Bursting at the seams: Quarantine centres nearing full capacity with returnees
The continuing deluge of Cambodian returnees from Thailand has compelled Oddar Meanchey and Battambang provinces to look for additional venues for quarantine and or building additional ones. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50812272/bursting-at-the-seams-quarantine-centres-nearing-full-capacity-with-returnees/
Road traffic law amendments await approval
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport’s working group plans to submit a draft law on road traffic after holding 19 debates on the amendment and revising many articles found in the existing law. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-traffic-law-amendments-await-approval
Programme promotes India-Mekong Sub-region cross-border trade
A programme to promote cross-border trade connectivity between India and countries in the Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS) was jointly held by trade promotion agencies of Cambodia, Vietnam, India and Thailand on August 19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50920281/programme-promotes-india-mekong-sub-region-cross-border-trade/
Cattle vaccination campaign to stop skin disease kicks off
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has launched a Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) vaccination campaign for cattle as the disease has spread to several provinces and infected more than 30,000 animals. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cattle-vaccination-campaign-stop-skin-disease-kicks
Hun Sen gives factory workers 2-day break for June elections
The government will give all factory workers two days off to participate in the June 5 commune council elections. Owners of factories and manufacturing enterprises will be required to pay wages and other benefits as normal. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-gives-factory-workers-2-day-break-june-elections
Factory demand soars in 2023, despite slower overall investment
Demand for industrial property in 2023 is rising compared to 2022, said Stephen Suen, long-time commercial and industrial property expert and co-owner-operator of Yi Fung Real Estate Services in Phnom Penh since 2015. ...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501344749/factory-demand-soars-in-2023-despite-slower-overall-investment/
$1m initiative to push sustainable tourism
WWF Cambodia has launched a $1 million project to support post-Covid recovery and the development of sustainable tourism in Cambodia by introducing solar and cooling systems to the sector. ...
Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/1m-initiative-to-push-sustainable-tourism
Cambodia, AIIB sign financing agreement worth $43 million
Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Tuesday signed an agreement worth $43 million for the cross-border livestock health and value chain infrastructure improvement project, said a statement. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501368436/cambodia-aiib-sign-financing-agreement-worth-43-million/
Japan provides more than $7 million in aid to NEC
The Japanese government has provided more than $7 million in aid to the National Election Committee (NEC), including the cost of 11,000 ballot boxes and 40 pickup trucks, it said on Saturday. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-provides-more-7-million-aid-nec
Sa’s role in world’s children’s prize ceremony to be celebrated
The World’s Children’s Prize (WCP) ceremony, to be held on Sunday at the Artscape Theatre, will tell the story of the 2015 award ceremony in Sweden and South Africa’s participation. ...
World’s Children’s Prize
http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/sas-role-in-worlds-childrens-prize-ceremony-to-be-celebrated-1991682
Storm deaths rising this year
Natural disasters killed more people and damaged more property in the first seven months of this year than in the same period last year, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27700/storm-deaths-rising-this-year/
Anti-protest police train with live rounds
A Phnom Penh police unit responsible for intervening during protests and demonstrations publicized a training exercise featuring the use of live rounds on Monday, in what one opposition lawmaker labeled an intimidation tactic. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-protest-police-train-with-live-rounds-133335/
Bush fires under control near Koh Ke temple
A spate of bush fires near Koh Ke temple in Preah Vihear province has prompted the provincial archaeology department to reassure residents and tourists that it has the ability to contain the blazes. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109303/bush-fires-control-near-koh-ke-temple/
Vietnamese workers face deportation
The Immigration Department has detained 27 Vietnamese migrants suspected of being in Cambodia illegally. The undocumented workers, 20 men and seven women, were arrested on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37686/vietnamese-workers-face-deportation/
Outbreak hits 24 at Kampong Speu prison
Twenty-four inmates in Kampong Speu’s provincial prison – where five prisoners escaped earlier this week – are reportedly experiencing a combination of respiratory difficulties, coughing, skin rashes and swollen legs. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outbreak-hits-24-kampong-speu-prison
ACU calls in officials over pepper shakedown
Two forestry administration officials who were arrested and detained in Kratie province for extorting money from pepper farmers were transferred to Phnom Penh on Tuesday upon the request of the Anti-Corruption Unit, officials said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-calls-in-officials-over-pepper-shakedown-66882/
Cambodia protests Indian Angkor Wat replica
The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Saturday sent a diplomatic note to India’s Ministry of External Affairs expressing its concern over a planned temple that resembles Angkor Wat and insisting that its construction be halted. ...
Alex Consiglio and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-protests-indian-angkor-wat-replica-85131/
CNRP to start selling ‘participation’ shares Saturday
The CNRP will on Saturday begin accepting donations for the television station it plans to launch before the end of this year and selling “participation” rights in the business, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Tuesday. ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-to-start-selling-participation-shares-saturday-86345/
Cambodia’s military ties with China strengthening
Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh made a five-day trip to China last week, meeting with high-ranking military officials and receiving pledges of assistance from the Chinese military. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-military-ties-with-china-strengthening/2871797.html
Agri-exports surge 55% in Jan-Feb
Cambodia exported a total of 1,599,922.37 tonnes of major non-milled-rice agricultural products in the first two months of this year, an increase of 569,493.88 tonnes or 55.27 per cent compared to the same period in 2020, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agri-exports-surge-55-jan-feb
