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Storms wreak more havoc across 17 provinces
More than 100 homes have been destroyed, another person killed and several people injured as storms continue to cut a swathe through Cambodia. A woman and two cows were killed by lightning yesterday in a rice field in Kampong Chhnang province’s Veal Veng district. In ...
Productive outcome to bilateral talks
Cambodia and Vietnam on April 25 agreed in principle to work together in a range of commercial activities following two-hour talks at Peace Palace between Prime Minister Hun Sen and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phu. Deals were struck relating to a major new highway, education, fisheries ...
Health cash fails workers
The Labor Ministry spent more than four billion riel on help for garment workers involved in accidents in the first three months of the year, but unions say staff are still struggling to access healthcare. Labor Minister Ith Samheng said the National Social Security Fund ...
Migrant workers rescued from Thai lockup
Thai police have rescued 65 Cambodians, including five children, from a two-story shop house near Rong Kluea market in Sakeo province where they had been locked up for three days. Local media reported the group of 37 Cambodian men, 23 women and five children had entered ...
Four dead as week of bad weather predicted
Four people died, three were injured and more than 100 houses were destroyed as storms and lightning swept across several provinces in a streak of bad weather set to continue until Saturday. In Preah Vihear province, one woman was killed in Choam Khsan district on Sunday ...
Rice bank project awards contracts
Thaneakea Srov (Kampuchea) Plc, the recipient of a low-interest $15 million loan from the state-run Rural Development Bank, inked contracts on April 24 with three companies to build and outfit its massive 200,000-tonne capacity silo and warehouse facility in Battambang province. The facility, which will have ...
Monitor to help analyse pollution
An air quality monitoring system may finally be materialising in the Kingdom’s capital, following a donation of a monitor to the Ministry of Environment last week. Minister of Environment Say Sam Al on April 24 confirmed that the ministry has received the monitor, which detects harmful ...
Startups discuss local challenges
Cambodian startups currently face several regulatory challenges in pursuing growth and profitability, according to three of the Kingdom’s most successful startup founders who shared their experiences over the weekend with the hope to inspire increased innovation and entrepreneurship. A key outtake from the event organised ...
More products seek GI status
The European Union is expected to include Kampong Speu palm sugar into its registry of protected geographical indicators products by July, with the government now hoping the increased demand and added value of Cambodian agricultural products would pave the way for Kampot salt to receive ...
Shamed and exploited
Kneeling on the wooden floorboards of the Cambodian Prostitute Union’s “drop-in” centre, Bopha’s voice began to tremble as she spoke of the obstacles her daughter faced at school. Bopha, whose name has been changed to protect her identity as a sex worker, said her daughter’s ...