<p>City Hall plans to repair the 30-year-old Kandal market in Daun penh district which is in danger of collapse.&nbsp;District Governor Sok penhvuth on Saturday visited the market with officials to discuss a plan and get feedback from vendors. He told vendors that the market is ...p>

<p>The ministries of Interior and Justice and relevant officials are currently reviewing a draft law on cybercrime. Legal experts held a meeting on Wednesday to review its contents at the Ministry of Interior, and chaired by two ministries’ secretaries of state Bun Hun and Lam ...p>

<p>As 179 countries across the globe celebrated World population Day on Thursday, prime Minister Hun Sen announced the government’s commitment to achieving the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. He also acknowledged that Cambodia still faced some major challenges.&nbsp;The 30th World population Day marked the 25th ...p>

<p>Cambodia will conduct a “large-scale” emergency evacuation drill with Thailand, Laos and Vietnam “in near future”, Ministry of National Defence spokesman Chum Socheat told The post on Tuesday. Without specifying the number of soldiers that will be involved in the exercise, Socheat said the drill ...p>

<p>Tycoon Kong Kroeng, a well-known timber trader, was summoned to the Kratie provincial Military police headquarters for questioning on August 15 for his alleged involvement in forestry crimes. The summons was obtained by The post on Tuesday. It was signed by National Military police deputy ...p>

<p>The phnom penh Municipality has approved a feasibility study on an underpass crossing National Road 1.&nbsp;The study will be conducted by Borey peng Hout, a leading local real estate developer. In a meeting Thursday chaired by Khuong Sreng, the governor of phnom penh, the municipality ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Agriculture said the number of contract farming schemes is increasing remarkably, helping enhance productivity and market access for farmers.&nbsp;From January to August, a total of 91 contract farming schemes were inked in various sectors, including rice, sugarcane and livestock production, the ministry ...p>

<p>Cambodia is not a claimant state to the territorial dispute in the South China Sea and, as such, it can afford to have its own stance toward the issue.&nbsp;Stating this exclusively to&nbsp;Khmer Times&nbsp;during a recent interview, Malaysian prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said: “Cambodia has to ...p>

<p>The Social Affairs Ministry yesterday said the government has helped more than 60,000 impoverished families affected by natural disasters since it first launched its mitigation policy in 2014.&nbsp;Lao Veng, deputy director of the ministry’s general technical department, said during a press conference at the Council ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday ordered that waste collection fees be removed from electricity invoices issued by Cambodian national utility company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC). The decision will take effect from January. The move came a day after the government revoked the business licence ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen met with the new ambassadors of the US, Germany and Japan individually at the peace palace in phnom penh on Wednesday. He said the meetings touched on a broad range of issues, from trade to politics. In the afternoon, Hun Sen ...p>

<p>The government, through the Council of Ministers, has decided to abrogate a land swap deal between the Kampong Speu provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Touch Sarin Development Co Ltd. In the initial agreement, ownership titles for 10ha were to be given to ...p>

<p>Changes to unfair wages for garment sector workers has to start at the top, with global brands paying higher prices for clothes, said leaders of an international labor organization at a meeting yesterday. IndustriALL is pushing for this through its ACT program. If successful, it ...p>

<p>Human Rights Watch (HRW), long one of the most strident critics of prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling party, again slammed the government on Wednesday for its failure to uphold human rights in Cam­bodia, with the release of its World Report 2016. ...p>

<p>A landmark decision by Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen could see almost a million hectares of forest reclassified as protected areas in a country with one of the highest deforestation rates in the world.​&nbsp;But the order, circulated on Friday, to transfer control of the sites ...p>

<p>The United States has invited senior Cambodian officials to learn about cybercrime from U.S. experts.&nbsp;Numerous countries and nongovernmental organizations have expressed concern in recent years over the drafting of a Cambodian cybercrime law, which critics say could be used to restrict freedom of expression and ...p>

<p>Officials at the Ministry of Commerce and Council of Ministers announced yesterday that a draft consumer protection law, which is intended to ensure that food and consumer products made domestically or imported into Cambodia are safe, was almost complete. A quarter of the almost 60 ...p>

<p>preah Sihanouk provincial authorities plan to recruit about 30 lifeguards to help prevent drownings across the province’s seven beaches.&nbsp;The move comes in the wake of several tourist drownings; the latest casualties involved a South Korean 40-year-old father, Lee Minseock, and his 4-year-old son, Lee Seungjae, ...p>

<p>Indonesia would consider buying more rice from Cambodia if the price was more competitive, the Indonesian ambassador to Cambodia told reporters after the Indonesian Trade and Tourism promotion 2016 expo in phnom penh on Friday. Ambassador pitono purnomo said that Cambodia and Indonesia signed a ...p>

<p>police patrolling the Thai border yesterday stopped close to 160 Cambodians who were attempting to illegally cross into Thailand from Banteay Meanchey province to work.&nbsp;Chan Mab, the police chief in O’bey Chorn district, told Khmer Times that his men were tipped off that 157 Cambodians ...p>