Working group set up to map recovery pathway for tourism
The government has set up a public-private working group to restore and prop up the tourism sector in Cambodia during and after the Covid-19 crisis. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/working-group-set-map-recovery-pathway-tourism
PM asks mobile telecommunication companies to strengthen services
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday asked local telecommunication companies to strengthen mobile phone signal and internet services in both urban and rural areas. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501113180/pm-asks-mobile-telecommunication-companies-to-strengthen-services/
Cambodia, Brunei vow to reinforce ties, cooperation
Cambodia and Brunei on Monday vowed to reinforce their bilateral relations and cooperation for mutual benefits, according to a joint statement. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501185058/cambodia-brunei-vow-to-reinforce-ties-cooperation/
Pakistan’s President underscores importance to realize investment, trade, business potential with Cambodia
President Dr Arif Alvi has underscored the need for fully realizing the immense potential for investment, trade and business between Pakistan and Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501154902/pakistans-president-underscores-importance-to-realize-investment-trade-business-potential-with-cambodia/
$5 billion ADB replenishment agreed for most vulnerable countries
Donors and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed to replenish $5 billion for its Asian Development Fund (ADF) and its Technical Assistance Special Fund. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501483069/5-billion-adb-replenishment-agreed-for-most-vulnerable-countries/
Health experts call for more tobacco taxes to save lives
Health experts on Tuesday called on the government to save Cambodian lives by raising tobacco taxes and use the revenues to expand healthcare benefits for the general public. The call was made by the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), World Health Organisation (WHO) and ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-experts-call-more-tobacco-taxes-save-lives
Prime minister talks festival, lawmaker assaults
Last week’s brutal attacks by off-duty soldiers on two opposition lawmakers were retribution for anti-government protests in Paris and New York, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech yesterday. “If there is no fire, there will be no flames,” he said. “If there had ...
Jonathan Cox and Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17543/prime-minister-talks-festival--lawmaker-assaults/
Cambodia on track to achieve "3 Zeros" HIV/AIDS target by 2020: deputy PM
Cambodia is on track to achieve the “Three Zeros” HIV/AIDS target by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An said here on Tuesday.The 3 Zeros, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in New York in June 2011, included zero new HIV infections, zero stigma ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6697035/2015/11/30/cambodia-track-achieve-3-zeros-hivaids-target-2020-deputy-pm
Forum on Chinese TV series held in Cambodia
A forum on Chinese television series kicked off here on Monday, aimed to promote Chinese culture and people-to-people relations between the two countries. “The forum is an important platform to exchange views on cultural cooperation between Cambodia and China,” Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said ...
Ecns.cn News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/2015/12-21/193227.shtml
Apsara gets new partner
The Apsara Authority announced yesterday that it will begin sharing preservation knowledge and collaborating in restorations with the city officials behind Beijing’s ancient Imperial City. officials from Cambodia’s heritage preservation authority met with Du Jingxin, an official from Beijing’s Xicheng district, to discuss ways the ...
Danielle Keeton-Olsen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/apsara-gets-new-partner
Legal status in sight for workers in Thailand
Cambodian workers in Thailand will be able to collect legal documents to legitimise their presence in the country this week. The Committee for Legalising Cambodian Workers Residing and Working in Thailand will begin issuing both travel documents and Overseas Cambodian Workers Cards under the ongoing 100-day ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085082/legal-status-sight-workers-thailand/
Hun Sen calls on monks to battle traffic accident deaths
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on monks to join hands in educating people to respect traffic laws and avoid drug use in order to reduce traffic deaths and drug problems. During a building inauguration at Chey Mongkul pagoda in Kampong Cham province, Mr Hun Sen ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50111451/hun-sen-calls-monks-battle-traffic-accident-deaths/
Chinese telco gears up for an August 4G launch
Xinwei Cambodia, China’s first step into the Kingdom’s telecoms market, planned to launch fourth-generation mobile services in August, according to officials and a company statement. The Beijing-based firm will deploy its homegrown network technology, McWiLL, and was expected to launch top-to-bottom operations that, according to the ...
Kampot seeks smoother VN border
Kampot provincial officials are seeking a solution with Vietnamese authorities to enable smooth cross-border rice commerce and resolve lingering concerns over traffic congestion and customs procedures. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-seeks-smoother-vn-border
Health Ministry urges local authorities to carry out measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission
Health Minister Mam Bun Heng has urged all municipal and provincial governors to strengthen COVID-19 preventive measures at ceremonies and wedding parties. ...
Election cost $60m, says NA
A high-ranking National Assembly (NA) official announced yesterday at the NA’s consultative meeting with foreign ambassadors to Cambodia that the government spent $60 million to cover costs for the June 5 Commune Election, and that the election process was free, fair and just. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501090614/election-cost-60m-says-na/
Cambodia, Czechia commit to expanding cooperation
Cambodia and the Czech Republic, (Czechia) committed to expanding cooperation in cyber security, technology, rural development and agriculture, to strengthen the relationship between the two countries. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501421173/cambodia-czechia-commit-to-expanding-cooperation/
KNUP to screen candidates for sub-national election
Khmer National United Party president Nhek Bun Chhay has warned party officials not to nominate relatives in the upcoming sub-national election. In a meeting with party officials at the KNUP headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district on Saturday, Mr Bun Chhay said candidates have ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/579003/knup-to-screen-candidates-for-sub-national-election/
Working group on cross-border drug crimes to be formed
The National Authority for Combating Drug and its counterparts in partner countries are set to establish a joint working group to investigate and share information on cross-border drug crimes in the region. NACD vice chairman General Chuon Sovann on Tuesday led a delegation to attend a ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642430/working-group-on-cross-border-drug-crimes-to-be-formed/
Hun Sen says Cambodia Daily must pay its $6.3M tax bill or ‘pack up’
Prime Minister Hun Sen escalated the government’s attacks on media outlets and NGOs yesterday, reiterating in a speech that the Cambodia Daily would have to “pack up their things and leave” if they failed to pay a $6.3 million tax bill, while at the same ...
Ananth Baliga and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-says-cambodia-daily-must-pay-its-63m-tax-bill-or-pack