Cambodia, Thailand end cross-border rail transport talks
Cambodia and Thailand on Friday concluded negotiations on the transport of goods and people by train across their shared border, with an official agreement expected to be signed in upcoming months. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50509378/cambodia-thailand-end-cross-border-rail-transport-talks/
Preah Vihear families agree to end land dispute
More than 100 families in Preah Vihear province have accepted a resolution from provincial authorities after about eight years of protests over a land dispute with authorities and a CPP lawmaker. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50513992/preah-vihear-families-agree-to-end-land-dispute/
Cashew sector pared down as farmers change crops
Cashew nut production in the Kingdom declined by more than 50 per cent in the three years leading up to last year, as farmers followed the market by switching to other crops, figures from the Ministry of Agriculture indicate. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cashew-sector-pared-down-farmers-change-crops
Group of pupils complain over results of examination
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport said it will set up an examination committee to review complaints from over 100 students who are unhappy with their national high school examination results. Students across the Kingdom were disappointed with their results, especially in mathematics, where ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/group-pupils-complain-over-results-examination
MoEYS outlines achievements
The attendance rate at public and private primary schools stands at 98 per cent, a similar level to other countries in the region, Minister for Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron told a meeting to outline the achievements of the 2017-18 period on Monday. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/moeys-outlines-achievements
Ministry accounts for five million registered plots of land
The Land Management Ministry says it has fully registered five out of seven million distributed plots of land in the Kingdom. The announcement was made in a press release dated Thursday. In it, the ministry said in order to improve living conditions, reduce poverty and ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600948/ministry-accounts-for-five-million-registered-plots-of-land/
Villagers file suit against wildlife chief over logging
The director of Mondulkiri province’s Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuary, Han Sokhon, is set to face legal action from an indigenous community. The villagers allege he colluded to exploit the very forest he was meant to safeguard after villagers discovered illegal logging in the protected area. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-file-suit-against-wildlife-chief-over-logging
Vehicle registration laws issued
The government on Monday issued a sub-decree on the registration for vehicle identification cards and number plates at the request of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. Article 22 of Chapter Three in the sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen gives the right ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vehicle-registration-laws-issued
Minister urges graduates to continue studies and be ‘skilful intellectuals’
Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron on Thursday encouraged recent graduates to continue their studies and become “skilful intellectuals”. The minister’s remarks were made during the Limkokwing University graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh’s Tonle Bassac commune. ...
Farmers called on to up organic vegetable yields
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the private sector has called on farmers to increase organic vegetable yields to meet demand from Phnom Penh’s supermarkets and restaurants. The push was made during a visit last week by Gilbert F Houngbo, International Fund for ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-called-organic-vegetable-yields
Ministry records decrease in dengue
The Health Ministry yesterday said that the number of people contracting dengue fever continues to decrease across the Kingdom in the wake of a spike. The ministry noted that about 2,400 new cases were found across the Kingdom this month since a spike in July. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635149/ministry-records-decrease-in-dengue/
Contract farming schemes rising: Ministry
The Ministry of Agriculture said the number of contract farming schemes is increasing remarkably, helping enhance productivity and market access for farmers. From January to August, a total of 91 contract farming schemes were inked in various sectors, including rice, sugarcane and livestock production, the ministry ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50639917/contract-farming-schemes-rising-ministry/
‘Solar energy will fill shortages,’ says Jona
Thai firm B Grimm Power Pcl has invested in a 30MW solar project in Cambodia, Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona said on Wednesday. Jona, who is the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that he welcomed the ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-energy-will-fill-shortages-says-jona
Ministry denies responsibility for collapsed dirt quarry
After a wall of land separating a lake and a dirt quarry in Phnom Penh collapsed on Tuesday night, creating a fierce current that destroyed a fishing boat and left one of its crewmen missing, authorities Thursday refused to say who was overseeing the quarry ...
Ben Sokhean and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-denies-responsibility-for-collapsed-dirt-quarry-100208/
Government tax revenue collection grows nearly 22% in 2015
The government collected about $1.3 billion in tax revenue in 2015, a 21.67 percent increase over the previous year, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s general department of taxation on Monday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-tax-revenue-collection-grows-nearly-22-in-2015-105200/
More abused brides returning from China
Two Cambodian women will return home tomorrow after spending almost two years each living in China with abusive husbands, officials said yesterday.. ...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21843/more-abused-brides-returning-from-china/
Mirach finalizing plans for exploration drilling at Cambodia's block D
Mirach Energy Ltd. reported Tuesday that the company is currently finalizing plans to conduct exploration drilling at Block D in Cambodia following the approval by the Cambodians Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) to extend the exploration period for the permit till December 2018. ...
Rigzone Staff
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/143316/Mirach_Finalizing_Plans_for_Exploration_Drilling_at_Cambodias_Block_D
Governments halt migration to Thailand for four months
The Cambodian government has agreed to a request from the Thai Labor Ministry to temporarily block migrant workers from traveling to Thailand for the next four months as it conducts a census into migrants in the country, according to a statement released on Thursday. ...
Sek Odom and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governments-halt-migration-to-thailand-for-four-months-111634/
CAMFEBA launches an ASEAN guidebook
The Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Associations (CAMFEBA) yesterday launched an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) guidebook aimed at providing employers with practical recommendations to help businesses better understand the dynamic regional changes of integration. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/camfeba-launches-asean-guidebook
Gov’t to talk adoptions on visits to Spain, Malta
Cambodia’s minister of social affairs on Sunday departed for a visit to Spain, which will be followed by a trip to Malta, to discuss and sign adoption agreements with both countries, according to a statement released Sunday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-talk-adoptions-visits-spain-malta