Hun Sen Says Water, Power Shortages to Stay
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that the rapid growth of Phnom Penh’s population coupled with the rampant construction of new property projects means that there would always be a shortage of water and electricity in the capital. Speaking to a crowd of thousands who had ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-water-power-shortages-to-stay-29063/
Airport committee set to suspend land deals
The committee on the new Phnom Penh international airport project development said on Thursday that it will temporarily suspend land business in sensitive areas that could hinder the new airport’s development project. Real estate sector insiders said the move will help solve the issues easily ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airport-committee-set-suspend-land-deals
Health Ministry and WHO sign 5-year plan
The Ministry of Health and the WHO on Friday signed a new five-year plan that will seek to address communicable and non-communicable diseases, advance universal health care, strengthen capability to respond to new emerging diseases and increase collaborations and partnerships, a ministry official said yesterday. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-and-who-sign-5-year-plan
ACLEDA Bank launches ACLEDA Internet Bank
ACLEDA Bank PLC, the Cambodia’s leading commercial bank, has launched a new service called “ACLEDA Internet Bank”, according to a statement on its website. The statement said the new service would offer additional alternative for its value customers in doing financial transactions via the internet at ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NTg0YTVkMDcwMjg
Press statement of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) expressed its dissatisfaction on the decision of fixing minimum wage in a new level of 123 USD, which later on the government decided unilaterally add 5 USD more, making the new applied minimum wage up to 128 USD in ...
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC)
Market Shop Owners Try to Prevent Eviction
Vendors in Phnom Penh’s Ngin An market are protesting a government-backed bid by the market’s new owner to push them out by tomorrow. More than 40 representatives of 223 vendors waved a banner at the market yesterday to protest a letter from Russey Keo District Hall ...
NGO law ‘obstacle to development goals’
Civil society organizations yesterday expressed concern about the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations last month, which they said would be hard to achieve under the new Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO). ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16582/ngo-law----obstacle-to-development-goals---/
Prince to run: Ranariddh’s comeback under way
Prince Norodom Ranariddh has officially registered his new political faction, the Community of Royalist People’s Party, as a contender in the next national elections in 2018. The party’s new chief of cabinet, Nop Sothearith, yesterday told the Post he submitted the application to run to the Ministry of ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prince-run-ranariddh%E2%80%99s-comeback-under-way
Development council approves electric bike plant and rain gear investments
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) yesterday approved two new projects worth $5.6 million that will create nearly 1,500 new jobs. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50849071/development-council-approves-electric-bike-plant-and-rain-gear-investments/
Mercedes halts imports over luxury tax
The sole retailer of Mercedes-Benz cars into the country, Hung Hiep (Cambodia) Co., has suspended imports since January over what it claims is a new import duty on luxury cars coming into the country. Other luxury car importers including Porsche, Audi, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover, ...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/mercedes-halts-imports-over-luxury-tax-56050/
Suy Sem Set for Reinstatement as Minister of Mines and Energy
The National Assembly will vote this month to decide whether the ruling CPP’s recently removed Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy, Suy Sem, will be appointed as the new Minister of Mines and Energy, CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun said Friday. Mr. Sem’s return to his old, ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/suy-sem-set-for-reinstatement-as-minister-of-mines-and-energy-48820/
Deadlock over wage talks
The first round of a tripartite meeting to negotiate a new minimum wage for garment and footwear workers ended in a deadlock on Monday. Trade unions, employers, and the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training officials tried to hammer out a new wage scheme for ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadlock-over-wage-talks
Prime minister talks festival, lawmaker assaults
Last week’s brutal attacks by off-duty soldiers on two opposition lawmakers were retribution for anti-government protests in Paris and New York, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech yesterday. “If there is no fire, there will be no flames,” he said. “If there had ...
Jonathan Cox and Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17543/prime-minister-talks-festival--lawmaker-assaults/
Cambodia on track to achieve "3 Zeros" HIV/AIDS target by 2020: deputy PM
Cambodia is on track to achieve the “Three Zeros” HIV/AIDS target by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An said here on Tuesday.The 3 Zeros, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in New York in June 2011, included zero New HIV infections, zero stigma ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6697035/2015/11/30/cambodia-track-achieve-3-zeros-hivaids-target-2020-deputy-pm
Minister urges officials to speed up ID scheme
Officials responsible for issuing new identity cards, which every adult will eventually need, must get a grip on the task and speed up, the Ministry of Interior said yesterday.In an “instruction” to staff, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said the number of new ID cards issued ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-urges-officials-speed-id-scheme
Sihanoukville ranks amongst the top global holiday destinations for 2018
The New York Times has released their starter kit for escaping into the world – their renowned list of the “52 best places to go in the world”. The beaches of Sihanoukville ranked at number 13 on the list amongst other top destinations such as ...
Realestate.com.kh
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102547/sihanoukville-ranks-amongst-the-top-global-holiday-destinations-for-2018/
PM: More roads, bridges
Prime Minister Hun Sen has highlighted his government’s achievements in building new infrastructure as part of a message to commemorate Khmer new Year.He said 15,376 kilometers of national roads and bridges have been built over the past year, including 12,100km of asphalt roads. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37520/pm--more-roads--bridges/
China congratulates Cambodian PM Hun Sen on re-election
China on Tuesday congratulated Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on his re-election. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei also extended congratulations on the opening of the new Cambodian National Assembly at a regular press conference. He [Hong Lei] added that China is willing to strengthen friendly cooperation ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/813598.shtml#.UkOT4NKBmN8
Arrests after vendors rally in Sisophon
Three people were arrested in Banteay Meanchey province on Friday during a protest in which more than 400 vendors rallied against orders to move to new market sites. In what authorities said was an effort to “restore public order”, police and military forces were deployed to ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrests-after-vendors-rally-sisophon
Unique pension plan pushed
A new union has been founded pledging to offer members a post-retirement pension with a novel twist – it will be funded by sponsorship from private companies. The head of the new Workers Retirement Fund of Cambodia Union president, Sidney Sok Ke, claims to have spent ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/unique-pension-plan-pushed