Updated Special Economic Zones
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Outcomes of the official visit of His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the Republic of Korea
On 09 September 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On the outcomes of the official visit of His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK SokhOnn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Outcomes of the telephone conversation between Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of Cambodia, and His Excellency Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia, 21 January 2022
On 21 January 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On outcomes of the telephOne cOnversatiOn between Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of Cambodia, and His Excellency Joko Widodo, President of IndOnesia, 21 January ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
His Excellency Saleumxay KOMMASITH, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, will lead a delegation to pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia and to attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM Retreat)
On 13 February 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On His Excellency Saleumxay KOMMASITH, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, will lead a delegatiOn to pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Illegal sand mining continues
Residents are angry and worried that illegal sand mining along the Bến Hải River in Quảng Trị Province continues unabated despite local authorities’ efforts to stop the practice. Dozens of households on the banks of the river in Gio Linh District have not only lost ...
Cambodia gets serious about its illegal ivory trade
The director-general of the Cambodian Department of Customs and Excise, Kun Nhim directed all branch directors to intensify their efforts and crack down on ivory smuggling. In a letter, Mr Nhim reminded branch chiefs: “Importing, exporting and transporting elephant and rhino ivory and furniture made from them ...
World faces largest cost-of-living crisis in a generation: UN report
The world is facing a cost-of-living crisis unseen in at least a generation, partly due to the Ukraine conflict, said a UN report on Wednesday. “The largest cost-of-living crisis of the 21st century has come when people and countries have a limited capacity to cope,” said ...
Bernama
Thailand’s low ranking in human trafficking report could hamper trade deal
With the Obama administration pushing to conclude a vast Asian trade pact, the State Department on 27 July upgraded its assessment of Malaysia’s efforts to combat human trafficking, a move that could ease the country’s inclusion in the trade deal. Though the human trafficking report from the State ...
Cambodia’s salt yield to fall
Salt production in Kampot and Kep provinces will be down this year due to unseasonal rain during the harvest season and a lack of laborers to farm the salt, according to the Salt Association of Kampot and Kep. Bun Baraing, co-executive director of the salt association, ...
Cambodia: Building a Nested System to Protect Remaining Forests
We didn’t expect a junkyard in the jungle, but that’s what we found: chainsaws – hundreds of them – piled high, along with old trucks, dozens of battered cars, countless motorbikes and scores of giant, illegally-harvested timbers. It had all been confiscated by rangers working ...
Quentin Renard, Sovanna Nhem, Chivin Leng, Jeff Silverman, and Donna Lee
Ministry names 30 environmentally unfriendly projects
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced a list of 30 thermal electricity, hydropower, chemical and mining projects that are posing risks to the environment. Among the environmentally unfriendly projects are thermal power plants Thai Binh 1, Vinh Tan 2, Vinh Tan 4, expanded Vinh ...
The 3rd Annual Civil Seminar: The role of the government, social organizations, and related parties in providing and monitoring public services.
Public services such as health and education play an important role in a country’s development, contributing to social equity when all people gets access to basic public services. This is not only the primary task of the government but also the collective effort of social ...
Vattanac Sends Employees to Inspect Damage Buildings
A week after government officials ordered Vattanac Properties to halt work on a construction site causing damage to a string of colonial-era building along Phnom Penh’s SIsowath Quay, representatives from the company arrived at the scene yesterday to inspect the affected buildings. Three Vattanac employees, ...
Huge swaths of flooded forest protected by decree
Almost 650,000 hectares of ecologically-rich flooded forest surrounding the Tonle Sap lake has been protected by a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday. The 647,406 hectare area spans sections of Kampong Chhnang, Pursat, Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap and Kampong Thom provinces. ...
Floods extend dengue season
Recent flooding has extended the dengue fever season this year, the National Dengue Control Program said on Tuesday. Officials added that more than 12,000 people, primarily children, had been hospitalised so far this year with the mosquito-borne infection. Dr Ngan Chantha, head of the NDCP, said “12,392 ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011100651987/National-news/floods-extend-dengue-season.html
Mass fainting follows use of insecticide
More than 100 workers collapsed at the Anful Garments Factory in Kampong Speu yesterday after the cloth they were working with was sprayed with insecticide on Sunday, a senior provincial health official said. Or Vanthen, director of the Kampong Speu provincial health department, said 144 workers ...
Beverage firms, telcos lift revenues
Advertising companies generated $73.6 million in revenue during the first nine months of the year, a 28 percent increase compared to the same period in 2010, according to data released by marketing research firm Indochina Research. Beverage and telecommunication companies led the way, spending $12.75 million ...
Company Illegally Cleared Land, Villagers Say
So Chanthou Company has been accused of illegally clearing 290 hectares and removing 84 families in Banteay Meanchey province. The families who are predominately rice farmers are said to have been on the land since 1996 and have complained about So Chanthou Company to the ...
June textile workers get paid
Thousands of workers who were sacked after part of the June Textile garment factory burned down in March are finally receiving severance payments and other awards following a ruling from the Arbitration Council. Taing Kisay, an administration assistant at the factory, said yesterday that more ...
200 residents in land dispute prevented from registering
Residents involved in a long-running land dispute in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district have been prevented from registering to vote in next year’s commune elections, village representatives said yesterday. The village, Oambel, is not recognized by authorities as it forms part of a conservation area ...