Phnom Penh to get new water treatment plant
Construction is to begin this month on a $40 million water treatment plant to help Phnom Penh meet a growing demand for clean water, following an official contract signing ceremony Friday. The plant, called Niroth 2, is the second stage in a massive water treatment facility ...
Holly Robertson and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/phnom-penh-to-get-new-water-treatment-plant-65561/
Media agencies warned about gambling ads
The Ministry of Information last week warned media organizations not to publish or broadcast advertisements from gambling outlets unless they have permission from the government to do so, according to a ministry notice obtained Tuesday. “The ministry previously advised [media outlets] to stop all types ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-agencies-warned-about-gambling-ads-65808/
Lack of competition lets Ministry of Mines and Energy set sand price cap
After almost a month, the Ministry of Mines and Energy has officially announced the four companies that have been granted sand dredging licenses this past Tuesday. When the ministry notified the companies who won the bidding for one of four available licenses, it also gave them ...
Report slams logging in northeast
National parks and other protected areas are being gutted at a rapid rate in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri by private business interests, among them the powerful Try Pheap Group, a report launched yesterday claims, though authorities have disputed certain figures.The report, titled Logs and Patronage: ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-slams-logging-northeast
More than 36,000 migrant workers repatriated last year
The Foreign Affairs Ministry rescued and repatriated more than 36,000 Cambodian migrant workers from several countries last year. Ouch Borith, a ministry secretary of state, said yesterday during the annual conference that the ministry pays close attention to protect Cambodians working abroad. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50685776/more-than-36000-migrant-workers-repatriated-last-year
World Bank advises urgent measures to avoid serious financial shock and recession
The World Bank has released several urgent recommendations to Cambodia and other countries in the East Asia Pacific, stating governments need to act quickly, cooperatively and at scale to avoid serious financial shock and recession due to the COVID-19 outbreak. ...
Ratanakkiri villagers raze two ranger stations in anger
Fourteen people have been identified for inciting more than 70 villagers to burn down two ranger stations in Taveng commune, Taveng district, Ratanakkiri province. District officials will bring the case to court, said Ministry of Environment secretary of state and spokesman Neth Pheaktra. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-villagers-raze-two-ranger-stations-anger
Ministry, Cambodian journalists strengthen links to China
Information Ministry officials and state-affiliated Cambodian journalists will receive training from and pay visits to their Chinese counterparts under a new agreement signed by the two countries on Monday. The announcement follows a forum hosted in October by a senior propaganda officer for the Communist ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-cambodian-journalists-strengthen-links-to-china-127863/
US training for rangers postponed
The Ministry of Environment said a standardised training programme for Cambodian rangers in collaboration with the US Department of State, US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Forest Service (USFS) has been postponed amid the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-training-rangers-postponed
PM pledges new health centre over US bombs
In a speech to some 15,000 garment workers in Phnom Penh yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen returned to the topic of the United States’ war legacy in Cambodia, pledging to build a health centre for people purportedly suffering the after-effects of American chemical weapons in Svay ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pledges-new-health-centre-over-us-bombs
Vietnam logging numbers being ‘verified’: official
Vietnamese customs data showing that Cambodia exported at least $121 million of woodthis year are currently being investigated by government officials, according to Environment Ministry Undersecretary of State Eang Sophalleth. ...
Jack Davies and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-logging-numbers-being-verified-official
Officials heed call to buy rice
A day after a state bank called on Cambodians to buy domestically milled rice to help a government scheme to stabilise prices in the sector, multiple ruling party officials were reaching into their own pockets to do just that. The Rural Development Bank – tasked with ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-heed-call-buy-rice
Water company expects big revenue rise after 2019 loss
State-owned utility Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PWSA), the first Cambodian Securities Exchange-listed company, aims to collect substantially more revenue in 2020 after a sharp drop in total revenue last year, according the result of its eighth annual general shareholders’ meeting. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50739594/water-company-expects-big-revenue-rise-after-2019-loss/
Fifth meeting of China-Cambodia Inter-government Coordination Committee to convene
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia Hor Namhong will co-host the fifth meeting of the China-Cambodia Inter-government Coordination Committee via video calls today, according to an announcement from the Chinese foreign ministry. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50734123/fifth-meeting-of-china-cambodia-inter-government-coordination-committee-to-convene/
Cambodia registers its 301st COVID-19 positive case
A 35 year old American female became Cambodia’s 301st COVID-19 positive victim. She was found to be infected after arriving from the United States via Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday, 4 November. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50781850/cambodia-registers-its-301st-covid-19-positive-case/
Course on boosting hospitality skills
The Ministry of Tourism has launched the second phase of a skills development programme to promote human resource abilities in the Kingdom’s tourism sector. Pak Sokhom, the Ministry of Tourism’s secretary of state, said that the programme will provide young people with vocational skills, create ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50747286/course-on-boosting-hospitality-skills/
Getting ready for free trade with China
In fewer than 20 days the Cambodia-China Free-Trade Agreement (CC-FTA) comes into force after both countries signed the deal on Oct 12 during a two-day state visit by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Phnom Penh. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50791954/getting-ready-for-free-trade-with-china/
Three Preah Sihanouk land grabbers nabbed
Environment officials are preparing to send three suspects to the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court after arresting them on March 13 in connection with encroachment on state forest land in the multi-use areas of Prek Teuk Sap Kbal Chhay in Prey Nop district. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-preah-sihanouk-land-grabbers-nabbed
ARDB seeks $30M more for SME loans
Agriculture and Rural Development Bank of Cambodia (ARDB) expects to receive an additional $30 million from the government for special-purpose loans to keep the Kingdom’s smaller businesses afloat amid the ongoing economic duress of Covid-19, according to the state-owned bank’s director-general Kao Thach. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ardb-seeks-30m-more-sme-loans
EdC to bill red zone customers once every three months
The state-run Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) announced that from May onward it would issue electricity bills once every three months to consumers in the red zones or lockdown areas as EdC agents could not deliver the bills in person. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/edc-bill-red-zone-customers-once-every-three-months