Regulator to Review Minimum Prices for Calls
An official at the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) said Wednesday that the body plans to review and possibly lower the current minimum price per call after it recently ordered the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum call ...
Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/regulator-to-review-minimum-prices-for-calls-48616/
PM puts fake Hun Sen FB accounts on notice
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday took to the unruly world of social media in an effort to impose some order, at least where his own name is concerned. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-puts-fake-hun-sen-fb-accounts-notice
Cambodia auto tire exports at $125 million in H1
Cambodia earned around $125 million from automotive tire exports in the first half of this year, according to a report from the Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC) report. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501346714/cambodia-auto-tire-exports-at-125-million-in-h1/
Cambodia’s Q1 international trade at $11.3 billion
Cambodia’s international trade decreased 14.5 percent to $11.3 billion in the first quarter of 2023, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise yesterday. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501271231/cambodias-q1-international-trade-at-11-3-billion/
Sar Kheng paying traffic cops bonus out of own pocket
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has been paying traffic officers daily bonuses directly from his own pocket since January 1, information he revealed on Friday at a ministerial meeting on the transparent disbursement of traffic fine revenue, officials said yesterday. ...
Bun Sengkong and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-paying-traffic-cops-bonus-out-own-pocket
Consensus reached on fuel pricing procedure
The government has reached an agreement with two foreign oil companies operating in Cambodia on a proposed fuel-price mechanism, ending a two-month deadlock that has prevented it from implementing a price ceiling on gasoline sold at petrol stations across the Kingdom. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/consensus-reached-fuel-pricing-procedure
Petrol labs to track fuel cheats
The Ministry of Commerce yesterday launched a petroleum mobile lab to detect fraud and cheating at petrol stations and ensure fair competition. The lab, under the authority of CamControl, will drive across the country, starting from Phnom Penh. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080945/petrol-labs-track-fuel-cheats/
Land clearing accusations from 2008 under scrutiny
The Ministry of Environment has sent a team to investigate land disputes at two locations covering over 100ha. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-clearing-accusations-2008-under-scrutiny
Interior Minister starts five-day visit to Turkey
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng embarked on a five-day official visit to Turkey on Sunday at the invitation of his counterpart there. During his visit, which ends on Thursday, Sar Kheng is due to meet Turkish Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu, ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-minister-starts-five-day-visit-turkey
CAMBODIA: Study shows school attendance rises with safe water drinking & child hydration
Considered the world’s most valuable fluid, fresh clean water is a commodity that can become a life-and-death issue. Lack of it can also contribute to a child’s absenteeism rate in Cambodia, says a newly released study report by Research Advisor Helen Risebro and Professor Paul Hunter ...
Women News Network (WNN) News Staff
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2014/03/18/cambodia-school-attendance/
What explains Cambodia’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution success?
One of the less heralded recent aspects of the COVID-19 story in Southeast Asia has been Cambodia’s remarkable success in vaccine distribution. As of September 6, just over two-thirds of the country’s population had received at least one dose of vaccine, while 53 percent were ...
Sebastian Strangio
https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/what-explains-cambodias-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-success/
Kingdom, Zimbabwe keen to promote ecotourism
Cambodia and Zimbabwe are looking at options to boost cooperation in the tourism sector, with a special focus on ecotourism. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501346104/kingdom-zimbabwe-keen-to-promote-ecotourism/
Government Must Work With Farmers to Combat Climate Change
Some 9.5 million Cambodians who directly engage in agriculture must adopt new techniques in order to counter dynamic weather patterns caused by climate change, and the government must work with farmers to ensure that it happens, an agricultural conference was told last week. Flown in from ...
Matt Blomberg and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-must-work-with-farmers-to-combat-climate-change-45678/
Prison population swells
Cambodia’s badly overcrowded prison population leapt by nearly 20 per cent in the first 10 months of this year, government data show, raising serious health concerns.The figures, released by the Interior Ministry’s general department of prisons yesterday, show that there were 17,522 prisoners in jails ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-population-swells
Foreign lawyers told to register with BAKC
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has announced new requirements for professional foreign lawyers who are working at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to register with the BAKC for certificates authorising them to practice law in the kingdom, ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-lawyers-told-register-bakc
Seized timber sold for $15 mil
A total of 60,000 cubic meters of illegally-felled luxury timber confiscated by the National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) sold at auction yesterday for $15 million, $3 million above the reserve price. Soung Meng Kea, chairman of the subcommittee running the auction and undersecretary of state at the ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31435/seized-timber-sold-for--15-mil/
Vietnam to aid border drugs battle
Cambodia and Vietnam vowed to boost cooperation to prevent cross-border drug trafficking during the nations’ annual meeting yesterday. Lieutenant General Mak Chito, deputy National Police commissioner in charge of drug crimes, and Ngo Thai Dung, director of Drug Crime Prevention at the Vietnamese Defence Ministry, met ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080575/vietnam-aid-border-drugs-battle/
Online biz registrations surging
The total capital of 28,618 companies registered in the online business registration system jumped to $8.4 billion as of Aug 27, compared to 20,693 companies with a total capital of $5.8 billion at the start of 2023. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/online-biz-registrations-surging
Health Minister targets illegal medical practitioners
The Minister of Health has instructed all health departments to completely eliminate illegal medical practitioners in order to ensure that only proper treatment is provided across the Kingdom. Speaking during the Roundtable Forum on Hepatitis C at the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh on ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50645365/health-minister-targets-illegal-medical-practitioners/
Cambodia, Sri Lanka relations strengthened with Sirisena visit
At a bilAteral meeting in Phnom Penh last week, Cambodia and Sri Lanka reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen bilAteral relAtions and regional partnerships aimed At bringing peace and stability to the two nAtions and the world. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-sri-lanka-relations-strengthened-sirisena-visit