Mackerel fishing banned until March 31
The Fisheries Administration Department announced a temporary ban on mackerel fishing from Tuesday until March 31, as the fish’s breeding season is approaching. Head of the department, Hong Hy, said: “To ensure the sustainability of maritime resources in Cambodia, the fisheries department prohibits mackerel fishing ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mackerel-fishing-banned-until-march-31
Dengue cases hit 1,000-mark in 2019
More than 1,000 cases of dengue fever have been reported so far this year, a number similar to that reported over the same period last year, said Leang Rithea, the dengue control programme manager at the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control. Rithea ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-cases-hit-1000-mark-2019
Gap in proposed minimum wage
Unions and employers have proposed starkly differing figures of what the minimum wage for garment and textile factory workers should be next year. Minimum wage negotiations between employers, the government and unions began on August 29 and are expected to end before September 25. After their ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641382/gap-in-proposed-minimum-wage/
GIZ fund of $4.5M to reinforce Kingdom’s SMEs
German international development organisation Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will provide $4.5 million in aid to promote a small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) development project in four Asean countries, including Cambodia. In Cambodia, Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts undersecretary of state Son Seng Huot ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/giz-fund-45m-reinforce-kingdoms-smes
Ministry floats new law for clean water management
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts will propose a new law to improve clean water management in Cambodia. It also warned of crackdowns on clean water supply businesses which are unlicensed or do not have a valid licence. The new law will state the obligations ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-floats-new-law-clean-water-management
Sanitation Development Impact Bond (DIB) launched today
The World’s first $10 million Sanitation Development Impact Bond (DIB) aimed at bringing safe sanitation to some of the poorest and most vulnerable households in six Cambodian provinces was launched today. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/660228/sanitation-development-impact-bond-dib-launched-today/
Single brand to strengthen market for fragrant rice
Cambodia must focus on building a single recognisable brand for its premium fragrant rice to strengthen its international marketing efforts, Minister of Commerce Sun Chanthol said yesterday. Cambodia’s Phka Rumduol – a long-grain, aromatic variety of rice – has been awarded the World’s Best Rice ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-brand-strengthen-market-fragrant-rice
Tourists are unknowingly contributing to Cambodia’s rising number of orphanages
Almost 75 percent of kids in the country’s orphanages are there because their families can’t afford to keep them at home. In 2011, UNICEF released a study saying that the number of orphanages in Cambodia had increased by 75 percent in the previous six years, ...
Logan Connor
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/11/03/cambodias-orphanages
Exports to Thailand still blocked
Agricultural exports to Thailand are still being blocked at the border by Thai authorities over concerns that officials’ seals and certificates of origin are being forged, as Cambodian officials try to resolve the issue. The Ministry of Commence on Friday issued a statement stressing that the ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29025/exports-to-thailand-still-blocked/
Minimum wage for teachers to be $230 by April
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that the minimum wage for teachers is set to exceed $230 (about 950,000 riel), not including additional bonuses, come April next year. During a graduation ceremony for Cambodia University for Specialties students at Koh Pich, Mr. Hun Sen said the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30315/minimum-wage-for-teachers-to-be--230-by-april/
Cambodia economy strong through next year: ADB
Cambodia’s economy is expected to remain strong through 2016, though it is likely to grow at a slightly slower pace than forecast earlier this year, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday.In an update to its annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2015, the ADB said ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/702844/cambodia-economy-strong-through-next-year-adb
$27 mil to help rice sector
In an effort to appease rice farmers and stimulate rice millers to purchase fragrant rice currently being harvested across the country, the government announced that it had found $27 million to pay for emergency measures. The Ministry of Economy and Finance released a statement on Friday ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29875/-27-mil-to-help-rice-sector/
Xi’s visit to boost farm exports
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cambodia next week will likely lead to an increase in agriculture exports to China, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Speaking at a graduation ceremony for law and economics students in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, Mr. Hun Sen said that ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30521/xi---s-visit-to-boost-farm-exports/
Outbreak turns consumers away from pork
Pork sales at local markets have taken a hit following the recent outbreak of blue-ear pig disease as fears have spread among consumers that the meat is not fit for human consumption, pork vendors said yesterday.First identified in Siem Reap in mid-August, Porcine Reproductive and ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/outbreak-turns-consumers-away-pork
Fuel retailers asked to account for price mismatch
The Ministry of Commerce has called for a meeting with fuel retailers to review prices at the pump after Prime Minister Hun Sen urged them to set prices that reflect falling global oil prices, a government official said.Ken Ratha, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fuel-retailers-asked-account-price-mismatch
Cambodia sees gains from Obama’s Sunnylands summit
It has now been some time since the special summit between the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and U.S. President Barack Obama at Sunnylands, California, on Feb. 15-16. The meeting was the first of its kind to be held on American ...
Kimseng Men
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-sees-gains-from-obama-sunnylands-summit/3268490.html
Desperate times for Cambodia's farmers
The first rainfall this year did not arrive until early June to Pursat, a province located in the northwest of the country, where land looked bare and thirsty at the height of the planting season. The devastating drought, which the government has described as the ...
Ana Salvá
http://thediplomat.com/2016/08/desperate-times-for-cambodias-farmers/
Villages no longer dark
The Cambodian government is on track to provide electricity to all villages in the Kingdom by 2020 as this year’s seven-month data, from the Ministry of Mines and Energy, indicate that 71 percent of rural areas now have regular power supply. Ith Praing, secretary of state ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28315/villages-no-longer-dark/
PM reflects on civil war’s origin
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appeared to take a veiled swipe at the United States, insinuating that they were responsible for the decades of bloody civil war that engulfed Cambodia.Speaking ahead of today’s 24th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, which paved the way for ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-reflects-civil-wars-origin
Child protection in schools under review
The Ministry of Education is working with NGOs to draft a policy document to protect schoolchildren from abuse at the hands of educators and fellow students, an NGO specialist told the Post yesterday.More than 40 government and non-government representatives gathered in the capital on Friday ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-protection-schools-under-review