New industrial investment proposals now registered
The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation approved a total of 124 new industrial investment projects between January and September this year, bringing a total active investment factory to 1,843. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/954349/new-industrial-investment-proposals-now-registered/
Beijing supports Asian free-trade area
Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday China supports pushing forward an Asian free-trade area, which will cover 28 percent of world’s total export volume. Previous reports said China is expected to make announcements on Tuesday in Phnom Penh that it will join the talks for the ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-11/20/content_15942795.htm
Manila at odds with Hun Sen over sea rows
Asean leaders yesterday failed again to form a common front towards geo-political disputes with China over the South China Sea as the Philippines vowed to continue shouting while Cambodia tried to contain discussions to the two immediate sides. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations hoped ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Manila-at-odds-with-Hun-Sen-over-sea-rows-30194671.html
New Government formation to bring more new investments
The formation of the new Royal Government of Cambodia will bring new investments to the country, generating more jobs and contributing to the economic growth. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347755/new-government-formation-to-bring-more-new-investments/
USAID Report Offers New Way to Protect Prey Long Forest
The government should abandon its current management of Prey Long forest and shift to a plan that conserves the forst while also optimizing its economic uses, such as agriculture, carbon credits and controlled timber exploitation, according to a recent report by the US Agency for ...
Union Wants Early Pay for Workers Ahead of New Year
The Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) sent a letter to the Ministry of Labor yesterday requesting that all of the country’s factory owners pay workers their salary earlier than usual ahead of Khmer New Year. Workers are normally paid on the fifth to the ...
Phok Dorn, P. 20
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/union-wants-early-pay-for-workers-ahead-of-new-year-66809/
Prime Minister unveils plan for new road along Thai border
The government yesterday announced its intention to pitch a new project to China that would consist of a road along the border with Thailand connecting the provinces of Pailin and Koh Kong. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50499726/prime-minister-unveils-plan-for-new-road-along-thai-border/
New sub-decree aims to manage non-tax revenue collection
The government yesterday released sub-decree No 72 to enhance efficiency and transparency in the management of non-tax revenue. The new regulation sets the mechanism to be followed when collecting, recording and monitoring non-tax revenue, including income collected from ministries, public institutions, province-level administration and state ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502236/new-sub-decree-aims-to-manage-non-tax-revenue-collection/
The National Authority for Land Dispute Resolution gets new president
The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Chea Sophara, and a senior MP, Khun Haing, have been appointed NALDR president and deputy, respectively, following an order signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on December 13 and announced on Thursday. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-authority-land-dispute-resolution-gets-new-president
New name for Real Camerin’s political party gets approval
The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday gave its approval to Real Camerin to name his new political party the Khmer Conservative Party, after his first proposal, the Khmer Empire Party, was denied last month. Camerin, a former lawmaker of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-name-real-camerins-political-party-gets-approval
New cassava factory to operate at full capacity next month
Ratanakkiri’s first cassava-processing plant will operate at full capacity starting next month, producing 300 tonnes of cassava products per day. The factory is now on a test run and is only producing 10 tonnes of cassava products a day, said Soy Sona, director of Ratanakkiri’s ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50483716/new-cassava-factory-to-operate-at-full-capacity-next-month/
New organic markets open in Siem Reap and Kampong Thom
Under its Boosting Food Projection programme, the government has now successfully opened eight markets for chemical-free vegetables in eight provinces across the country. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50517256/new-organic-markets-open-in-siem-reap-and-kampong-thom/
NSSF provides benefits to more than 102,000 new mothers
According to a report by the National Social Security Fund obtained today, the Cambodian government has spent more than $10 million on female workers in both formal and informal sectors through the NSSF between January and June. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://bit.ly/2xsQYD1
New terminal to allow Sihanoukville port to process bigger loads
The Kingdom’s only deep-sea port, operated by state-owned Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), will launch a new multipurpose terminal on June 25, to accommodate larger vessels with heavy loads, it said on Wednesday. PAS Chairman and CEO Lou Kim Chhun said the inauguration of the multipurpose ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-terminal-allow-sihanoukville-port-process-bigger-loads
Defence Ministry to ‘add new blood’ to Kingdom’s military
The Ministry of National Defence is set to add new blood into the Kingdom’s armed forces, with its military academy starting a new round of enrollment and recruitment to fill nearly 700 vacancies. While the ministry said the recruitment is meant to protect the Kingdom’s ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defence-ministry-add-new-blood-kingdoms-military
Gov’t prepares for enforcement of new traffic law today
Interior Ministry officials on Thursday laid out more details about plans to beef up road safety in anticipation of a new traffic law that comes into effect nationwide today, and conceded that the effort would not be without its challenges. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-prepares-for-enforcement-of-new-traffic-law-today-104228/
Cambodians filling majority of hotel rooms this New Year’s
As the year-end festivities get into high gear, provincial tourism officials are reporting a sharp increase in Cambodians travelling to popular holiday spots across the country to ring in the New Year.The temple town of Siem Reap this year is seeing an increase in hotel ...
Sor Chandara and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodians-filling-majority-hotel-rooms-new-years
For key post, the new NEC mulls an old face
Almost a year after the creation of the new National Election Committee (NEC), its nine members will meet on Friday to select a new secretary-general, the person who will implement its reform agenda ahead of elections in 2017 and 2018. . ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-key-post-the-new-nec-mulls-an-old-face-105323/
‘Skills gap’ remains an impediment to growth, new report says
Cambodia must tackle the skills gap to boost the productivity of its labor force in order to grow its economy, according to the latest report. ...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/skills-gap-remains-an-impediment-to-growth-new-report-says/3156042.html
Report that new ELCs were granted to logging barons ‘false’
In an open letter to the Ministry of Environment, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) asked yesterday for confirmation of a January 19 report in the Cambodia Daily that said new economic land concessions (ELCs) had been given to two tycoons despite a ban ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20653/report-that-new-elcs-were-granted-to-logging-barons----false---/