Smart Axiata’s 1 Million USD COVID-19 Relief Fund brings assistance to Kingdom’s farmers amid pandemic
With many garment factories, construction sites and other businesses closing due to COVID-19, thousands of workers lost their jobs and had to return home to farming and earning a living by working in agriculture. ...
Over 40,000 trees planted in Stung Thmey sanctuary
Over 40,000 trees of varying species were planted on Wednesday on 56ha in the Stung Thmey protected area in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary in Pursat province. The planting is for reforestation. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-40000-trees-planted-stung-thmey-sanctuary
Lyly Food to build special economic zone in Sihanoukville
A senior executive officer of Cambodian rice-crackers manufacturer Lyly Food Industry Co Ltd has said the company will build a special economic zone (SEZ) in Preash Sihanouk province and plans to launch it next year. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50774342/lyly-food-to-build-special-economic-zone-in-sihanoukville/
Czechs launch water, sanitation project in Kampong Chhnang
The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Cambodia is launching a four-year project to improve water and sanitation to help 9,662 families in two districts in Kampong Chhnang province. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/czechs-launch-water-sanitation-project-kampong-chhnang
National Assembly passes 36 laws this year
The National Assembly (NA) has approved 36 laws this year that serve the interests and needs of the Kingdom and its people. Last year it approved only 32 laws, said secretary-general Leng Peng Long. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-assembly-passes-36-laws-year
No large-scale forest crimes in Kingdom, officials claim
The National Committee for the Prevention and Crackdown of Natural Resource Crimes still claims there are no large-scale forest crimes in the Kingdom, despite forest activists saying that logging is taking place because people are unemployed. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-large-scale-forest-crimes-kingdom-officials-claim
Canada called to chip in for demining work
Cambodia has requested that Canada consider supporting a research project and review the current status of minefields as related to land use across the country to reduce the cost and time for demining. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/canada-called-chip-demining-work
Gov’t rejects logging claims
The Ministry of Environment has rejected reports by Amnesty International and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) that large-scale illegal logging has increased in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary since PLCN was banned from patrolling the area. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-rejects-logging-claims
Bunong decry encroachment
Fifty-three Bunong indigenous families in Kbal Romeas commune Stung Treng province’s Sesan district have accused a company of illegally setting up boundary poles for a plantation and encroaching on community land, an accusation the provincial authorities have denied. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-decry-encroachment
Consumer credit performance improving
Consumer credit performance is showing consistent improvement as both loan balances and the number of loan accounts issued are undergoing sustained positive growth, according to a report from the Credit Bureau Cambodia (CBC). ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809008/consumer-credit-performance-improving/
34 roads in Preah Sihanouk to open in April
Thirty-four roads in Sihanoukville are set to open in April ahead of the Khmer New Year holiday, as provincial officials urge contracted construction firms to accelerate their work to be completed as planned. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810348/34-roads-in-preah-sihanouk-to-open-in-april/
Asean and Geneva demining organisations sign MoU
The ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC) in Phnom Penh has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) to assist national mine action authorities in the Asean region. ...
Rhea Mae Soco
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808375/asean-and-geneva-demining-organisations-sign-mou/
Promoting business in farming
Khmer Enterprise (KE), a unit under the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Cambodia Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (CPSA), have entered a partnership to promote entrepreneurship in the agriculture sector in Cambodia. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50817350/promoting-business-in-farming/
Phnom Penh prohibits alcohol sales and dine-ins for two weeks
Cambodia’s high rate of new coronavirus cases has called for an even more stringent measure by the Phnom Penh authorities and this time around it is – no alcohol sales and no sit-in dining. ...
Chhun Sunly
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50837343/phnom-penh-prohibits-alcohol-sales-and-dine-ins-for-two-weeks/
Sub-decree outlines Covid measures
Prime Minister Hun Sen on March 31 issued a sub-decree detailing administrative measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, including potential travel restrictions, public gathering, curfew, and lockdown to certain areas, among others. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sub-decree-outlines-covid-measures
Jabs could be ‘mandatory’: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen has suggested that vaccination become “mandatory” if the rate of Covid-19 infection does not subside and that this policy – if adopted – would first be applied to Phnom Penh. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jabs-could-be-mandatory-pm
Garment employers asked to provide allowance to workers
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on April 22 urged owners and directors of factories in lockdown areas to consider providing allowance to workers, in addition to other support provided by the government. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-employers-asked-provide-allowance-workers
Stung Treng officials find illegal timber stockpile, owner escapes
A large amount of illegal luxury timber was impounded by Stung Treng provincial Forestry Administration officials on April 26 after it was discovered in a forest in the province’s Sen Chey district. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-treng-officials-find-illegal-timber-stockpile-owner-escapes