Garment lobby calls for understanding as lockdown halts production
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on April 19 urged buyers and stakeholders not to penalise its members for failing to honour pre-agreed delivery commitments during the ongoing lockdown measures imposed by the government. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-lobby-calls-understanding-lockdown-halts-production
Financial institutions see jump in lockdown-era digital transactions
Financial institutions (FI) logged a sudden spike in digital transactions during lockdown, adding further to the upward momentum fuelled by rising fears triggered by a spike in new Covid-19 cases found in connection to the February 20 community transmission. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/financial-institutions-see-jump-lockdown-era-digital-transactions
Cash-strapped workers seek reduction in monthly rates for rental units
Some 200 garment workers gathered on May 10 on Veng Sreng Street in Stung Meanchey III commune’s Damnak Thum Pir village in the capital’s Meanchey district to demand that the Phnom Penh municipal authorities help facilitate a 50 per cent reduction in monthly rates for ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cash-strapped-workers-seek-reduction-monthly-rates-rental-units
HIV/AIDS victims will not be neglected during C-19
All the 75,000 HIV and 62,310 AIDS patients will continue getting their antiretroviral therapy and all other services and treatments during the Covid-19 pandemic, said National AIDS Authority (NAA) chairman leng Mouly. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908071/hiv-aids-victims-will-not-be-neglected-during-c-19/
Lumpy Skin Disease jabs for cattle ordered to contain outbreak
Cambodia has ordered 200,000 doses Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) vaccines from Africa to inoculate cattle across the Kingdom and will order another 100,000 doses to contain the LSD outbreak which has reached nearly 7,000 cases nationwide. ...
Chhun Sunly
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908842/lumpy-skin-disease-jabs-for-cattle-ordered-to-contain-outbreak/
Tbong Khmum enforces curfew
After the government imposed nationwide Covid-19 restrictions to stem the new coronavirus Delta variant, Tbong Khmum province has begun enforcing them with a night-time curfew effective through August 12. ...
So Visal
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tbong-khmum-enforces-curfew
Chinese may be first in tourism revival: PM
Cambodia’s tourism industry is gearing up to roll out the red carpet for Chinese travellers after Prime Minister Hun Sen on September 17 indicated that the Kingdom could soon throw open its doors to international holidaymakers vaccinated against Covid-19 – starting with guests from China. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-may-be-first-tourism-revival-pm
Pursat fishing crimes crack down results in seized gear
The campaign to catch and prosecute people committing large-scale fishing crimes in The Tonle Sap Lake flooded forest area in Krakor, Kandieng and Bakan districts in Pursat province is yielding results. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-fishing-crimes-crack-down-results-seized-gear
Schools prepared to reopen throughout Kingdom on September 15
Public and private educational institutions throughout the country that meet conditions related to hygiene, environment and health measures and can implement the standard operating procedures (SOP) will reopen from September 15. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/schools-prepared-reopen-throughout-kingdom-september-15
Cambodia Omicron cases pass 1,000 total
Cambodia recorded another jump in Omicron cases today. Todays official daily new COVID case total (diagnosed by PCR test) was 46 – all the Omicron variant – bringing the COVID case total to 121,484 cases. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501018496/cambodia-omicron-cases-pass-1000-total/
Pursat upgrades park, roads, drainage in bid to win ‘clean city’ title
The Pursat provincial administration is preparing to improve a riverside park with lighting, fix main roads and drainage systems as well as a wastewater treatment facility to beautify The town in a bid to win a clean city competition. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-upgrades-park-roads-drainage-bid-win-clean-city-title
Zero snares at trapeang plan underway
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Greening Prey Lang project is spearheading an effort to safeguard more than 100 high-risk trapeangs, or waterholes, in The Preah Roka, Kulen Promtep and Chhaeb wildlife sanctuaries and in Phnom Tbaeng National Heritage Park. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/zero-snares-trapeang-plan-underway
New ‘rehab’ centre offers jobs training, life skill help
The government will formally inaugurate a community-based national drug rehabilitation centre on March 22 in Preah Sihanouk province, with The centre focusing on vocational training for addicts to provide Them with a clear career path and life skills when reintegrating into society. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-rehab-centre-offers-jobs-training-life-skill-help
Monks lead eco-pilgrimage to Cardamoms
Around 30 monks, lecturers and students are planning to march 265km, crossing the Cardamom Mountains in the Kingdom’s southwest, to inspire love for nature and promote environment conservation. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-lead-eco-pilgrimage-cardamoms
Inter-agency meet hoped to ratchet up live-pig rates
An inter-ministerial meeting scheduled for December 19 is set to explore solutions for the plummeting domestic live pig prices seen in recent weeks, raising hopes among farmers for rates to return at the very least to sustainable levels. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/inter-agency-meet-hoped-ratchet-live-pig-rates
Hun Sen encourages Korean investment
Prime Minister Hun Sen asked a former South Korean leader to help promote Cambodia and attract more Korean investors to the Kingdom now that there is a free trade agreement (FTA) in place between the countries. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hun-sen-encourages-korean-investment
UNICEF partners with China to pilot climate-resilient WASH technologies in Cambodia
Delegates from China and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday started a three-day field visit to Cambodia to conduct a feasibility study for piloting climate-resilient water and sanitation (WASH) technologies and solutions in the kingdom, said a UNICEF’s press statement. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501351560/unicef-partners-with-china-to-pilot-climate-resilient-wash-technologies-in-cambodia/
ADB lends $140M for labour development
Cambodia has received $140 million in loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to boost labour development to transform the country into a technology-driven, knowledge-based industrial economy while enhancing public service delivery by local administrations through public finance and decentralisation reforms. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-lends-140m-labour-development/
King signs 10th Amendment to Constitution into law
King Norodom Sihamoni on Saturday signed the 10th Amendment to the Constitution into law after two legislative bodies had adopted it. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501127579/king-signs-10th-amendment-to-constitution-into-law/
Prek Tnaot families face eviction for river ‘restoration’ linked to elite company
Nearly 100 families living near Takhmao city are facing eviction as authorities pledge to restore the heavily-polluted river running next to their homes in a project linked to a real estate company with connections to the prime minister’s family. ...
Ngay Nai and Fiona Kelliher
https://vodenglish.news/prek-tnaut-families-face-eviction-for-river-restoration-linked-to-elite-company/