Anti-capitol boycott drawing increased support after attack
A boycott of the Capitol Bus Company organised by former drivers and their supporters is picking up steam online after a brutal beatdown took place at a protest last week. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-capitol-boycott-drawing-increased-support-after-attack
Agriculture Ministry okays e-certification
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is preparing for the implementation of shifting some certification registration online, through its e-government services, with the help of the Chinese government. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32506/agriculture-ministry-okays-e-certification/
PP Capital Hall launches online services at one window office
To enhance the efficiency in providing public services to businesspeople and people in general in the digital era, the Phnom Penh Capital Hall yesterday launched an online administration service delivery and application form receipt at the city administration’s one window service office, a statement issued ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501356265/pp-capital-hall-launches-online-services-at-one-window-office/
Two more provinces to be able to issue certificates of origin
Producers, traders and exporters in Ratanakkiri and Tbong Khmum can now apply online for certificates of origin for their exports, submitting applications through the website of their respective provincial commerce department. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505079/two-more-provinces-to-be-able-to-issue-certificates-of-origin/
Number of factory openings up last year
Last year saw a notable increase in the number of factory openings, with 178 new plants coming online, 28 more than in 2017, according to the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50569629/number-of-factory-openings-up-last-year/
Wing to process business registry fees
The Ministry of Commerce has tapped Wing (Cambodia) Ltd Specialised Bank to be the fourth financial institution designated to handle payments for companies incorporated using the ministry’s online registration system. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wing-process-business-registry-fees
Siem Reap ranked one of world's best travel spots
Siem Reap has been placed second among the world’s top 25 travel destinations in 2015, jumping seven places from last year’s ranking, as judged by leading online travel site TripAdvisor. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/siem-reap-ranked-one-worlds-best-travel-spots
Chamkar Mon water treatment plant to be ready by November 2019
The water treatment plant in Chamkar Mon will come online next year, with construction work to expand the facility expected to end November 2019, according to the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...
Automation key to customs efficiency
Private-sector enterprises urged Cambodia’s Customs Department yesterday to introduce an online application and payment system for shipments, rather than the manual method used currently that eats into time and resources. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/automation-key-customs-efficiency
Social education platform focuses on learning for Cambodian youth
The homegrown Reachsa app aims to build a community of lifelong learners and inspire young Cambodians to read and share more knowledge online. ...
Sours Thida
https://kiripost.com/stories/social-education-platform-focuses-on-learning-for-cambodian-youth
Dueling missives press Obama, Cambodian PM on human rights
More than 100 Southeast Asian parliamentarians are urging President Barack Obama to address regional human rights issues during his meetings with ASEAN leaders next week, according to an open letter posted online Thursday. ...
Government considers delay of business registration
Fewer than half of Cambodia’s 42,000 registered businesses have met the government’s deadline for reregistering online, prompting the Ministry of Commerce to consider another extension, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-considers-delay-business-registration-118856/
Vattanac launches internet banking
Following the recent trend in Cambodian banks starting online banking services for their customers, Vattanac Bank announced last week that it was also now offering the service. ធនាគារវឌ្ឍនៈសម្ភោធកម្មវិធីសេវាធនាគារតាមអ៊ិនធឺណែត ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31472/vattanac-launches-internet-banking/
Cyber bill raises concerns
Cambodia’s highly secretive draft law on cybercrime, which has never been released publicly, seeks to criminalise online content that “slanders or undermines” government agencies, ministries or officials or affects “political cohesiveness”, a copy obtained by the Post reveals. The law, which was first announced in May ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cyber-bill-raises-concerns
Petition to drop charges against former reporters
Local journalists have launched an online campaign calling on the courts to consider dropping charges against two former Radio Free Asia journalists, Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin, who were arrested by authorities in November. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108992/petition-to-drop-charges-against-former-reporters/
Cambodians take to the web to make internet law suggestions
Hundreds of Cambodian internet users have made their feelings unknown on their government’s controversial plants to regulate the country’s internet, after a local civil society group invited public comment online. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodians-take-to-the-web-to-make-internet-law-suggestions/2888283.html
Expressway planned from Saigon to Cambodian border
Vietnam is considering the construction of an expressway to link Ho Chi Minh City to neighboring Tay Ninh Province with investment of 693 million U.S. dollars, local online newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) News reported Thursday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15269/expressway-planned-from-saigon-to-cambodian-border/
Loans to fight LGBT poverty
LGBT Cambodians driven into poverty by discrimination, and sometimes forced to sell sex to survive, may soon enjoy the benefits of a new online campaign designed to raise money to help them rebuild their lives. ...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loans-fight-lgbt-poverty
Transgender Cambodians at higher risk for HIV infection
The rate of HIV infection among Cambodia’s transgender women is nearly six times higher than the national average, according to the results of a 2012 survey published in the online journal PLOS ONE this month. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/transgender-cambodians-at-higher-risk-for-hiv-infection-111517/
Election body releases complete preliminary election results
The National Election Committee (NEC) posted complete preliminary results online on Wednesday evening after receiving missing forms from 344 communes, an official said, with the final tallies from Sunday’s commune elections expected before June 25. ...