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Displaced From Angkor: Desolate Land, Uncertain Futures Await Residents
Locals who spoke with VOD said they wouldn’t defy the government order to move. But while some found consolation in official promises that displaced villagers would be given land in a rural area outside the park in Run Ta Ek commune, none had a clear ...
Andrew Haffner and Phin Rathana
https://vodenglish.news/displaced-from-angkor-desolate-land-uncertain-futures-await-residents/
Close ties with China provide enormous benefits to Cambodia’s development, students say
For Veng Bunheang, a 31-year-old master’s student at the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC), Cambodia’s relations with China are at the best period in history, and that has brought substantial benefits to Cambodia’s development in various fields. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501159259/close-ties-with-china-provide-enormous-benefits-to-cambodias-development-students-say/
Kingdom set for multi-million dollar oil payday in Oct
Cambodia expects to receive millions of dollars next month in proceeds from the sale of nearly 300,000 barrels of crude oil stolen by the Bahamas-flagged tanker MT Strovolos last year following a payment dispute with the Apsara oil field’s Singaporean developer, KrisEnergy, according to a ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-set-multi-million-dollar-oil-payday-oct
Land swap detailed: firm gets 69 hectares for $10M construction
A Ream development company is among the latest beneficiaries of land privatizations – and in a rare instance, the state’s deal with the developer was revealed in official documents. ...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/land-swap-detailed-firm-gets-69-hectares-for-10m-construction/
Japan to open Toyota factory in Cambodia
Japan will establish a Toyota car factory in Cambodia, affirmed Kishida Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan in a bilateral meeting with Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501159273/japan-to-open-toyota-factory-in-cambodia/
Over 10 Phnom Penh condos, hotels raided over trafficking, online ‘services’
Hundreds of foreign nationals have been removed from Phnom Penh compounds as police acknowledged detention, torture, extortion and human trafficking in several arrests. ...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/over-10-phnom-penh-condos-hotels-raided-over-trafficking-online-services/
RCEP partners witness ongoing growth opportunities
Government officials and business leaders from China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are bullish on future business growth opportunities arising from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, speakers said at the recently concluded 19th China-ASEAN Expo, which was held from Sept 16 to ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501159266/rcep-partners-witness-ongoing-growth-opportunities/
Cambodia’s GDP and Inflation to Rise This Year, World Bank Says
Cambodia’s GDP growth is estimated to reach 4.8% this year, and continue rising for the next two years while remaining below pre-pandemic levels, and inflation may hit 6%, more than double the rates of the last two years, the World Bank said. ...
Sorn Sarath and Matt Surrusco
https://cambojanews.com/cambodias-gdp-and-inflation-to-rise-this-year-world-bank-says/
Cambodia, UK reaffirm ties as trade surges 44%
Cambodia and the UK have pledged to further boost trade cooperation after January-August bilateral trade soared more than two-fifths compared to the same period last year. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-uk-reaffirm-ties-trade-surges-44
E-payments to save MSMEs on costs: NBC
Digitising payments could bring substantial cost savings for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSME), not only by simplifying cash management processes but also reducing potential opportunities for misappropriation or corruption, according to the central bank chief. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/e-payments-save-msmes-costs-nbc
Phnom Penh declared mine-free within municipality
The threats posed by landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) are more complex than they might appear at first glance, as they leave people with crippling injuries, suffering, trauma and in mourning while also disrupting development of the land they infest, said a senior ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-declared-mine-free-within-municipality
Teacher’s association seeks permission for march with petitions
The Cambodian Independent Teacher’s Association (CITA) plans to celebrate this year’s Teachers’ Day on October 5 with a public display, with Phnom Penh authorities saying that permission may be granted depending on the circumstances. ...
Eng Reachny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-association-seeks-permission-march-petitions
Global initiative against transnational crime releases a report on illegal logging structures in Cambodia
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime in September released its new research’s results on the illegal logging structure in Cambodia. ...
PM bids final farewell to Japan’s Abe; meets EU, VN presidents
Prime Minister Hun Sen on September 27 arrived for the state funeral of the slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo, where he also met European Council chief Charles Michel and Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to discuss issues of common concerns. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-bids-final-farewell-japans-abe-meets-eu-vn-presidents
Dong Thap cooperates with Cambodian locality to fight human trafficking
Fighting human trafficking is one of the fields of cooperation in an agreement signed between the Women’s Union of the southern province of Dong Thap and the Cambodian Women for Peace & Development Association of Prey Veng province yesterday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501158483/dong-thap-cooperates-with-cambodian-locality-to-fight-human-trafficking/
Phnom Penh official calls for participation in crackdown on illegal pawnshops
Khleang Huot, Deputy Governor of Phnom Penh, issued a call for the residents of the capital to join the authorities’ efforts to crackdown on illegally operated pawnshops. ...
Stay off capital-Sihanoukville expressway till Oct, drivers told
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has once again called on drivers to stop using the Phnom Penh-Preah Sihanouk Expressway as the highway has not been officially opened to the public. The scheduled opening date is set for this coming October. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stay-capital-sihanoukville-expressway-till-oct-drivers-told
Metta forest’s Buddhist statues destroyed in wind
The Metta forest community in Kampong Speu says three Buddha statues around the forest’s pagoda have been destroyed after wind blew down nearby trees, and residents are blaming loggers who they say are continuing to cut down the surrounding forest. ...
Meng Kroypunlok
https://vodenglish.news/metta-forests-buddhist-statues-destroyed-in-wind/
Flash floods expected in Northern provinces
Eight of the 24 provinces in Cambodia are likely to be at high risk of flash floods and overflow due to possible heavy rainfall across the country until the end of September. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501158476/flash-floods-expected-in-northern-provinces/
Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway opens to public on one-month trial
The $2-billion-worth Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway will be put on trial use for the whole month of October. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501158467/phnom-penh-sihanoukville-expressway-opens-to-public-on-one-month-trial/
Cambodian PM joins other world leaders in Abe Shinzo’s state funeral
Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Japan, attended in Tokyo this afternoon the State Funeral of former Prime Minister of Japan Abe Shinzo. Some 4,500 people, including about 50 current and former world leaders and around 700 international guests, joined the event of great sorrow. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501158511/cambodian-pm-joins-other-world-leaders-in-abe-shinzos-state-funeral/
Typhoon expected to lash northern provinces, worsen flooding
Typhoon Noru, which is expected to make landfall tomorrow in central Vietnam, will cause flash flooding in northern Cambodia, the weather ministry warned, as other parts of the country are still grappling with incessant rains. ...
Ouch Sony and Khan Leakhena
https://vodenglish.news/typhoon-expected-to-lash-northern-provinces-worsen-flooding/
Cambodia, EU happy with good cooperation
Cambodia and the European Union have shown their satisfaction with their good cooperation. The appreciation was made by Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia and Charles Michel, President of the European Council, in their meeting in Tokyo yesterday morning, during their stay ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501158526/cambodia-eu-happy-with-good-cooperation/
Vietnam, Cambodia trade climbs to record level of $7.7 billion
Trade between Vietnam and Cambodia reached a record $7.7 billion in the first eight months of the year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501157761/vietnam-cambodia-trade-climbs-to-record-level-of-7-7-billion/