Prahok fish season bountiful
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina expressed his admiration for this year’s fishing season haul, which has seen fishermen catching up to three tonnes of fish in less than an hour, something he credits to the government’s efforts at preventing illegal fishing and ...
Orm Bunthoeurn and Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prahok-fish-season-bountiful
Commercial Court could function ‘as early as 2024’: Justice ministry officials
A Ministry of Justice official said that a Commercial Court could be established and put into action as soon as 2024. Addressing the February 2 “AmCham Business Law Conclave: Critical Updates That You Need to Know for 2023” in Phnom Penh, justice ministry secretary of state ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commercial-court-could-function-early-2024-justice-ministry-officials
Cambodia needs $30B for 150 prioritised infrastructure projects
Cambodia has sought partners to raise about $30 billion of investment funds to implement 150 hard and soft infrastructure projects that the government has classified as priorities to place in the Comprehensive Intermodal Comprehensive Master Plan (CIT-MP) for the next ten years, said a release ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501278432/cambodia-needs-30b-for-150-prioritised-infrastructure-projects/
Kingdom seeks partners for planned Mondulkiri airport
Cambodia is looking for partners for the development of a planned airport in Mondulkiri province south of Sen Monorom town after PowerChina International Group Ltd (PIG) withdrew during the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent negotiations with other foreign companies fell through, according to a senior civil ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-seeks-partners-planned-mondulkiri-airport
NagaWorld dispute drags on with 25th meeting
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training remains unable to find a solution to the labour dispute between NagaWorld and its dismissed employees, while civil society organisations call on the ministry to end its role as mediator and for the use of existing legal mechanisms ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nagaworld-dispute-drags-25th-meeting
Minister lauds cash support to all factory worker mothers, kids
Since 2018, the government has provided cash support to more than 356,000 female factory workers who gave birth. More than $35 million was shared with the mothers of over 358,000 children, said Ith Samheng, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training. ...
Sem Pisey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-lauds-cash-support-all-factory-worker-mothers-kids
Exports to Vietnam swell 36% in Jan-Feb
Cambodian goods exports to Vietnam amounted to $491.180 million in the first two months of 2023 – surging by 36.12 per cent over the same time last year – accounting for 45.28 per cent of bilateral trade, jumping up by 7.30 percentage points year-on-year, according ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-vietnam-swell-36-jan-feb
FAO launch PEARL agriculture initiative
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced a partnership with Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Environment to launch the Public-Social-Private Partnerships for Ecologically-Sound Agriculture and Resilient Livelihood in Northern Tonle Sap Basin (PEARL). ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fao-launch-pearl-agriculture-initiative
ISF Cambodia, the organization dedicated to ending child poverty
Children make up nearly 35% of Cambodia’s population, and 48.7% of these children (ages 0-17) live in multidimensional poverty. Children have the right to an education, but many schools in Cambodia are structurally and hygienically inadequate. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501386808/isf-cambodia-the-organization-dedicated-to-ending-child-poverty/
Gov’t to pump in $450M to upgrade public services
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is preparing to inject a budget of nearly $450 million to improve healthcare services, covering up to 9 million people across the country as well as other public services, especially the poor and vulnerable families which are in line ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501435682/govt-to-pump-in-450m-to-upgrade-public-services/
Sihanoukville investors seeking ‘special benefits’ can apply now
Business people and investors who wish to receive ‘special benefits’ as part of the newly launched special programme to promote investments in Preah Sihanouk Province can file their applications now before the Preah Sihanouk Investment Promotion Working Group, according to a statement issued by the ...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501437050/sihanoukville-investors-seeking-special-benefits-can-apply-now/
Worker wage hike negotiations begin today
A meeting to negotiate the new minimum wage for next year for the garment, travel goods and bag industries will start today with 51 representatives of the National Council on Minimum Wage (NCMW) from the government, along with workers and employers representatives, according to a ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501540952/worker-wage-hike-negotiations-begin-today/
Justice ministry warns citizens against “colour revolution plotting"
The Ministry of Justice issued a stern warning that efforts to incite opposition to the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA) cooperation are part of a broader scheme to instigate a colour revolution aimed at overthrowing the government. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/politics/justice-ministry-warns-citizens-against-colour-revolution-plotting-
ODC Participated in TechCamp Phnom Penh
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Greg Bem and Penhleak ChanOn September 25-26, ODC representatives Penhleak Chan and Greg Bem attended TechCamp Phnom Penh at the Royal University of Phnom Penh’s Cambodia-Korea Cooperation Center. Part think tank and part networking party, TechCamp brought minds from all sectors to work together and ...
Omlaing villagers set to attend court
About 100 residents of Kampong Speu’s Omlaing commune will accompany five fellow villagers to the provincial court today after receiving summonses last week. ...
Car with gov’t plates hauled luxury wood
Battambang provincial forestry officials intercepted a large load of illegal luxury timber being transported in a government-plated car on Monday night. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/car-govt-plates-hauled-luxury-wood
Trash piling up in temple town
Residents of Wat Damnak village, just one kilometer from Pub Street, still resort to burning their rubbish when trash collection is slow. ...
Naomi Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15459/trash-piling-up-in-temple-town/
Exhibit remembers slain journalists, calls for end to ‘impunity’
Im Chanthy was seven months pregnant when her husband was killed three years ago, his body stuffed in the trunk of his Toyota Camry. ...
Olivia Harlow
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/exhibit-remembers-slain-journalists-calls-for-end-to-impunity-98964/
Avian flu outbreak in Kampot confirmed
The first outbreak of H5N1 this year was confirmed in Kampot province on May 10, health officials said yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/avian-flu-outbreak-kampot-confirmed
‘Commune election law debate should be wider’
Election watchdogs and a newly-formed opposition party yesterday called for a more inclusive discussion about reforms of commune council election laws. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16634/---commune-election-law-debate-should-be-wider---/