Bidding on major artery renovation to begin next month
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday announced that the renovation of National Road 4, which connects the capital with Sihanoukville in the south, will begin early next year. The ministry said bidding for the project will start in September. National Road 4 is one ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635502/bidding-on-major-artery-renovation-to-begin-next-month/
Gov’t releases sub-decree on Bokor town development
The government has decided to develop Bokor National Park into a futuristic and historic tourism city, a sub-decree on the introduction of the master plan for Bokor town’s development said. The area will be connected to the Kingdom’s southern coastal tourism corridor. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-releases-sub-decree-bokor-town-development
Kingdom’s numbers rise as census puts population at over 15 million
Provisional census figures released on Wednesday show that as of March 3, Cambodia’s population stood at 15,288,489 people – 7,869,912 women and 7,418,577 men – a 14.1 per cent increase since the previous census 11 years ago. Minister of Interior Sar Kheng, who is also ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-numbers-rise-census-puts-population-over-15-million
Lawmakers to take oaths today
All 125 elected CPP members will today attend the National Assembly’s first session and take oaths to be lawmakers before King Norodom Sihamoni. The National Assembly’s secretary-general Leng Penglong said yesterday that the King will preside over the opening session today with the presence of ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50530485/lawmakers-to-take-oaths-today/
Chemical analysis systems to increase food safety
Local produce can now be checked for pesticide residue using the technique known as chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) after the Ministry of Agriculture acquired LCMS systems that can be deployed to farms around the country. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536505/chemical-analysis-systems-to-increase-food-safety/
Delaying Accounting Standard Implementing for NGOs
On 21 January 2019, the National Accounting Council of Ministry of Economy and Finance issued a statement on delaying accounting standard implementing for NGOs in accordance to the Prakas issued on 27 March 2018 on implementation of accounting standard report for NGOs.The statement covers some main information ...
National Accounting Council
More than 30K palm tree seeds planted near Lao border in Stung Treng
Some 30,000 palm tree seeds were planted on Monday along a 10km stretch of National Road 7 leading to the Cambodia-Laos border in Stung Treng province. The seeds were planted on both sides of the road between post markers 040 and 042, the Stung Treng ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-30k-palm-tree-seeds-planted-near-lao-border-stung-treng
PM pushes for lifelong learning opportunities
Prime Minister Hun Sen has tasked all relevant ministries, institutions, authorities, educational institutions, learning centres and monasteries to develop lifelong learning opportunities for the people to better their lives. In a message published yesterday to mark this year’s National Literacy Day, Mr Hun Sen said ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50637359/pm-pushes-for-lifelong-learning-opportunities/
Development challenges in Ream National Park
Ecosystems play an important role in sustaining not only plants and animals, but also humans. But as demands for development continue, a balance between investments and sustainability remains elusive in Ream National Park. A forest ranger is geared with a bag behind his back and a ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50607376/development-challenges-in-ream-national-park/
Government to revamp porous tax code
The government will scrap its poorly regulated and grossly inefficient estimated-tax regime, which covers mostly small enterprises, and bring all businesses in the Kingdom into the fold of its more-stringent “real” tax regime, leaked documents show.In an unpublished addendum to the 2016 national budget obtained ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-revamp-porous-tax-code
Untrained & unlicensed: a look at Cambodia’s public health system
When the Cambodia National Assembly passed the 2016 National budget last December Cambodia’s public health system was not high on the list for additional resources, receiving a meager 8 per cent increase from the year prior, or $275 million. Admirably education received a boost of ...
New slaughterhouse regulations aim to curb disease
Ahead of the opening of Cambodia’s first modern abattoir, which is slated to begin operations in the near future, a new draft law to regulate animal produce and slaughterhouses was announced on Friday, along with the establishment of a “National Butchers’ Day” to be recognised ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-slaughterhouse-regulations-aim-curb-disease
Roadside builders told to back off by ministry
The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation in an announcement yesterday warned that action would be taken against those who illegally construct on the shoulders of, or fill in canals along, National Road 4 between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/roadside-builders-told-back-ministry
Drivers flee after truck crash injures 75 workers
More than 70 garment workers in Svay Rieng province were injured on Wednesday evening, four seriously, when two trucks transporting them home from work collided during heavy rain, police said Thursday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drivers-flee-after-truck-crash-injures-75-workers-94682/
Budget for 2016 moves closer to passage in Nat'l Assembly
The $4.3 billion 2016 draft budget moved one step closer to adoption yesterday, as the ruling party-controlled parliamentary committee tasked with reviewing the document gave it the green light. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/budget-2016-moves-closer-passage-natl-assembly
CNRP would slash ministry funds by 20%, spokesman says
The CNRP will cut all ministry budgets by 20 percent if it wins next year’s national election to free up funds to provide $500,000 annually to each commune, the party’s spokesman said on Monday, a proposal dismissed by the ruling party as empty election season ...
Ben Paviour and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/cnrp-slash-ministry-funds-20-spokesman-says-130259/
Government invests US$30 million on sub-national level administrations annually
Royal Government of Cambodia has spent approximately US$30 million a year on sub-national administrations in order to ensure their quality service provision, particularly on priority issues. ...
Lim Nary
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106910
Exam pass rate increases
The number of students who passed Cambodia’s high-stakes grade-12 exam saw only a slight increase this year, signalling that scores may be plateauing after an overhaul to weed out rampant cheating in 2014. ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exam-pass-rate-increases
Election delays 2018 census
The Minister of Planning yesterday announced the third national census set for next year will be delayed until 2019 because the government must focus on the July general election. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089529/election-delays-2018-census/
Only 23 rapes recorded in Phnom Penh last year in crime spike
Police tallied only 23 rapes in Phnom Penh last year despite an overall spike of 20 percent in criminal cases, prompting experts to caution that the data posted on the Cambodian National Police website provided only a partial picture of the city’s crimes. ...
Buth Kimsay and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/only-23-rapes-recorded-in-phnom-penh-last-year-in-crime-spike-123666/