Mekong-U.S. Partnership Senior Meeting held to discuss Covid-19 response
The first annual Mekong-U.S. Partnership Senior Meeting was held on June 29. The meeting’s main focus was The progress of a secure, prosperous, and open Mekong sub-region, among oTher things. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50885537/mekong-u-s-partnership-senior-meeting-held-to-discuss-covid-19-response/
Ministry onboards Cambodia Post to e-marketplace
The Ministry of Commerce plans to integrate state-owned Cambodia Post’s transportation system into CambodiaTrade.com, looking to make The distribution and delivery process easier, faster and safer for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and consumers that buy merchandise on The e-marketplace. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-onboards-cambodia-post-e-marketplace
Capital's Covid authority orders end to NagaWorld rallies
The Phnom Penh Commission to Combat Covid-19, led by The capital’s municipal administration, issued a directive telling former workers of NagaWorld integrated resort to immediately halt protests, and ordering Them to practice coronavirus health measures to prevent The pathogen from spreading among Them and Their ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capitals-covid-authority-orders-end-nagaworld-rallies
Big Data at Big Bang event
Digital Thailand Big Bang 2018 has arrived and it comes with the concept “Thailand Big Data” as it aims to encourage Thais to learn about digital transformation and innovative technology.Speaking about the digital economy and society at the exhibition’s kick-off at Impact Muang Thong Thani, ...
Jirapan Boonnoon
Student loans boost as crisis bites
More parents will be allowed to seek loans from the Finance Ministry’s Student Loan Fund (SLF) as it boosts loan finance and eligibility criteria following the impact of Covid-19 on household incomes.Some funding criteria will be adjusted to cover more borrowers and each student will ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
City Hall follows through on drone ban, arrests two foreigners
Two foreign filmmakers were arrested Tuesday morning after their drone was seen filming in the skies near Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house in Phnom Penh—a flight that provided a litmus test for February’s ban on unauthorized drone operation in the city. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-follows-through-on-drone-ban-arrests-two-foreigners-86333/
General gets life for murdering wife, daughter
A former two-star military general who confessed to murdering his wife and daughter, stuffing their bodies in a cooler and having two relatives dump them in the forest was sentenced to life in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/general-gets-life-for-murdering-wife-daughter-89441/
Nearly 1,000 workers fired from Winson International garment factory
Eight hundred and sixty-eight workers have been fired from the Winson international garment factory after they refused to obey a Kampong Speu Provincial Court injunction last week ordering them back to work within 48 hours. Free Trade Union official Ry Sithinet said yesterday that the workers, ...
NEC recruits polling station officials
The National Election Committee (NEC) has recruited 141,612 officials to work at 23,602 polling stations in The Commune Election, but will announce The final number in three days once The candidates have passed a screening test. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501082209/nec-recruits-polling-station-officials/
74th joint patrol on Mekong River starts
The 74th joint patrol on The Mekong River by law enforcement from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand began on Tuesday. Three Chinese vessels participated in The mission, which is aimed at reducing crime in The region. Keep reading ...
Cambodia-Thailand trade tops $7.97 billion last year
The bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand was valued at $7.97 billion last year, a 10.26 percent increase compared to a year before. Figures from Thailand’s Commerce Ministry showed that Cambodia exported $894 million worth of goods to Thailand, a year-on-year decrease of 22.10 percent. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501012634/cambodia-thailand-trade-tops-7-97-billion-last-year/
2018 is looking glum for Lao tourism
VIENTIANE, 3 October 2018: Lao PDR’s tourism industry faces the prospect that the country will close its Visit Laos Year promotion with fewer tourists than recorded in 2017.Laos launched its Visit Year 2018 campaign in October 2017 during the ITB Asia trade show in Singapore ...
Don Ross
Opposition claims majority win
If a joint committee investigates the irregularities and results from Sunday’s election, it will discover the opposition has won between 80 and 90 seats in the 123-seat National Assembly, Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy said today. Rainsy told the Post that his party’s final ...
The Phnom Penh Post
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-claims-majority-win
Major meeting over contentious Laos dam scheduled
The Vientiane-based Mekong River Commission will hold a regional public consultation on a controversial dam project in Laos later this month. The Don Sahong dam discussion will allow civil society and oTher relevant stakeholders to voice Their concerns over The dam’s impacts, The commission said in ...
Say Mony
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/major-meeting-over-contentious-laos-dam-scheduled/2545880.html
For labor leaders, Law on Unions remains a concern
Labor leaders say they are concerned that a number of unions would be shuttered if a new law to govern them is passed. Labor Minister Ith Samheng said the law will not “put pressure” on unions. “We take unions and other vocational organizations as our ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/for-labor-leaders-law-on-unions-remains-a-concern/2824664.html
Reservoir expected to increase agro-production
Preah Vihear authorities have been building a reservoir at a cost of over $100 million to supply water for agricultural rice crops during the dry season. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50727189/reservoir-expected-to-increase-agro-production/
Government allots $166 million for Sub-national health services
The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to transfer $166 million to municipal and provincial administrations to manage Their respective health service provision. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50730864/government-allots-166-million-for-sub-national-health-services/
Multilateralism for humanity – from a Cambodian perspective
This article aims to discuss what multilateralism should or should not be, and on the importance of multilateralism for humanity. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/opinion/multilateralism-humanity-cambodian-perspective
Thai farmers feeling the heat of climate debate
Ampai Meelap, 43, a durian farmer on the frontlines of climate change witnesses the threats of unpredictable weather every year.Her durian plantation in Rayong’s Wang Chan district in eastern Thailand has lost yields in recent years after facing drought and changing rainfall patterns.Keep reading ...
Paritta Wangkiat
Thailand’s Inequality: Unpacking the Myths and Reality of Isan
For decades, the ethnically and linguistically diverse people of Isan, Thailand, have been the subject of pervasive bias, often described as docile and uneducated, or as “unsophisticated peasants” who can be bought and manipulated by ambitious politicians. Bordered by Laos and the Mekong River to ...