Commerce Minister calls on checkpoint officials to crackdown on expired goods
Commerce Minister asked officials at all border checkpoints to prevent and crackdown on expired products. Thong Thira, Banteay Meanchey’s head of Department of Commerce, said that about 71 percent of 700,000 people living in Banteay Meanchey are farmers. He said the province has big 20 ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OWFjOTZkZjI0OTh
Commerce Minister calls on checkpoint officials to crackdown on expired goods
Commerce Minister asked officials at all border checkpoints to prevent and crackdown on expired products. Son Chanthol, the Commerce Minister, made such comments during a meeting Tuesday with officials from Department of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, and checkpoints in Banteat Meanchey province. He also asked his officials ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OWFjOTZkZjI0OTh
Press release on the meeting of tax revenue on September 2014
10 October 2014, 08:30 a.m. – General Department of Taxation conducted a meeting on tax fiscal review on September 2014, under the presidency of H.E. Kong Vibol, a governmental delegation in charge of General Department of Taxation and the participation of the deputy head of General Department of ...
General Department of Taxation
ASEAN issues declaration to promote regional community
The 21st ASEAN Summit opened in Phnom Penh yesterday under the theme One Community, One Destiny, with meetings during the three-day event expected to tackle such issues as measures to build the ASEAN Community, regiOnal peace and security, and strengthening co-operatiOn between the bloc’s member ...
Climate change on agenda
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called for greater regional cooperation to tackle a range of environmental problems in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, but did not specifically address the threat posed by dams. “I call on all countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region to place more emphasis ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072950721/National-news/climate-change-on-agenda.html
Outlook on Campu 'negative'
Moody’s Investment Services yesterday announced a change in outlook for Cambodian Public Bank to “negative” from “stable”, citing increasing risks in the Kingdom’s banking system and exposure to slow-downs in Western markets. While CamPu Bank country head Phan Ying Tong said yesterday the company’s financial position ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011092151766/Business/outlook-on-campu-negative.html
Illegal reclamation carries on
Despite numerous cases of illegal landfilling coming to light and an order from Prime Minister Hun Sen to put a stop to it, authorities are seemingly powerless to halt illegal beach developments in Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-reclamation-carries
Banking on human resources
Acleda Bank, Cambodia’s largest bank, is morphing its existing training centre into a full-fledged educational institution, after obtaining a licence last month. The new institute will look to provide bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration, with majors in finance and banking. The Post’s Sorn ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-human-resources
Health sector on notice
Legal action will be taken against health institutes that offer a low quality of care, according to a directive issued by the Minister of Health last week, which also emphasized the importance of digital record keeping in the medical sector. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26032/health-sector-on-notice/
Railway link on track
Cambodia is committed to complete construction of the 6.5-kilometer cross-border railway linking Poipet city in Banteay Meanchey province to neighboring Thailand’s Sisophon province by the year’s end. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27096/railway-link-on-track/
Skepticism on liquidity providers
Almost two weeks after the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) announced that it was accepting applications for the newly approved liquidity providers (LPs) option, it admitted yesterday that no one had yet applied, as insiders said they were still unsure of the program. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29363/skepticism-on-liquidity-providers/
Crackdown on illegal checkpoints
The General Commissariat of National Police has announced it will take legal action against police officers found abusing their positions and demanding money from people at illegal checkpoints. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35280/crackdown--on-illegal--checkpoints/
Endangered species on display
Nine photographs of rare Cambodian animals are being displayed at the Ministry of Environment, urging the public to participate in preserving critically endangered species. ...
Zahron Sokry
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077518/endangered-species-display/
Warning on Vietnamese pork
The public has been warned not to eat pork from Vietnam after an outbreak of a serious disease in pig farms across the border. The Agriculture Ministry’s department of animal health and production is enforcing additional precautionary measures to ensure contaminated pork from Vietnam does not ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36702/warning-on-vietnamese-pork/
Kingdom on the agenda
Prime Minister Hun Sen attended a dinner with Swiss company executives in Zurich on Monday, where he invited investors to join the upcoming ASEAN World Economic Forum (WEF), which Cambodia will host for the first time in May. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-agenda
Students lectured on ‘revolution’
Ruling party lawmaker Pen Panha gave a lecture yesterday at the Royal School of Administration to students on the opposition’s alleged attempt at “colour revolution” – an allegation used to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party in November, with virtually no evidence presented to the ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-lectured-revolution
Sihanoukville eviction on hold
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court delayed the destruction of the homes and subsequent eviction of 14 families embroiled in a land dispute with a company owned by tycoon Kong Treav in Village 4 of Sihanoukville’s Commune 4, local authorities said yesterday. Though many of the families ...
Embattled villagers fight on
First, agricultural company DM group displaced them, now a recently arrived commercial farmer has threatened their lives and chased them off their new land, said representatives of 12 families engaged in a long-standing land dispute in Ratanakkiri province. on Wednesday, the 12 Tampuon ethnic minority families ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011160746/National/embattled-villagers-fight-on.html
Government silent on ELCs
Ministry officials were silent yesterday on how exactly they planned to implement Prime Minister Hun Sen’s suspension of any new economic land concession grants and review of existing ELCs. Provincial authorities involved in granting the now-suspended land concessions yesterday said they were ready to implement ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050956051/National-news/government-silent-on-elcs.html
Obama visit on track
Another senior United States official has said that President Barack Obama will visit Cambodia in November for the East Asia Summit and the US-ASEAN summit. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052856420/National-news/obama-visit-on-track.html