Health care reform urgently needed, study finds
Cambodia’s health regulation system is in need of deep reform, not just minor adjustments, as it is failing to meet its national needs and ASEAN obligations, according to a new report. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-care-reform-urgently-needed-study-finds
Siem Reap hosts ASEAN terrorism forum
As a two-day ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) summit on terrorism and organised crime held in Siem Reap closed yesterday, Interior Ministry counter-terrorism director General Em Sam An highlighted the growing toll transnational crime was exacting upon ASEAN members. ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-hosts-asean-terrorism-forum
Interior ministry: fuel usage jumps to 7 million liters in 2015
A Ministry of Interior report showed that the ministry used about 7.7 million liters of fuel in 2015, representing an increase of more than one million liters if compared to 2014. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23080/interior-ministry--fuel-usage-jumps-to-7-million-liters-in-2015/
Online business registration pushed back
The Commerce Ministry announced in a letter yesterday that it would push the deadline for companies to register themselves on its new online portal system back to June 30, after the majority of companies operating in the Kingdom failed to register by the original deadline ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23466/online-business-registration-pushed-back/
Requests for pardons way down: official
The Ministry of Justice has received far fewer official requests for this year’s stricter round of pardons and sentence reductions, scheduled to coincide with the Visak Bochea Buddhist holiday, a spokesman said yesterday. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/requests-pardons-way-down-official
Officials told to pay traffic police their share
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Monday complained that traffic police had yet to be paid their promised share of traffic fines and threatened senior police officials with demotion unless they rectified the problem shortly. វេលា។ ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-told-to-pay-traffic-police-their-share-112668/
Police seek anti-terrorism help with Facebook
Battambang police have called upon the Interior Ministry’s anti-terrorism department for help arresting the creator of a video that suggests corrupt officials have sold off the province’s most important reservoir. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/police-seek-anti-terrorism-help-with-facebook-113049/
Another setback for online company registration goal
The Ministry of Commerce has extended the deadline for companies to register online after yet another poor response to its automated online business-registration system, a ministry official said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/another-setback-online-company-registration-goal
Petrol prices trimmed as fuel caps are revised
The Ministry of Commerce yesterday announced it was lowering the price ceiling on gasoline sold at retail petrol stations across the Kingdom between July 12 and 21 after the latest scheduled recalculation of fuel caps. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/petrol-prices-trimmed-fuel-caps-are-revised
Government says will enforce smoke ban; restauranteurs doubtful
Smokers who light up inside bars, restaurants, hotels and other establishment where the public gathers will face fines of 20,000 riel (about $5) starting September 16, the Ministry of Tourism announced on Wednesday. ...
Kang Sothear and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-says-will-enforce-smoke-ban-restauranteurs-doubtful-115708/
Southeast Asian countries to share efforts to promote tourism
Tourism officials from four Southeast Asian countries met in Yangon on Saturday to discuss ways of working together to promote tourism in the Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) region. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/southeast-asian-countries-share-efforts-promote-tourism
Cops offer reward – to themselves
Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has offered $10,000 to government officials investigating the brutal bashing of two opposition lawmakers as an incentive to solve the crime quickly, a ministry spokesman said yesterday. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-offer-reward-themselves
Old generals retiring as police end hiring freeze
The government has asked King Norodom Sihamoni to officially retire 49 generals in the police force as it prepares to end a two-year hiring freeze this year. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22275/old-generals-retiring-as-police-end-hiring-freeze/
Provincial governors set to retire
The government is preparing for the retirement of eight provincial governors, Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced at an event to commemorate International Women’s Day on Tuesday. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/provincial-governors-set-retire
Census of foreigners not finished
Interior Minister Sar Kheng called on immigration officials to finish counting and collecting information on all foreign nationals living in the Kingdom by July at the latest. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25072/census-of-foreigners-not-finished/
Health Ministry seeks better expense reports
The Ministry of Health has issued a set of guidelines calling on referral hospitals and health centres to provide increased documentation of their expenses with an aim of introducing more “transparency” to official spending. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-seeks-better-expense-reports
Time’s up for expired products
About 20 tons of expired food products seized by police in March were set ablaze yesterday, according to the Ministry of Interior. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27012/time---s-up-for-expired-products/
Government unveils portal for trademark registration
The Ministry of Commerce launched an online trademark registration gateway yesterday, allowing local and foreign individuals and firms to register their trademarks in Cambodia to protect them against infringement. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-unveils-portal-trademark-registration
Police request over $500k to reward drug-busting officers
The National Police has requested more than $500,000 from the Interior Ministry to fund bonuses for police officers involved in confiscating illegal drugs, officials said on Tuesday. ...
Han Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-request-500k-reward-drug-busting-officers-132140/
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/
