EBA withdrawal threatens Kingdom’s bicycle industry
Cambodian bicycle exports to the EU amounted to 1.52 million individual units last year valued at $331 million, according to a World Bank report released on Monday. The report – called Cambodia Economic Update – revealed that bicycles are Cambodia’s third main export to the ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eba-withdrawal-threatens-kingdoms-bicycle-industry
Scammers pretend to be senior officials, threaten governors
The Ministry of Interior has ordered National Police to investigate a scam in which unidentified callers claimed to be senior officials at the ministry and the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in an attempt to extort money from district governors, according to a letter issued on April ...
Chhorn Chansy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/scammers-pretend-to-be-senior-officials-threaten-governors-110794/
New ADB Cambodia country director assumes office
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed a new Country Director for Cambodia, Samiuela T. Tukuafu. A Tongan national, Mr. Tukuafu officially started in this post on 1 February, 2016. Mr. Tukuafu replaces Mr. Eric Sidgwick, who has been appointed Country Director for ADB’s Resident ...
ADB team
Math behind PM’s canceled ELCs claim still a mystery
On Friday, it will have been a month since Prime Minister Hun Sen took the stage during the opening of the Environment Ministry’s palatial new headquarters in Phnom Penh to announce that 1 million hectares had been confiscated from wayward landholders and would be doled ...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/math-behind-pms-canceled-elcs-claim-still-a-mystery-110340/
Airline tax to help clean up Cambodia
The government is looking at ways to tackle Cambodia’s waste problem with a $1 charge on airline tickets touted to raise the cash. The move comes after footage emerged showing the capital’s canals remain clogged with rubbish a year after video of the pollution was shown ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38619/airline-tax-to-help-clean-up-cambodia/
RDB making plans for rice processing facilities
The Rural Development Bank (RDB) is seeking proposals from registered Cambodian agricultural firms to develop rice storage warehouses and rice-drying facilities in Kampong Thom, Prey Veng and Takeo provinces, each with the capacity to store 50,000 tonnes of paddy rice and dry approximately 1,500 tonnes ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rdb-making-plans-rice-processing-facilities
Employers under disabled job scrutiny
Employers – public and private – which do not meet their obligations to take on disabled people are to face cash penalties, the Social Affairs Ministry says. Ministry secretary of state Sem Sokha said yesterday that for the first time the government had prepared guidance on ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087987/employers-disabled-job-scrutiny/
Traffic deaths up from last year, says ministry
Nearly 1,500 people died from traffic accidents in the Kingdom during the first 10 months of this year, a minor increase over last year, though the number of injured fell significantly, according to a report by the Ministry of Interior’s National Committee for Road Safety ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-deaths-last-year-says-ministry
Buddhists flock to Oudong ceremony
More than 1,000 people flocked to Oudong Mountain in Kandal province yesterday to observe Meak Bochea Day, which marks the day the Buddha prophesied his own death.Nguon Nhel, second vice president of the National Assembly, presided over the ceremony accompanied by many lawmakers and government ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50105768/buddhists-flock-to-oudong-ceremony/
Cambodian population will increase to 18 million in 2030
In a letter to mark the world population day, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday said: “Cambodian population will grow to 18 million in 2030 and 21 million in 2050. Currently Cambodian people are in 1.5 per cent birth rate per year and on average a Cambodian woman delivered 3 babies ...
Charter flights fuel growth
Charter flights through Cambodia’s two international airports contributed to a 20 per cent year on year jump in passenger flow during the first half of 2012, according to the minister of tourism. About 1.03 million passengers arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport and and Siem Reap ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071657429/Business/charter-flights-fuel-growth.html
Permit penalty: New fine in works for workers
Starting on April 1, the government will charge $5 a day for every day that a staff member of a company in Cambodia is without a work permit, according to a senior immigration official. The census is part of an overall tightening of labour laws ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/permit-penalty-new-fine-works-workers
Logging crackdowns up 81 pct, gov’t says
A nine-month report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) shows that the number of illegal logging crackdowns increased 81 per cent – to 1,891 – compared with the same period last year, a spike one official attributed to a change in smugglers’ ...
Sen David and Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-crackdowns-81-pct-gov%E2%80%99t-says
Gov’t has identified suspect in M’kiri logging case
The head of the Forestry Administration’s Mondolkiri cantonment said Monday that he had accused one man over an August 1 incident in which military police freed the drivers of four trucks transporting illegally logged timber from the custody of anti-economic crime police and escaped with ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-has-identified-suspect-in-mkiri-logging-case-91353/
Renaissance Minerals trenches 17m at 2.9g/t gold in Cambodia
Renaissance Minerals (ASX:RNS) has trenched several high grade gold assays within its Okvau licence in Cambodia. In addition to a drilling program testing the potential for extensions to its 1.2 million ounce Okvau Deposit, the Company has been focusing exploration activities along a 5 kilometre prospective trend ...
Proactive Investors
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/55781/renaissance-minerals-trenches-17m-at-29gt-gold-in-cambodia-55781.html
Four more investment projects approved by CDC
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved four more investment projects, expecting to create almost 1,500 jobs for the locals. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50715646/four-more-investment-projects-approved-by-cdc/
Adolescents aged between 12 and 17 in Cambodia urged to get vaccinated quickly to achieve herd immunity
A total of 1,573,131 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, of which 383,461 have been fully vaccinated. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50927911/adolescents-aged-between-12-and-17-in-cambodia-urged-to-get-vaccinated-quickly-to-achieve-herd-immunity/
NEC hiring officials ahead of commune council elections
The National Election Committee (NEC) has announced its intention to recruit 8,302 short-term contracted officials to serve in 1,652 commune electoral commissions for the June’s commune council elections. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-hiring-officials-ahead-commune-council-elections
China pledges to speed up Phnom Penh-Poipet Expressway project
The Chinese government is planning to form a technical working group to speed up the Phnom Penh-Poipet Expressway project. ...
Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-china-pledges-to-speed-up-phnom-penh-poipet-expressway-project
$2 Million project unveiled to boost child health and wellbeing
Plan International Cambodia has initiated the ‘Promoting Healthy Start Project,’ a three-year initiative aimed at enhancing the health and wellbeing of young people in Siem Reap, Ratanakiri and Stung Treng provinces. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/2-million-project-unveiled-to-boost-child-health-and-wellbeing