PM wants authorities to address all public concerns
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on authorities to address all concerns raised by the the public in line with the Kingdom’s efforts to implement sustainable development goals. In a message to mark today’s celebration of the 30th World Population Day under the theme, “25 years ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622492/pm-wants-authorities-to-address-all-public-concerns/
Almost all migrant workers ‘legal and safe’: Ministry
Labour Minister Ith Samheng on Wednesday told a representative of the International Organisation for Migration that the government has successfully legalised almost all Cambodians working overseas and made their situation safer. The minister said the government has always prioritised finding a solution to the migration problems ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50650024/almost-all-migrant-workers-legal-and-safe-ministry/
All factories need infirmaries by year’s end
The Labour Ministry has announced that all factories across the country must have their own infirmary completed by the end of this year, noting that 88 percent of factories having built infirmaries already. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487734/all-factories-need-infirmaries-by-years-end/
All-time high for Securities Exchange trading volume
The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) recorded its highest ever trading volume on Monday, exchanging 2,150,535 shares with a total value of more than $4.43 million, according to a CSX press release. The previous record was 939,498 shares traded on July 5, 2017. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/all-time-high-securities-exchange-trading-volume
Almost all provinces facing drought, gov’t says
Almost every province in Cambodia is facing some level of drought, according to director of the Meteorology Department at the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology Oum Ryna, but only a few provinces were facing a severe shortage of water. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23082/almost-all-provinces-facing-drought--gov---t-says/
All citizens enlisted in crackdown on illegal logging
After setting up the National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) in an attempt to show that the government was trying to stop illegal logging, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on all citizens to join the battle, saying people even had the right to make citizen arrests ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24392/all-citizens-enlisted-in-crackdown-on-illegal-logging/
Cambodia is systematically squashing all forms of dissent
“THE logical approach now”, reckons Naly Pilorge of LICADHO, a Cambodian human-rights watchdog, “would be to continue attacking.” She is talking about a crackdown on all forms of political dissent launched in August by Hun Sen, who has been prime minister for 32 years and ...
The Economist
https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21732850-unions-ngos-and-environmental-activists-are-all-feeling-squeeze-cambodia-systematically
Oil prices hit all-time high in Cambodia
Oil prices in Cambodia hit the highest of all time on Friday, with a liter of premium gasoline going for 1.45 U.S. dollars at all petrol stations in the capital. The price is the highest ever if compared with the peak price of 1.41 U.S. dollars ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-02/15/c_132169890.htm
Direct flights set for all ASEAN this year
CAMBODIA will have direct flights to all ASEAN member states this year in order to promote stronger growth of the tourism sector in the Kingdom, according to the Ministry of Tourism. Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said Cambodia will become fully connected to the ASEAN region ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022861655/Business/direct-flights-set-for-all-asean-this-year.html
King Sihamoni Signs Decree Terminating All Adviser Positions
King Norodom Sihamoni has signed off on a Royal Decree terminating the positions of every ministry-level adviser in the government except for those of Prime Minister Hun Sen in order to allow recently appointed officials to appoint new advisers. The decree, signed October 1 and obtained ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/king-sihamoni-signs-decree-terminating-all-adviser-positions-44720/
‘Killing Fields’ producer: Cambodia needs stability above all
David Puttnam, the U.K.’s trade envoy to Cambodia and the producer of the 1984 film “The Killing Fields,” on Tuesday warned that Cambodia could go the way of war-torn Middle Eastern countries if it fails to make stability a priority. ...
George Wright and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/killing-fields-producer-says-cambodia-needs-stability-above-all-69843/
In One City, a Tale of Two Asean Forums
Government officials did not, and Lao students could not, attend yesterday’s Asean Peoples’ Forum in Phnom Penh, where more than 1,500 members of civil society groups discussed the region’s most pressing issues, including human rights, poverty, land usurping and domestic violence. The three-day forum, which is not ...
Royal buys out one TV to focus on distribution
Cambodian conglomerate Royal Group has acquired the remaining shareholding of One TV from Russian-owned General Satellite Group in a move to boost the distribution of Cambodia’s niche pay for digital terrestrial television (DTT) market. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-buys-out-one-tv-focus-distribution
Siem Reap still one of world’s best destinations
Siem Reap, the home of UNESCO-listed ancient temples, was placed fifth among the world’s top 25 travel destinations in 2015, dropping from second place in the previous year’s ranking by TripAdvisor, a popular online site for travelers and one trusted by tourists choosing destinations to ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23123/siem-reap-still-one-of-world---s-best-destinations/
Gov’t says only one refugee from Nauru coming
Immigration department director Sok Phal said Tuesday that Cambodia will be taking in only one of the two refugees who volunteered to resettle here during a delegation’s visit to Australia’s refugee center on the South Pacific island of Nauru in late September, but did not ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-only-one-refugee-from-nauru-coming-99248/
United Nations: One third of Cambodian women suffer abuse
More than 30 percent of Cambodian women have experienced some form of domestic violence at the hands of their partner at some point in their lives, a report released on Friday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) revealed. ...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33281/united-nations--one-third-of-cambodian-women-suffer-abuse/
No one in union law firing line, says Vannak
The government yesterday assured those in the garment industry that the Trade Union Law, which came into effect in May, is not meant to put pressure on any particular group, but rather to help employers and employees work together in harmony. Labor Ministry secretary of state ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33337/no-one-in-union-law-firing-line--says-vannak/
One Garment Worker Killed, 24 Injured in Truck Accident
A female garment worker died and 24 other workers were injured when the truck in which they were traveling careened into a pond in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district Wednesday morning, police said. More than 30 garment workers were on board a small, open-backed truck in Prek ...
One-Party Parliament Effortlessly Passes $3.56 Billion Budget
Sixty-six National Assembly members of the ruling CPP on Tuesday unanimously approved Cambodia’s $3.56 billion draft budget for 2014 without debate and without even the hint of an opposition, whose 55 lawmakers-elect are boycotting parliament in protest over July’s still-disputed national election result. The ruling party ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-party-parliament-effortlessly-passes-3-56-billion-budget-46913/