Fund intended to improve country’s urban sanitation
The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fund-intended-improve-countrys-urban-sanitation
Japanese firms look to expand
Japanese companies in the Kingdom are looking at expanding local operations as business confidence for 2015 is expected to rise on account of higher projected sales and operating profits, according to a survey conducted by the Japanese External Trade Organization. The survey, which looked at Japanese ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/japanese-firms-look-expand
Commune officials wage hike plans announced
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Thursday announced plans to raise salaries of commune and village officials in an effort to close the gap between earnings of high- and low-ranking civil servants. The draft sub-decree, which will see wages of commune chiefs rise from 300,000 riel per ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commune-officials-wage-hike-plans-announced-68472/
Borey 999 investors anxious
The news that tycoon Thong Sarath is wanted for questioning over the murder businessman Ung Meng Cheu, has sent a wave of nervousness through investors who have money tied up with the fugitive property developer. A cabinet deputy chief at the Ministry of Defence, Sarath ...
Sum Manet and Hin Pisei
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/borey-999-investors-anxious
Myanmar hosts summit with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
The 7th annual Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam-Myanmar (CLMV) summit took place in Naypyitaw on Monday at the Myanmar International Convention Centre 1. According to a joint statement released at the CLMV summit, the appointees from all participating countries reviewed the progress of projects agreed upon in the previous CLMV ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/myanmar-hosts-summit-with-cambodia-laos-and-vietnam-8709
Community defends sisters in sex-slave case
The relatives and neighbors of two sisters who were arrested in Phnom Penh last week over the alleged sexual enslavement of their 13-year-old niece are angry. Members of the mostly Cham Muslim community living along the Tonle Sap river in Russei Keo district’s Chraing Chamreh ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/community-defends-sisters-in-sex-slave-case-91346/
Tourism potential in Kampong Thom
A team of officials at the Kampong Thom provincial Forestry Administration have begun studying the ecotourism potential at the Prey Kbal Bei Community Forest in Ti Pou commune’s Kbal Bei village in Santuk district. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tourism-potential-kampong-thom
Banks see growth in Q1
Loans and deposits at Cambodia’s 31 commercial banks grew 35 per cent and 25 per cent respectively during the first quarter of the year on what insiders called increased soundness in the Kingdom’s financial sector. Outstanding loans at the end of March hit US$4.6 billion, according ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061256735/Business/banks-see-growth-in-q1.html
MoU the key to compliance
Amid a spate of garment factory strikes – including one at Tai Yang Enterprises that has lasted more than a month – Cambodia’s Arbitration Council yesterday said it wanted the industry to renew a memorandum of understanding on industrial action that has been in limbo ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072657645/National-news/mou-the-key-to-compliance.html
Minimum wage to be decided
The National Council on Minimum Wage will decide on a wage increase for workers in the garment, footwear, textile and travel product sectors at a meeting on Thursday after a figure could not be reached at a tripartite meeting on Wednesday. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minimum-wage-be-decided
Captive royal turtles lay first ever eggs
Five endangered royal turtles raised at the Koh Kong Reptile Conservation Centre (KKRCC) have now laid 71 eggs – marking the first time this particular species of turtle has ever laid eggs while in captivity at the centre – according to a press release from ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/captive-royal-turtles-lay-first-ever-eggs
Jabs for kids bring hope for school reopening
Cambodia is tentatively planning to reopen schools – at least at the secondary level – when the vaccination of children aged 12-17 is completed, even though daily transmissions and deaths in other age groups remain high. ...
Voun Dara
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/jabs-kids-bring-hope-school-reopenings
Construction of Serei Sophorn-Poipet road section to begin soon
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) and Japanese construction companies have signed an agreement on the fourth stage of National Road 5 Improvement Project linking Phnom Penh capital to Poipet city, at the border with Thailand. The signing ceremony took place on March ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501047223/construction-of-serei-sophorn-poipet-road-section-to-begin-soon/
SSEZ’s Q1 imports, exports rise 51%
The volume of imports and exports handled at the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) clocked in at $710 million in the first three months of 2022, marking a 50.74 per cent rise year-on-year from $471 million, the operator said in a statement on April 23. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ssezs-q1-imports-exports-rise-51
State revenues from gold production top $15M
Cambodia has netted more than $15 million from gold production as of end-December, which has yielded over 5.3 tonnes of dore bars – a semi-finished product that is smelted at a mine, usually at about 90 per cent purity – since the first commercial gold ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/state-revenues-gold-production-top-15m
SSEZ imports, exports surpass $1.7B in January-August
The volume of imports and exports handled at the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) clocked in at $1.749 billion in the first eight months of 2022, marking a 27.39 per cent rise year-on-year from $1.373 billion, according to the operator. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ssez-imports-exports-surpass-17b-january-august
Commerce ministry, PTT gas stations collaborate on project
The General Department of Trade Promotion at the Ministry of Commerce has cooperated with PTT Cambodia Ltd on a project to boost Khmer product sales at PTT gas stations in the capital and 15 provinces after the project was successfully implemented in 2022. ...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commerce-ministry-ptt-gas-stations-collaborate-project
State revenues from gold production top $15M
Cambodia has netted more than $15 million from gold production as of end-December, which has yielded over 5.3 tonnes of dore bars – a semi-finished product that is smelted at a mine, usually at about 90 per cent purity – since the first commercial gold ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/state-revenues-gold-production-top-15m
National project supports people with disabilities
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has joined forces with ATscale to launch a project thAT aims to help people with disabilities to live healthy, productive, independent, and dignified lives and engage in training activities and the job market by providing various assistive technology (AT). ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/national-project-supports-people-with-disabilities
Unlocking the potential of energy efficiency
Cambodia has pledged to reduce energy consumption by at least 19 percent by 2030 as part of the nation’s clean energy transition. at Clean Energy Week, industry players took to the stage to explore how to achieve this. ...
Marissa Carruthers
https://kiripost.com/stories/unlocking-the-potential-of-energy-efficiency