<p>A senior environment officer for the United Nations Environment programme (UNEp) on Monday urged the Ministry of Environment to prepare a waste management system for plastics and to strive for clean air in the country, particularly in phnom penh. Erik Solheim, the executive director of ...p>

<p>The government has issued a sub-decree to strengthen the prevention of fires in buildings by requiring owners to install fire-preventing systems in their buildings. Issued on Monday and bearing the signature of prime Minister Hun Sen, the sub-decree aims to set a standard for buildings ...p>

<p>The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $90 million loan to help Cambodia strengthen climate resilience and modernize the agriculture sector using advanced technologies. The project will boost the climate resilience of critical agricultural infrastructure while helping improve the competitiveness of ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s first $15 million rice storage and drying facility made its official debut on Tuesday, while three other facilities are set to open later this week, according to insiders. The Battambang province–based rice storage facility, which is operated by Thanakea Srov (Kampuchea) plc, received a ...p>

<p>Tourism officials and industry insiders say the upcoming election is not affecting the flow on tourists into the Kingdom. Kong Sophearak, director of the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Tourism, told Khmer Times that despite this month’s election and the ongoing political rallies throughout ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Tourism has directed restaurants, canteens, KTVs, discos, bars and beer gardens not to sell alcoholic beverages on July 28-29, in conjunction with the national elections. If such business owners sell alcohol on the specified days, they face having their operating licenses suspended ...p>

<p>With help from the Kingdom’s Silk Research Centre, the sleepy sector is showing new signs of life with the first crop​ of worms from the institute’s breeding centre being put to use. Aoral Silk Community was the first farm in Kampong Speu province to sucessfully ...p>

<p>King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday appointed Hun Sen as prime minister with the duty of organising a government for approval by the National Assembly. On his re-appointment, Mr Hun Sen pledged to do his best to serve the whole nation for another five-year term after ...p>

<p>Four natural lakes totalling 300 hectares in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district have been designated state properties while more are set to have the same status. The designation followed illegal encroachment by individuals who intended to claim the lakes as their own, said Kandal provincial governor ...p>

<p>Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel became the first leader of a Western democracy to congratulate prime Minister Hun Sen on his party’s landslide victory in the July 29 national elections, issuing a letter wishing him success over the course of his new term of office. Observers, ...p>

<p>Family-based chicken farming is on the rise in Cambodia, thanks in part to a $1.35 million project funded by the EU, said an NGO, people in Need Cambodia (pin). pin said over the past two years, Cambodian families have raised nearly 90 per cent more ...p>

<p>One of six Cambodian villagers was arrested by Thai soldiers on Sunday night for allegedly crossing the border to log rosewood in Thailand. pov pheng, deputy head of Cambodian-Thai border liaison office at the International O’smach Border Checkpoint, identified the villager as Roeun Sela, 35, ...p>

<p>Cambodia will ink an agreement with China next week to import 30,000 tonnes of salt by the end of November, said co-president of the Kep-Kampot Salt producers Community (KKSpC) Ly Sang. Sang told The post on Monday that the KKSpC will receive Ministry of Industry ...p>

<p>A truck transporting timber overturned on Thursday evening, killing one person and injured another. The incident at Sen Monorom commune, in Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district, has added spark to the ongoing debate on forest crimes in the province. The province’s traffic police bureau director Yoem ...p>

<p>The government has reclassified 35 hectares of state land in phnom penh as state-private land to be developed by a private company, a sub-decree seen by&nbsp;Khmer Times showed yesterday. In accordance with the sub-decree, signed by prime Minister Hun Sen in September, the government converted ...p>

<p>Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities announced they have allowed 750 ethnic Vietnamese families living on the Tonle Sap river to stay until July, after more than 3,000 other Vietnamese families voluntarily relocated to designated areas on higher ground.&nbsp;provincial governor Chhour Chandoeun said authorities made the decision ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered provincial authorities to dig wells for people who are facing shortages of water during the dry season. “Ministry and provincial officials must pay attention to our people,” Mr Hun Sen said during a speech in front of university graduates ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft on Tuesday rejected the Salt producers Community of Kampot-Kep’s (SpCKK’s) proposal to dissolve, saying it needed more time to figure out the issues facing the industry, its spokesman Oum Sotha said. The decision was made during a meeting on ...p>

<p>The Environment Ministry and the United States Agency for International Development yesterday launched the Greening prey Lang project to promote sustainable livelihood and law enforcement in the prey Lang community in four provinces. The project is estimated to be worth $21 million and funding will ...p>

<p>Health experts on Tuesday called on the government to save Cambodian lives by raising tobacco taxes and use the revenues to expand healthcare benefits for the general public.​ The call was made by the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), World Health Organisation (WHO) and ...p>