Ford plant may go online ‘early April’
Construction of RMA (Cambodia) Plc’s vehicle assembly plant is 100 per cent complete and installation of the facilities and equipment is nearing the 70 per cent mark, with all signs indicating that production could begin in early April, according to the locally-listed firm’s CEO Ngorn ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ford-plant-may-go-online-early-april
Gov’t ends $40 subsidy for garment workers
The Labour Ministry decided to end the $40 allowance per month for garment, footwear, and travel products workers whose contracts were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the ministry will still continue to provide this allowance to workers in the field of tourism. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501010144/govt-ends-40-subsidy-for-garment-workers/
Communes creating over 1600 finance jobs
Three ministries jointly issued a prakas to announce the recruitment of a commune administrative financial assistant for each of the more than 1,600 communes across the country to improve the efficiency of financial management in commune administration. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/communes-creating-over-1600-finance-jobs
Sokhonn seeks to meet all sides on visit to Myanmar
Minister of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, who has been appointed as ASEAN Special Envoy on Myanmar, has announced plans for an official visit to the beleaguered nation in March, expressing his intention to meet all “relevant” sides that Naypyidaw will permit. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/sokhonn-seeks-meet-all-sides-visit-myanmar
Cambodia Omicron cases pass 1,000 total
Cambodia recorded another jump in Omicron cases today. Todays official daily new COVID case total (diagnosed by PCR test) was 46 – all the Omicron variant – bringing the COVID case total to 121,484 cases. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501018496/cambodia-omicron-cases-pass-1000-total/
Foreign companies reminded to register for VAT before April 1
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has issued a reminder for foreign companies supplying digital goods, services or any e-commerce activity in Cambodia to fulfil the obligation for Simplified VAT Registration before the April 1 deadline or stand to face fines. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/foreign-companies-reminded-register-vat-april-1
Residence, family books free of charge, district police say
The seven commune police stations in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district have been instructed to pay more attention to the issuance of residence and family books to people changing their residence or moving from one village or commune to another. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/residence-family-books-free-charge-district-police-say
Group preaches money laundering law
A working group from the Ministry of Justice is disseminating the contents of the laws on “Combatting the Financing of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” and “Anti-Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism” to bring Cambodia into compliance with the conditions set forth in the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-preaches-money-laundering-law
CMAC secures US support for operations through 2025
The US, through the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), on March 9 signed a cooperative agreement to provide $6,355,720 in grants for the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to support the clearance of cluster munitions-affected areas for 45 months from March until November 2025. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-secures-us-support-operations-through-2025
Publicise Kingdom as kidney transplant destination: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen advised that the Ministry of Health consider the possibility of advertising kidney transplant surgery in the country, as Cambodia has the ability to do so with successful kidney surgery having been performed here since 2010. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/publicise-kingdom-kidney-transplant-destination-pm
New ‘rehab’ centre offers jobs training, life skill help
The government will formally inaugurate a community-based national drug rehabilitation centre on March 22 in Preah Sihanouk province, with the centre focusing on vocational training for addicts to provide them with a clear career path and life skills when reintegrating into society. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-rehab-centre-offers-jobs-training-life-skill-help
Joint Statement between the Kingdom of Cambodia and Japan, on the occasion of the Official Visit of His Excellency KISHIDA Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan, to the Kingdom of Cambodia
On 20 March 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation has released a joint statement between the Kingdom of Cambodia and Japan, on the occasion of the Official Visit of His Excellency KISHIDA Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan, to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Strategic National Road 21 stretch opens
A nearly 64km stretch of National Road 21 connecting the Takhmao roundabout in Kandal province’s Takhmao town to the Cambodian-Vietnamese international border checkpoint between Chrey Thom and Vietnam’s Long Binh was formally inaugurated on March 23. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strategic-national-road-21-stretch-opens
Battambang may list pineapple, paddy as collective brands
The Battambang provincial Department of Commerce is eyeing two more promising agricultural products typical of the province to register as “collective brands”, in a bid to nurture and preserve the knowledge and traditions of local growers, and provide an ideal springboard for more sightseers to ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/battambang-may-list-pineapple-paddy-collective-brands
Siem Reap girl infected with bird flu
The Communicable Disease Control Department (CDC) under the Ministry of Health said they had discovered a case of influenza A/H9, or bird flu, in a one-year-old girl through its pneumonia surveillance system. The child displayed several symptoms – including a high fever, coughing, and breathing ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-girl-infected-bird-flu
Takhmao families vacate homes, get compensation
More than 100 families have agreed to accept compensation and leave their land in Kandal province’s Takhmao town. This will facilitate the implementation of a project to dig four canals – at a length of 6,000m – that aim to reduce flooding and absorb wastewater ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/takhmao-families-vacate-homes-get-compensation
Green Prey Lang honey producers clinch awards
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Prey Lang project provided support to the Non-Timber Forest Products-Exchange Programme Cambodia to enable the NGO to provide certificates and fInancial awards to three community based-enterprises In Stung Treng, Kratie and Preah Vihear provInces. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/green-prey-lang-honey-producers-clinch-awards
Mondulkiri plans wildlife breeding station, zoo
Mondulkiri provincial governor Thong Savon has advised environmental officials at the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary to look for a suitable location to establish a wildlife breeding station and possibly establish a zoo in tandem with it to draw tourists, according to provincial administration spokesman Cheak Mengheang. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-plans-wildlife-breeding-station-zoo
Sar Kheng asks public for crime tips
Minister of interior Sar Kheng has renewed his called for the public to provide information related to all kinds of crimes that occur in their local communities – especially drug-related ones – to law enforcement forces so they can be dealt with immediately to maintain ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-asks-public-crime-tips
Auto, electronics marked as potential priority sectors
The Cambodian government identified the automotive and electronics sectors as potential priority sectors for promoting Cambodia’s participation in the global value chain, as well as promoting economic diversification and economic recovery after the Covid-19. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501060029/auto-electronics-marked-as-potential-priority-sectors/