More predictions for CSX start date
The Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange may launch aS Soon aS March or April, according to an official at the Korea Exchange, the Kingdom&rSquo;S partner in launching itS Stock market. Final preparationS for the CSX&rSquo;S&nbSp; initial public offeringS Should be complete at that time, Pat Gil-Soo, Senior vice-preSident SS='cambodia-color'>...
Workers vow to keep striking
More than 400 workers at the Hwa sin Print factory, in the capital’s Choam Chao commune, had resumed their strike yesterday after management failed to meet their demands, a union official said. Khat Lot, vice-director of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, said workers had ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012031655060/National-news/workers-vow-to-keep-striking.html
Visitors fill hotels in Sihanoukville
Year-end travelers have fully booked sihanoukville province’s hotels and guesthouses for the first-ever sea Festival, which is expected to attract thousands of visitors this year, tourism officials said. Tith Chantha, general director at the Ministry of Tourism, confirmed that all hotel and guesthouse rooms were booked ss='cambodia-color'>...
Toll Group Mum on Possible Rail Project Exit
Australian transportation solutions provider Toll Holdings remained silent yesterday on whether it would be pulling out of its 30-year contract to operate Cambodia’s railway system. In a report published on Tuesday, the sydney Morning Herald cited “reliable sources in Cambodia” as saying that the company would ss='cambodia-color'>...
Unicef calls for ‘concrete action’ on online bullying in Cambodia
The UN Children’s Agency has called for a new policy to protect Cambodian children from bullying. In a statement released to coincide with safer Internet Day on Tuesday, Unicef said young people between the ages of 15 and 25 years olds were particularly at risk. Natascha ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kann Vicheika
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/unicef-calls-for-concrete-action-on-online-bullying-in-cambodia/4775248.html
About 6,000 civil servants to be moved
The government will transfer 6,000 civil servants from the national level to the sub-national level in order to provide better service to people in the capital and provinces. speaking during the closing ceremony of the Interior Ministry’s two-day 2018 stocktaking and 2019 Directive settings Conference ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50578355/about-6000-civil-servants-to-be-moved/
School for autistic students to vacate NBIC to make room for the disabled
The Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has told The Rabbit school, a local NGO that educates autistic students, to move its operations from government-run National Borei for Infants and Children (NBIC) to a new premise, school director Hun Touch said. The ministry’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/school-autistic-students-vacate-nbic-make-room-disabled
Centre for mentally ill officially opened
Cambodia’s first mental rehabilitation centre was formally opened in Kandal province’s Kandal stung district on Wednesday, with the government planning to build a specialist facility to house jailed minors. speaking during the opening ceremony, Minister of Interior sar Kheng said the Kingdom’s socio-economic progress meant ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/centre-mentally-ill-officially-opened
Ministry to probe child labour
The Ministry of Labour says it will investigate the claims of a Royal Holloway, University of London research team’s report alleging modern slavery in Cambodia’s brick kilns, said Minister of Labour Ith sam Heng. The report entitled Blood Bricks: Untold stories of Modern slavery and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-probe-child-labour
Lower Sesan II dam opens
Situated in Stung Treng province&rSquo;S SeSan diStrict, the hydropower dam iS ASia&rSquo;S longeSt at 6.5km. It iS a joint venture by ChineSe company Hydrolancang International, Cambodian company Royal Group, and VietnameSe company Vietnam Electricity.&nbSp;The project iS a 45-year Build-Operate-TranSfer contract, in which five yearS waS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lower-sesan-ii-dam-opens
Police searching for illegal fishing suspects
Siem Reap provincial authoritieS are Searching for the ownerS of two confiScated boatS which were uSed for illegal fiShing during the cloSed fiShing SeaSon in Chi Kreng diStrict&rSquo;S Anlong Samnor commune.&nbSp;Colonel Sok Theavuth, diStrict police chief, yeSterday Said that provincial anti-economic crime police, in collaboration SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50620306/police-searching-for-illegal-fishing-suspects-2/
Government gets $110M to restore National Road 4
Work on the $110 million National Road 4 upgrading project in the Kingdom’s main economic corridor could start as early as next year, a Ministry of Public Works official has said. The project, which will affect a more than 200km stretch of road, will take ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-gets-110m-restore-national-road-4
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-brand-strengthen-market-fragrant-rice
Open Development Cambodia publishes Indigenous Communities profile page
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published new profile page of Indigenous Communities into Khmer and English languages. Together with the website’s map explorer web tool, this profile page aims to provide the most up-to-date information of the country’s Registered Indigenous Communal Land using data visualizations.Please ss='cambodia-color'>...
Three confess in National Assembly beatings
Three of the alleged attackers in last week’s savage gang-bashing of two opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly turned themselves in and confessed yesterday, the government announced late last evening.In a statement, Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu sopheak listed the suspects as Chay sarith, 33, and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida, Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-confess-national-assembly-beatings
Another drought year in store for Cambodia
As the weather pattern known as El Niño threatens to wreak havoc on climatic conditions across the globe, the Cambodian government has warned that higher-than-usual temperatures, which already sparked droughts this year, will cause next year’s rainy season to be even shorter.What’s more, the heat ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/another-drought-year-store-cambodia
Casinos rake in $2 billion
Cambodia’s casino industry generates close to $2 billion in revenue a year and accounts for nearly 40 per cent of the Kingdom’s tourism revenue, a central bank official said yesterday.Chea serey, director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia, told a workshop on statistics in international ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/casinos-rake-2-billion
PM pulls no punches on US arrival
In a wide-ranging speech to ruling Cambodian People’s Party supporters in California yesterday, Prime Minister Hun sen slammed the Us government as well as the opposition, and said his presence at the Us-AsEAN summit at Rancho Mirage was no different than that of Us President ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21430/pm-pulls-no-punches-on-us-arrival/
Rice millers can now get $20 mil
Rice millers in the country will now be able to access the government’s promised emergency loan of $20 million to purchase paddy rice from farmers in a bid to prevent rice prices from falling further, the Rural Development Bank (RDB) announced yesterday. Rural Development Bank CEO ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29939/rice-millers--can-now--get--20-mil/
Raids net apparel knock-offs
Investigations are continuing after siem Reap’s economic police conducted four raids last saturday on shops selling knock-offs of products from Us-based outdoor apparel and equipment brand The North Face, police sources said yesterday.The raids were conducted on four stores – Cambodia Outlet, Duty Free Outlet, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga and Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/raids-net-apparel-knock-offs