Feed mill to take bite out of growing import demand
Chip Mong Group is the latest conglomerate to invest into local production of animal feed, announcing this week that it will sink $60 million into building a large-scale feed mill and industrial piggery, a move that agricultural experts welcomed but said would still not be ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/feed-mill-take-bite-out-growing-import-demand
Six hurt as storm damages homes
At least six people were injured and 150 properties damaged during a storm in Pursat, Preah Vihear and Rattanakiri provinces. Preah Vihear province’s deputy police chief Chorm sam Ol said yesterday that based on preliminary reports, the storm started on Tuesday afternoon and destroyed 83 homes ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36529/six-hurt-as-storm-damages-homes/
Hun Sen continues to use fiery election Rhetoric, aimed at stoking fear of conflict
The prime minister has gone as far as to warn that “civil war” could follow an opposition victory at the polls and equating the fallout to a return of the Khmer Rouge regime. Prime Minister Hun sen has frequently warned of impending conflict and instability ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kann Vicheika
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/hun-sen-continues-to-use-fiery-election-rhetoric-amied-at-stoking-fear-of-conflict/3865410.html
Sar Kheng downs offer of inclusion into CNRP
A remark by an opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) senior adviser that Minister of Interior sar Kheng would remain deputy prime minister if the opposition party won the 2018 national elections drew a terse response from the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), with the minister ss='cambodia-color'>...
Leonie Kijewski and Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-downs-offer-inclusion-cnrp
CNRP questions prakas on voter registration
The Cambodia National Rescue Party sent a letter on Monday to Interior Minister sar Kheng asking for clarification on a recently amended prakas that now requires eligible voters to get a police verification letter before a commune chief can attest to their place of residence, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-questions-prakas-voter-registration
60,000 register to vote in one week
Nearly 60,000 people have registered to vote in next year’s national election during the first week of registration. Hang Puthea, spokesman for the National Election Committee, said yesterday that 59,185 people across the country went to register from september 1 to september 10. Voter registration runs ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082540/60000-register-vote-one-week/
Lenders foresee challenges in raising the local currency ratio
Commercial lenders have said the central bank’s requirement that banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) increase the share of local currency in their loan portfolio to at least 10 percent by the end of 2019 could prove challenging to implement as their biggest clients exhibit a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lenders-foresee-challenges-raising-local-currency-ratio
Government creates logistics council to help sector stay competitive in the region
The Cambodian government recently laid out the framework for the creation of a National Council of Logistics, a specialised interministerial team designed to tackle the high costs of the Kingdom’s logistics sector to promote the efficient flow of exports, according to a royal decree issued ss='cambodia-color'>...
External funds driving policy: report
A new study has found that external donors wield outsize influence in determining national health care policies in Cambodia. The research was published earlier this month in the journal of the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The study focused on Cambodia and Pakistan, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/external-funds-driving-policy-report
Hundreds of truck owners fined
More than 300 overloaded trucks were fined nearly $135,000 last month, causing the Transport Ministry to call for stricter action to protect the country’s roads.A Transport Ministry report said a committee comprised of ministry officials and law enforcement officers seized 307 overloaded trucks, resulting in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101342/hundreds-truck-owners-fined/
Prey Lang ceremony due next month
Nearly 400 members of the Prey Lang Community Network will hold the annual Prey Lang ceremony in late March to commemorate and preserve indigenous identities and promote the forest’s potential. Meanwhile, Prey Lang activists have claimed illegal logging still exists in the area, even though the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108639/prey-lang-ceremony-due-next-month/
China gifts medical equipment to state-run military hospital
China’s Ministry of Defence yesterday provided 24 kinds of medical equipment to the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital to support heart and blood treatments. During a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Lieutenant General Ly sovan, director of Preah Ket Mealea Hospital, said the hospital has often ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50110602/china-gifts-medical-equipment-state-run-military-hospital/
Nearly 6,000 vehicles with unpaid tax
Tax on nearly 6,000 vehicles across the country has not been paid on time as required, according to an inspection by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation. A press release by the GDT signed on March 16 and released yesterday said the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114699/nearly-6000-vehicles-with-unpaid-tax/
Museum at Preah Vihear Temple to open soon
Prime Minister Hun sen and the United Nation’s Educational, scientific and Cultural Organisation will officially inaugurate a museum at the Preah Vihear World Heritage site on March 20. Nov sokuna, the director of the provincial culture and fine arts department, said the museum has been named ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114700/museum-at-preah-vihear-temple-to-open-soon/
Prison department dismisses rights violations report
The General Department of Prisons has dismissed a report made by rights group Licadho which claimed there are violations of basic human rights in the Kingdom’s prisons. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50664743/prison-department-dismisses-rights-violations-report/
Singapore tech to increase national tax revenue
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) is sourcing for an advanced IT system in singapore to modernise the Kingdom’s tax system and improve its collection process and efficiency. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/singapore-tech-increase-national-tax-revenue
UN Rights Envoy Warns Against Continued Landlessness
Surya Subedi, the UN&rSquo;S human rightS envoy to Cambodia, expreSSed concern Friday over land conceSSionS provided to private companieS that are forcing people from their land in the provinceS. “the royal government haS the primary reSponSibility for reSpecting, protecting and fulfilling the rightS of itS SS='cambodia-color'>...
Women's rights group troubled by ADHR draft
A “public morality” clause in the draft AsEAN Declaration on Human Rights threatens the most basic rights of women and sexual minorities and should be scrapped, a coalition of women’s groups said in a statement released yesterday. Civil society groups met with foreign ministers at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
New border crossing to open at Preah Vihear
Cambodia and Thailand will open another permanent border crossing between Preah Vihear province and Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani province on Wednesday An ses, the new permanent border crossing, is primarily used for the trade of agricultural products. Cambodian people usually import products from Thailand through the crossing, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tiger goes terminal, and adds India and Cambodia cities
Tiger Airways reverses its ‘terminal’ thinking at long last in singapore, and adds new cities in Cambodia and India. .. Tiger Airways is adding Hyderabad, India (tomorrow) and Phnom Penh, Cambodia (next Monday) to its reach only days after shifting up market into singapore’s main terminal ss='cambodia-color'>...