Medical professionals urged to strengthen code of ethics
The Ministry of Health has instructed medical professionals to improve their abilities and abide by their code of ethics to stymie ongoing complaints, specifically being rude to patients. The ministry’s central committee issued the order on Tuesday during its annual review and outlook meeting in ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/medical-professionals-urged-strengthen-code-ethics
Announcement on providing tax services for the provision of tax identification card on means of transportation for all types of vehicles at the provincial tax branches and commercial banks
On 30 June 2020, the General Department of Taxation issued an announcement to all vehicle owners who requested tax identification to get theirs at any working time at the provincial tax branches and commercial banks where they have requested to make the above identification card. ...
General Department of Taxation
Additional support to farming enterprises
KE, which is part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, has teamed up with the Cambodia-Australia Agricultural Value Chain programme (CAVAC), devoted to improving the resilience and competitiveness of Cambodia’s agriculture sector. They are providing funding assistance to qualifying agro-processing small and medium enterprises ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50766442/additional-support-to-farming-enterprises/
Decision on the establishment of fake news monitoring committee
On March 11 2020, the Ministry of Information issued a Decision on the establishment of a fake news monitoring committee. The committee’s task is to monitor the spread of fake news and misinformation on social media, to respond to the public in a timely manner, ...
Ministry of Information
Announcement on UK's Generalized Scheme of Preferences to developing and least developed countries
On 24 December 2020, the Ministry of Commerce issued an announcement on the UK’s Generalized Scheme of Preferences for developing and least developed countries. With this, the Ministry advised producers or exporters in Cambodia to apply for the Certificate of origin Form A (CO Form ...
Ministry of Commerce
Progress of joint labor dispute solutions at NagaWorld
On 10 March 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the progress of joint labor dispute solutions at NagaWorld.The joint labor dispute at NagaWorld is started from the spread of COVID-19, which results in the suspension of business activities in ...
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
Land Disputes Focus Ire on Chinese Investors
Among thousands of residents in the Boeung Kak Lake district of the capital whose land has been targeted for redevelopment by a Chinese-financed real estate company, Tep Vanny carried a letter explaining the “sadness and suffering” caused by the project — which has turned Phnom ...
Phnom Penh Trash Collectors Dance for Demands
Piles of garbage festered on the streets of Phnom Penh on Tuesday as hundreds of workers employed by the city’s refuse collection company, Cintri, continued to strike for higher wages and better working conditions. At the company’s truck depot in Dangkao district Tuesday morning, more than ...
Ben Sokhean and Alice Cuddy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-trash-collectors-dance-for-demands-51432/
Illegal wood exports to China tripled in 2013
Cambodia’s exports of protected rosewood and other high-value timber to China more than tripled last year, according to U.N. figures cited in a new report that blames lax law enforcement across the Mekong region and skyrocketing demand in China for pushing some species to the ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-wood-exports-to-china-tripled-in-2013-58593/
Development and assistance for poverty reduction and food security
USAID’s Harvest program is helping Cambodia’s farmers. Photo by USAID, taken on 09 December 2013. Under the license CC BY-ND 2.0.The country has achieved remarkable sustainable growth, however, poverty and food security remain the challenges. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has acknowledged that to ...
Public revenues from extractive industries
Extractive industries include mining and mineral sectors, natural gas and oil exploration, petroleum refineries, and quarrying for construction resources such as sand, stone, and gravel. Cambodia’s extractive resources have gone largely untapped, while these resources are geographically identifiable.The government considers extractive industries a potentially important ...
Job Announcement: Administrative Assistant and Web Development and IT Officer (21 Oct 2020)
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is an open data website, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The open data movement is based on the simple premise that data collected for public interest should be publicly available without restrictions. Information or data in the public ...
Gravel and limestone
Raw gravel, photo by touch and see, taken on March 26, 2014. Licensed under: CC BY-SA 2.0Since 2010, Cambodia has seen increasing production of cement, crushed stone, sand and gravel in response to the country’s booming construction sector. Approved investment in the construction industry in ...
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a dataset on "Health centers in 2023"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a dataset on “Health centers in 2023”. This dataset shows the performance, expenditure, and revenue budget of each health center in targeted communes or Sangkat for the implementation of the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) by 2023.=> Please ...
Logging in the wild west
Illegal logging of staggering proportions abetted by military personnel is decimating stocks of luxury rosewood in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, while the conversation group tasked with protecting the area and its government counterparts deny the trade is even happening. In a period of several hours ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122153536/National-news/logging-in-the-wild-west.html
In Cardamom Mountains, Two Deaths Recounted
Deep in Koh Kong’s forested district on Thursday, Chut Wutty, 46, the founder of the Natural Resource Protection Group, and In Rattana, 32, a military police officer, were shot dead. Chut Wutty, a forestry activist who has dedicated himself to preserving Cambodia’s disappearing forests since ...
Mfone's towers are a hard sell
Nearly a decade ago, Meng Chor inherited a rooftop rental agreement with a telecommunications firm after buying a property on Mao Tse Toung Boulevard. For $300 a month over a 10-year lease, the contract allowed the company that later became Mfone to keep the cell tower ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfones-towers-are-hard-sell
CNRP, Comfrel Call for Investigation Into NEC’s Independence
The CNRP and the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) on Monday called for a full investigation into the National Election Committee’s (NEC) independence as well as its possible role in the irregularities the opposition says occurred during the national election on ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-comfrel-call-for-investigation-into-necs-independence-38403/
Phnom Penh Bans Cambodia Opposition’s Thumbprint Campaign
Authorities in Phnom Penh on Wednesday banned Cambodia’s opposition party from using public spaces to collect thumbprints for a petition calling for U.N. and foreign intervention in the country’s political crisis following disputed polls. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to collect at least 3 million ...
Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/petition-10092013174335.html