Culture ministry bans film on forest activist Chut Wutty
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has banned a screening of a documentary film about murdered environmentalist Chut Wutty and threatened “strong action” against the venue if films continue to be shown without first being cleared by the government. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/culture-ministry-bans-film-forest-activist-chut-wutty
Offshore holdings are up for grabs, justice minister jokes
Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana quipped over the weekend that anyone who can find his offshore financial holdings—revealed earlier this month as part of the “Panama Papers” leak—can keep the money, according to Information Minister Khieu Kanharith. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/offshore-holdings-are-up-for-grabs-justice-minister-jokes-111464/
Rain and storms coming, says committee
More than 1,200 houses and buildings were affected and more than 70 people died or were injured by rainstorms and lightning in the first four months of 2016, according to Keo Vy, Cabinet director and a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24486/rain-and-storms-coming--says-committee/
ABA bank gets capital boost
With a $148 million injection of capital through a Share Purchase Agreement, National Bank of Canada (NBC) now holds a 90 percent stake in ABA Bank, according to ABA and NBC executives, who ensured that the agreement will not alter ABA Bank’s strategy but enhance ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24800/aba-bank-gets-capital-boost/
Government readies new Nauru visit to meet refugees
The Interior Ministry has made tentative plans to send a delegation of three people to the South Pacific island of Nauru next month to meet and vet two more refugees who have volunteered to resettle in Cambodia. ...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-readies-new-nauru-visit-to-meet-refugees-112947/
NBC modernizes payment system
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) received a grant totaling $8 million from the South Korean government, through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to modernize its national retail payment system as the Kingdom gets ready to trade in the Asean Economic Community. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25854/nbc-modernizes-payment-system/
Export cassava to Thailand, says ministry
Cambodia’s cassava growers have been asked to target Thailand as an export market due to the high demand for the starch-tuber in the neighboring country to produce ethanol, animal feed and flour, while little is done at home to stabilize prices and provide assistance to ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26425/export-cassava-to-thailand--says-ministry/
Trucks to be weighed before hitting the road
The use of mobile weighing stations to combat overloaded transport trucks will be extended next month to factories, warehouses, quarries, construction sites and other sources of heavy shipments, the Transport Ministry has announced. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trucks-to-be-weighed-before-hitting-the-road-115281/
Cambodia to close Mekong River Commission office
Cambodia has announced it will shutter the office of the inter-governmental Mekong River Commission in Phnom Penh, relocating its functions to neighboring Laos. ...
Ith Sothoeuth
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodia-to-close-mekong-river-commission-office/3457356.html
Rice farmers bracing for droughts, floods
Though the rice-planting season has started and nationwide rice cultivation this month has been higher than planned, farmers are worried that adverse weather events caused by climate change will ruin their crops. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ planning and statistics department, the ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28321/rice-farmers-bracing-for-droughts--floods/
Anti-money laundering plan
With the deadline for a second review by a global task force of the government’s efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing fast approaching, the Kingdom’s central bank yesterday conducted a workshop with banks, financial institutions and state agencies to flesh out a strategy ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28845/anti-money-laundering-plan/
Familiar wage figure floated by minister
In the midst of annual minimum wage negotiations, Minister of Labour Ith Samheng used a visit from members of the Southeast Asian Youth Programme to reiterate that the minimum wage for garment workers would reach at least $160 a month by 2018, state media reported. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/familiar-wage-figure-floated-minister
Ministry warns against spread of swine flu
The Ministry of Health has appealed to the public to protect itself from the H1N1 swine flu virus in a video posted on Facebook yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21784/ministry-warns-against-spread-of-swine-flu/
Ministry hits back at rebuke of contentious telecoms law
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has defended the controversial new Telecommunications Law following a biting legal analysis by rights group Licadho, which says the legislation is a veiled tool to silence critics and potentially criminalize private expression. ...
Sonia Kohlbacher and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-hits-back-at-rebuke-of-contentious-telecoms-law-110921/
Khmer specialized bank opens
Khmer Specialized Bank, a subsidiary of Khmer Holding Group, was officially inaugurated to offer financial services to Cambodians yesterday, with $21 million worth of investment capital and becoming the 13th specialized bank in Cambodia. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25178/khmer-specialized-bank-opens/
Police charge major with dealing meth in Battambang
A Ministry of Defence staffer with the rank of major was arrested on Tuesday, allegedly while dealing drugs in Battambang’s Kamrieng district. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-charge-major-dealing-meth-battambang
July set for minimum wage talks
A series of talks will be held next month to discuss the future of minimum wages in the footwear and garment industries, with their findings to be announced and enforced early next year, according to Ministry of Labor officials. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25734/july-set-for-minimum-wage-talks/
ICT Federation overhauled
Trying to stay in sync with Cambodia’s rapid information and communication technology (ICT) growth, the Kingdom’s ICT Federation has been overhauled and is now fully chaired by industry insiders. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ict-federation-overhauled
Oil and gas imports fall: ministry
The Kingdom’s petroleum and gas imports fell in the first quarter of this year due to waning consumer and business demands, according to the Ministry of Commerce. However, a large petroleum, lubricants and oil importer said the fall in gas imports was just relative and ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26222/oil-and-gas-imports-fall--ministry/
Child labor rampant in kingdom
Cambodia’s dependence on illegal child labor, despite its small population, is endemic compared to neighboring countries, according to Veng Heang, director of the Child Labor Department at the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26438/child-labor-rampant-in-kingdom/