Cambodia’s salt output down 15% this season
Climate change was named as the reason for Cambodian salt production this year declining about 15 per cent, experts said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
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S. Korea, Cambodia Agree On Sharing Military Supplies
South Korea and Cambodia have agreed to Share military SupplieS in peacekeeping and reScue operationS aS part of effortS to expand military tieS between the two SideS, the defenSe miniStry here Said TueSday. Lee Seon-chul, the head of the South Korean defenSe miniStry&rSquo;S logiSticS managment bureau, SS='cambodia-color'>...
S'ville Families Get New Court Eviction Order
More than 100 families who had their evictions delayed on Thursday in observance of a nationally broadcast speech by Prime Minister Hun sen have once again been ordered to move out, according to local officials. Provincial governor sboang sarath said yesterday that the provincial court had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnamese Firm’s Land Concession Could be Canceled
The Ministry of Agriculture will ask Prime Minister Hun sen to cancel a 4,900-hectare economic land concession belonging to a Vietnamese rubber company in Ratanakkiri province on the grounds that the firm has been illegally logging on a large scale, officials said yesterday. According to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Borei Keila evictees look to UN’s Subedi
Borei Keila evictees who have spent months sleeping under staircases and near rubbish dumps delivered a petition to UN special Rapporteur suya subedi yesterday as their quest to be housed again at Borei Keila continued. ss='cambodia-color'>...
First Forest Patrol Since Activist’s Death Set
Members of the Prey Long Forest Network yesterday said they are planning to hold a citizens’ patrol to look for evidence of illegal logging in Kompong Thom province this weekend. The patrol would be the first such patrol in the country since the April 26 murder ss='cambodia-color'>...
Final Witness Questioned Over Chut Wutty’s Death
The Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday questioned the seventh and final witness to the April 26 shooting death of well-known environmental activist Chut Wutty by provincial military police officer In Ratana, court officials said. srey Makny, the court’s deputy prosecutor, said witness Bou An was questioned ss='cambodia-color'>...
Brewery answers PM’s call for product exports
Khmer Brewery (KB), a locally owned company that produces Cambodia Beer, has made its first export to Japan, partly in response to Prime Minister Hun sen’s call in mid-May for local food and beverage producers to push their products abroad. KB public-relations manager sok Chantha said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia’s Economic Growth Will Help Poverty Reduction
Cambodia economic growth was 7.3 percent in 2012. Agriculture grew by 4.3 percent, crops by 4.9 percent, fisheries by 6.7 percent, industry by 9.2 percent, garment [sector] by 6.9 percent and the service industry by 8.1 percent, said Dr Hang Chuon Naron, secretary of state ss='cambodia-color'>...
U.S. imports large volume of organic rice
An unusual report shows that organic rice buyers in the U.s. are getting a large percentage of their rice from Cambodia. The Cambodian Center for study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) exported 114 tonnes of organic jasmine rice to the U.s. in the first quarter of ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Students Protest At UN Envoy’s University Lecture
U.N. human rights envoy surya subedi on Tuesday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banners calling for him to end his work in Cambodia. special rapporteur subedi delivered a lecture to about ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-protest-at-un-envoys-university-lecture-25855/
U.S. seeks to cut aid to Cambodia
Lawmakers in the U.s. and human rights activists are pushing for cuts of more than $70 million in aid to Cambodia if Prime Minister Hun sen wins the July 28 elections. Many factors have pushed the U.s. to this point be it unfair and unjust, such ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Rice exports already surpass last year’s total
Cambodia exported about 31,000 tonnes of rice in July, a 40 per cent seasonal increase from the average of 22,000 tonnes for first five months of this year. Official data show that Cambodia exported 207,000 tonnes from January through July, an amount surpassing the 205,000 tonnes ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-exports-already-surpass-last-year%E2%80%99s-total
R’kiri minorities say land’s sale improper
Fifty Tampuon ethnic minority families protested yesterday in front of the soeung Commune Hall in Bakeo district against their commune chief, who they allege sold land that belonged to the Ratanakkiri community. In a complaint filed to rights group Adhoc yesterday, the families claim that commune ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031962012/National/r-kiri-minorities-say-land-s-sale-improper.html
Land Case Involving Minister’s Wife Is Heard
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of a land dispute between a 70-year old woman from Kompong Chhang province and a company owned by the wife of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy over a 3,000 square meter parcel of land. In May ss='cambodia-color'>...
World’s Second Tallest Building for Phnom Penh?
A 555-metre tower planned for Diamond Island is to go ahead, and expert engineers from China and Vietnam are studying the river bank and calculating the strength of the foundations needed to support the building. The building plan will not be changed and now the company ss='cambodia-color'>...
Porsche seeks niche among Cambodia’s newly-rich
The wizened cyclo driver, cigarette in mouth, muscles taut from pedalling up and down French-style boulevards, is one of Indochina’s enduring romantic images. But cyclos on the streets of Phnom Penh are now outnumbered by another means of transport: the luxury car. But with the urban ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Illegal Logging Threatens UN’s Carbon Trading Project
The military’s ongoing clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey province risks derailing Cambodia’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme backed by the U.N., according to the latest assessment of the project. Community forest groups, who stand to earn millions from the project, said on Wednesday that ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-logging-threatens-uns-carbon-trading-project-21395/
Cambodia’s students to get schooled in tourism
Young Cambodians will now learn about tourism in grades 11 and 12, according to the new curriculum for public education that was launched yesterday. The development is aimed at enhancing quality in the tourism sector, officials said during a press conference. The new curriculum covers the ss='cambodia-color'>...