Cambodian flood destroys 4.4 pct of rice paddies this year: official
Recent Mekong River flash floods have entirely damaged 113,260 hectares of rice paddies, or 4.4 percent of the total rice-planted area of 2.56 million hectares, according to an agricultural report Tuesday. “The floods had affected 369,346 hectares of rice paddies. Of the figures, 113,260 hectares ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/29/c_132840685.htm
Cambodia's rubber export surges 46 pct in 10 months
Cambodia has seen a 46 percent rise in dry rubber export in the first ten months of 2013 thanks to rising global demand, said the report of the Commerce Ministry on Friday. The country exported 62,915 tons of dry rubber during the January-October period this year, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-11/08/c_132870615.htm
Putting parking reform in gear
With civil society, the opposition and even the ruling party talking more and more about the subject of electoral and judicial reforms in the wake of July’s contested national elections, some groups yesterday gathered to call for reforms in a more modest sector – parking ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/putting-parking-reform-gear
China provides agricultural engines to Cambodia for post-flood rehabilitation
China’s Yunnan province on Monday provided 200 agricultural engines to Cambodia’s northwestern Banteay Meanchey province for post-flood rehabilitation. A handover ceremony was held here between Yu Dingcheng, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People ‘s Congress, and Oung Oeun, chief of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-12/02/c_132935559.htm
School resources for disabled scarce
Kimseang spent much of his childhood enduring harassment and verbal abuse, with teachers and other children dismissing him because of a visual and physical impairment. While the kingdom has seen overall access to education improve from a 69 per cent net enrollment rate in 1991 ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/school-resources-disabled-scarce
Bribes on rise for test takers
More than half a million dollars in bribes were paid to teachers during last month’s national exams by high school students in Phnom Penh alone, the authors of a new study have found. The study, conducted by the Youth Resource Development Program, found that the average ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bribes-rise-test-takers
Rainsy says CNRP doesn’t recognize newly-formed government
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday said that the CNRP doesn’t recognize the newly-formed government of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Speaking at a news conference, he urged all international communities and countries of the Paris Peace Agreement to condemn “this ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NDAyMDdiZDljZDY#sthash.hG32ZEwp.dpuf
Sharp drop in dengue deaths
Dengue-related deaths have dropped 71 per cent during the first nine months of this year when compared to the same period last year, according to officials at the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control. While 157 died because of dengue in 2012, only 45 ...
Mom Kunthear and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sharp-drop-dengue-deaths
First mango export factory planned
Mong Reththy Group is co-investing $2 million to build a factory in Preah Sihanouk province for the packaging and export of Cambodian mangoes, the first company to formally ship the fruit overseas. Located in Koe Phos commune, the factory will cover 12 hectares of land and ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/first-mango-export-factory-planned
Japanese Government Awards Chea Sim Order of the Rising Sun
CPP and Senate President Chea Sim was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government on Sunday in recognition of his contributions to the strengthening of relations between the two countries. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Mr. Sim, ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japanese-government-awards-chea-sim-order-of-the-rising-sun-46601/
River-widening project to displace 600 families
More than 600 families living along the Siem Reap riverside are to be relocated at the beginning of next year by the government, a top provincial official said yesterday. The families will be evicted as part of a provincial government plan to widen the river to ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/river-widening-project-displace-600-families
Final mission for volunteers
In their final deployment as part of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s national land-titling program, 55 student youth volunteers will be sent to measure 50,000 hectares of land following a nearly six-month moratorium on the program. The deployment was officially launched at a ceremony in Kandal province ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/final-mission-volunteers
China provides mine clearance training to Cambodian soldiers
A team of 12 Chinese military experts on Thursday started offering a six-week mine clearance course to 52 Cambodian peacekeeping force. The training is being held at the Institute for Peacekeeping Forces, Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance. According to the Cambodian Mine Action Authority, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131205/china-provides-mine-clearance-training-cambodian-soldiers
Sacred artefacts go missing
Kandal provincial authorities and officials from multiple ministries are investigating the apparent theft of historical artefacts from a stupa at Oudong Mountain said to contain some remains of Buddha himself. Relevant authorities were tight-lipped yesterday about which objects were missing, but a local news outlet reported ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sacred-artefacts-go-missing
City faces gigantic 45-storey change
Phnom Penh will be a changed city and more attractive when twin 45-storey condominium towers are completed in the coming three or four years, developers say. Sung Bonna, director of Bonna Realty Group, said Singaporean outfit The Bridge Company, would start constructing the twin skyscraper buildings ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/city-faces-gigantic-45-storey-change
‘Blocked’ monks block road
More than 80 monks and activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day blocked National Road 5 in Kampong Chhnang town yesterday evening after local authorities allegedly pressured a pagoda to deny them permission to rest there. Independent Monks Network head But Buntenh claimed ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98blocked%E2%80%99-monks-block-road
(English) Cambodian PM encourages local businesses to invest in his country
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Saigon GP Daily
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/National/2013/12/107495/
គម្រោង$១៥០លានចាប់ផ្តើមឆាប់ៗ
គម្រោងសាងសង់អគារតាមបែបទីក្រុងប៉ារីស តម្លៃ$១៥០លាននៅកោះពេជ្រនឹងត្រូវបានចាប់ផ្ដើមនៅក្នុងរយៈពេលប៉ុន្មានខែខាងមុខនេះ។ គម្រោងសាងសង់អាផាតមិននេះនឹងត្រូវប្រើរយៈពេល៤ឆ្នាំ ដែលសាងសង់លើផ្ទៃដី ៧០ ...
Eddie Morton
http://postkhmer.com/index.php/business/business/109132-2014-01-13-04-18-53
(English) Digital Divide staff back on job
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Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/digital-divide-staff-back-job
(English) CPP Government Establishes Electoral Reform Commission
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Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-government-establishes-electoral-reform-commission-50972/