Increase in Customs Taxes Raises Retail Prices in Cambodia
Customs officers along Cambodia’s border have been instructed to increase their efforts to properly inspect and tax products coming into the country, which has increased the cost of imports and led to a rise in retail prices for a host of goods, government officials, businessmen ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/increase-in-customs-taxes-raises-retail-prices-in-cambodia-48461/
Ambassador Reiterates S China Sea Stance
Chinese Ambassador Pan Guangxue yesterday said that China opposes the contentious issue of the South China Sea being discussed by countries that are not directly involved in the regional maritime dispute. Speaking at a news conference at the Chinese Embassy to discuss Chinese President Hu Jintao’s ...
ADB Institute: too much focus on 2015
Masahiro Kawai, dean of the Asia Development Bank Institute, believes too great a focus is being placed on the realization of the 2015 ASEAN Economic Community at the cost of considering middle- and longer-term issues in the ASEAN region. “Economic community-building is not going to be completed in ...
Hun Sen promotes price lists for public institutions
Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged public institutions to provide clear terms of reference for the services they provide, as part of an effort to attract investment in the Kingdom. Institutions that did not implement this policy would be punished under the law, he said. ...
PetChem sees healthy growth in 2013, eyes Myanmar, Cambodia
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 18) : Petronas Chemical Group Bhd (PetChem) said that its top and bottom line growth was going to be in “healthy mode” next year, with prices of its chemical products seen to be firming up. Speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday, its ...
Freedom Park off-limits: city
Freedom Park will remain off limits indefinitely for protesters, authorities said yesterday, despite Prime Minister Hun Sen suggesting last month that a ban on public assembly was being lifted. Pich Saroeun, chief of Russey Keo district’s Chroy Changva commune, said Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong had ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/freedom-park-limits-city
New BKK1 condo development shoots for 2017 completion
Nine floors of the 32-storey BKK1 condominium project, Platinum Bay, are now completed and construction is slated to be completed by mid-2017. Platinum Bay is located on Street 282, not far from the soon-to-be-completed De Castle Royal, a part of town that property insiders see as ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/new-bkk1-condo-development-shoots-2017-completion
Cambodian scholars hail China's contribution to Silk Road Fund
Cambodian scholars have voiced their support to Chinese President Xi Jinping for his announcement of China’s contribution of 40 billion U.S. dollars for the establishment of a Silk Road Fund, saying that such a fund is vital for developing countries. Chheang Vannarith, senior researcher of ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-11/10/c_133778379.htm
Primary healthcare framework introduced
The introduction of a new framework to promote primary healthcare in Cambodia will help ensure that the Ministry of Health’s latest strategic plan can be implemented effectively, its senior official said. The framework will be based on the National Health Policy, the fourth phase of which ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/primary-healthcare-framework-introduced
Agriculture ministry warns of legal action over pig import loopholes
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has warned that it will take legal action against its provincial departments and production offices if they maintain any loopholes which allow live pigs or pork products that might be contaminated with African swine fever to be imported ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/agriculture-ministry-warns-legal-action-over-pig-import-loopholes
German MP calls for reform
Prime Minister Hun Sen told a visiting German federal minister that there was no political crisis in Cambodia, despite recent government action depicting the contrary, and claimed that opposition leader Kem Sokha was being sought by police because of an individual fault that could not ...
Ven Rathavong And Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26183/german-mp-calls-for-reform/
Thailand planning more border SEZs
A Thai study being carried out on special economic zones (SEZ) in 15 provinces along the country’s borders has been welcomed by Cambodian and foreign businessmen, who say both countries can benefit, but some uncertainty remains over exactly where and when the zones will be ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22680/thailand-planning-more-border-sezs/
‘Political prisoners’ partitioned in Prey Sar
A new set of security measures at Prey Sar prison, designed to stop rampant drug use at the facility, is instead being selectively applied to prisoners being held in a politically sensitive case related to an ongoing sex scandal involving opposition leader Kem Sokha. ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/political-prisoners-partitioned-prey-sar
Returning Sesan families warned of greater floods from dam
Families in Stung Treng province that returned to a village near the Lower Sesan II dam after floodwaters temporarily receded are being warned they will be forced again to flee when a far worse deluge comes as all of the new dam’s gates are shut. ...
Hun Sen makes a plea for more child welfare
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on everyone whose work related to children to be conscientious and passionate about their job. He spoke at the opening ceremony of the Asia-Pacific Regional Early Childhood Development Conference, which is being held over three days in Siem Reap City. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36025/hun-sen-makes-a-plea-for-more-child-welfare/
GMS ministers to meet in Siem Reap
The second Greater Mekong Subregion Agriculture Ministers Meeting will be held in Siem Reap province early next month, with agro-food products, exploring new markets for agricultural products and solving issues in the sector expected to be high on the agenda. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077636/gms-ministers-meet-siem-reap/
More China brides aided
Two more Cambodian women who were trafficked to China as brides are being assisted by officials at the Kingdom’s embassy in beijing and will soon be repatriated, the government said yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/more-china-brides-aided
Cambodia publicly endorses China position on South China Sea
Cambodia’s leader has publicly endorsed China’s position that territorial disputes in the South China Sea cannot be solved through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday the issue should be solved by the countries directly affected by ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://bit.ly/1FITTH9
Slow rubber market puts law on back burner
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has postponed the finalisation of a draft rubber law amid declining rubber prices, according to a senior official. Under the draft law, producers must be more selective in choosing the type of rubber for plantation and only processed ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/slow-rubber-market-puts-law-back-burner
New global development agenda lacks accountability, activists say
A new global plan for sustainable development was adopted at the United Nations in New York earlier this month, but questions are already being raised over whether goals intended to help raise people in countries like Cambodia out of poverty will be effective. ...