Eight return from China, Malaysia
The Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday the rescue of eight trafficked Cambodian women who worked either as maids in Malaysia or were tricked into becoming brides to men in China.Of the eight women, five worked as domestic workers in Malaysia and three were married off ...
Charles Rollet and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-return-china-malaysia
Cambodia is open for investment, PM tells America
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday made a direct appeal to businesses in the United States to increase investment in Cambodia, ahead of the US-ASEAN Summit in Sunnylands California, and just days after Deputy Prime Minister Sok An spoke with officials from the US Embassy here ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21410/cambodia-is-open-for-investment--pm-tells-america/
Ministry vows to wipe out unlicensed clinics
More than 1,300 unlicensed medical clinics were shut down in 2015 and the remaining 900 will be closed in 2016, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said on Tuesday, ostensibly putting an end to lax medical standards that have allowed for scandals such as the mass HIV ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-vows-to-wipe-out-unlicensed-clinics-104517/
Health minister demands higher quality healthcare
In response to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s critiques on healthcare in Cambodia during a speech evaluating government effectiveness last month, Health Minister Dr. Mam Bunheng sent a reminder to health officials throughout the country to deliver high quality healthcare and to strengthen the quality of ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22488/health-minister-demands-higher-quality-healthcare/
Gov’t pledges to step up land titling pace
The government yesterday vowed to finish distributing all land titles currently under consideration by 2020.In a speech, Im Chhun Lim, the minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, said the government was committed to improving land security in Cambodia in its bid to address ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-pledges-step-land-titling-pace
Singapore’s HLH Group plans $10 million farm food processing park
Singapore-listed HLH Group Ltd will invest $10 million in an agricultural food processing park, which is due to be fully operational next year, the Singapore Business Review reported yesterday. The 400-hectare park will be in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district, said Kim Koung, an official of ...
Silk weavers find it tough
Today, mulberry trees are a rarity in Cambodia – most of them having been destroyed during the Khmer Rouge era – and silk weavers in Phnom Penh’s main silk producing area in Koh Dach, an island on the Mekong river, have no choice but to ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36568/silk-weavers-find-it-tough/
PM backs war against malaria
Prime Minister Hun Sen called for renewed effort to wipe out malaria in Cambodia by 2025 in a message to mark World Malaria Day on Tuesday. There were 23,627 cases of malaria in the country last year, a decrease of 54 percent compared with 2015, which ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37826/pm-backs-war-against-malaria/
ADB urges implementation of cross-border transport pact
As growing trade and investment linkages in Asia and the Pacific have helped to improve the region’s overall resilience to global economic and trade policy uncertainties, countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) need to make swifter progress in streamlining trade through multilateral agreements that ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-urges-implementation-cross-border-transport-pact
King urges people to vote without fear
King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday urged Cambodians to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming commune elections without fear of external pressure. In a royal message signed on February 20 but released yesterday, he reassured the public that they will be able to cast their ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36701/king-urges-people-to-vote-without-fear/
Analysis: If the CNRP is dissolved, CPP’s efforts to rid itself of a challenger will be realised
In 2012, a little over a month after the Human Rights Party and Sam Rainsy Party won a combined 40 commune chief positions in local elections, the two groups met in Manila, finally agreeing on what had been bandied about for years: a united opposition ...
Ananth Baliga and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/analysis-if-cnrp-dissolved-cpps-efforts-rid-itself-challenger-will-be-realised
Government’s post service increases
Cambodia Post’s services grew this year, thanks to a rise in foreign investment in Cambodia, more overseas tourists, and the rising trend of online markets. Ork Bora, Cambodia Post general director, said yesterday that the increase over all previous years was due to increased confidence of ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33441/government---s-post-service-increases/
Logger leaves timber business
Try Pheap, director general of the Try Pheap Group and widely known for his extensive involvement in the kingdom’s timber trade, told a government news outlet yesterday that he has ended his involvement in the logging business and did not burn down a lumber warehouse ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35716/logger-leaves-timber-business/
Wing promotes Khmer riel circulation among its customers
Made by Cambodians for Cambodians, Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialized Bank, the leading mobile banking services provider in Cambodia, is proud to join the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) in promoting Khmer Riel usage among its customers across the country by establishing service charges, as well ...
Khmer Times Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36594/wing-promotes-khmer-riel--circulation-among-its-customers/
Pros and cons of China’s Belt and Road plan
Cambodia has been a vocal supporter of the BRI since the initiative’s conception in 2013. The BRI will offer a new framework of cooperation between Cambodia and her neighbours, through the increased connectivity that will arise in the region once the work on the improved ...
Samithi Sok
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39680/pros-and-cons-of-china---s-belt-and-road-plan/
Capital’s new governor arrives swinging
Khoung Sreng was sworn in as the new governor of Phnom Penh yesterday, wasting little time before sending a warning that he will act against “ill-intentioned” people in the city, with Interior Minister Sar Kheng pledging at the event that recent commune election successes of ...
Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capitals-new-governor-arrives-swinging
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, ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/external-funds-driving-policy-report
‘Like-minded friends forever’: Golden Dragon, Cambodia’s 17-day military exercise with China, kicks off
On Saturday morning, hundreds of Cambodian and Chinese soldiers in full combat gear stood in formation in front of a backdrop of tanks, armoured trucks, machine gun-mounted helicopters, and artillery weapons. Generals from both sides spoke warmly of the deepening relationship between the two countries, ...
Late Monsoon Rain Causes Damages to Cambodia's Rice Crop
Cambodia continues to suffer from drought with tens of thousands of hecters of rice seedlings in the cities and provinces affected. A report from the National Committee for Disaster Management said on Wednesdasy as of August 21st drought has damaged 11,350 hectacres of rice seedlings ...
Cambodia wins awards
The real estate and construction industry in Cambodia has been boosted recently after two companies won prestigious awards for their work in the Kingdom. Vattanac Capital walked away with the prize for Best Commercial Development (South East Asia) for the Vattanac Capital Tower at the second ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010360594/Real-Estate/cambodia-wins-awards.html