Amid border tension, officials told to shape up
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Tuesday handed down a list of instructions to government officials working along the country’s border with Vietnam to help tamp down newly inflamed tensions along disputed stretches of the frontier, including an order to stop cutting informal deals with their ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-border-tension-officials-told-to-shape-up-88330/
Anti-trafficking status static
For the third straight year in a row, Cambodia has found itself on the Tier 2 Watch List of the US State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report, a ranking reflective of a seeming inability to fully implement the country’s own anti-trafficking plan. ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-trafficking-status-static
Clean Water Plays a Crucial Role in the fight against COVID-19
Ongoing crisis is reminder of a significant portion of the world population currently lacking adequate access to basic hand-washing facilities. ...
Access to information law set to be approved this year, ministry pledges
The Ministry of Information has pledged to conclude consultations with the Ministry of Justice on the draft law on access to information soon. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/access-information-law-set-be-approved-year-ministry-pledges
Japan to provide $13.9 million to develop Sihanoukville Autonomous Port
The Government of Japan will provide some $13.9 million in grant aid to Cambodia for contributing to the development of Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in Preah Sihanouk. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50989062/japan-to-provide-13-9-million-to-develop-sihanoukville-autonomous-port/
Phnom Penh attracts 1,000 construction projects worth over $2.26 billion
Phnom Penh has so far attracted around 1,000 new investment projects covering a construction area of 4.63 million square metres, with an investment capital of over U$2.26 billion. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501090915/phnom-penh-attracts-1000-construction-projects-worth-over-2-26-billion/
WHO-Cambodia official urges people to get booster doses as more COVID-19 cases detected
World Health Organization (WHO) representative to Cambodia Li Ailan on Sunday called on people to get their booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines as the number of daily cases has seen an uptick. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501123322/who-cambodia-official-urges-people-to-get-booster-doses-as-more-covid-19-cases-detected/
WHO-Cambodia official urges people to get booster doses as more COVID-19 cases detected
World Health Organization (WHO) representative to Cambodia Li Ailan on Sunday called on people to get their booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines as the number of daily cases has seen an uptick. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501123917/who-cambodia-official-urges-people-to-get-booster-doses-as-more-covid-19-cases-detected-2/
In the money at CNRP rally
Thousands of opposition supporters at Freedom Park cheered in a near-ecstatic frenzy yesterday as Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy compared the demonstration to those held by the ruling party with an eye to the bottom line. “The [Cambodian People’s Party] uses money to pay ...
Sean Teehan and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/money-cnrp-rally
Red tape ‘delays’ NEC computers
With less than two months before voter registration is due to start for the upcoming commune elections, the delivery of vital computer equipment has reportedly been delayed by two weeks due to an import duty bungle, while only a fraction of the required workers have ...
Bun Sengkong and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/red-tape-delays-nec-computers
Chinese firm begins construction at Boeng Kak
Eight years after CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin signed off on a 99-year lease of Boeng Kak lake in one of the most controversial real estate deals in Phnom Penh’s recent history, a Chinese firm has begun construction on the first major development project on ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinese-firm-begins-construction-at-boeng-kak-96025/
Cambodia holiday policy hampers competiveness
The Cambodian government just released its official list of public holidays for 2016, beating past years’ record by increasing the number of public holidays for 2016 to be 28 days notwithstanding when holidays fall on a weekend (Saturday-Sunday) the following Monday is off as compensation. ...
David Van
http://www.asiasentinel.com/econ-business/cambodia-holiday-policy-hampers-competiveness/
NEC’s new election ink can’t be erased, spokesman says
Testing of a new batch of election ink to be used in upcoming commune elections showed that it cannot be removed, a spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC) said on Thursday, a day after telling reporters that samples provided by the ink supplier could ...
Ben Paviour and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/necs-new-election-ink-cant-be-erased-spokesman-says-129599/
Agriculture sector must prepare now for climate change
Agricultural priorities for establishing food security in the face of a global climate crisis were the subject of regional workshop on Monday. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50967731/agriculture-sector-must-prepare-now-for-climate-change/
Japan to provide waste collection trucks to Cambodia
The Government of Japan will provide ten waste collection trucks worth in total $245,215 to ten provinces of Cambodia, under the framework, the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (“KUSANONE” Grant). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50992976/japan-to-provide-waste-collection-trucks-to-cambodia/
$43 million set for commune elections in June, NEC says
The National Election Committee (NEC) has prepared a budget of $43 million for the commune council elections scheduled for June 5, a decrease of almost 10 per cent from the 2017 elections. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/43-million-set-commune-elections-june-nec-says
Fainting link to Canadian cold
Women who had fainted in a poorly ventilated garment factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Wednesday morning were making winter coats to be sold at Walmart stores in Canada, it was revealed yesterday. Executives with Taiwanese-owned Heart Enterprise (Cambodia) Ltd also confirmed reports ...
Maids' mother told to drop complaint: NGO
The recruitment firm HRD Company had allegedly threatened the mother of two sisters working as maids in Malaysia, pressuring her to withdraw her NGO complaint seeking help in repatriating her daughters or risk having all communication with them cut, a rights group said yesterday. Pov Chhan, ...
Shots fired at me, says Tep Kolap
In a bizarre series of events, only days after being vindicated by the Supreme Court, Phnom Penh International University rector Tep Kolap claimed to have been chased across Phnom Penh yesterday evening by men who shot at her car as she sought refuge in Prime ...
Election ink video ‘provoked chaos’: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blasted election watchdog Comfrel for “provoking chaos” with its pre-election announcement that the indelible voter ink could be easily removed. Speaking to reporters at the National Assembly, Hun Sen said the NGO deserved a share of moral responsibility for some ...
Cheang Sokha and Abby Seiff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/election-ink-video-%E2%80%98provoked-chaos%E2%80%99-pm