Minister calls for women’s role in digitalisation of economy
Ahead of the 113th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8, the Ministry of Tourism addressed women’s role in the digitalisation of Cambodia’s economy at a special event on their premises in Phnom Penh on Friday. ...
Jigmee Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501449700/minister-calls-for-womens-role-in-digitalisation-of-economy/
Police, land protesters clash
More than 100 villagers, representing 197 families from Chi Khor Krom and Chi Khor Leu communes in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district, protested again on Wednesday and clashed with authorities in front of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction after the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-land-protesters-clash
Cambodia’s new Rules of Origin Law to better facilitate international trade
Cambodia has approved a new Rules of Origin (ROO) law, which is to be in line with the standards set by the World Trade Organization (WTO). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501332195/cambodias-new-rules-of-origin-law-to-better-facilitate-international-trade/
Government adopts long-term supportive policy for residents moving out of Angkor Resort
The Royal Government of Cambodia has set forth a policy to support The residents who had volunteered to move out of Angkor Archeological Park in Siem Reap provincial city to Tani village, Run Taek commune, Banteay Srei district, Siem Reap province. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501150476/government-adopts-long-term-supportive-policy-for-residents-moving-out-of-angkor-resort/
Health ministry will levy fines for public smoking offenders
People smoking tobacco in offices, restaurants and other public spaces will have to indulge their habit in clearly demarcated smoking areas or both the smoker and establishment owner will face fines, the Ministry of Health announced. ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/health-ministry-will-levy-fines-for-public-smoking-offenders-112894/
Cambodian silk market troubles
Despite steady sales of silk products in the Kingdom, the combination of a lack of skilled labor and cheap imports are adding extra stress to Cambodia’s already beleaguered domestic production, say officials and industry experts. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28745/cambodian-silk-market-troubles/
Kim Sok gets 18 months and must pay $200K in compensation to CPP
Political commentator Kim Sok was sentenced to 18 months in prison this afternoon on charges of incitement and defamation for appearing to suggest that the ruling party was behind the killing of popular analyst Kem Ley. ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kim-sok-gets-18-months-and-must-pay-200k-compensation-cpp
Probe into justice minister possible, ACU chief says
The Anti-Corruption Unit has not yet opened an investigation into Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana’s secretive offshore holdings, but The unit’s chairman said on Thursday that a future probe could not be ruled out. ...
Ben Sokhean and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/probe-into-justice-minister-possible-acu-chief-says-110998/
Heavy trucks feel pinch
Transportation Ministry inspection stations last month seized 242 overloaded trucks, nearly 100 more than the month prior, and more than doubled the fines dished out to offending vehicle owners, according to a ministry report released on Tuesday. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heavy-trucks-feel-pinch
High UV index
On 17 August 2021, Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a press release on the increase in the UV index. According to research by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Indochina will be affected by UV radiation from 18 to 24 August 2021. This increase ...
Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology
Hydro deal signing faces delay
A $100 million electricity and fresh water deal for a joint-venture between Cambodia’s LYP Group and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) will not be signed as expected when Prime Minister Hun Sen meets his Thai counterpart Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha today for bilateral talks, ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081898/hydro-deal-signing-faces-delay/
Hundreds of truck owners fined
More than 300 overloaded trucks were fined nearly $135,000 last month, causing the Transport Ministry to call for stricter action to protect the country’s roads.A Transport Ministry report said a committee comprised of ministry officials and law enforcement officers seized 307 overloaded trucks, resulting in ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101342/hundreds-truck-owners-fined/
Young child makes bird flu recovery
A 15-month-old toddler who represented the 18th confirmed case of avian influenza in Cambodia this year has recovered and was released from Kantha Bopha hospital on Friday. the little boy from Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district developed a fever on August 16, and was transferred a ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/young-child-makes-bird-flu-recovery
Pilot project to recruit Cambodian maids struggles to take off
A pilot project to recruit maids from Cambodia is struggling to take off as workers are turned off by high recruitment fees, and the fear of not being able to adapt to life here. Under a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) pilot scheme that began last August, ...
Government doles out around eight billion riels to clean up cities
Ministry of Environment secretary of state and spokesman Neth Pheaktra said that the Royal Government spent around eight billion riels (approx. $1,944,106) in a year to clean up 28 cities throughout the country. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501142245/government-doles-out-around-eight-billion-riels-to-clean-up-cities/
Ticket sales for Angkor Wat to go online
A new online ticketing system for the Kingdom’s biggest tourist draw, Angkor Wat, will be introduced to provide faster and convenient service to tourists, while increasing the transparency and clarity of ticket sales revenues. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ticket-sales-angkor-wat-go-online
Transport firms targeted in anti-drug drive
The Transport Minister has asked all transport companies to instruct Their drivers not to use drugs and to stick anti-drug stickers on Their trucks as part of a ministry campaign to curb drug use in The industry. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084019/transport-firms-targeted-anti-drug-drive/
Migrant workers overwhelm passport center
On a narrow side street on the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Tuesday, cars and tuk-tuks crept slowly along as hordes of pedestrians and motorbikes blocked their paths. Food carts and steady streams of customers lined the road. ...
Chhorn Phearun and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/migrant-workers-overwhelm-passport-center-132417/
Interior Ministry puts provinces on high alert ahead of CNRP court date
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng yesterday issued an order demanding that all provincial governors create a “standby working group” to monitor the political situation in anticipation of unrest following the opposition party’s potential dissolution later this week. ...
19th ASEAN Military Intelligence meeting concludes
The 19th ASEAN Military Intelligence Meeting (AMIM-19), hosted by Cambodia under The Theme “Solidarity for Harmonised Security”, was concluded in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501042135/19th-asean-military-intelligence-meeting-concludes/