Cambodia's fisheries production rises 6.7 pct in 2013
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Ouk Rabun said Tuesday that Cambodia’s fisheries production rose 6.7 percent from a year earlier to 728,000 tonnes last year. Speaking at a National Fish Day ceremony at Kdol Reservoir in Peam commune in Samaki Meanchey district in Kampong Chhnang province, ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NDdkYzhiNTdlYzQ
Cambodian youths urged to help preserve culture
A national seminar on youth and cultural development was held here Monday with an aim to encourage young people to help safeguard, preserve and develop national culture, officials said. The two-day event brought together 700 participants, including culture officials, artists, archeologists, historians, and youths, said Culture ...
ASEAN-China Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-08/26/c_133585294.htm
Expert urges gov’t to save site
An archaeologist is pleading the government to save an Angkorian-era canal before the work of brick makers completely erases the site. Built nearly 1,000 years ago, the 120-kilometre stone channel was used to transport building materials from a quarry to Angkor Wat, according to archaeologist Thuy ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/expert-urges-gov%E2%80%99t-save-site
‘Scales are needed to stop road damage’
Following a directive by Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon to the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation to improve their monitoring of overloaded vehicles, a ministry official said they will build more vehicle scales. ...
Sean Teehan and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/scales-are-needed-stop-road-damage
MEF sets target for tax revenue
The Cambodian government is aiming to increase its revenue collection to $3.78 billion for 2015, on the back of strong tax and customs income. A directive signed by Monaster of Economy and Finance Aun Porn Moniroth on Monday says $2.75 billion will be collected via current ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mef-sets-target-tax-revenue
Press release on an official launch of National Policies and Action Plans on Children Protection and Development
National Committee of Children Protection and Development will launch the National Policies and Action Plans on Children Protection and Development on 1 September 2014 at the National Institute of Education under the presidency of Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of ...
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Round two: Thousands sign up for final re-test
More than 68,000 grade 12 students have signed up for a second and final shot at the high stakes national exam next Monday, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reported. That’s all of the students who failed – and most who failed to show ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/round-two-thousands-sign-final-re-test
Maid MoU drawing near
Cambodia and Malaysia expect to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) by the end of the year that would reopen the pipeline of local maids being sent to work there, officials said on the sidelines of a final round of discussions yesterday between the countries. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/maid-mou-drawing-near
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts will investigate religious ceremonies by Vietnamese on Bokor Mountain
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts will investigate on a scene where religious rituals have held by the Vietnamese on the Bokor Mountain, in Kampot province. This measure happened simultaneously after the Seventh Commission of the National Assembly summoned the minister to clarify on ...
Prach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/social-economy/ministry-of-culture-11272014000916.html
Ministry to curb illegal checkpoints
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport called on the directors of public works in Phnom Penh and the provinces to crack down on fraudulent truck-weighing checkpoints around the country. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ministry-curb-illegal-checkpoints
New plan for low-cost housing
Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management is in the initial phase of a project to build affordable housing for the Kingdom’s low-income population. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-plan-low-cost-housing
New standard? Singapore lends hand for electrics
Cambodia will implement new standards for its electricity system – modelled after Singapore – in order to reduce the risk of electrical fires, officials said. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-standard-singapore-lends-hand-electrics
Fishing busts up, penalties lag
The first half of 2015 has seen a nearly 50 per cent increase in illegal fishing busts, though the vast majority resulted in no punishment for offenders, a new report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries shows. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fishing-busts-penalties-lag
Construction permits slow in 2015, while total investment remains unclear
The amount of companies granted construction permits from the government are slowly decreased in 2015 compared to previous years while the government attempts to reform construction laws and regulations. ...
Crop inundation feared
As talk of El Niño-inspired droughts shaped much of the conversation ahead of this year’s late-blooming rainy season, recent torrential rains in some areas of the Kingdom have given way to new fears of crop inundation and damage. ...
Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crop-inundation-feared
New climate plan launched
The Environment Ministry in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) yesterday launched a $5 million, five-year plan to mitigate the effects of climate change on rural communities in four Cambodian provinces. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-climate-plan-launched
Drought batters 13 provinces
Amid what some meteorologists have dubbed a “Godzilla-like El Niño”, drought conditions during Cambodia’s scheduled monsoon season have significantly worsened from what last year were termed historically bad levels, a new report from the Ministry of Agriculture shows. ...
Sen David and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-batters-13-provinces
Too many unions: owners
In a strongly worded defence of the proposed trade union law, employer association CAMFEBA released a position paper yesterday claiming the law would curb instances of illegal strikes and a proliferation of minority unions, which it says is needed to harmonise the country’s troubled industrial ...
Charles Rollet and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/too-many-unions-owners
Gov’t increases funding for children’s hospitals
Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital will receive an additional $2 million this year from the government purse, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-increases-funding-childrens-hospitals
Crackdown on vehicles with unpaid tax
The General Department of Customs and Excise at the Ministry of Economy and Finance vowed to take legal action against those using vehicles with unpaid tax and unapproved modifications after relevant authorities had advised them through educational announcements. General Department of Customs and Excise director-general ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crackdown-vehicles-unpaid-tax