NIG aiming to create level playing ground for ISPs
The National Internet Gateway’s (NIG) will level The competitive playing ground for Cambodian internet service providers (ISPs). It may however, also limit companies who invested millions of dollars building The Kingdom’s internet infrastructure from realising The return on investment They had counted on. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50822848/nig-aiming-to-create-level-playing-ground-for-isps/
Joint statement: Drop all charges against arrested union leader Rong Chhun
On 03 August 2020, 141 undersigned civil society groups issued a joint statement to strongly condemn the nighttime arrest of Rong Chhun and call on the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to immediately drop all charges against the union leader ...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
NSSF pays more than $3 million to new mothers
More than 30,000 female workers delivered babies during the first five months of this year, an increase of more than 8,000 workers from the same period last year. A National Social Security Fund report issued on Friday said that from January to May, the government ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50610045/nssf-pays-more-than-3-million-to-new-mothers-2/
Study finds worm more harmful than thought
Researchers have found that a little-studied variety of threadworm – strongyloides stercoralis – previously thought to be relatively benign is associated with “significant morbidity” in rural Cambodia. Peter Odermatt, a professor at Basel University in Switzerland who headed the team, said the researchers had been ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-finds-worm-more-harmful-thought
Ministry prepares draft law on religion
The Ministry of Cults and Religions is preparing a draft law on religion with The purpose of promoting morality and ethics within The framework of spirituality. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501424155/ministry-prepares-draft-law-on-religion/
ANZ, MFI partner to bridge financial sectors
ANZ Royal Bank and local microfinance institution Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL) on Monday entered into the first partnership of its kind in Cambodia in a bid to bring together clients from either side of the financial spectrum. Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding at ...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/anz-mfi-partner-to-bridge-financial-sectors-60902/
Ministry of Environment to acquire particulate monitors for provinces
The Ministry of Environment said it plans on acquiring 15 particulate monitors, which can measure air particulates with 10 and 2.5 micrometres in diameter (PM10 and PM2.5), for installation in The provinces. Meanwhile, Ministry secretary of state and spokesman Neth Pheaktra said on Monday that ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-environment-acquire-particulate-monitors-provinces
Measles cases rise sharply
Cambodia has recorded 341 measles cases in the first four months of this year, a significant increase from just 44 cases in the same period last year. the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed the total on Monday and reported that 65 percent of those infected ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/measles-cases-rise-sharply
Deadline set for telecom operators to hand over data
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) has asked The nations’ telecom operators to connect to its Data Management Centre (DMC) by January 1, 2021. Based on The telecom laws, all operators and stakeholders involved in telecom must provide data service information to The MPTC. ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50794919/deadline-set-for-telecom-operators-to-hand-over-data/
‘Single Portal’ registers 22K firms
A total of 22,713 companies, with cumulative “registered share capital” of $6.40 billion, were approved by the six first-phase agencies and successfully registered on the Online Business Registration Platform – also known as the “Single Portal” – as of March 6 at 2pm, the Online ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-portal-registers-22k-firms
Village lockdowns mulled if returning workers have COVID-19
Authorities are in the process of locating and identifying the majority of about 15,000 migrant workers who fled back to the Kingdom on Sunday before Thailand closed its borders. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50705419/village-lockdowns-mulled-if-returning-workers-have-covid-19/
Turkmenistan mulls direct flights to Cambodia
Turkmenistan to become the first country to connect direct flights with Cambodia among the Central Asian countries, a press release of the Ministry of Tourism (MoT) said. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501343430/turkmenistan-mulls-direct-flights-to-cambodia/
Civil servants to get $12 for Pchum Ben
The government has issued a sub-decree that all civil servants will this year receive about $12 each for The upcoming Pchum Ben festival. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078968/civil-servants-get-12-pchum-ben/
Cambodia PM attacked for praising notorius military unit
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has stirred disquiet after praising a military unit which has been heavily implicated in human rights abuses and political killings. The former Khmer Rouge commander – who has been premier for more than 25 years – gave a speech Monday thanking The troops of The notorius Brigade 70 for Their ...
World Bulletin News Staff
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/146197/cambodia-pm-attacked-for-praising-notorius-military-unit
Government eyes domain name registry
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has set up a working group to study The idea of establishing a Cambodian Network Information Centre (KHNIC) to manage domain name registration and encourage people to use The national (.kh) domain. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-eyes-domain-name-registry
Solid reserves reflect stability of Cambodian economy, riel
The rise in Cambodia’s international reserves reflects The confidence in Khmer riel, stability of The exchange rate, high liquidity and a sound economy that can withstand external shocks or crises, experts said. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solid-reserves-reflect-stability-cambodian-economy-riel
HIV/AIDS infections rise among some male groups and youths
The Deputy Director of The National AIDS Authority (NAA), Dr Tia Phalla, said The 2025 target to end HIV/AIDS in Cambodia is unlikely to be met due to increasing cases. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501306806/hiv-aids-infections-rise-among-some-male-groups-and-youths/
MoH wants C-19 vaccines included in immunisation programme
The Ministry of Health recommended yesterday that COVID-19 vaccines be included in The National Immunisation Programme and that The vaccine be promoted in all priority groups. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501306876/moh-wants-c-19-vaccines-included-in-immunisation-programme/
First phase of Zero-Snaring campaign wraps up
The Zero-Snaring campaign, initiated and led by The Ministry of Environment, with The cooperation and support from conservation organisations, was wrapped up with rallies in Kratie, Stung Treng, Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, Preah Vihear and Kampong Thom. The campaign ran from March to September, 2022. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-phase-zero-snaring-campaign-wraps
Authorities burn more than 100 kilograms of drugs
Authorities from four provinces, along with the Ministry of Justice, set more than 100 kilograms of drugs ablaze at the Preah Vihear provincial hall on Monday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077055/authorities-burn-100-kilograms-drugs/