Reforming public financial management an ongoing task
Reforming public financial management will not be effective unless there are enough qualified human resources at ministries and institutions, the prime minister said yesterday. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23019/reforming-public-financial-management-an-ongoing-task/
Cambodia: Is Adidas exploiting workers?
Am Phalla sits outside the factory gates of apparel maker Shen Zhou (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., sharing a lunch of rice, vegetables and fried fish with coworkers. She has been sewing clothes at Shen Zhou for a little less than a year, but is unaware that the ...
Draft law on accountability and abuse of government authority in the works: SCC
The Supreme Consultative Council drafted a law on The violation of duties, aiming to punish government officials, including those in The military, who infringe on Their duty to serve The public or abuse Their power to drive personal interests. ...
Information Ministry to expand monitoring on social media
The Ministry of Information will expand its monitoring of social media posts to include more platforms. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807854/information-ministry-to-expand-monitoring-on-social-media/
Gov’t urges sauce makers to increase iron content
Manufacturers of soy and fish sauces should fortify the products with iron in order to improve Cambodians’ health, government officials said yesterday. During a workshop on iron fortification, Sat Samy, secretary of state at the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts, called on producers to help combat ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-urges-sauce-makers-to-increase-iron-content-67579/
Central bank mulls its inflation response
Cambodia’s central bank is looking to tighten monetary policy to slow an inflation rate that could hit 8 to 9 percent this year, National Bank of Cambodia Director General and Spokeswoman Nguon Sokha said yesterday. Increases in commodity prices and petroleum has led to rising prices ...
Social services to be improved
The government, Hagar International and Save The Children are teaming up to address The country’s lack of social workers, hoping to beef up The social service sector and deal with The growing number of children in residential care facilities – informally known as orphanages. ...
Jonathan Greig
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35326/social-services-to-be-improved/
43 gambling locations were cracked down on the first 21 days of the 2024
An Interior Ministry official said that for the first 21 days of 2024, the authorities of the Ministry of Interior had cracked down on gambling in 43 locations and sent 72 suspects to court. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501427441/43-gambling-locations-were-cracked-down-on-the-first-21-days-of-the-2024/
Press release: MoI will conduct the second round of consultation on the amendments to the LANGO
On 28 November 2019, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) posted a press release on the organizing the second round of consultation meeting on the amendments to the Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organization (LANGO), which will be happened on 03rd December 2019 at the “Building ...
Ministry of Interior
Press release in response to the confirmation on the suspension of the importation of 4 types of fish
On 08 February 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries issued a press release responding to the press release dated 8 January 2021 on the confirmation on the suspension of the importation of 4 types of fish including Pangasius Krempfi, Spot Pangasius, Catfish, and ...
Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries
Statement by Cambodian Alliance of Trade Union (CATU) in respond to the statement of the employers' association (TAFTAC) and maintain the position of supporting the report issued by CENTRAL, CATU and CCAWDU
On 25 June 2024, the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Union (CATU) issued a statement in respond to the statement of the employers’ association (TAFTAC) and maintained the position of supporting the report issued by CENTRAL, CATU and CCAWDU on their official social media site.According to ...
Cambodian Alliance of Trade Union
Floods a Yearly Trial for Those Living Along Mekong
TBONG KHUM DISTRICT, Kompong Cham province – From November to May, the Mekong River is quiet. So is life for the hundreds of thousands of people who live along its banks, which in Cambodia forms a 155,000 square km basin covering six provinces and Phnom ...
Aun Pheap and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-a-yearly-trial-for-those-living-along-mekong-44143/
Handover ceremony of the ASEAN Chairmanship to the Kingdom of Cambodia
On 28 October 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on handover ceremony of the ASEAN Chairmanship to the Kingdom of Cambodia, 28 October 2021, via videoconference. Samdech Techo Prime Minister announced Cambodia’s chairmanship theme for 2022 “ASEAN A.C.T.: ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Developer Plans Housing On Former Airport Site
The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) is planning to develop a 400-unit apartment complex on The former site of The Ratanakkiri provincial airport, an official with knowledge of The project said yesterday. Ly Teang, Banlung City branch manager for Canadia Bank, whore investors are The ...
Investment from Vietnam hits a dry patch: CDC
Vietnamese investors shied away from the Cambodian market during the first half of the year as the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) failed to register a single qualified investment project (QIP) from Vietnam during that period for the first time in its 22-year ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/investment-vietnam-hits-dry-patch-cdc
A Dam Conundrum: Xayaburi Project Could Help Laos And Thailand, Hurt Cambodia And Vietnam
Officials in Laos announced that construction Of the controversial Xayaburi dam will begin with a kickOff ceremony at the construction site Wednesday. Protests from human rights activists and environmental groups have delayed the project for 18 months, but the joint Laotian and Thai project is apparently ...
Cambodia's first commercial train begins operation
Cambodia’s modern railway system on Friday commenced commercial rail operations on the 256- kilometer”Southern Line” between the capital city of Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville Port. the launching was made after years of renovation with the financial support from the Asian Development Bank and development partners. “ADB ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/28/c_132069644.htm
Planned dams threaten Cambodia’s food security
The planned construction of 88 hydroelectric dams in The lower Mekong basin by 2030 will cause food security challenges in Cambodia, experts say. “Cambodia is going to pay The highest price for dam development basin-wide, to The point of affecting The food security of its 80 ...
Gant Daily News Staff
http://gantdaily.com/2014/07/28/planned-dams-threaten-cambodias-food-security/
Pheaktra calls for traditional media return
Minister of Information Neth Pheaktra has reiterated the importance of traditional media, noting that it has an important role to play in a digital context, where true and false information are often mixed together. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pheaktra-calls-for-traditional-media-return
New Cambodian Land Disputes Despite Moratorium on Key Concessions
At least 41 new land disputes were reported in Cambodia last year despite a government moratorium on the widespread grant of so-called economic land concessions, a rights group said Thursday. the new cases in 17 locations—including the capital Phnom Penh—added to the 223 land conflicts previously ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/disputes-01302014194318.html