Health Ministry highlights rice wine dangers
The Ministry of Health’s communicable disease control department has produced a short video in advance of next month’s Khmer New Year warning revellers of the dangers of consuming rice wine, which has been linked to multiple deaths. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113503/health-ministry-highlights-rice-wine-dangers/
Ministry announces yearly ICT prize of $27K
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications announced the opening of the fourth annual ICT Awards on Wednesday, calling for organisations to pitch products and vie for prizes worth $27,000. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-announces-yearly-ict-prize-27k
Ministry chided over factories
Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An has ordered the Industry Ministry to be stricter in its implementation and monitoring of industry and technical standards to ensure the safety of workers involved. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37610/ministry-chided-over-factories/
Unsafe fuel stations must close, says government
Mines and Energy minister Suy Sem has contacted city and provincial governors and ordered them to immediately close down any operation which does not have safety certificates. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37651/unsafe-fuel-stations-must-close--says-government/
Health Ministry issues hot weather warning
The Health Ministry has warned all Cambodians to drink lots of water and keep cool, as hot season temperatures near 40 0C. The ministry’s Communicable Disease Control department also advised the public to avoid alcohol and drink only boiled or filtered water to prevent food poisoning ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37694/health-ministry-issues-hot-weather-warning/
Phnom Penh air quality levels disputed
The first readings of the capital’s PM2.5 concentration, a major indicator of air quality, show that levels of the harmful particulates are “still low”, said Thiv Sophearith, chief of the Ministry of Environment’s Air Quality, Noise and Vibration office, though an environmental specialist yesterday challenged ...
Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-air-quality-levels-disputed
China to buy more Cambodian rubber
China is expected to purchase 300,000 tonnes of rubber from Cambodia in 2018, according to a commerce ministry statement. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40122/china-to-buy-more-cambodian-rubber/
Prospects bright for solar in Kep
The Ministry of Environment has announced its support for a new 10-megawatt solar power development project in the coastal province of Kep to be spearheaded by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a South Korea-based organisation set up by the UN in 2012 to chart ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prospects-bright-solar-kep
Anti-drug campaign set to target monks
Monks have become the latest target of the government’s anti-drug campaign, as Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced he would be seeking ways to wipe out abuse of illegal substances in the clergy. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5075391/anti-drug-campaign-set-target-monks/
Police hold 200 Chinese in scam
About 200 Chinese people were arrested yesterday in two Poipet guesthouses in a bust on a scam operation that targeted civil servants in China with blackmail, according to police. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-hold-200-chinese-scam
Municipality monitoring pawn shops
Phnom Penh Governor Khoung Sreng said the municipality was half-way through a two-week crack-down on pawn shops in order to prevent the sale of stolen goods at the increasing number of second-hand establishments across the capital. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/municipality-monitoring-pawn-shops
Hatchlings bring hope for endangered ducks
Nine eggs of the globally endangered white-winged duck have successfully hatched after a nest was found last month in Preah Vihear province’s Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080411/hatchlings-bring-hope-endangered-ducks/
Government rejects pilot project for offenders to do community service
A senoir Justice Ministry official said a pilot project to increase bail approvals and community service sentencing for small-time offenders would be impossible, weeks after the project was announced during the visit of a United Nations human rights official. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-rejects-pilot-project-offenders-do-community-service
Terms settled on deal to supply rice to Bangladesh: CRF
Cambodia and Bangladesh have finalised terms on a massive rice deal that could see up to 1 million tonnes of rice purchased from the Kingdom over the next five years, with the first shipment due to begin by November, a source close to the deal ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/terms-settled-deal-supply-rice-bangladesh-crf
Handful of protesters arrested at US Embassy
Around six people were arrested outside the United states Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday for attempting to stage a small protest, but were released later in the afternoon after agreeing to not demonstrate again without a City Hall permit. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/handful-protesters-arrested-us-embassy
Sausage case producer raided
Authorities shut down a large sausage casing manufacturer in Kampong Speu province after discovering its owners had been operating illegally for two years and were using forbidden chemical substances. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sausage-case-producer-raided
Report shows decrease in fires in past year
The Interior Ministry’s department of fire control officials said yesterday that fires killed 22 and injured 12 in 2017. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098592/report-shows-decrease-fires-past-year/
Aid boost for customs development
The Japanese government on Tuesday pledged to donate two patrol boats to the General Department of Customs and Excise. The announcement was made in a meeting between Economy Minister Aun Ponmonirath and Iizuka Atsushi, director-general of Japan’s Customs Bureau. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101351/aid-boost-customs-development/
Does Cambodia’s New Opposition Party Really Matter?
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 launched the Cambodia National Rescue Movement (CNRM), a new body that is ...
David Hutt
https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/does-cambodias-new-opposition-party-really-matter/
Despite the lofty goals of the Paris Peace Agreement, 25 years on, Prime Minister Hun Sen has achieved his own
Amid the winding-down of the Cold War in early December 1987, Prime Minister Hun Sen and Prince Norodom Sihanouk met in the quiet northern French village of Fère-en-Tardenois for their first talks on ending Cambodia’s intractable civil war. It was an overture that opened the ...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/well-always-have-paris-peace-accords-25-years-later