Draft law puts high price on drunk driving
Drunk drivers could be fined $1000 under a new draft traffic law approved yesterday by The Council of Ministers. The legislation includes a raft of measures aimed at reducing the number of deaths and injuries on the roads. Among the draft law’s 92 articles are new ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/draft-law-puts-high-price-drunk-driving
Ministry to punish fraudsters who ink finger without voting
Government officials have threatened that those who boycott the coming election but ink their fingers to indicate they had voted will face punishment according to the law. But analysts and opposition figures say that there is no applicable law relating to such an issue. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-punish-fraudsters-who-ink-finger-without-voting
Keo romeat mango to get standard
The government will issue a standard for the type of mango known as ‘keo romeat’, a move that seeks to bolster sales abroad as well as consumer trust on the product, a high-ranking official revealed yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487613/keo-romeat-mango-to-get-standard/
Second industrial lab centre on the way
A new laboratory for testing local products and issue quality certificates will open in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district by the end of 2019, the Ministry of Handicraft recently announced. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50509878/second-industrial-lab-centre-on-the-way/
South Korea seeking to invest in six sectors
A group of South Korean delegates on Monday announced that it was seeking to invest in six priority areas in the Kingdom, a move aimed at boosting trade between the two countries. The plans were discussed during a meeting between the Council of Development of Cambodia ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50617654/south-korea-seeking-to-invest-in-six-sectors/
Climate change targets aim high
The Ministry of Environment submitted an ambitious national climate change plan to the United Nations yesterday ahead of scheduled climate talks in Paris (COP 21), though observers yesterday questioned the plan’s feasibility given a lack of both funding and political will.According to Sao Sopheap, spokesperson ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/climate-change-targets-aim-high
Cambodia's garment export surges 24 pct in first 10 months
Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest income maker, reported a 24 percent rise in exports in the first ten months of 2013, according to figures of the country’s Ministry of Commerce Thursday. The figures showed that the country exported garment products in equivalent to 4.76 billion U.S. dollars ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-11/07/c_132867226.htm
Commerce Minister calls on checkpoint officials to crackdown on expired goods
Commerce Minister asked officials at all border checkpoints to prevent and crackdown on expired products. Son Chanthol, the Commerce Minister, made such comments during a meeting Tuesday with officials from Department of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, and checkpoints in Banteat Meanchey province. He also asked his officials ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OWFjOTZkZjI0OTh
Cambodia slams 2 border killings
Cambodia’s foreign ministry Monday condemned Thailand’s military for two shooting that it claimed left two Khmer nationals dead and one injured since Sept 28. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/436220/cambodia-slams-2-border-killings
Nine Vietnamese arrested in Battambang census raids
Nine Vietnamese nationals found to be living in Cambodia illegally were arrested at furniture-making workshops in Battambang City on Tuesday as the national immigration census nears its end, a police official said Wednesday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nine-vietnamese-arrested-in-battambang-census-raids-76187/
Cashew, poultry feed rules on the way
The Institute of Statistics Cambodia issued two new draft standards yesterday, one for cashew nuts and another for chicken- and duck-feed production. The new guidelines aim to bring the products in line with international standards and also help producers increase their exports. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cashew-poultry-feed-rules-way
Ministry hits back over Union law
The Ministry of Labor issued a statement Friday claiming that the controversial draft Trade Union Law is aimed at protecting the rights of workers, after unions announced they would write to the ministry, the National Assembly and the European Union next week calling for the ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-hits-back-over-union-law-84636/
Cambodian garment factory workers demonstrate for subsidies
At least 500 workers from three garment factories in Cambodia demonstrated on Tuesday outside the Labor Ministry in the capital Phnom Penh, demanding that government officials intervene in their quest for better working conditions and food and transportation subsidies. ...
Government talks tough on counterfeit drugs
The government says that it is increasing its efforts to clamp down against counterfeit drugs in Cambodia.Speaking at a Pharmaceutical and Medical Expo yesterday in Phnom Penh, Nov Phalla, deputy director at the Department of Drugs and Food at the Ministry of Health said the ...
Sok Chan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/government-talks-tough-counterfeit-drugs
Gov’t spells out inmate exit policy
The Ministry of Interior yesterday ordered all prisons across the country to release inmates scheduled to be freed on weekends and public holidays ahead of time rather than prolonging their sentence. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-spells-out-inmate-exit-policy
Gov’t calls for lower fuel prices
The government yesterday asked fuel retailers to lower petroleum prices, so as to reflect the drop in global prices in the last few months.At a meeting chaired by Chhoun Dara, a secretary of state at the Commerce Ministry, oil companies were given a week to ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-calls-lower-fuel-prices
Bar association builds room for lawyer, client consultation
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has set up a legal office in all 25 municipal-provincial prisons to make it easier to maintain confidentiality between lawyers and clients in preparation for court proceedings. ...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bar-association-builds-room-lawyer-client-consultation
PM calls for tougher scrutiny on pardons
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday told the Ministry of Justice to re-check pardon applications from convicted robbers and drug dealers, saying that recidivism is a big problem in the Kingdom.The premier’s statement, made in a speech on Koh Pich, follows a turbulent weekend rife with ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-tougher-scrutiny-pardons
GFT exports increase 0.9% to $4.7B in first six months
The Kingdom exported $4.7214 billion worth of garments, footwear, travel products (GFT) and other finished textile goods in the first half of 2021, up 0.9 per cent year-on-year from $4.6813 billion, according to the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia. ...
Thou Vireak
https://phnompenhpost.com/business/gft-exports-increase-09-47b-first-six-months
Garment factories in Cambodia gear up for sustainability
Switch Garment, together with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) kicked off this month a series of energy audits which will take place in garment factories across Cambodia, according to a press release issued this week. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50924738/garment-factories-in-cambodia-gear-up-for-sustainability/