<p>The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is helping Cambodia conduct a feasibility study on an automated gateway transit system (AGT) to overcome phnom penh’s daily gridlock, caused by traffic congestion, during peak hours.&nbsp;Hideaki Wase, an urban transportation advisor in JICA, told Khmer Times yesterday that ...p>

<p>Authorities in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district have suspended traffic on the Ta Mok bridge since Monday night after the water level rose beyond the warning level because of heavy rain.&nbsp;The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said yesterday that traffic was suspended from ...p>

<p>GIZ Cambodia, a branch of Germany’s international development agency, signed an agreement yesterday with local organic food retailer Khmer Organic Cooperative to provide technical support to develop organic vegetable production and to assist the firm in obtaining certification for its products.&nbsp;The agreement calls for the ...p>

<p>Unions decided to lower their demand for $179.60 per month as the new minimum wage for the garment, footwear and textile industries in 2017, telling employers yesterday that they were dropping the figure by $2 – matching the $2 employers added to their figure earlier ...p>

<p>The high-pitched whine of chainsaws drowned out the sound of birds and bugs you usually hear during any trek through prey Lang forest.&nbsp;What was once an area full of animals scurrying under the shade of gargantuan trees is now largely populated by stumps and ash.&nbsp;The ...p>

<p>The National Committee for Forest Crime prevention has admitted that despite claims from a variety of high-level government officials that deforestation and illegal logging had been stopped entirely, the illegal timber trade was still ravaging the country’s forests.&nbsp;In June, Environment Minister Say Samal claimed the ...p>

<p>Sixty-five people representing 71 families in Chrey Lors and Chhveang communes in Kandal province’s ponhea Leu district protested at the Ministry of Land Management yesterday and requested the ministry’s intervention and resolution of a nearly 10-year-old land dispute with the SKD company.&nbsp;One of the representatives, ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Environment signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday with two Chinese companies to study planting “paulownia-Guotong” – an extremely fast-growing tree used to make furniture and wooden equipment – and practice growing it in Cambodia. Speaking at a workshop on a feasibility ...p>

<p>Companies should embrace the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in their operations and encourage a positive impact through their activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public, said an NGO official yesterday.&nbsp;“CSR-focused businesses would proactively promote public ...p>

<p>A mobile laboratory that will be able to analyze food samples at markets around the country was launched by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday, at the same time the ministry announced it was seeking Chinese support in building testing facilities at land borders to analyze ...p>

<p>phnom penh residents may soon be able to travel to select provinces via boat as the government has pledged to build a waterways public transit system to reduce traffic congestion in the city.&nbsp;public Works and Transports Minister Sun Chanthol said yesterday during the ministry’s annual ...p>

<p>Environmental organizations and civil society groups have expressed concern at plans to build another dam along the Mekong River in Laos and asked the Lao government to suspend the project due to the effects it will have on communities, water flow and fishery resources in ...p>

<p>China is ready to consolidate political trust with the five countries along the Lancang-Mekong River, and further cooperate with them in areas of water resources, drought and flood prevention, industrial capacity, agriculture, and human resources, premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday. Li made the remarks ...p>

<p>Starting on April 1, the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) will continue to bring down the cost of electricity for households and enterprises in phnom penh and a number of provinces, according to a recent announcement by the agency.&nbsp;In a statement released earlier this month ...p>

<p>Union officials have applauded the Ministry of Labor which is preparing to ratify some International Labor Organization’s (ILO) conventions, including two that unions, factory workers and domestic workers have long demanded.&nbsp;The Labor Ministry said on Wednesday that to promote and protect the rights, benefits and ...p>

<p>Recently, Cambodia’s prime minister signed a series of decrees placing the responsibility of prey Lang protection with the Ministry of Environment and provincial governments. It’s a promising change, development professionals and conservation activists tell Devex, as a combination of stronger national and local government cooperation ...p>

<p>On 18 July 2017, the Ministry of Health&nbsp;of Cambodia has posted the health statistic of 2017 first semester report on access to medical consultation and treatment in the country on its official Facebook. The figure presented the total number of top three health services delivery ...p>

<p>On 08 August 2017, the phnom penh Capital Hall issued a guideline for managing&nbsp;public order on the streets&nbsp;as a key factor to deal with traffic issues, promote national honors, and reduce street anarchism.&nbsp;The Capital Hall decided to select 11 main roads as a model priority ...p>

<p>The Cambodia Mine Action Centre has received a grant of more than $170,000 from ApOpO, a rat-demining organization, to support the HeroRat activities in clearing landmines in Siem Reap province. Also, in 2018, CMACC will also receive $1.2 million from the United Nations Development program ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s former opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s reverence for political change is exceeded only by his reverence for himself as the instigator of it. That may be why, this weekend in the United States, he&nbsp;launched the Cambodia National Rescue Movement (CNRM), a new body that is ...p>