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Cambodia-China tourism forum held in Phnom Penh

The first high-level Cambodia-China Tourism Forum was held here on Thursday, aiming at exploring opportunities to further promote tourism ties between the two countries. ...

Liang yu
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/18/c_137187142.htm

Study says China-backed dam in Cambodia would destroy Mekong

A Chinese-backed plan for Cambodia to build the Mekong River’s biggest dam would destroy fisheries that feed millions and worsen tensions with Vietnam, the downstream country with most to lose from dams on the waterway, according to a three-year study commissioned by the Cambodian government. ...

Stephen Wright
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/study-says-china-backed-dam-in-cambodia-would-destroy-mekong/2018/05/17/c9b55aaa-5a32-11e8-9889-07bcc1327f4b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.852ea09f02bc

GMAC says new labour policy could hurt business

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia yesterday issued a statement asking for the Labour Ministry to reconsider its intent to amend article 89 concerning worker protection and severance pay. ...

Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50491048/gmac-says-new-labour-policy-could-hurt-business/

Exports to US up 25 pct in Q1

Cambodian exports to the United States, the world’s largest economy, rose sharply during the first three months of the year following a marked increase in the shipments of travel goods after the US renewed its Generalized System of Preferences in March. ...

May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490954/exports-to-us-up-25-pct-in-q1/

Digitalization affects us all - ODC attends conference hosted by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

“When I first arrived in Cambodia, I was impressed of the digitization process here,” Dr. Daniel Schmücking remembers his first days in Phnom Penh, and continues: “I thought ‘how can I survive here?’ but then someone told me about PassApp.” The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) ...

Villagers locked in land dispute dispersed by the authorities

About 100 security personnel were deployed yesterday to evict 600 residents who have been occupying Wat Chas pagoda in Chroy Changva district after they refused to retreat pending a Land Management Ministry decision on a petition to solve land disputes in three provinces. ...

Pech Sotheary and Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490636/villagers-locked-in-land-dispute-dispersed-by-the-authorities/

Hundreds of villagers demand their land

More than 100 Koh Kong province villagers returned to the Land Management Ministry office in Phnom Penh demanding that the authorities speed up the distribution process of three hectares of land owed to each family as compensation in two districts after authorities declared it had ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490635/hundreds-of-villagers-demand-their-land/

Workshop pair linked to illegal timber

The owner of a timber handicraft workshop and one of his workers were arrested yesterday for allegedly handling illegal luxury wood. Eam Bunly, 45, owner of the workshop in Spean Meanchey commune in Mondulkiri province, and Doeun Sokhim, 35, were detained by Sen Monorom city ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490570/workshop-pair-linked-to-illegal-timber/

Asean water platform (AWP) 6th – 14th July 2018 at Can Tho University, Vietnam

The goal of the annual ASEAN Water Platform (AWP) is to build capacity in research on water natural resource management (WNRM) within the partner countries’ institutions. The purpose of AWP is to gather together researchers with different backgrounds in order to have an exchange of ...

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Agricultural mapping project to be expanded nationwide

With agricultural mapping still in its infancy in the Kingdom, authorities have announced that their programme to boost yields through the use of spatial information technology will be extended to the whole country, an endeavour that will take at least three years to complete. ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50489460/agricultural-mapping-project-to-be-expanded-nationwide/

Fishing season ends with ministry warning

The Agriculture Ministry has warned against the use of illegal fishing equipment during the closed fishing season which begins next month. Eng Cheasan, chief of the fisheries administration at the ministry, said yesterday that the fishing season for 2018 would close for five months from ...

Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490231/fishing-season-ends-with-ministry-warning/

Salt producers told to add iodine or risk losing licence

Salt producers must now add iodine to their product or face losing their business licence after the government passed a Prakas banning sales of non-iodised salt. The move aims to tackle iodine deficiency, which is considered the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490141/salt-producers-told-to-add-iodine-or-risk-losing-licence/

Chinese lab promises help for Cambodia’s agriculture sector

A Chinese laboratory pledged this week to aid the development of Cambodia’s agricultural sector by sharing expertise, technology and human resources. Representatives of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Centre, located in China’s southern province of Hunan, made the pledge on Sunday during an official visit ...

Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490139/chinese-lab-promises-help-for-cambodias-agriculture-sector/

Floods destroy ‘over 2,300 hectares’ of paddy fields

Mongkul Borey district authorities in Banteay Meanchey province told The Post on Monday that more than 2,300 hectares of paddy fields have been completely destroyed due to flooding, while a further 2,200 hectares face damage in the coming days if heavy rain continues. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/floods-destroy-over-2300-hectares-paddy-fields

Cambodia PM hopes Trump meeting can bring peace to Korean peninsula

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said he hoped that the forthcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would bring peace to the region. ...

Neou Vannarin
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodia-pm-hopes-trump-meeting-can-bring-peace-to-korean-peninsula/4394820.html

Rights groups, former opposition concerned by sale of independent newspaper to investor linked to PM

Human rights groups and former opposition officials have expressed concerns over the impact of the recent sale of the Phnom Penh Post newspaper to a Malaysian investor with historical ties to Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...

Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/rights-groups-former-opposition-concerned-by-sale-of-independent-newspaper-to-investor-linked-to-pm/4386500.html

Japonica rice ready for farming

Officially called ‘oryza sativa japonica’, the rice variety will be planted in 200,000 hectares around the country, and will be shipped primarily to China, where it is very popular, Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon said Monday. ...

Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487612/japonica-rice-ready-for-farming/

Keo romeat mango to get standard

The government will issue a standard for the type of mango known as ‘keo romeat’, a move that seeks to bolster sales abroad as well as consumer trust on the product, a high-ranking official revealed yesterday. ​​​ ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487613/keo-romeat-mango-to-get-standard/

More than 100 villagers return home after methanol poisoning

More than half of the villagers who fell ill after drinking contaminated water or methanol-laced rice wine in Kratie province’s Chetr Borei district last week have returned home after receiving treatment. ...

Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487671/more-than-100-villagers-return-home-after-methanol-poisoning/

Four villagers charged, while two freed in land clearing case

Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Sunday charged four out of six villagers over the clearing of land in Stung Hav district, a rights worker said yesterday. Cheap Sotheary, Adhoc’s provincial coordinator, said military police officers arrested six people who were on disputed land owned by ...

Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487673/four-villagers-charged-while-two-freed-in-land-clearing-case/

Government preparing to give villagers land

The Preah Sihanouk provincial department of land management is preparing to allocate 964.64 hectares of land to villagers in Kampong Seila district. According to a sub-decree dated March 12 and published in the Royal Gazette earlier this year, the government decided to designate 932 hectares ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487735/government-preparing-to-give-villagers-land/

All factories need infirmaries by year’s end

The Labour Ministry has announced that all factories across the country must have their own infirmary completed by the end of this year, noting that 88 percent of factories having built infirmaries already. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487734/all-factories-need-infirmaries-by-years-end/

Tax cuts promised for SMEs that register with GDT

In order to bring more businesses into the regulatory fold, the government has promised attractive new incentives for companies that register before December, including a two-year break on tax revenue. ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487285/tax-cuts-promised-for-smes-that-register-with-gdt/

Hun Sen presses local officials to ‘facilitate’ the poll process

Prime Minister Hun Sen, in a speech on Monday, ordered officials to “facilitate” the campaign process for all political parties, including the opposition, a seeming about-face, as they had recently reported being hindered and harassed. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-presses-local-officials-facilitate-poll-process

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