Mondulkiri airport to become public park
Now that the roads to Mondulkiri are better and driving to the province is much cheaper, provincial officials have found a new use for the dilapidated airport. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17741/mondulkiri-airport-to-become-public-park/
Smoke-free campaign launched
A new government initiative to warn Cambodians about the dangers of smoking tobacco was launched yesterday by the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smoke-free-campaign-launched
Pig farmers form taskforce to curb illicit smuggling
Cambodia’s pig farmers created a new taskforce yesterday to combat pig smuggling along Cambodia’s borders that is leading to falling prices for domestic producers. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pig-farmers-form-taskforce-curb-illicit-smuggling
Royal gazette to move online
The government will this year stop printing the royal gazette for sale to the public and begin publishing new editions online, an official said yesterday. ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-gazette-move-online
With Leaders Abroad, No Political Negotiations Held
Political negotiations between the ruling party and opposition have not continued, following their failure to reach an agreement ahead of the Khmer New Year earlier this month. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/with-leaders-abroad-no-political-negotiations-held/1899465.html
Workers return from holiday to closed factory
More than 100 workers at a Phnom Penh garment printing factory protested yesterday after they returned from the Khmer New Year holiday to find their workplace shuttered. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-return-holiday-closed-factory
Disaster Management Law passes Assembly
A new Law on Disaster Management sailed through the National Assembly yesterday, with Prime Minister Hun Sen promising a more rapid and coordinated response across government agencies. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disaster-management-law-passes-assembly
World bank starts meetings on whether to renew lending
The World Bank on Monday began two weeks of meetings to help it decide whether to start funding new projects in Cambodia after a four-year freeze. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-starts-meetings-on-whether-to-renew-lending-86898/
Announcement of the Ministry of Health on the results of the meeting of new coronavirus response team
On 11 February 2020, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the results of a meeting of the new coronavirus response team.T he meeting discussed many agenda includes measures to prevent the spread of the disease and other related issues. ...
Ministry of health
Instruction on payment of new seniority indemnity in each year from 2019 (for all enterprises and establishments)
On 10 June 2019, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training issued an instruction on payment of new seniority indemnity in each year from 2019 (for all enterprises and establishments) to properly implement Prakas No. 443 K.B/Br.K.Kh.L issued on 21 September 2018 on payment of seniority indemnity. ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Open Development Cambodia has added 3 new map layers of forest cover in Cambodia (2015- 2017)
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has added 3 new layers of forest cover in Cambodia from 2015 to 2017 in both Khmer and English. You can find document in various format such as GeoTIFF and JPEG.=> Please click here to get in to the dataset page ...
Ministry of Education issues new directive on strengthening Standard Operating Principles for Health and Safety in Educational Establishments
In response to the growing wave of Omicron cases in Cambodia, the Ministry of Education has issued a new directive on strengthening Standard Operating Principles for Health and Safety in Educational Establishments ...
Sequencing ties new Cambodia H5N1 avian flu cases to older clade
The detection of two recent human H5N1 avian flu infections in Cambodia, genetic sequencing led by scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh revealed that the virus belongs to the 2.3.2.1c clade, similar to viruses that have been circulating in the region over the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501375309/sequencing-ties-new-cambodia-h5n1-avian-flu-cases-to-older-clade/
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on “Road detections from Microsoft- Maps aerial imagery”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Road detections from Microsoft- Maps aerial imagery”. This bilingual new dataset exists of all roads performing with Bing Maps imagery between 2020 and 2022, including Maxar and Airbus in Cambodia, and is publicly available to download ...
Transport costs remain high
Cambodia’s transport costs remain high compared with those in neighbouring countries, according to a 10-container shipment comparison conducted between Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam by a Korean-owned company, Pan Continental Freight (PCF). The comparison found Cambodia’s free on board (FOB) costs were US$35 a tonne, whereas Thailand ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092758948/Business/transport-costs-remain-high.html
Pol Pot-Era Airbase Earmarked as Future Tourist Gateway
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Saturday that in order to manage future tourist numbers, the government will construct a new international airport on the site of the Kampong Chhnang airbase, which was built by slave labor during the Khmer Rouge regime. Mr. Hun Sen said that ...
Minimum wage may rise for Cambodian garment workers
The Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour has scheduled a meeting on February 26 with representatives of various unions to discuss the new minimum wage for garment workers in the country. However, the Ministry expects the various workers’ unions to agree on what the new wage should ...
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=120969
A factory’s fainting crisis
In a single factory that supplies some of the biggest international brands, faintings occurred every day for five years, a new investigation by the Cambodian Legal Education Centre has found. Until just weeks ago, when the management installed new fans, three to four garments workers were ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110759624/National-news/a-factorys-fainting-crisis.html
Cambodia, U.S. sign emissions reduction agreement
Cambodia and the United States on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding on low emissions and climate resilient development in Cambodia, according to a press statement from the U.S. Embassy to Phnom Penh. The deal was inked between Cambodian Minister of Environment Mok Mareth and Rebecca ...
http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2013-05/31/content_28997411.htm
Subedi Urges Passage of Laws on Judiciary
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi met with a senior official at the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday and reiterated a call for new legislation to be passed on governing Cambodia’s judiciary. “He did not ask us much on anything new, but he did ask for ...
