Strung Treng flood rescue efforts continue through elections
As the nation was in an election mood on Sunday, authorities revealed more than 1,400 families were impacted by floods in Siem Pang and Sesan, Strung Treng province after the collapse of a hydropower dam in southern Laos on Monday evening. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strung-treng-flood-rescue-efforts-continue-through-elections
Preah Sihanouk protest over land dispute
Some 400 people in Preah Sihanouk province’s Stung Hav district on Friday protested in front of the provincial court demanding the release of four protesters who have been detained over a land dispute with a tycoon. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-protest-over-land-dispute
Boao Forum to further bolster Cambodia-China relations
The Boao Forum for Asia-Phnom Penh Conference brought together this week Chinese and Cambodian leading business people and politicians to discuss economic ties between the countries and promote inter-regional economic cooperation. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50537483/boao-forum-to-further-bolster-cambodia-china-relations/
Government approves 269 trademarks
The Ministry of Commerce approved 269 business trademarks this year, bringing the total number of such registrations at the ministry to 4,186 – an increase from 3,917 last year, its annual report said. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-approves-269-trademarks
Silk centre calls on private sector to take sericulture to the next level
Following a very successful year for the Kingdom’s sericulture sector in which its foundations have been cemented, the silk centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh is ready for expansion. ...
Number of casinos jumps by 53% in 2018
Cambodia granted 52 licences to casinos last year, bringing the total awarded to 150 at the end of 2018, thanks largely to a surge in gambling businesses in the Kingdom’s Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/number-casinos-jumps-53-2018
Factories begin new wage plan
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training issued an announcement on Wednesday indicating that 81 per cent of garment and footwear factories have implemented the government’s new requirement to pay workers’ wages twice a month. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factories-begin-new-wage-plan
Germany donates €5M to boost local services
The German government has committed €5 million (about $5.68 million) to a joint government and civil society programme to boost cooperation between local authorities, local service providers and the public to improve performance. The German Embassy announced the funding of the Implementation of Social Accountability ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/germany-donates-eu5m-boost-local-services
Two US Congressmen seek review of Cambodia’s duty-free exports status
Two US congressmen on Tuesday introduced the Cambodia Trade Act bill to ask US President Donald Trump’s administration to review the preferential trade treatment under the General System of Preferences that Cambodia receives from the United States. The CTA bill will require the administration to ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50582341/two-us-congressmen-seek-review-of-cambodias-duty-free-exports-status/
‘Digital government’ systems being gradually implemented
The Kingdom is steadily implementing “digital government” systems to manage society by using modern computer techniques that require more skilled human resources, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said on Monday. Speaking during a visit to some 2,000 retired civil servants and military veterans in Battambang ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/digital-government-systems-being-gradually-implemented
Journalists invited to tour Ream Naval Base
The Ministry of National Defence on Friday invited some 70 national and international journalists to inspect the Ream Naval Base following reports last week of a deal with China to use the facility. The story was immediately dismissed by Prime Minister Hun Sen as “fabricated ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/journalists-invited-tour-ream-naval-base
Cambodia welcomes $5b in investments in H1
The government approved $5.2 billion worth of investment in the first half of 2019, a 48.5 percent hike compared to the corresponding period last year, with officials claiming the figure reflects investors’ growing confidence in the country. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50629643/cambodia-welcomes-5b-in-investments-in-h1/
Committee inspects hundreds of projects
Provincial Hall spokesman Kheang Phearom recently revealed that Land Management Ministry and provincial officials have reviewed the permits and safety standards of nearly 300 construction projects in Preah Sihanouk. Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered for the creation of the Committee for the Inspection of Quality ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635601/committee-inspects-hundreds-of-projects/
Exhibition to solidify military ties with China
Defence Minister Tea Banh and Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe yesterday launched an exhibition highlighting military cooperation between the countries on Koh Pich in Phnom Penh. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502682/exhibition-to-solidify-military-ties-with-china/
Government aims to take children out of prisons
The government on Friday launched several strategies to protect juvenile offenders, including removing them from prisons to be put into rehabilitation centres, a move also aimed at reducing congestion in prisons. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50562268/government-aims-to-take-children-out-of-prisons/
Rubbish at S’ville port from US, Canada
The plastic waste found in 83 containers at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port on Tuesday came from the US and Canada, the Ministry of Environment said. The huge shipment of rubbish weighed some 1,600 tonnes. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rubbish-sville-port-us-canada
SK ups migrant worker quotas
Since 2007, the Human Resources Unit of the South Korean Ministry of Employment and Labour has conducted “EPS-TOPIK” tests 16 times in collaboration with the Manpower Training and Overseas Sending Board (MTOSB), a government-to-government system designed specifically to regulate the sending of Cambodian workers to ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sk-ups-migrant-worker-quotas
Ministry seeks input for amendments to Press Law
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith yesterday called on the media and relevant institutions to provide input on proposed amendments of the Press Law so that it can respond to recent developments in journalism and better promote freedom of the press in the Kingdom. Speaking at the Consultation ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50654406/ministry-seeks-input-for-amendments-to-press-law/
Government holds forum with NGOs
NGO workers have called on the government to seek solutions to challenges and difficulties they have faced in recent years following the enforcement of the law on association and NGOs. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50503791/government-holds-forum-with-ngos/
Trade war may boost Kingdom’s US exports
Exports of travel goods from the Kingdom are set to gain from the ongoing US-China trade war as US lobbyists for the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) claim that President Donald Trump plans to raise duties on such China-made products from 10 to 25 ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-war-may-boost-kingdoms-us-exports