PM: Workers must train for Industry 4.0
Prime Minister Hun sen has urged the Kingdom’s workforce to seek more technical training and strengthen their skills if they are to avoid job losses resulting from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Hun sen said the fourth industrial revolution is like a double-edged sword that will ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-workers-must-train-industry-40
KrisEnergy starts 3D seismic survey
Singapore-baSed firm KriSEnergy Ltd, which operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S Block A offShore oil development project, haS Started a 3D SeiSmic Survey in the area, a company preSS releaSe Said on TueSday. It announced the commencement of a 1,200Sqkm Survey in the offShore Cambodia Block A conceSSion, where SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-starts-3d-seismic-survey
Kampot councillors sent to court for forging land title
Kampot provincial police sent two councillors to court on Thursday for forging public documents to claim a villager’s land in Chhouk district. Provincial police chief Mao Chanmathurith said the unidentified officials, one of whom was a Chhouk district councillor and the other a Taken commune ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-councillors-sent-court-forging-land-title
Chinese group vows to educate on the law
At a bilateral meeting between Preah Sihanouk province and a delegation of China&rSquo;S MiniStry of Public Security on Friday, the latter committed to educate itS nationalS to Strictly reSpect Cambodian lawS. Provincial adminiStration SpokeSman Kheang Phearum Said on Monday that during the meeting, the adminiStration SS='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-group-vows-educate-law
Prime Road Alternative wins rights to 60MW solar farm
Prime Road Alternative Company Limited won construction rights to a 60MW solar farm project at an auction, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). An ADB press release released last week shows that the auction, which was conducted by Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), ended with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prime-road-alternative-wins-rights-60mw-solar-farm
Chinese firms propose 150-MW hydropower dam
Chinese firms have proposed a new hydroelectric power project on Koh Kong’s Tatay river. Chint Group and sinomach-HE recently asked the Ministry of Mines and Energy for permission to begin a feasibility study on a project to build a 150-megawatt hydropower dam on the Tatay river, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50644907/chinese-firms-propose-150-mw-hydropower-dam/
Nine illegal timber trucks impounded
The National Committee for Prevention and Crackdown on Natural Resource Crimes on Monday impounded nine trucks used to transport timber to Vietnam through Kratie province’s snuol district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nine-illegal-timber-trucks-impounded
Dengue cases spike in 2015; health officials not worried
Dengue fever cases have shot up 350 percent in the first 34 weeks of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the government’s latest figures, but are still lower than the number of cases recorded in the three years prior to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dengue-cases-spike-in-2015-health-officials-not-worried-94103/
Opposition denies claims it is trying to destabilize the government
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has denied accusations made by the ruling party that it is seeking an overthrow of the government.Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, a member of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, made the accusation in a public speech last weekend, saying the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-denies-claims-it-is-trying-to-destabilize-the-government/3005552.html
Garment unions weigh protests
Garment workers unions unhappy with next year’s recently announced $140 minimum wage for the sector will meet this week to determine whether or not to hold demonstrations to protest the disappointingly low figure.The unions were pushing for $160 a month when the government announced the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-unions-weigh-protests
Mesco set to draw first gold from Ratanakkiri mine
Mesco Gold has established the required surface-level infrastructure and is awaiting government approval to begin the extraction of gold at its Phum syarung mine in Ratanakkiri province, the company’s director said yesterday.The Indian mining firm is poised to become the first operational commercial mine in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mesco-set-draw-first-gold-ratanakkiri-mine
After shock of HIV outbreak, facing the future
Som Saron haS not worked Since teSting poSitive for HIV late laSt year. Taking care of her young niece at her parentS&rSquo; home in Roka commune laSt week, the 37-year-old Said that a fear of being Stigmatized kept her from walking the community&rSquo;S gravel roadS Selling SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-shock-of-hiv-outbreak-facing-the-future-99077/
Prime minister talks festival, lawmaker assaults
Last week’s brutal attacks by off-duty soldiers on two opposition lawmakers were retribution for anti-government protests in Paris and New York, Prime Minister Hun sen said in a speech yesterday. “If there is no fire, there will be no flames,” he said. “If there had ss='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox and Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17543/prime-minister-talks-festival--lawmaker-assaults/
Minister of interior addresses ‘gaps’ in democracy
Cambodia’s acting Prime Minister while Mr. Hun sen is out of the country for the Us-AsEAN summit, Interior Minister sar Kheng, acknowledged that there are “gaps” in the implementation of democracy in Cambodia during a speech to the National Police Academy on Tuesday, but warned ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21549/minister-of-interior-addresses----gaps----in-democracy/
Rice sector facing collapse, millers warn
About half of the country’s rice millers and exporters went out of business last year and those clinging on are likely to follow suit within two years unless the government injects capital into the sector and takes measures to curb the flood of imported rice ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22030/rice-sector-facing-collapse--millers-warn/
Traffic deaths rise, injuries fall over new year
Although 254 people were either killed or injured in traffic accidents across the Kingdom during this year’s Khmer New Year, and the fatality rate rose, the rate of injury over the four-day celebration decreased when compared with the same period last year, according to a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23881/traffic-deaths-rise--injuries-fall-over-new-year/
Road 5 to be Asean road
National Road 5 which connects Phnom Penh to the border with Thailand at Banteay Meanchey will soon be expanded to strengthen Asean’s trade connectivity between Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday assistance from the Japanese government to improve National Road 5 will ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27532/road-5-to-be-asean-road/
Small pig farmers edged out
Cambodia’s small family-run pig farming businesses seem to be roughing it out in an unpredictable market with fluctuating pork prices while facing stiff competition from the illegal flood of cheap imported live pigs from neighboring countries. To add salt to their wounds, the high price ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28905/small-pig-farmers-edged-out/
Ta Mok bridge reopened
Authorities in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district reopened the Ta Mok bridge for traffic yesterday after water levels subsided, but some officials were still stationed at the bridge. The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology released a statement yesterday, saying the water in Ta Mok ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29768/ta-mok-bridge-reopened/
National Election Committee voter registration passes halfway mark
More than half of Cambodia’s 9.6 million eligible voters had been registered as of saturday, despite the National Election Committee reporting that heavy rains had dampened the pace of registrations recently. Updated figures released on the weekend show that 4.9 million voters had registered in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-election-committee-voter-registration-passes-halfway-mark