Hun Many’s youth group nominated for award
A youth group headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s youngest son has been chosen as the local winner of the Asean People’s Award, which will be given to one recipient from each Asean nation at the regional bloc’s annual summit in Kuala Lumpur later this ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manys-youth-group-nominated-for-award-99101/
Delegates ‘concerned’ about climate treaty
Cambodia’s government and civil society yesterday expressed worry over the lack of progress on finalising the draft text for an international climate change treaty set to be adopted at UN climate talks in Paris (COP 21) after the final round of negotiations concluded in Bonn, ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delegates-concerned-about-climate-treaty
Vietnam gives Kingdom encryption lessons
The Vietnamese military has begun training Cambodia police in cryptography and encryption techniques as part of a national plan to protect “state secrets”.Em Sam An, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Interior, signed a new agreement between the ministry’s cryptography department and the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-gives-kingdom-encryption-lessons
New media pass for journalists
The Information Ministry will use a new form of media pass for journalists working in Cambodia by the end of January in order to easily manage and collect data from journalists. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100766/new-media-pass-journalists/
Road safety: Accidents ‘down over New Year’
The number of traffic accidents over Lunar New Year has decreased since last year due to more widespread knowledge of the upcoming traffic law, government officials and road safety experts say. ...
Mom Kunthear and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/road-safety-accidents-down-over-new-year
Certificate of origin process moves online
The Ministry of Commerce launched its long-awaited online system to generate certificates of origin (COs) yesterday. The new system, developed in partnership with Singapore-based Crimson Logic, is expected to speed up and simplify the process of getting a CO, a document which identifies where a product ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/certificate-orgin-process-moves-online
Medical students protest price of final-year certification exam
About 50 students from the state-run University of Health Sciences protested outside the school Thursday to demand a decrease in the $125 fee they must pay to take their exit examination, which certifies them as medical doctors. The Health Ministry began making medical students sit the ...
Foreigners busted for expired visas
Authorities in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday said they arrested two foreign nationals for overstaying their visas, at least one of whose visa, they said, is two years out of date. ...
Chhay Channyda and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreigners-busted-expired-visas
Twenty-two accused of phone fraud
Twenty-two Chinese nationals were arrested on Saturday in Svay Rieng province on suspicion of operating a phone-based fraud ring, according to police. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/twenty-two-accused-phone-fraud
Pregnant test-taker may get 2nd shot
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is spearheading calls for a pregnant woman rushed out of this year’s national exam after going into labour to be allowed to re-sit the test amid strict reforms, which include no second chances for those who “fail”.Twenty-five-year-old Pich Sam Ath ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pregnant-test-taker-may-get-2nd-shot
The CDC approves investment projects worth $13.9 Million
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved four investment projects with a combined capital investment valued at $13.9 million and expected to create 3,315 jobs. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/711874/the-cdc-approves-investment-projects-worth-13-9-million/
Call for all lawyers to provide free services to the poor
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has issued a letter calling on all lawyers to volunteer free legal services to the poor. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50811786/call-for-all-lawyers-to-provide-free-services-to-the-poor/
UYFC holding eight-day celebration in Siem Reap
Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC) of Siem Reap yesterday kicked off an eight-day Christmas and New Year celebration aimed at boosting tourism in the province. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501208548/uyfc-holding-eight-day-celebration-in-siem-reap/
$9.6 billion 2023 national budget approved
The Council of Ministers has approved a draft budget for 2023 of 39,206,205 million riels, or $9.6 billion, a 13 percent increase on 2022. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/96-billion-2023-national-budget-approved
2014 Draft Budget Reaches Assembly, Still Under Wraps
The National Assembly’s 12-member permanent committee will take its first look at the country’s $3.54 billion draft budget for 2014 on Monday, though officials are still refusing to offer a breakdown of how the money will be spent. The draft, which allocates more than $400 million ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/2014-draft-budget-reaches-assembly-still-under-wraps-46514/
Firms that list to see tax cut
New and existing companies listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) will have their taxes halved by the Cambodian government, a move that is being labelled as a generous attempt to boost activity on the bourse. The sub-decree, which was signed off by Prime Minister Hun ...
Eddie Morton and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-list-see-tax-cut
SECC prepared to list shares of holding firms
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) is drafting a prakas on public offerings of equity securities for holding companies to allow them to issue shares on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) in a move towards diversification and development of the nation’s capital markets. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/secc-prepared-list-shares-holding-firms
Briq enters the Cambodia market
Creative agency Briq has expanded to Cambodia, its second office globally after first launching in Singapore four years ago. Briq International Cambodia will offer marketing and communication solutions – creative, production, digital services, strategic planning and research, content development, public relations, media and activation. ...
Marketing Interactive News Staff
http://www.marketing-interactive.com/briq-enters-cambodia-market/
Cambodia rejects suspicions reversal on us base upgrade signals plans to host Chinese military assets
Cambodia’s Minister of Defense Tea Banh on Monday dismissed suspicions that his government had reneged on accepting an offer from the U.S. to upgrade buildings at a naval base in Preah Sihanouk province because it plans to host Chinese military assets at the site. In a ...
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/base-07012019152820.html
Camko city denies land sale
After a real estate agent was convicted of illegally selling plots of land within Camko City development project, a senior figure at developer World City stressed yesterday that at present no land was for sale and warned that any offers were fraudulent. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31193/camko-city-denies-land-sale/