China okays Cambodia rice
<p>Cambodian milled rice has passed quality and food hygiene tests for export to China. A delegation of Chinese experts inspected the quality and safety at 27 rice mills during a week-long visit, said Hean Vanhan, director-general of the agriculture department at the Agriculture Ministry. The result of ...p>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32940/china-okays-cambodia-rice/
Low-income housing project to start
<p>Construction will start next month on a project to build affordable public housing for the lower middle class, low-income earners and state workers. Urban planning and Land Management Minister Chea Sophara said the price of a home in the project would be between $20,000 and $25,000. ...p>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32992/low-income-housing-project-to-start/
Experts push for agricultural insurance
<p>Experts are pushing for agricultural insurance to be employed in the near future to help strengthen the agriculture sector, particularly the rice sector with its plummeting prices and limited access to foreign markets. Sok puthyvuth, president of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), said on Friday that ...p>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32993/experts-push-for-agricultural-insurance/
Signing of agreement on the project for effective implementation of EIA and pollution control through the capacity development of MOE
<p>On 06 March 2017, the Royal Government of Cambodia through the Ministry of Environment (MOE) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Cambodia Office has signed an Agreement on “The project for Effective Implementation of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) and pollution Control through the Capacity Development ...p>
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Push to reduce chemical dependency
<p>The Ministry of Agriculture is working to develop a procedural framework for the trade and use of biological control agents (BCAs) in agriculture in an effort to improve crop yields, protect consumer health and ensure continued access to key export markets. Regulation could also create ...p>
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/push-reduce-chemical-dependency
Ministry of Environment offically lunched the lexicon of climate change in Khmer
<p>On 25 April 2017, Ministry of Environment officially lunched the lexicon of climate change in Khmer, in both printed and electronic version. To download the app for mobile, please find the CCLexicon in Appstore (For iOS) and play Store (For Android). To view through website, please ...p>
National council for sustainable development and National council of Khmer language
Ruling party, opposition both claim commune election win
<p>A lack of official results did not stop both major political parties from claiming victory in Cambodia’s highest-stakes and highest-turnout local elections to date on Sunday, with the Cpp citing its dominance in winning commune chief seats and the CNRp boasting of huge opposition gains ...p>
Ben Paviour, Van Roeun and Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ruling-party-opposition-both-claim-commune-election-win-130972/
NEC finishes complaints; voter registration prep continues
<p>The National Election Committee (NEC) can now turn its attention to preparations for next year’s national election, which are already underway as voter registration will start in September, said Khorn Keo Mono, director of the NEC’s communications department. Mr. Keo Mono said on Tuesday that ...p>
Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-finishes-complaints-voter-registration-prep-continues-131568/
Smooth sailing for port’s IPO
<p>Earlier this month Sihanoukville Autonomous port (pAS) became the fifth listed firm on the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX) following an initial public offering that raised $27 million. The post’s Brian Ng sat down with Shuzo Shikata, CEO of SBI Royal Securities (SBIR), the sole underwriter ...p>
Brian Ng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smooth-sailing-ports-ipo
Press release on the preparation of state land titles for two protected areas
<p>On 4 September 2017, the Ministry of Environment issued a press release on the collaborates between Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Land Management, Urban planning and Construction to prepare state land titles for two protected areas including “peam Krasaop Wildlife Sanctuary” in Koh Kong ...p>
Ministry of Environment
Study finds worm more harmful than thought
<p>Researchers have found that a little-studied variety of threadworm – strongyloides stercoralis – previously thought to be relatively benign is associated with “significant morbidity” in rural Cambodia. peter Odermatt, a professor at Basel University in Switzerland who headed the team, said the researchers had been ...p>
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-finds-worm-more-harmful-thought
Two men arrested, freed over Cardamom logging
<p>Two men were arrested Friday by pursat provincial Military police for allegedly logging in a protected area, only to be released yesterday at the request of the provincial Military police commander, officials said yesterday. The men were identified as Oum Ngat Say, 18, and Sou ...p>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-men-arrested-freed-over-cardamom-logging
Ministry warns Lango delinquents to comply
<p>The Ministry of Interior has issued a first warning to associations and NGOs that failed to submit the requisite reports to the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Finance before the deadline on September 30. According to a press release issued on Monday, only 648 ...p>
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-warns-lango-delinquents-comply
ADB signs $180M in loans to Cambodia
<p>The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday signed a $180 million package of loans and grants to Cambodia that are meant to improve the country’s roads, water supply and small-scale farms. One $70 million loan will go towards improving 147-kilometres’ worth of flood-prone stretches of National Road ...p>
Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-signs-180m-loans-cambodia
Saudi loan to develop workforce
<p>The Ministry of Labour hopes to use a new $20 million loan from Saudi Arabia to develop the country’s workforce. Yousef Ibrahim Al-Bassam, vice president and managing director of the Saudi Fund for Development, led a delegation to phnom penh yesterday to discuss plans for ...p>
Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/saudi-loan-develop-workforce
New national holiday to remember victims
<p>The government has set May 20 as a National Day of Remembrance, an official national holiday to commemorate the victims and suffering that occurred during the Democratic Kampuchea regime. According to a government sub-decree signed by prime Minister Hun Sen on February 14, the holiday was ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109655/new-national-holiday-remember-victims/
PM orders investigation into Koh Kong land grab
<p>prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the Koh Kong provincial governor to clarify reports that state mangrove forests in the province have been grabbed and filled with sand to create land for development. Speaking during the closing ceremony for an annual conference on decentralisation, Mr Hun ...p>
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50110227/pm-orders-investigation-koh-kong-land-grab/
US cuts aid to Cambodia with aim to ‘urge government to reconsider its current course’
<p>The White House is cutting aid to several assistance programs in Cambodia due to “recent setbacks to democracy”, it announced late Tuesday. Some programs supporting Cambodia’s Tax Department, military and local government will be cut or reduced “to ensure that American taxpayer funds are not being ...p>
Daphne Chen and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-cuts-aid-cambodia-aim-urge-government-reconsider-its-current-course
‘Thousands of tonnes’ of weapons imported: PM
<p>prime Minister Hun Sen bragged yesterday about importing “thousands or tens of thousands” of tonnes of weaponry overnight in the run-up to a major joint military exercise with China. “Samdech Tea Banh, the minister of defence, he does not transport flowers,” the premier said to an ...p>
Ben Sokhean and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thousands-tonnes-weapons-imported-pm
Spike in migrant worker numbers
<p>Nearly 100,000 Cambodians were sent to work overseas last year, an increase of 12.6 percent compared with the previous year that saw about 85,000 workers migrate, according to a Ministry of Labour report. The report, issued yesterday, said that last year Cambodia sent 96,338 labourers ...p>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/113661/spike-in-migrant-worker-numbers/
