia and Myanmar. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hrw-eu-end-migrant-abuse
Serious flooding across country
The Kampong Speu provincial Committee for Disaster Management on Wednesday issued an alert after non-stop heavy rain caused widespread flooding. In Koh Kong province, authorities are working with the disaster committee and the Cambodian Red Cross to assist those affected after more than 350 homes ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/serious-flooding-across-country