Cruise tours will be a kind of potential tourism
Cruise tours will be a type of potential tourism, while Sihanouk was placed in the map of ASEAN Cruise Tourism Line, as part the promotional campaign jointly Cruise Southeast Asia – Feel the Warmth, which officially announced on 22 January 2016 at the Tourism Forum ...
Sok Chan
http://bit.ly/1NRCsSY
CAIF hopes to put a dent in used auto market
The independent industry body representing Cambodia’s authorised automobile distributors launched a consumer awareness campaign yesterday aimed at informing the public of the risks of purchasing second-hand cars on the local grey market, which it said reduces government tax revenue while flooding the streets with predominately ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/caif-hopes-put-dent-used-auto-market
Making precious stones shine globally
The Cambodia Gems and Jewelry Traders Association (CGJTA) urged their non-association counterparts in Siem Reap to come into their fold to ensure the Kingdom’s precious stone industry maintains quality and standards that are on par internationally. This, the CGJTA said, will attract more international buyers ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26271/making-precious-stones-shine-globally/
Zika leaflets to be distributed
The Health Ministry has ordered all provincial health departments to print leaflets about the Zika virus to distribute them throughout the Kingdom. According to a Facebook post on Monday by the Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control (CDC) Department, Health Ministry spokesman Ly Sovann said: “All people ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29437/zika-leaflets-to-be-distributed/
Ministry pushes support of ecotourism
The Tourism Ministry on Monday released a joint statement with relevant stakeholders in the tourism sector to support and promote ecotourism and community-based tourism in Cambodia. Tourism Minister Thong Khon said at a tourism conference that ecotourism and community-based tourism were growing regionally and globally with ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29420/ministry-pushes-support-of-ecotourism/
Canada denies reports of additional aid to Cambodia
The Canadian diplomatic office has denied local media reports that Canada had agreed to deliver extra aid money to Cambodia. In a press release, Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon said that Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion expressed interest in his proposal that “Canada will continue ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/canada-denies-reports-additional-aid-cambodia
E-commerce law to debut by end of year
The draft law on e-commerce is set to be completed and enacted by the end of this year, ahead of the launch of the Asean Economic Community (AEC), which begins at the end of the year, commerce officials said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16571/e-commerce-law-to-debut-by-end-of-year/
The man in the mirror – the Enemy within
Recent politic rhetoric in Cambodia and back-pedaling by some political leaders brings to mind a classic from the late Michael Jackson “Man in the Mirror”. Below, I have inserted one paragraph from his lyrics to put things in perspective before I ramble on the about ...
T. Mohan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17536/the-man-in-the-mirror-----the-enemy-within/
Court spats, violence underscore rising political strife in Cambodia
Political tensions increased in Cambodia this week, with opposition lawmakers boycotting a session of the country’s National Assembly on Monday and ASEAN parliamentarians voicing concerns over the country’s “deteriorating political climate” as the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) asserts ever-tighter control over the Southeast Asian ...
Morm Moniroth, Yang Chandara, and Khe Sonorng
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/working-12012015152652.html
Police quash Veng Sreng memorial ceremony
Riot police and municipal security guards shunted a group of would-be mourners around Phnom Penh’s southern industrial precinct on Sunday morning as they attempted to mark the second anniversary of the day military police marched along Veng Sreng Boulevard firing assault rifles into crowds of ...
Matt Blomberg and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-quash-veng-sreng-memorial-ceremony-104291/
Departments of Forestry and Fisheries to decentralize
The Ministry of Agriculture’s departments of Forestry and Fisheries will be placed under the control of the provincial agricultural administrations, according to an official letter released by Agricultural Minister Ouk Rabun on Monday. The move is part of an efFort to decentralize government responsibilities and ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21232/departments-of-forestry-and-fisheries-to-decentralize/
Fourth IPO kicks off roadshow
Phnom Penh SEZ Plc, which operates the country’s busiest industrial park, launched its IPO public roadshow yesterday, pitching its solid track record and growth potential to prospective investors that it hopes will sink up to $11.6 million into the company’s initial public offering on the ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fourth-ipo-kicks-roadshow
Cambodia vote revives political tensions
Cambodia’s deputy opposition leader has been voted out of parliament in a move that is on shaky legal grounds. “The so-called culture of dialogue was dead a long time ago,” Virak Ou, analyst and founder of the Future Forum think-tank, told Al Jazeera. ...
Nathan A. Thompson
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/cambodia-vote-revives-political-tensions-151030105126165.html
KPP to build border homes
The newly legal Khmer Power Party is delaying the construction of its headquarters, instead using the money to build houses near the Vietnamese border, its leader said yesterday. Serey Ratha said houses will only be constructed on Cambodian land, but added that the KPP would ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kpp-build-border-homes
Philippine army to assist Cambodian military
The Commanding General of the Philippine Army Eduardo M. Año pledged to strengthen bilateral ties with the Kingdom and train Cambodian armed forces in natural disaster relief, sea security, drug trafficking and illegal border crossing prevention on Friday during a meeting with Commander-in-Chief of the ...
Ban Sokrith
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21976/philippine-army-to-assist-cambodian-military/
Health minister demands higher quality healthcare
In response to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s critiques on healthcare in Cambodia during a speech evaluating government effectiveness last month, Health Minister Dr. Mam Bunheng sent a reminder to health officials throughout the country to deliver high quality healthcare and to strengthen the quality of ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22488/health-minister-demands-higher-quality-healthcare/
Ministry of social affairs launches investigation into church
A U.S.-based Pentecostal ministry with an extensive network of “orphan homes” in Cambodia will be investigated by the Ministry of Social Affairs after allegations of sexual abuse surfaced at one of its centers in Kratie province, though the organization will be allowed three months to ...
Taylor O'Connell and Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-of-social-affairs-launches-investigation-into-church-102461/
Despite progress, draft union law has major flaws: HRW
After seven years under discussion and a series of drastic edits, the Trade Union Law is inching closer to being passed by the National Assembly. Human Rights Watch yesterday issued a statement on the latest draft of the union law, saying that while it ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18829/despite-progress--draft-union-law-has-major-flaws--hrw/
Youth forum discusses ‘responsible’ social media use
More than 100 young people gathered yesterday in Phnom Penh to discuss the benefits and pitfalls of social media in Cambodia.At the youth forum, which focused on “Politics in the Digital Age”, youths, monks, politicians and NGO leaders spoke about the increasing importance of social ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-forum-discusses-responsible-social-media-use
Nearly 100 Vietnamese nabbed in capital
About 100 Vietnamese nationals allegedly living illegally in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district were arrested by Interior Ministry officials on Friday. The 93 Vietnamese, including 34 women, had been living in Nirot commune when general department of immigration police raided their residences. All are now in ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26788/nearly-100-vietnamese-nabbed-in-capital/