Citizens urged to ration water
Cambodia’s drought has hit even the coldest provinces, as Ban Lung’s main water supplier, Tai seng Phalit Teuksaat Co., broadcast drought warnings to the residents of Ratanakkiri early this week, advising residents to start rationing water. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21847/citizens-urged-to-ration-water/
UN, Gov’t move to end violence against women
The United Nations and the Cambodian Ministry of Women’s Affairs will organize four major events across the country to raise awareness of the need to end violence against women and girls, according to a UN Women’s statement on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18114/un--gov---t-move-to-end-violence-against-women/
Life begins for health sciences lab
The Kingdom’s first clinical skills and simulation laboratories were inaugurated yesterday at the University of Health sciences in Phnom Penh along with computerised exam rooms – part of the public university’s strategic four-year plan launched in 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-begins-health-sciences-lab
Water utility posts profit, but shares stagnant
The capital’s listed water utility reported strong growth of earnings and profit in 2015, yet failed once again to impress investors, with its share price refusing to budge during yesterday’s low-volume trading session. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/water-utility-posts-profit-shares-stagnant
Land prices drop in capital districts
Land prices in the capital’s sen sok and Tuol Kork districts saw a slight decrease in the second quarter relative to the year’s first quarter, which was blamed on a stagnant property market from earlier this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28974/land-prices-drop-in-capital-districts/
CNRP get their say in National Assembly
The position of National Assembly spokesman will no longer be held exclusively by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, with the role to be split in three, allowing for two partisan representatives and one from the parliament’s secretariat. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-get-their-say-national-assembly
Cambodia: Unions discuss garment wages, workers’ rights
Union and clothing brand representatives from around the world met in Cambodia’s capital Wednesday, aiming to address the country’s minimum wage and push for the establishment of a proper system of collective bargaining. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/cambodia-unions-discuss-garment-wages-workers-rights/488146
Cambodian embassy in Thailand denies extortion allegations
Cambodia’s embassy in Thailand has denied allegations that officials from the embassy were extorting Cambodian employers and migrant workers in Thailand by demanding bribes for fake passports and pushing along applications to legalize a person’s working status. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22694/cambodian-embassy-in-thailand-denies-extortion-allegations/
Government welcomes drought relief measures by China
Government officials on Wednesday applauded China’s decision to take emergency measures to counter the impact of a regional drought by releasing water into the Mekong River from the Jinghong Hydropower station in China’s southwestern Yunnan province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-welcomes-drought-relief-measures-by-china-110018/
Hot weather shakes up local salt sector
Unusually high yields of salt production in Kep and Kampot province have surpassed the market’s low demand, filling the nation’s salt storage facilities to capacity, the head of a local industry body said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hot-weather-shakes-local-salt-sector
Royal Group head Kith Meng urges tax rate revision
Private sector representatives argued yesterday that Cambodia’s outdated taxation laws do not accurately reflect the Kingdom’s current business climate, urging the General Department of Taxation (GDT) to revise the legal framework to promote private sector growth. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-head-kith-meng-urges-tax-rate-revision
NGO head apologises to NEC
The Victory Intelligent Standard ASSociation iSSued an apology on WedneSday to the National Election Committee for accuSing the body&rSquo;S Senior StafferS of corruption during the tranSfer of itS employeeS from independent contractorS to the government&rSquo;S fold. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-head-apologises-nec
ILO warns of Brexit threat to garments
Cambodia’s critical garment export sector could face major risks in both the short and long term from the U.K.’s surprise vote last year to exit the E.U., the International Labor Organization (ILO) has warned. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/ilo-warns-of-brexit-threatto-garments-123535/
Workers unearth US bomb
An unexploded bomb dropped by the US in the 1970S waS found on Saturday and unearthed yeSterday by the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) in Svay Rieng province&rSquo;S Svay Chrum diStrict, according to CMAC director Heng Ratana. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-unearth-us-bomb
Bodyguard unit marks founding with a show of strength, threats
Prime Minister Hun sen’s personal bodyguard unit celebrated its eighth anniversary yesterday, with the unit’s leaders praising Hun sen to a heavily armed audience flanked by tanks, while also warning the opposition not to underestimate it. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bodyguard-unit-marks-founding-show-strength-threats
District governor gets Interior Ministry job
Phnom Penh’s sen sok district governor Pil Kosal has been transferred to work at the Interior Ministry after the ruling CPP lost all of its commune seats in the district to the opposition CNRP in June’s polls. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084018/district-governor-gets-interior-ministry-job/
Health Ministry highlights rice wine dangers
The Ministry of Health’s communicable disease control department has produced a short video in advance of next month’s Khmer New Year warning revellers of the dangers of consuming rice wine, which has been linked to multiple deaths. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113503/health-ministry-highlights-rice-wine-dangers/
Adhoc accuses Ratanakkiri official of OK’ing sale of sanctuary land
Some 200 hectareS of foreSt in Ratanakkiri&rSquo;S Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary have been cleared and Sold for up to $400 per hectare &ndaSh; allegedly with an official&rSquo;S bleSSing &ndaSh; while an additional 700 hectareS around the protected area face clearing. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adhoc-accuses-ratanakkiri-official-oking-sale-sanctuary-land
Rare timber seized in sanctuary
A truck full of high-grade timber was seized in Kampong speu’s Oral district on Monday afternoon by District Military Police forces and the NGO WildAid’s crime interception team, but the driver remains at large. .. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rare-timber-seized-sanctuary
Trash piles will get picked up, eventually
Phnom Penh’s sole garbage hauler says it will need another week to collect thousands of tons of fetid garbage that piled up over the weekend when workers left the capital to vote in sunday’s commune elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trash-piles-will-get-picked-up-eventually-131068/