More rice name confusion
The seeds of confusion in the rice industry have been sown further. After endorsing the Phka Romduol and Phka Chansensor varieties to be the Kingdom’s own umbrella brands for fragrant and premium rice last week, the National Standards Council (NSC) said yesterday it did not ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27410/more-rice-name-confusion/
PM: we can govern alone
Although many jailed political opponents and civil society workers may disagree, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said he has “mercy, compassion, and sympathy” for those who oppose him, telling a crowd of students that the political situation was up to interpretation: those who believe there ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30519/pm--we-can-govern-alone/
Tonle Sap fish harvest rises, official says
The volume of fish caught to make prahok (fermented fish paste) in the first season on the Tonle Sap Lake and River rose because weather conditions were ideal, but the amount expected for the second season, which begins in February, is likely to be lower ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19468/tonle-sap-fish-harvest-rises--official-says/
Illegal lumber trade stalled as two more warehouses raided
Military police investigated two warehouses in Kratie and Mondulkiri provinces yesterday amid a crackdown on illegal logging in eastern Cambodia. As police continue to raid warehouses and tighten security along the Vietnamese border, illegal logging and the sale of luxury wood has ground to a ...
May Titthara and And Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20147/illegal-lumber-trade-stalled-as-two-more-warehouses-raided/
Creature comforts in demand
In its latest audit of domestic appliance sales for seven countries in Southeast Asia, German-based market research firm GfK found that consumer spending on refrigerators, air conditioning units and washing machines grew by 2 percent during the year ending June 2016, while washing machine sales ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/creature-comforts-demand
Cambodia, Vietnam to enhance cooperation
Cambodia and Vietnam yesterday pledged to enhance cooperation and also pushed for the completion of demarcating the border to build peace and development. The discussion was held yesterday during a meeting between National Assembly President Heng Samrin and Vietnam’s National Assembly chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30250/cambodia--vietnam-to-enhance-cooperation/
Flooding from dam washes out homes, rice fields in southern Cambodia
Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release ...
Chandara Yang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/flooding-from-dam-washes-out-homes-rice-fields-in-southern-cambodia-09162015162039.html
Contentious draft law to regulate unions approved for assembly debate
The Council of Ministers on Friday green-lighted a contentious law that labor leaders say will make it hard to form unions and collectively bargain.The draft law will now be debated in the National Assembly, where the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has a majority and will ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/contentious-draft-law-to-regulate-unions-approved-for-assembly-debate/3056778.html
City’s tap water gets thumbs up
Browse any online expat or tourist forum where people ask whether the tap water in Phnom Penh is safe to drink and you will likely find an adamant “No!” But according to water sanitation experts, these forums are wrong. Phnom Penh has some of the safest ...
Maddy Crowell
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23533/city---s-tap-water-gets-thumbs-up/
Friendship city planned
A $1.5 billion new satellite city called the Cambodia-China Friendship City is to be built in the capital’s northern suburbs next year adjoining the Ly Yong Phat Satellite City. According to local media reports, the construction of the friendship city would be undertaken jointly by the ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32345/friendship-city-planned/
Unions, government consult on new min wage law
The Ministry of Labour met with unions on Friday to gather input on a universal minimum wage law currently being drafted, union representatives and ministry officials confirmed yesterday. “The meeting is a forum for each party to review the draft and provide comments so the ...
Sen David and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-government-consult-new-min-wage-law
Few arrests under new traffic law
Only 600 drivers have been sent to court since the new Traffic Law technically took effect in January and legally in March.According to a National Road Safety Committee report released yesterday, out of almost 10 million vehicles that were checked, 1.5 million were found to ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33660/few-arrests-under-new-traffic-law/
EDC: 2017 electricity imports to fall
The EDC report stated that Cambodia’s purchase of electricity from overseas fell by about 25 percent in 2016 compared with the previous year. According to EDC’s projections, this year’s imports are expected to fall further by 20 percent compared to 2016 due to domestic production ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34965/edc--2017-electricity-imports-to-fall/
Play fair, say local producers
Manufacturers of local products want fair play. While they have been receiving some consumer-support for their products, they still face an uphill battle against the same products imported from neighboring countries. And many local producers say the government should be doing more to help them ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36313/play-fair--say-local-producers/
Thailand plans to buy Cambodian water
Thailand’s listed Eastern Water Resources Development and Management Plc’s subsidiary Universal Utilities Plc. a tap water provider, plans to spend some 200 million baht ($6 million) a year to buy water from the still to be built Stung Nam hydroelectric dam in Koh Kong province ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37220/thailand-plans-to-buy-cambodian-water/
Complaint to be filed in suspicious prison death
A Banteay Meanchey woman is planning to file a complaint against the provincial prison director for his alleged role in the suspicious death of her stepdaughter on Saturday. Khon Thy said her stepdaughter, Sok Chanthan, 27, had suffered from chronic asthma since she was 7 years ...
Niem Chheng and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-be-filed-suspicious-prison-death
Young urged to learn more tech skills
Labour Minister Ith Samheng yesterday urged young people to take up technical training to address severe shortages in the jobs market. He said there are 113 institutes for technical skills training nationwide, which could accommodate 50,000 students per year. However, there is a lack of interest from ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39941/young-urged-to-learn-more-tech-skills/
“The more we produce rice, the poorer and poorer we get”
For millennia, rice has been the backbone of Cambodia’s all-encompassing agricultural sector. But with global rice prices falling and neighbouring countries such as Thailand and Vietnam mobilising their vast resources and workforces to boost domestic production, experts say the crop that has underpinned the nation’s ...
Paul Millar
http://sea-globe.com/cambodia-future-rice/#
Breaking: Kem Sokha denied bail by Appeal Court
Former opposition leader Kem Sokha was denied bail this morning by the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh, his lawyer Choung Choungy has confirmed. The hearing was held under a tight security presence, with Sokha brought in by police convoy before dawn. Human rights monitors and ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-kem-sokha-denied-bail-appeal-court
Blockchain tech to link up local farmers and foreign buyers
Oxfam Cambodia and Amru Rice will launch next month a pilot programme based on blockchain and smart contract technology to improve living standards for local farmers. The project, called BlocRice, is powered by cutting-edge technologies and aims to improve farmers’ livelihoods by increasing the transparency and ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113478/blockchain-tech-to-link-up-local-farmers-and-foreign-buyers/