Deal for yuan trade with China in works
Officials in Cambodia and China’s Guangdong province are cooperating to establish trade using yuan instead of Us dollars, part of the two countries’ increasingly close economic relationship. The suggestion to use yuan directly, instead of using Us dollars as an intermediary currency, was made by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-yuan-trade-china-works
PM supports water taxi system
Prime Minister Hun sen has announced his support of a planned waterway taxi service and encouraged those in charge of the project to ensure its launch before the Khmer New Year. speaking at a river festival in Kandal province’s Takhmao city on saturday, Mr Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113505/pm-supports-water-taxi-system/
Mobile vehicle checkpoints start
The Ministry of Transport has started checking trucks traveling along National Road 6 to ensure they conform to legal size and modification requirements, it announced this week. According to a post on the ministry’s Facebook page, mobile inspection teams were deployed in Kampong Cham province to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31384/mobile-vehicle-checkpoints-start/
Opposition councilor held in land dispute
A villager and a CNRP councilor have been detained in a long-running land dispute in Kampong Thom province’s Prasat Ballangk district.A team of police and officers from the provincial forestry administration on Friday demolished the homes of 17 families living on three hectares of disputed ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37378/opposition-councilor-held-in-land-dispute/
PM announces new airport in Siem Reap
Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday that siem Reap is in need of a new airport to tackle the rising number of visitors to the area.Last week Cambodia reached an $880-million agreement with China’s Yunnan Investment Holding Ltd which allows the state-owned company to manage ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084356/pm-announces-new-airport-siem-reap/
Press accuses tycoons of illegal logging
Local media in Mondulkiri province have accused established businessmen of being involved with logging in Phnom Prich Wildlife sanctuary. Online newspaper Nokor Dragon said illegal logging became rampant in the national reserve, and claimed local tycoons Oeng Bunchin, san Choy, and srieng Meng mobilized people ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098323/press-accuses-tycoons-illegal-logging/
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation puts people first, brings benefits to locals
After joining the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) family in 2016, Cambodia has been an active supporter and enthusiastic participant of the mechanism. On Dec. 21, China provided 7.3 million U.s. dollars from the LMC special Fund to Cambodia for carrying out 16 projects in the kingdom, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fei Liena and Lu Juan
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/09/c_136881749.htm
Bag firm plans to grow local operations
Wah Sun HandbagS International Holding unveiled planS yeSterday to expand itS Cambodia operationS, citing the country&rSquo;S low labour coStS aS the primary reaSon for the move. In a filing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the handbag manufacturer announced planS to raiSe up to $18 SS='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bag-firm-plans-grow-local-operations
Report shows little sign of improvement at factories
A Better Factories Cambodia report shows little improvement in the continued use of short-term contracts and safety and health conditions for workers at surveyed factories, with total compliance of all exporting factories still stuck at less than 50 percent. The International Labour Organisation’s compliance program conducts ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yon Sineat and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-shows-little-sign-improvement-factories
Poor households given $51m in energy subsidies
The government subsidised $51 million worth of electricity across the country in 2017 in a bid to bring down the price of electricity for low-income households, according to the Minister of Mines and Energy. speaking at the annual conference of the Electricity Authority Cambodia yesterday, suy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104181/poor-households-given-51m-in-energy-subsidies/
43 awarded tax agent licenses
As part of ongoing government efforts to modernize and streamline the country’s tax system, 43 tax agent licenses were awarded yesterday. The 43 companies are now legally recognized as offering tax declaration services to the public and private sectors. Eighteen had previously been doing this work ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31518/43-awarded-tax-agent-licenses/
Assembly wants answers from mines minister
The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission has asked suy sem, the minister of mines and energy, to appear for questioning on December 15, as villagers in Koh Kong province cast doubt on government claims that it had temporarily banned sand mining there. Mr. sem will answer questions ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Paviour and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-wants-answers-mines-minister-121744/
Election day coming, many voters unsure when
With just two months to go until Cambodia’s commune elections, more than half of respondents to a new survey could not identify Election Day. The finding was detailed in a report released on Wednesday by the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-day-coming-many-voters-unsure-when-127619/
Cambodians unconcerned by threats of violence ahead of election
Political campaigning in Cambodia’s local elections began on saturday and has so far passed without incident. Cambodians in Phnom Penh on Monday said they hoped that the election could be conducted fairly and free of violence. sim To, a second-year student at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kann Vicheika
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodians-unconcerned-by-threats-of-violence-ahead-of-election/3869453.html
Stamps to replace pens in polls
The National Election Committee says voters will use stamps instead of pens for the next election in a bid to eliminate disputes over incorrectly marked ballots. NEC president sik Bun Hok said on Friday that stamps would prevent a repeat of problems that arose at June’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083970/stamps-replace-pens-polls/
Chinese, local firms sign agricultural deals worth $526M
More than a dozen Chinese companies inked deals to purchase about $526 million worth of agricultural products from Cambodian firms on Monday. The 34 agreements between 14 Chinese firms and 18 Cambodian firms were announced by the two country’s commerce ministries at a press conference ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-local-firms-sign-agricultural-deals-worth-526m
Preah Sihanouk land brokers given warning
Preah Sihanouk&rSquo;S provincial governor on WedneSday warned that legal action would be taken againSt any brokerS trying to grab land in the Kbal Chhay area, where it iS prohibited to build property or Sell land plotS.&nbSp;The warning came after provincial authoritieS diScovered that in recent SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103182/preah-sihanouk-land-brokers-given-warning/
First marine national park established in Koh Rong
The government announced last week the establishment of the country’s first marine national park, the Koh Rong National Park, which covers the Koh Rong archipelago off the coast of sihanoukville. The new national park, set up by a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun sen, aims ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108066/first-marine-national-park-established-koh-rong/
Ministers meet again to send workers to Malaysia
The Labour Minister led a delegation to visit Malaysia last week to discuss sending migrant labourers and maids there with the country’s Minister of Human Resources. The Ministry of Labour issued a statement on Friday saying that Labour Minister Ith samheng met with Human Resources Minister ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108042/ministers-meet-send-workers-malaysia/
Land rights activists want royal pardon for Tep Vanny
Residents of the Boeung Kak community yesterday submitted a petition to Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet, asking the premier to seek a royal pardon to release their jailed representative Tep Vanny, and also solve their outstanding land dispute. According to the petition by eight Boeung Kak ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112023/land-rights-activists-want-royal-pardon-tep-vanny/