Minister of Public Works holds a meeting to collect input from stakeholders on reform
The Ministry of Public Works held a meeting to receive input from ministries and institutions for The drafting of measures and action plans to implement measures. Keys to public administration reform include improving The recruitment system, capacity building and institutional capacity, and The incentive system ...
Torn Vibol
https://tinyurl.com/bvv45569
Japan provides US$134,526 for the project of primary health care system strengthening for mothers and children in Kampong Cham province
On 5 September 2016, the Government of Japan has agreed to provide US$134,526 to PH-Japan Foundation (PHJ). the grand contract under the framework of the “Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects” was signed at the Embassy of Japan between H.E. Mr. KUMAMARU Yuji,Ambassador Extraordinary and ...
Embassy of Japan in Cambodia
New traffic law could save money and lives, study says
Better laws and enforcement that require motorbike riders and children to wear helmets could save more than 500 lives and $100 million over the next six years, a new study says. the study, undertaken by the Asian Injury Prevention Foundation, says a new law now ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-traffic-law-could-save-money-and-lives-study-says/1909680.html
Ministry to ‘examine’ probe results
Officials from the Ministry Of Interior will meet tomorrow to review the results Of an investigation into a crackdown that left four dead on Veng Sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh last month, a police spokesman said. After saying on Tuesday that a report on the investigation’s ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-%E2%80%98examine%E2%80%99-probe-results
Press release on Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry to hold Annual Conference to review global geopolitics, regional issues, economic diplomacy and institutional reform
On 24 February 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry to hold Annual Conference to review global geopolitics, regional issues, economic diplomacy and institutional reform.the goal is to take stock of diplomacy achievements and to ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Unions press ahead with strike plans despite arrest threats
Union leaders planning a stay-at-home strike to demand a higher minimum wage for the country’s garment workers say they will press on with the strike after the Khmer New Year, despite the threat of arrest for anyone handing out leaflets promoting their plans. On Sunday, a ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-press-ahead-with-strike-plans-despite-arrest-threats-56012/
Cambodia made the right decision in South China Sea dispute
No one would regard a small country such as Cambodia to be a protagonist in an international affair. However, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and the weakest link Cambodia is now being criticised for breaking Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) ...
South China Morning Post Team
http://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1985205/cambodia-made-right-decision-south-china-sea-dispute
Public ‘OK’ with removal of small-dollar banknotes
As the deadline draws close for commercial banks and microfinance institutions to send back smaller dollar banknotes to the National Bank of Cambodia without a service charge, businesses are seeing an increase in the use of the riel transactions with no real complaints from shoppers. ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50757036/public-ok-with-removal-of-small-dollar-banknotes/
Gov’t peruses documents for receiving Japanese aid
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) held talks with a delegation from The Embassy of Japan (EoJ) aimed at exchanging views and methods to accelerate banking document procedures in receiving Japanese grant aid for development projects in The Kingdom. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501442506/govt-peruses-documents-for-receiving-japanese-aid/
Private entities handed state land
The government has converted three plots of land in Phnom Penh from state public property to state private property – effectively handing Them to private entities – including a Ministry of Planning office on Monivong Boulevard that was transferred to The son-in-law of a senior ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/private-entities-handed-state-land
NBC won’t recognise bitcoin
Cambodia’s central bank won’t recognise bitcoin as a form of payment, making the Kingdom the latest Asian country to reject the digital currency. National Bank of Cambodia director-general Chea Serey confirmed the regulator’s stance on the issue on Wednesday, citing the absence of any e-commerce law ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-won%E2%80%99t-recognise-bitcoin
Clarification sought on government’s fraught NGO Law
A request has been sent to the government’s Human Rights Committee and the interior and foreign affairs ministries seeking clarification on the status and whereabouts of a draft law that will govern associations and non-governmental organizations, asking to see the latest version of the law ...
Phorn Bopha and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/clarification-sought-on-governments-fraught-ngo-law-52238/
US Embassy Offered Praise for Court Verdicts, Cables Show
The conviction of a school teacher who abused an 11 year old girl was hailed by The US Embassy in Phnom Penh last year, it has been revealed by WikiLeaks. The diplomatic cables that were released speak of The support The US has for an ...
IDEMITSU of Japan to build bio-fuel factory in Cambodia in 2015
A world class Japanese Company, IDEMITSU, will build a bio-fuel factory in Cambodia in 2015, and will commence exploring bio-fuel in Cambodia for the first time in 2017, Mr. Heng Ratana, General Director of Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) told reporters yesterday. IDEMITSU has been ...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NjQ3MGQ1NmRlY2R
Non-taxpayers targeted
The government will not increase The rate for income tax and oTher taxes for The next two years, but will instead concentrate on expanding The base for tax collection, taking into account that There are still many individuals and businesses that do not pay tax ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30034/non-taxpayers-targeted/
Cambodia, China's Yunnan province ink deal on information cooperation
Cambodia and China’s Yunnan province signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here on Monday on media cooperation and exchanges. The deal was inked by Buth Bovuth, chief of The Cambodian Information Ministry’s General Department of Information and Broadcasting, and Wu Jingbo, deputy chief of The Publicity Department of The Communist Party of China’s Yunnan Provincial Committee, with The presence of Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith and Ge Guangzhi, deputy director of Department No. 6 of The Information office of China’s State Council. ...
People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0922/c90883-8786134.html
Committee for work safety created
The government has established The National Committee for Health and Work Safety, to comprise in part officials from relevant ministries to review, give counsel and spread information related to health and work safety. According to a sub-decree dated Monday and signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, ...
Mom kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32302/committee-for-work-safety-created/
MIME backs Kingdom SMEs
The Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy is set to provide a total of US$800,000 to small and medium enterprises as part of an initiative to strengThen The sector’s technical and competitive strategy. As many as 30 companies would receive The financing, Meng SaTheara, The ministry’s ...
Announcement on the re-export of white rice
On 13 May 2020, the Cambodia Rice Federation issued an announcement to its members, according to a notification from the Ministry of Economy and Finance in which the Royal Government is authorized to grant the re-export of white rice upon overseas buying contract and the ...
Cambodia Rice Federation
The first Japan-Cambodia Foreign Senior Officials’ talks
Funakoshi Takehiro, Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs held the 1st Japan-Cambodia Foreign Senior Officials’ Talks with Ms. TUOT Panha, Secretary Of State Of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Of the Kingdom Of Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501395452/the-first-japan-cambodia-foreign-senior-officials-talks/