PM calls for crackdown on gambling
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called for a crackdown on gambling during a speech to mark the beginning of the new academic year in Kampot province. ...
Ven Rathavong and Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17380/pm-calls-for-crackdown-on-gambling/
Steady FDI helps keep economy on course
Total foreign direct investment receipts have remained consistent over the past five years, according to a new government report that incorporates central bank data. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/steady-fdi-helps-keep-economy-course
Cambodia to boost military ties to China
Cambodia and China have vowed to take their collaboration on military affairs to a “new height”, according to China’s Ministry of National Defence. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-boost-military-ties-china
Battambang to get second international border crossing
Authorities will open a new international border checkpoint in Battambang’s Sampov Lun district, connecting with Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province, early next month. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-get-second-international-border-crossing
Low-ranking police, soldiers to see salary increases
Low-ranking police and soldiers will see their salaries increased before the start of Khmer New Year in mid-April, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Monday. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/low-ranking-police-soldiers-to-see-salary-increases-76041/
CNRP activists arrested over Siem Reap protest
Two opposition activists in Siem Reap’s Bakong district were arrested yesterday on accusations of inciting villagers to protest a new committee to support boating tourism. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-activists-arrested-over-siem-reap-protest
Japanese experts question thumbprint voting
The Japanese technical group helping the National Election Committee (NEC) with its new list of voters has suggested that the NEC not use thumbprints for registration. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12995/japanese-experts-question-thumbprint-voting/
PM reaches out to khmer muslims
Up to 1,500 new educators, almost all exclusively Muslims from the Cham Community in Cambodia, will be recruited to join the country’s teaching force. ...
Chea Vannak and Donald Lee
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13209/pm-reaches-out-to-khmer-muslims/
Voter registration trial praised in spite of setbacks
The Electoral Reform Alliance yesterday held a roundtable discussion to pore over the results of a two-week trial of a new voter registration system. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voter-registration-trial-praised-spite-setbacks
Fuel prices to fall as price caps revealed
The government announced a set of price caps on retail petroleum products yesterday based on the application of its new fuel-pricing mechanism. Sor Chandara ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fuel-prices-fall-price-caps-revealed
Mondulkiri airport to become public park
Now that the roads to Mondulkiri are better and driving to the province is much cheaper, provincial officials have found a new use for the dilapidated airport. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17741/mondulkiri-airport-to-become-public-park/
Smoke-free campaign launched
A new government initiative to warn Cambodians about the dangers of smoking tobacco was launched yesterday by the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smoke-free-campaign-launched
Pig farmers form taskforce to curb illicit smuggling
Cambodia’s pig farmers created a new taskforce yesterday to combat pig smuggling along Cambodia’s borders that is leading to falling prices for domestic producers. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pig-farmers-form-taskforce-curb-illicit-smuggling
Royal gazette to move online
The government will this year stop printing the royal gazette for sale to the public and begin publishing new editions online, an official said yesterday. ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-gazette-move-online
With Leaders Abroad, No Political Negotiations Held
Political negotiations between the ruling party and opposition have not continued, following their failure to reach an agreement ahead of the Khmer New Year earlier this month. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/with-leaders-abroad-no-political-negotiations-held/1899465.html
Workers return from holiday to closed factory
More than 100 workers at a Phnom Penh garment printing factory protested yesterday after they returned from the Khmer New Year holiday to find their workplace shuttered. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-return-holiday-closed-factory
Disaster Management Law passes Assembly
A new Law on Disaster Management sailed through the National Assembly yesterday, with Prime Minister Hun Sen promising a more rapid and coordinated response across government agencies. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disaster-management-law-passes-assembly
World bank starts meetings on whether to renew lending
The World Bank on Monday began two weeks of meetings to help it decide whether to start funding new projects in Cambodia after a four-year freeze. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-starts-meetings-on-whether-to-renew-lending-86898/
Ministry of Education issues new directive on strengthening Standard Operating Principles for Health and Safety in Educational Establishments
In response to the growing wave of Omicron cases in Cambodia, the Ministry of Education has issued a new directive on strengthening Standard Operating Principles for Health and Safety in Educational Establishments ...
Sequencing ties new Cambodia H5N1 avian flu cases to older clade
The detection of two recent human H5N1 avian flu infections in Cambodia, genetic sequencing led by scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh revealed that the virus belongs to the 2.3.2.1c clade, similar to viruses that have been circulating in the region over the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501375309/sequencing-ties-new-cambodia-h5n1-avian-flu-cases-to-older-clade/