Girls outdo boys – again
The results of this year’s much-improved grade 12 national exams have left some with less to celebrate than others, as government data showed a continued large disparity between male and female performances as well as across provinces.According to detailed results released on the Ministry of ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/girls-outdo-boys-again
Rogue moto market raided, but no arrests
Customs officials and local police yesterday raided a motorbike market in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district they said was illegally selling vehicles without licence plates or paperwork. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rogue-moto-market-raided-no-arrests
Raid reveals 1,800 smuggled smartphones
Customs authorities seized nearly 1,800 smuggled Huawei smartphones during a raid on Monday on a private residence in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, a customs official said yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/raid-reveals-1800-smuggled-smartphones
Illegal fishing busts up 150%: ministry
Fishing crime busts rose 150 per cent during the first nine months of 2015, compared with the same period last year, while anti-forestry crime actions dropped 13 per cent. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-fishing-busts-150-ministry
PM calls for drought aid preparations
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on local authorities and government ministries to be ready to distribute water to farmers around the country due to the ongoing shortage in the Kingdom’s reservoirs. He added that if people had trouble contacting local authorities, individual farmers should ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-drought-aid-preparations
Indian firms urged to invest in Kingdom
Cambodian officials and private sector representatives met a visiting Indian business delegation yesterday to pitch for more Indian investment in the country and to explore ways of increasing the relatively low level of bilateral trade and investment. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/indian-firms-urged-invest-kingdom
Corruption curriculum headed to junior high
In what it says is a bid to fight graft in the Kingdom from the bottom up, the Ministry of Education announced yesterday the expansion of its anti-corruption curriculum to junior high school students. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-curriculum-headed-junior-high
Smoke-free campaign launched
A new government initiative to warn Cambodians about the dangers of smoking tobacco was launched yesterday by the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smoke-free-campaign-launched
Sex-ed site reaching thousands, NGO says
A lack of knowledge about sex is posing a risk to the health and education of adolescents, according to the Ministry of Education, which has created an online program to help better inform and equip the young people who make up 60 per cent of ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sex-ed-site-reaching-thousands-ngo-says
Half of nation’s orphanages fail to register
Nearly half of the known orphanages in Cambodia missed on Tuesday’s deadline for registering with the government, further delaying attempts to reform the country’s wayward residential child care sector, an official said on Tuesday. ...
Buth Kimsay and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/half-of-nations-orphanages-fail-to-register-113320/
Current assets in Cambodia's banking system rise to 25.6 bln USD by June
Current assets in Cambodia’s banking and financial institutions had risen to 25.6 billion U.S. dollars by June 2016, an increase of 21.3 percent in the last 12 months, according to the biannual report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), or the central bank, on ...
XINHUA
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=332556
Food stockpiles depress prices
Record stockpiles of food will keep worldwide prices low for 2017 and much could depend on China’s huge stocks of many commodities, Dutch food and agri financing bank Rabobank predicted yesterday, painting a dour picture for Cambodia’s food exporters struggling against low prices. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32346/food-stockpiles-depress-prices/
Rubber prices could rise
Rubber prices on the global commodities market are expected to rise to $2,500 per ton due to the improved state of the world economy and efforts by four major rubber producing countries – Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia – to cut back supply, according to ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32511/rubber-prices-could-rise/
Government order to display prices in riel currency fails to stick
A government prakas that requires all businesses to post prices of their goods and services in the local riel currency has had little impact on pricing practices, with the vast majority of businesses in Cambodia continuing to quote prices in US dollars and authorities showing ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-order-display-prices-riel-currency-fails-stick
Two million urged to correct civil records
The Interior Ministry’s general department of identification has urged two million people with incorrect civil records to amend their personal information with officials. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089918/two-million-urged-correct-civil-records/
Local officials given power to issue ag origin certificates
In a bid to decentralise the certificates of origin (COs) process to help promote international exports and ease cross-border trade, the Ministry of Commerce launched a pilot project yesterday that allows officials in the provinces of Battambang and Pailin to directly issue certification. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-officials-given-power-issue-ag-origin-certificates
Slowing rice export growth ‘worrisome’
An Agriculture Ministry official said on Sunday that slowing growth in Cambodian milled rice exports—increasing just 0.7 percent last year—was the result of outdated policies and was a concerning trend. ...
Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/slowing-rice-export-growthworrisome-123114/
Draft consumer law completed
The Ministry of Commerce has finished the draft consumer protection law and will soon submit it to the Council of Ministers, according to a senior government official. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34241/draft-consumer-law-completed/
Minister wants tougher fisheries crackdown
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered government officials and department heads to crack down on anyone committing fishing crimes, telling a committee meeting that lax efforts to “educate” repeat offenders continued to fail and exacerbate the problem.According to Deputy National Police Chief Kirth Chantharith, Mr. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34867/minister-wants-tougher-fisheries-crackdown/
Discussion on reducing electricity price for 2017 in the distribution areas of EDC in Phnom Penh and Takmao district of Kandal province
On 06 February 2017, the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) has released an announcement to the public and the consumers that EAC is planning to reduce the electricity price of Electricité du Cambodge (EDC) in the distribution area of EDC in Phnom Penh and Takmao ...
Electricity Authority of Cambodia