NEC spokesman calls on authorities to take action to stop inciting people not to vote
A spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC) said it is a crime to use provocative words or create a spectacle that prevents and discourage people from going to vote. He urged the authorities to take action to prevent all crimes and incitement that disrupt ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501303285/nec-spokesman-calls-on-authorities-to-take-action-to-stop-inciting-people-not-to-vote/
Civil Society and Opposition Candidates Concerned Over New Electoral Law Amendments
Opposition political party and civil society leaders expressed concern that the National Assembly’s passage of amendments to the electoral law will restrict the rights of citizens to run as candidates in future elections. ...
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/civil-society-and-opposition-candidates-concerned-over-new-electoral-law-amendments/
Preliminary results: CPP received more than 6,390,000 votes, equal to 82.30%
Preliminary results of the 7th national election show that the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) received more than 6.3 million votes, or more than 82 percent. The Cambodian People’s Party is the leading party. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501331599/preliminary-results-cpp-received-more-than-6390000-votes-equal-to-82-30/
Six regional operation centres established under NITC
The government has established six regional operation centres under the National Information Technology Center (NITC) to research, collect, and analyse information related to National security, focusing on combating terrorism and crime across the country. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501491734/six-regional-operation-centres-established-under-nitc/
Cambodia Far From Intellectual Property Targets
Cambodia is still a way off implementing World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on intellectual property rights, despite a deadline to do so in just over a month. At the end of June, the group of the world’s 49 least developed countries (LDCs), including Cambodia, run out ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodia-far-from-intellectual-property-targets-26805/
Misconceptions an obstacle to contraception use: study
The greatest obstacle to increased contraception use in Cambodia isn’t the price of birth control or the social stigma around using it, a new study has found, it is fear of side effects. What’s more, this fear may arise from the many disparate medical systems operating ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/misconceptions-obstacle-contraception-use-study
Information expert breaks down Cambodia’s ‘Cybercrime’ Law
Cambodia’s cybercrime law was leaked earlier this year. Cambodian officials have denied the existence of such a draft law, but local and international rights group have criticized the secret draft process, as well as some stipulations that might affect freedom of speech online. VOA Khmer ...
Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/information-expert-breaks-down-cambodia-cybercrime-law/1960021.html
Cambodia may present safer base for Taiwanese businesses
Cambodia is a promising target for Taiwanese entrepreneurs seeking cheap labor without risking the social unrest that has surged through Vietnam, according to an economics professor in Taiwan cited in our Chinese-language sister paper China Times. Riots have broken out in Vietnam against China’s oil rig ...
Hong Kai-yin, Huang Tsung-yuan, Tang Yu-lin and Staff Reporter
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140521000069&cid=1202
Drug-resistant malaria widespread in Southeast Asia: study
Drug-resistant malaria is now widespread in Southeast Asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control malaria, a new study warned Wednesday. An analysis of blood samples from 1,241 malaria patients in 10 countries across Asia and Africa found resistance to the world’s most effective anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-07/31/c_133521082.htm
Government denies Koh Kong Chinese naval base ‘rumour’
Two ministries have denied plans for a Chinese naval base in Cambodia and that the Kingdom is caught in the middle of US-China “cold war”. In a press release on Saturday, a Ministry of National Defence spokesperson called the spread of information about a naval ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-denies-koh-kong-chinese-naval-base-rumour
Industry 4.0: How Cambodia can build for the future
A conference was held at the UN Development Programme (UNDP) head office in Phnom Penh as well as over video conference to discuss a new report conducted by the UN and the Institute for Manufacturing Educational Consultancy Services (IfM ECS) within the University of Cambridge). ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50754083/industry-4-0-how-cambodia-can-build-for-the-future/
Water Resources Ministry seeks more research funds
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has called on the National Assembly to provide more research funds in order to address increasing temperatures in the Kingdom. According to the National Assembly website, the call was made during a meeting with the parliamentary body yesterday ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50582340/water-resources-ministry-seeks-more-research-funds/
Parliament approves power projects
The National Assembly yesterday unanimously approved plans by SPHP (Cambodia) to invest in a new hydroelectric dam in Pursat province, as well as plans by Schnei Tech to build solar farms in Pursat and Kampong Chhnang province. Since power cuts began in March across the ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50619937/parliament-approves-power-projects/
Nat’l Assembly green-lights strategic development plan, four other draft laws
The National Assembly on Monday unanimously approved the draft law on the “Approval of the National Strategic Development Plan 2019-2023”, and also gave the go-ahead to another four draft laws. At the session, which was presided over by National Assembly president Heng Samrin, the five ...
Parliament passes minimum wage law
The National Assembly yesterday adopted a draft minimum wage law, which aims to promote decent living standards for the country’s 780,000 textile workers. More than 100 lawmakers passed the draft law with 33 articles which will benefit workers and the nation as a whole as ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50498654/parliament-passes-minimum-wage-law/
Draft budget due in parliament
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved its national budget draft of about $6.7 billion for 2019, an increase of 11.4 percent over 2018, and NGOs now want to review it before it is sent to the national Assembly for ratification. According to the draft, ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50544913/draft-budget-due-in-parliament/
Cambodia road reconstruction projects, financing secured
Financing has been secured for key road reconstruction projects in Cambodia. Work is being carried out on six road projects in the country that measure a total of 600km, as well as a bridge, with this all costing some US$490 million. A loan of $94 ...
National Assembly OKs mining law amendments
The National Assembly on Thursday approved amendments to Cambodia’s mining laws by revising 11 articles, in a move that would give officials the power to hand out fines or punishments instead of sending all disputes to court. In a full plenary session last week, 112 ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/national-assembly-oks-mining-law-amendments
Prime Minister says lazy officials will be terminated
With a new government set to be formed on Thursday, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday warned that lazy ministers would lose their positions if they continued to not do their jobs. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50530061/prime-minister-says-lazy-officials-will-be-terminated/
Old faces form new government
With the National Assembly giving a vote of confidence to form the new government yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen unveiled his new cabinet, which did not change except for the addition of a new ministerial post. ...
Taing Vida and Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50531459/old-faces-form-new-government/