Scores fainted in Tboung Khmum high school: Officials
Scores of high school students in Tboung Khmum province fainted over the weekend due to high temperatures and personal health factors, authorities said. Deputy provincial governor Hak Sok Makara yesterday said 41 students at Kroch Chhmar High School fainted during classes on Friday and Saturday, ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50681282/scores-fainted-in-tboung-khmum-high-school-officials
Gov’t to aid students facing food insecurity
The Ministries of Economy and Finance; and Education, Youth and Sport, will implement a food programme for 50,000 children in 205 target schools using community products. An announcement issued on January 23 and obtained by The Post on Monday said the two ministries would implement ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-aid-students-facing-food-insecurity
Seven charged over felling trees in Mondulkiri protected area
Mondulkiri provincial court on Saturday charged and jailed seven people for felling reforested trees in a protected area in Koh Nhek district’s Rayar commune, officials said. Keo Sopheak, director of Mondulkiri provincial environment department, said yesterday park rangers arrested nine suspects on Thursday at Rayar ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50689189/seven-charged-over-felling-trees-in-mondulkiri-protected-area
US told to refrain from interfering in Sokha case
Senior Cambodian officials said on Thursday that the US can monitor Kem Sokha’s trial as it wishes but would not be allowed to interfere in court procedures. The point was made in response to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s comments on Wednesday at a ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/us-told-refrain-interfering-sokha-case
Pich Sros raises dam issues
Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) president Pich Sros on Tuesday raised four issues faced by residents of Kampong Speu and Takeo provinces regarding dam constructions and submitted his report to the Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor. Sros told The Post that the ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pich-sros-raises-dam-issues
Sar Kheng: Judicial reforms to bridge divide
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Thursday reaffirmed his vow to bridge societal divides by undertaking a major reform of the justice system. However, he warned that the task was huge and may take some time to achieve. Speaking at the 41st anniversary of Victory ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-judicial-reforms-bridge-divide
Wuhan coronavirus: Tourism industry could hit turbulence
Tourism industry officials and representatives expressed concern that the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) will devastate Cambodia’s tourism industry following the Kingdom’s first documented case in the coastal province of Sihanoukville on Monday. at a press conference late on Monday, Minister of Health ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wuhan-coronavirus-tourism-industry-could-hit-turbulence
Press Release to all the tourism industry associations and tourism operators to comply with the announcement of the Ministry of Health of Cambodia on the impose of an entry restriction measure on the foreigners into Cambodia
In regard to the announcement of the Ministry of Health dated on 14 March 2020, the Ministry of Tourism, on the same date, has released a press to announce to all the tourism industry associations, tourism operators, especially inbound tour operators who have partnership with ...
Ministry of Tourism
CIMB aiming to be top 10 in Cambodia
CIMB Bank plc, which aims to be among the top 10 banks in Cambodia over the next five years, is targeting more than US$100mil (RM317mil ) in deposits and US$90mil (RM285mil) in total loan size by year-end. Its deputy general manager and head of commercial banking ...
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/6/18/business/11474729&sec=
Train supply agreement signed
Toll Royal Railway signed an agreement yesterday afternoon with companies that will supply locomotives and parts for Cambodia’s railway network. As a result of the agreement, international tenders will be called in the coming months for the procurement of up to four new 2,000-horsepower locomotives and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092058822/Business/train-supply-agreement-signed.html
China giant looks to Kingdom
Shandong Shantui, a Chinese firm and one of the largest manufacturers of heavy construction machinery and largest producer of bulldozers has expressed an interest in investing in Cambodia’s agricultural sectors. General Manager Cheng Zhaohong met with Cambodia’s National Assembly President Heng Samrin yesterday morning to present the company’s ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012080757846/Business/china-giant-looks-to-cambodia.html
New spin on an old traditionArtisan Designers (AND)
Putting a new spin on a traditional art form isn’t a simple thing to achieve, but for niche fashion enterprise Artisan Designers (AND) an ambitious new branding campaign is seeing Cambodian handicrafts pushed in a new direction. Opening eight months ago on the tourist-friendly street 240, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012080657820/Business/new-spin-on-an-old-tradition.html
Insight: Cambodia's $11 billion mystery
The remote district of Rovieng was once a battleground between Cambodian government troops and Pol Pot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge. Unexploded bombs still lurk in its fields and forests. So does something more desirable – iron ore – and supposedly in such huge quantities two Chinese companies ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-cambodia-china-idUSBRE91C1N320130213
Businesses know little of the letter of the law
Cambodia entrepreneurs faced considerable problems when it came to obeying tax laws and other regulations, officials at a seminar about that very subject said yesterday. The VDB Loi company organised the seminar on “New Practices and Preferential Trade Rules” with the co-operation of the General Department of Customs and ...
Lack of judiciary consultation on key Cambodian laws draws concern of UN rights expert
The lack of consultative process on three draft laws has set a worrying precedent for future key legislation, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi. “For many years in my capacity as the Special RapporteurI ...
UN News Centre
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47904#.U4WD6PmSxqV
HIV tragedy tops 200 in Cambodia
In a small village in Cambodia’s west, a tragic tale of international significance has caught the local authorities off-guard. An unlicensed doctor has been charged with causing an outbreak of HIV and murder after lax practices resulted in at least 201 people contracting the potentially ...
Luke Hunt
http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/hiv-tragedy-tops-200-in-cambodia/
Exit of ANZ Royal CEO unexplained
ANZ Royal Bank chief executive Damian Bell has resigned from the post he held for not much more than a month, a company spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. He resigned “several weeks ago”, Libby Armstrong, a Hong Kong-based ANZ spokeswoman, said by phone. No explanation was offered for ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012041855621/Business/exit-of-anz-royal-ceo-unexplained.html
Announcement on the official test results of passengers on Holland-America Line owned cruise ship Westerdam in Sihanoukville
On 13 February 2020, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the official test results of passengers on cruise ship named Westerdam owned by the Holland-America line in Sihanoukville. According to the announcement, the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge’s test of 20 passengers on a ...
Ministry of Health
'Outsider' criticism of verdict blasted by NGO
In a bluntly worded statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has shot back at critics of the Mam Sonando verdict, stressing that there were no political motivations to the case and accusing “outsiders” of trying to pressure a sovereign court. “Mr. Mam Sonando is the mastermind of ...
FASMEC partners to introduce SME clusters
The Federation of Associations of Small and Medium-size Enterprise of Cambodia (FASMEC) will cooperate with the Thailand-based Mekong Institute to train master teachers in an effort to implement a small and medium enterprise (SME) cluster and export consortia in the coming years, according to officials. The two-day workshop ...