Out-of-court resolution of disputes BAKC focus
Ly Chantola, president of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC), has outlined the body’s direction for 2024, with a primary focus on out-of-court dispute resolution in line with the priorities laid out by Prime Minister Hun Manet and the Ministry of Justice. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/out-court-resolution-disputes-bakc-focus
Ministry eyes ‘bridge’ to vocational training
Deputy Prime Minister Sok An requested yesterday that the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports collaborate with the Ministry of Labour to create a vocational “bridge” program to enable students without high school degrees to have access to trade-based, university-level coursework. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ministry-eyes-bridge-vocational-training
South Korea investment sought as five MoUs signed
Two high-ranking Cambodian officials have issued fresh rallying calls for South Korean entities to invest in the Kingdom and take advantage of its bilateral and multilateral trade pacts, especially the Cambodia-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA) that took effect on December 1. ...
May Kunmakara and Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korea-investment-sought-five-mous-signed
MEA, WAPCOS sign agreements for assisting Cambodia in water resources management
The Ministry of External Affairs today signed two agreements with the public sector WAPCOS Limited for assisting Cambodia in water resources management. One of the agreements is on Study of Ground Water Resources of Kampong Spue Province in Cambodia and the other on Development of ...
NetIndian News Network
http://netindian.in/news/2014/05/14/00029084/mea-wapcos-sign-agreements-assisting-cambodia-water-resources-management
South Korean investors eye automotive expansion
South Korean investors have shown a strong interest in expanding their investment in the automotive sector, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-investors-eye-automotive-expansion
South Korean investors eye automotive expansion
South Korean investors have shown a strong interest in expanding their investment in the automotive sector, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-investors-eye-automotive-expansion
Brace for storm next week
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said that some areas in the Kingdom would be hit by a storm next week, especially the coastal provinces. Water Resources Minister Lim Kean Hor said that a high pressure system would have a weak influence on Cambodia and ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32426/brace-for-storm-next-week/
Bridge project equals prospects for Phnom Penh satellite city
Growth in the property sector has been slow in Kandal province’s Ta Khmau City, 11 kilometres south of Phnom Penh, but that, industry sources say, is likely to change due to improvements to National Road 1 and the fact that the Ta Khmau Bridge is ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/bridge-project-equals-prospects-phnom-penh-satellite-city
The drugs don’t work: Despite the best efforts of the authorities, producers of fake medicines are making a killing in Cambodia
“Counterfeit medicine kills, while real medicine heals.” This was the simple but apt message selected just over a year ago for a poster campaign in Cambodia that aimed to raise awareness of the risks of counterfeit medications, as part of a government crackdown on the ...
Construction of $620m oil refinery delayed
Construction of an oil refinery straddling two provinces in the South is going ahead slower than expected, with the project now scheduled for completion in 2022, the Ministry of Mines and Energy said. The first phase of the oil refinery, located on 365 square metres ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50601964/construction-of-620m-oil-refinery-delayed/
Thai-Cambodian central banks sign MoU
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) on August 25 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Exchange of Banking Supervision Information with the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), the regulator of financial institutions in Cambodia. The MoU provides a formal basis for banking supervisory cooperation between the ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Thai-Cambodian-central-banks-sign-MoU-30189102.html
Draft law puts high price on drunk driving
Drunk drivers could be fined $1000 under a new draft traffic law approved yesterday by The Council of Ministers. The legislation includes a raft of measures aimed at reducing the number of deaths and injuries on the roads. Among the draft law’s 92 articles are new ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/draft-law-puts-high-price-drunk-driving
Fire razes dozens of homes in city’s South
Key Sokha was preparing dinner for her family at their home in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Thursday night when a chorus of shouts broke out nearby. ...
Buth Kimsay and Sonia Kohlbacher
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111367-111367/
South Korea leads Asia’s big three as Cambodia’s leading investor
South Korea replaced the UK as the largest investor in Cambodia last year, with about $287 million injected, 12.5 per cent of the total foreign direct investment, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). This represents 33 per cent ...
Cambodia needs about US$ 200 million annually for climate change adaptations
According to the Copenhagen Accord hosted in Denmark, developed countries had to provide US$ 30 billion for 2009-2012 to kick start emissions reduction measures for the less-developed countries and promised to offer US$ 100 billion for long term finance a year by 2020. “Cambodia needs approximately ...
Gov’t to exempt patent tax for online press
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has agreed to exempt patent tax for small online press institutions as well as reduce 50 percent of the registration fee to the new press united in the Ministry of Information (MoI) for the next five years, said a ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501398047/govt-to-exempt-patent-tax-for-online-press/
NBC policies in line with Pentagonal Strategy
The first plenary session of the new Council of Ministers under the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Manet has approved the Pentagonal Strategy-Phase 1 on August 24, 2023, to unleash a host of economic activities to be implemented to transform Cambodia into a high-income economy ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501377575/nbc-policies-in-line-with-pentagonal-strategy/
Online crime ring raid nets ‘23’ Koreans
Police working with Ministry of Post and Telecommunications officials yesterday arrested more than 20 South Korean nationals allegedly running an illegal telecom operation, an officer said yesterday, though an embassy representative said the bust related to online gambling. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/online-crime-ring-raid-nets-23-koreans
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/
Ministry to punish fraudsters who ink finger without voting
Government officials have threatened that those who boycott the coming election but ink their fingers to indicate they had voted will face punishment according to the law. But analysts and opposition figures say that there is no applicable law relating to such an issue. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-punish-fraudsters-who-ink-finger-without-voting