Ministry removes officials from office for skipping work
The Ministry of Interior has removed four Oddar Meanchey provincial officials from office, including former deputy governor of Anlong Veng district Nhem En, for failing to show up for work, according to a ministry letter received by Khmer Times yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21423/ministry-removes-officials-from-office-for-skipping-work/
PTT to add 70 gas stations by 2020
An additional 70 gas stations will be set up across the country by 2020 by PTT (Cambodia) Limited, a subsidiary of Thailand’s PTT oil and gas conglomerate, while retail prices will soon be regulated to reflect the fluctuations in global oil prices. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22390/ptt-to-add-70-gas-stations-by-2020/
Officials’ service passports to be revoked at borders
Government officials who travel overseas for work will have to turn over their service passports when they return to Cambodia starting this month due to misuse of the documents to overstay official trips and partake in unrelated work, according to a Foreign Affairs Ministry statement. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/109715-109715/
Workers at JC Penny supplier rally for unpaid benefits
Following more than two weeks of protests in front of their shuttered factory in Por Senchey district, more than 500 workers from Win Shingtex (Cambodia) Co. Ltd tried to march yesterday to the Ministry of Labor, the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23032/workers-at-jc-penny-supplier-rally-for-unpaid-benefits/
Companies making gains in trademark protection
The Commerce Ministry has received more than 5,000 applications from companies to register their trademark in the first three months of this year – the same as for all of last year – a senior ministry official said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23231/companies-making-gains-in-trademark-protection/
Cabinet accepts Win Shingtex worker’s petition
More than 300 former workers at the Win Shingtex (Cambodia) factory, a supplier for US retail giant JC Penny, filed a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet yesterday morning asking the government to intervene after the workers had their wages and benefits cut as ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23413/cabinet-accepts-win-shingtex-worker---s-petition/
Crackdown brings a halt to 78 trucks
At least 78 trucks carrying mining materials including gravel, sand and soil were stopped on National Road 3 by traffic police on Tuesday in cooperation with Mining Ministry officials. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24614/crackdown-brings-a-halt-to-78-trucks/
Foreign minister responds to Ban Ki-Moon
After initially refusing to comment on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s surprise telephone call to Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn last week, the ministry has released Mr. Sokhonn’s purported replies, all defending the government’s latest crackdown on the opposition. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/foreign-minister-responds-to-ban-ki-moon-114015/
Archeological dig starts at Angkor Thom
An archaeological dig at the ancient capital of Angkor Thom started on Monday in search of metal tools from the Kingdom’s Angkorian era. The École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), a French institute dedicated to the study of Asian societies, started the dig in cooperation with the ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27210/archeological-dig-starts-at-angkor-thom/
$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/
GDCE collects more than 1 billion state revenue in first 9 months
The General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance has collected around 4,649 billion Riel or some US$1.11 billion state revenue for the first nine months of 2015, according to the state news agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/gdce-collects-more-than-1-billion-state-revenue-in-first-9-months-9024
Rise in number of blazes in ’15
The number of fires in Cambodia increased by 14.7 per cent in 2015 compared to the previous year, killing 35 people and consuming almost 600 homes. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rise-number-blazes-15
Fire season brings warning from ministry
As the Kingdom moves into the heart of the dry season, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries has issued a set of guidelines on the prevention of forest fires, stressing that jail is in the cards for those starting blazes. ...
Bun Sengkong and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fire-season-brings-warning-ministry
Foreign ministry explains service passport collection
The Foreign Affairs Ministry released a statement on Tuesday clarifying the policies that will be used to collect service passports from public servants after they have returned from their missions abroad and are no longer authorized to use them. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22628/foreign-ministry-explains-service-passport-collection/
Government regulates gas prices
Gas stations around the country will be required to sell their products at a standardized price and any that overcharge will be fined, the government said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22638/government-regulates-gas-prices/
Thai manufacturers sizing up Cambodia
Thai manufacturers are being urged to transfer some of their production facilities to Cambodia and other neighboring countries, according to a report in the Thai media yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24478/thai-manufacturers-sizing-up-cambodia/
Cambodia hosting valuers congress
Cambodia is hosting the two-day 19th ASEAN Valuers Association (AVA) Congress, the first time it has been held in the Kingdom. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24665/cambodia-hosting-valuers-congress/
First direct flight with Japan set for September
Plans were finalized last week for the first direct flight between Cambodia and Japan, which is set to launch in September, according to Tourism Minister Thong Khon, who met with Japanese Ambassador Kumamaru Yuji on Thursday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/first-direct-flight-with-japan-set-for-september-112616/
Bad weather on the way, say officials
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a strong weather warning yesterday for coastal, plains and plateau areas, from yesterday to June 5, especially along coastal areas where the ocean swell is expected to reach one to two-and-a-half meters. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25479/bad-weather-on-the-way--say-officials/
Tax authority sets window for road tax compliance
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) announced yesterday that the government will collect annual road tax payments from July 1 until November 30. ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-authority-sets-window-road-tax-compliance