Four factories see 118 faintings
More than 100 workers across four garment factories in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Takeo provinces fainted yesterday. National social security Fund (NssF) officials said 45 workers at C N Prosperous Garment (Cambodia) Co Ltd in Phnom Penh’s Por sen Chey district fainted yesterday, after more than ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-factories-see-118-faintings
Rainsy says VN border map shows intrusions
Ahead of a meeting between Cambodian and Vietnamese border officials in Phnom Penh on Monday, opposition leader sam Rainsy said sunday that the CNRP’s digital copy of the border map had now been set up to work with GPs technology and had already revealed misplaced ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-vn-border-map-shows-intrusions-87351/
Gov’t has identified suspect in M’kiri logging case
The head of the Forestry Administration’s Mondolkiri cantonment said Monday that he had accused one man over an August 1 incident in which military police freed the drivers of four trucks transporting illegally logged timber from the custody of anti-economic crime police and escaped with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-has-identified-suspect-in-mkiri-logging-case-91353/
Cambodian government declares French maps match its own
Hours after French officials handed over a set of maps to Cambodia on Thursday, the government border committee announced that the documents matched its own, calling an end to an ongoing political dispute over the demarcation of the southeast Asian nation’s border with neighboring Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/government-declares-french-maps-match-its-own-09032015142404.html
Aviation sector calls for government aid
The country’s main airport company, Cambodia Airports, has called for a “global and comprehensive plan” to aid the ailing aviation industry. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50703133/aviation-sector-calls-for-government-aid/
Aspara studying ticket cost
Ticket prices for Angkor Wat will increase after a feasibility study is conducted by tourism experts, according to an official from the Apsara National Authority, the state-run body charged with maintaining the archaeological park. The experts were determining how feasible increasing entrance fees for Cambodia’s UNEsCO ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071357387/Business/apsara-studying-ticket-cost.html
Cambodia-Vietnam JV targets rice exports
CAVFOOD, a joint venture between Cambodian and Vietnamese companies, launched the first phase of its Us$8 million rice mill in Phnom Penh on Friday. The venture is an investment by Cambodian state-owned rice exporter Green Trade and Vietnam’s VNA Food 2 and Bank for Investment and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Two held for trafficking rosewood in Ratanakkiri
Ratanakkiri provincial officials on sunday questioned two suspects at the provincial Forestry Administration headquarters in connection to the smuggling of more than five cubic metres of rosewood. Authorities arrested the two suspects – a man and a woman – on July 30 in Kon Mom ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-held-trafficking-rosewood-ratanakkiri
Farmed fish yield rises by nearly 200 percent in last five years
Farmed fish production has increased by 197 percent in the last five years, thanks to the government’s policy on boosting local production. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50878183/farmed-fish-yield-rises-by-nearly-200-percent-in-last-five-years/
Cambodia to boost Asean-EU ties
Cambodia has committed to promote Asean-EU cooperation with the Asean foreign ministers on Friday supporting the EU’s proposal for a commemorative summit in Brussels next year to mark the 45th anniversary of Asean-EU relations. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50911664/cambodia-to-boost-asean-eu-ties/
The commerce minister reaffirms trade cooperation with Singapore
Cambodia and Singapore have reaffirmed their commitment to continue Strengthening cooperation on trade and inveStment. Commerce MiniSter Pan SoraSak held a videoconference with Singapore&rSquo;S Trade and InduStry MiniSter Gan Kim Yong on TueSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50931917/the-commerce-minister-reaffirms-trade-cooperation-with-singapore/
Covid booster-shot campaign kicks off across the Kingdom
The Kingdom’s third-dose Covid-19 vaccination drive launched on October 11, as the campaign to vaccinate the adult population of 10 million reaches out to the remaining 0.8 per cent. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/covid-booster-shot-campaign-kicks-across-kingdom
Export of Cambodian longans to China imminent
Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Veng sakhon, has said that China’s General Administration of Customs had recently released its list of quarantine pests in regard to the export of Cambodian longans to China. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50931204/export-of-cambodian-longans-to-china-imminent/
RCEP takes effect as world rings in 2022
In the week ahead, world leaders are expected to deliver their New Year’s Eve addresses as people all over the globe ring in the year of 2022, which is when the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement will take effect. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50995612/rcep-takes-effect-as-world-rings-in-2022/
A large flock of critically endangered birds arrive in Cambodia in yearly migration
A large flock of critically endangered migratory birds, the yellow-breasted bunting, have arrived at the Boeung Prek Lapouv Protected Landscape in southern Cambodia’s Takeo province during their yearly migration, a conservationist organization said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501006118/a-large-flock-of-critically-endangered-birds-arrive-in-cambodia-in-yearly-migration/
GDT to declutter complex tax laws; to make it simple, orderly
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) is drafting the law on tax aimed to compile a number of confusing tax laws and regulations and respond to the international practice of integrating Cambodia’s economy in the region. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501007943/gdt-to-declutter-complex-tax-laws-to-make-it-simple-orderly/
NEC hiring officials ahead of commune council elections
The National Election Committee (NEC) has announced its intention to recruit 8,302 short-term contracted officials to serve in 1,652 commune electoral commissions for the June’s commune council elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-hiring-officials-ahead-commune-council-elections
New Preah Kossamak Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building starts operations in Cambodia
The Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building, a key livelihood project shouldered by state-owned China state Construction Engineering Corp, was officially put into use in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on March 21. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501049708/new-preah-kossamak-cambodia-china-friendship-medical-building-starts-operations-in-cambodia/
Construction projects without permission face trouble
In response to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction’s (MLMUP) instruction to get permission before starting construction of a building, construction companies said that it would be difficult to have permission when repairing a small building. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501057397/construction-projects-without-permission-face-trouble/
Khmer New Year celebration lifts economic recovery hopes
Cambodia ended last week’s three-day holiday of Khmer New Year, when 4.58 million people toured nationwide, a positive move benefiting local tourism-related businesses that have been recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501059254/khmer-new-year-celebration-lifts-economic-recovery-hopes/