Manet urges all officials to boldly execute gov’t policies
Prime Minister Hun Manet has urged officials at all levels to boldly carry out the government’s policies to achieve Cambodia’s goals and visions. ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/manet-urges-all-officials-boldly-execute-govt-policies
Prime Minister Dr Hun Manet says RGC’s policy based on science, not emotionalism
Prime Minister Dr Hun Manet said the policy of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) for the 7th Legislature of the National Assembly is based on science, not on emotionalism. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501353266/prime-minister-dr-hun-manet-says-rgcs-policy-based-on-science-not-emotionalism/
Ministry: Snares threaten biodiversity
Snares remained a challenge for wildlife in Cambodia’s protected areas, and result in the loss of many of the Kingdom’s endangered species. In order to address the problem, in 2021, the Ministry of Environment and partner organisations removed over 60,000 snares from 72 protected areas and ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-snares-threaten-biodiversity
World Food Programme drive aims to fix kids’ diets
The World Food Programme (WFP) – in collaboration with the School Health Department at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport – is launching an innovative social and behavioural change communication campaign to improve the diets of primary school children. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-food-programme-drive-aims-fix-kids-diets
ODC team's insights from UNHLPF 2023: Accelerating recovery and SDG implementation
The Open Development Cambodia (ODC) Team recently had the privilege of attending the United Nations High-Level Political Forum 2023 in New York City. This global event serves as a platform to discuss and accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic while emphasizing the full implementation ...
Cambodia marks 70th Independence Day, vowing to stay united as one
Cambodia celebrated the 70th anniversary of its independence on Thursday, vowing to stay united as one to safeguard the kingdom’s peace, security, stability and development. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501390180/cambodia-marks-70th-independence-day-vowing-to-stay-united-as-one/
NBC to launch Bakong for foreign tourists
Tourists visiting Cambodia will soon be able to conduct transactions using the Bakong payment system, according to Chea Serey, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), recently. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501526826/nbc-to-launch-bakong-for-foreign-tourists/
Cambodian UN rep dismisses request to suspend Press Charter
The Permanent Mission of Cambodia to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva on Tuesday criticised the request from human rights experts at the UN to suspend the Cambodian Press Charter, claiming it was made with insufficient evidence. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501561918/cambodian-un-rep-dismisses-request-to-suspend-press-charter/
Cambodia’s stateless Vietnamese
Up to 750,000 Vietnamese people are believed to be living in Cambodia, about 5 percent of the country’s population, but no one knows for sure. They are almost universally stateless. Few qualify for Cambodian citizenship. ...
Michele Penna
http://www.asiasentinel.com/society/cambodia-stateless-vietnamese/
Cambodia Takes Aim at the Dominant Dollar
PHNOM PENH—In its home country, the Cambodian riel has long played second fiddle to the U.S. dollar—but a new stock exchange and government de-dollarization policies could bolster it in coming years, policy makers and experts say. Dollars change hands with greater frequency than riel in the ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303772904577336784184598356.html
Mr. PUTH Chan Choth
Mr. PUTH Chan Choth is an ICT manager of an international humanitarian organization in Cambodia. He is also a technical working group of CCC (Cooperation Committee for Cambodia) that help to contribute an effective use of ICT for civil society organizations as well as contributing ...
‘Fake news’ fuels smog fears
The Ministry of Environment has said concerns over Phnom Penh’s air quality are being fuelled by “fake news” on social media sites by companies aiming to promote the sale of air quality testing kits. “There has been a lot of fake news claiming that air ...
Husain Haider
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fake-news-fuels-smog-fears
Fake fertiliser cuts crop yields
FARMERS’ crop yields are being undercut by unregistered middlemen selling fake fertiliser, and government efforts to combat this have proved ineffective, according to independent research from the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI). CDRI’s preliminary research, conducted as part of a larger program investigating agricultural policies for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030161683/Business/fake-fertiliser-cuts-crop-yields.html
City says ‘fake cops’ nailed
Capital police yesterday revealed the identities of five men who had allegedly been posing as Flying Tigers – an elite Ministry of Interior rapid-response unit – and extorting money from victims who believed they were in danger of being jailed. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/city-says-fake-cops-nailed
PM calls on all universities to pay attention to quality
Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has appealed to all universities, both public and private, to do their best to improve the quality of education to suit with the graduates’ abilities and degrees. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501227960/pm-calls-on-all-universities-to-pay-attention-to-quality/
Ministry denies responsibility for collapsed dirt quarry
After a wall of land separating a lake and a dirt quarry in Phnom Penh collapsed on Tuesday night, creating a fierce current that destroyed a fishing boat and left one of its crewmen missing, authorities Thursday refused to say who was overseeing the quarry ...
Ben Sokhean and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-denies-responsibility-for-collapsed-dirt-quarry-100208/
Government tax revenue collection grows nearly 22% in 2015
The government collected about $1.3 billion in tax revenue in 2015, a 21.67 percent increase over the previous year, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s general department of taxation on Monday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-tax-revenue-collection-grows-nearly-22-in-2015-105200/
Memorandum to fight money laundering
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Financial Intelligence Unit of the National Bank of Cambodia (FIUNBC) to exchange information on money laundering and the financing of terrorist activities. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26678/memorandum-to-fight-money-laundering/
New ID cards are being issued faster, officials say
The effort to speed up the process of issuing new electronic national identity cards is well underway, according to Mao Chandara, a director of the Ministry of Interior’s passport department. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15720/new-id-cards-are-being-issued-faster--officials-say/
Tea Banh 'hurt' by calls for PM to step down
A day after a bipartisan election reform committee put the neutrality of the armed forces into a list of proposed areas of reform, Defence Minister Tea Banh reiterated that the armed forces would not tolerate opposition supporters calling for Hun Sen to step down. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tea-banh-hurt-calls-pm-step-down