Water utility says order to drop rates will not dilute its revenues
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s order for the capital’s water supplier to lower its rates and compensate customers for charges incurred under a new payment scheme introduced in May will not have a significant impact on the company’s revenue or growth plans, a finance officer at ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/water-utility-says-order-drop-rates-will-not-dilute-its-revenues
Request all transport companies to instruct their drivers not to use drugs and to stick anti-drug stickers on their trucks
On 29 September 2017, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport asked all transport companies to instruct their drivers not to use drugs such as marijuana, morphine, heroin, cocaine or crystal meth and to stick anti-drug stickers on their trucks as part of a ministry campaign to ...
Ministry of Public Works and Transport
Japanese investors eye the Cambodian market
Ith Sam Heng, the Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, met yesterday with Yoshio Kondo, the director of Procast Asia, who is leading a delegation of businessmen from the Toukaizaikai Association, an organisation that has more than 300 member companies in the manufacturing industry and ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087659/japanese-investors-eye-cambodian-market/
CDC to post project decisions on Facebook
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), the government body in charge of approving large-scale investments, has taken to Facebook to officially announce its decisions on investment projects, a move that a government official claimed yesterday will provide more transparent access for investors and ...
Hor Kimsay and Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-post-project-decisions-facebook
Hundreds of truck owners fined
More than 300 overloaded trucks were fined nearly $135,000 last month, causing the Transport Ministry to call for stricter action to protect the country’s roads.A Transport Ministry report said a committee comprised of ministry officials and law enforcement officers seized 307 overloaded trucks, resulting in ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101342/hundreds-truck-owners-fined/
Judges, prosecutors ‘disciplined’
Twelve judges and five prosecutors were verbally “disciplined” yesterday during a meeting of the Supreme Council of Magistracy presided over by King Norodom Sihamoni. Sam Prachea Manith, spokesman for the council, declined to name the people singled out. “This is for a small mistake that they forgot ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judges-prosecutors-disciplined
China gifts medical equipment to state-run military hospital
China’s Ministry of Defence yesterday provided 24 kinds of medical equipment to the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital to support heart and blood treatments. During a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Lieutenant General Ly Sovan, director of Preah Ket Mealea Hospital, said the hospital has often ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50110602/china-gifts-medical-equipment-state-run-military-hospital/
Government defers logging permits
The Council of Ministers has ordered a temporary suspension to permits for clearing and transporting timber from the reservoir area of the Lower Sesan II Dam until after the upcoming elections in July, with a government official yesterday saying illegal logging was “out of control”, ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-defers-logging-permits
Prison department dismisses rights violations report
The General Department of Prisons has dismissed a report made by rights group Licadho which claimed there are violations of basic human rights in the Kingdom’s prisons. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50664743/prison-department-dismisses-rights-violations-report/
Singapore tech to increase national tax revenue
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) is sourcing for an advanced IT system in Singapore to modernise the Kingdom’s tax system and improve its collection process and efficiency. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/singapore-tech-increase-national-tax-revenue
UNITEL's data roaming services cover Cambodia and Mauritius
The Angolan mobile company of UNITEL expanded its data roaming services to Cambodia and Mauritius, through accords established with the operators of Orange and Latelz. According to a press note from UNITEL that reached Angop on Monday, with these partnerships, UNITEL is enabling for its customers ...
As Insurance Claims Grow, So Do Premiums
The total amount of claims paid out by local insurance firms during the first nine months of the year have tripled to more than $11 million compared to the same period in 2011 According to data from General insurance Association of Cambodia (GIAC), paid claims grew ...
UN Rights Envoy Warns Against Continued Landlessness
Surya Subedi, the UN’s human rights envoy to Cambodia, expressed concern Friday over land concessions provided to private companies that are forcing people from their land in the provinces. “the royal government has the primary responsibility for respecting, protecting and fulfilling the rights of its ...
Passenger Traffic At International Airports Continues Upward Trend
Passenger traffic at Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanouk international airports saw a combined 18.9% growth in May 2012, with passenger numbers totaling 283,000, the report from SCA, society concession airport said on June 7. It adds: ‘This brings the year-to-date passenger arrivals and departures to 1.89 million, a sterling 21.8% jump.’ ...
Extraction ahead of schedule
Mesco Gold has established drilling and exploration resources at the Phum Syrang prospect in Ratanakkiri province, targeting extraction by late 2014, three to six months ahead of schedule, according to a statement released by Angkor Gold, which holds the land concession. The statement said Mesco had ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030861824/Business/extraction-ahead-of-schedule.html
Cambodian beer production and consumption on the rise
Inside a mIni-mart near Phnom Penh’s Olympic stadium, the shelves holdIng the beer for sale have a more Cambodian feel to them these days. While imported brand like Thailand’s SIngha and Japan’s Asahi, used to take up valuable retail real estate, now homegrown brands like Angkor ...
New Cambodian rice federation elects president
The Federation of Cambodia Rice Exporters, a new government-backed association of rice exporters which aims to bring together all the players in the rice sector to boost exports, formed on June 21 and elected Kim Savuth, president of Khmer Food Co., as its first president. The election saw Kim Savuth receiving 53 of ...
China provides largest loan to Cambodia
China is the largest provider of financial assistance to Cambodia for agriculture and irrigation development in the last three years, Cambodia’s Minister of Finance Keat Chhon said on Tuesday. Since 2010 to date, he said, Cambodia has received a total loan of $561 million and a ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-07/17/content_15591814.htm
Cambodia has Annual Bunker Sales Potential of 720,000 mt
Bunker supplier Go4 Bunker Denmark’s new Cambodian bunker venture, Go4 Bunker (Cambodia) Co., Ltd (Go4BC), has said that Cambodia has an annual bunker sales potential of 720,000 metric tonnes (mt). The comments came during the firm’s official opening ceremony at Hotel Cambodiana in Phnom Penh, which ...
http://shipandbunker.com/news/world/596768-cambodia-has-annual-bunker-sales-potential-of-720000-mt
Wage hike forces Thai firms hire Cambodians
Thai factories have opted to hire Cambodian workers under a memorandum of understanding between Cambodia and Thailand after the Bt300 minimum wage policy came into effect for Thai workers across the country. A total of 154 Cambodians – 118 men and 36 women – with work ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Firms-hire-Cambodian-workers-under-MoU-30197348.html