Unlicensed medicine sale banned
The Ministry of Health has banned the sale of medicine without a legal permit at supermarkets, mini-marts and baby shops nationwide. It said offenders face strict legal measures, including fines of up to 10 million riel ($2,500). A letter signed by secretary of state at ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unlicensed-medicine-sale-banned
More than 300 kakoh logs seized in Ratanakkiri secret timber stash
More than 300 kakoh logs were confiscated on Monday by Ratanakkiri provincial anti-financial crime police, in cooperation with Banlung district authorities at a secret timber storage site in Yeak Loam commune’s Labo village. The logs have been handed over to local Forestry Administration officials pending legal procedures. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-300-kakoh-logs-seized-ratanakkiri-secret-timber-stash
Khmer Silk Centre opens at RUPP
The Khmer Silk Centre at the Royal UniverSity of Phnom Penh (RUPP) waS inaugurated on WedneSday, with the aim of booSting reSearch in the Kingdom&rSquo;S Silk induStry. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, MiniSter of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron hoped that the centre SS='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-silk-centre-opens-rupp
Apsara authority announces the move of elephants from Angkor temple complex
Apsara authority has announced on 13 November 2019 over the move of elephants from Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex and it will end elephant rides business. Elephant management association will take charge of moving the elephants to a new home –a community forest (BosThom), located in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Apsara Authority
New Prey Sar block set to open
A new Prey Sar priSon building &ndaSh; part of the Scrapped VIP priSon project &ndaSh; waS handed over to the MiniStry of Interior&rSquo;S General Department of PriSonS on Friday and will be put into operation Soon. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-prey-sar-block-set-open
First drop of oil by mid-2020, says Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday confirmed that Cambodia will extract the first drop of oil from the Apsara oilfield in Cambodia’s offshore Block A by mid-2020. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/first-drop-oil-mid-2020-says-hun-sen
Cambodia continues to deny Taiwan's request to establish representative office
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Monday (Nov. 18) that Cambodia has yet to approve the Taiwanese government’s request to establish a representative office in the country after Taiwanese business owners complained about the inconvenience of document processing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ching-Tse Cheng
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3820080
Unions’ house divided
A secret ballot yesterday failed to resolve garment union splits over what to demand at upcoming minimum wage talks, with at least one independent union rejecting the majority vote of $158 and vowing to put forward $178.The division came a day after Labour Ministry spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-house-divided
Cambodia initiates first-ever employment policy
The International Labor Organization says a new National Employment Policy will improve the country’s economy for the young generation.The policy, drafted with the help of sweden, aims to increase “decent and productive” employment opportunities, enhance skills and human resources development, and strengthen labor market governance, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-initiates-first-ever-employment-policy/3020097.html
Angkor Sankranti brings flood of tourists to Siem Reap
Siem Reap iS gearing up for thiS year&rSquo;S Angkor Sankranti from April 14 to 16 and hopeS to attract more than the almoSt one million people who viSited laSt year, with hotelS and gueSthouSeS already being booked out.&nbSp;Ang Seila, manager of ReServe and Duty at SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23627/angkor-sankranti-brings-flood-of-tourists-to-siem-reap/
Government investigates rice sector
Following a Monday announcement from the Agriculture Ministry that provincial officials must ensure that the country’s rice millers pay adequate prices for rice paddy, the ministry followed up yesterday, saying that working groups had started discussing the situation with rice millers and rice farmers. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29775/government-investigates--rice-sector/
Top students get training nod
Top-scoring candidates from this year’s grade 12 national exam will be given free passes to train as pre-school and primary teachers in an effort to improve the quality of the education system.Prime Minister Hun sen approved a request from Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/top-students-get-training-nod
Hun Sen announces broad cuts of petty taxes
The country’s lower class will receive a series of tax breaks starting in 2016, Prime Minister Hun sen announced Thursday, with tariffs on motorbikes, tuk-tuks and farm machinery to be waived, along with fees at stalls in state-owned markets.striking a populist tone during the inauguration ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-announces-broad-cuts-of-petty-taxes-98057/
Facebook threat case is moved to court
Nearly two years after an Interior Ministry official was first accused of threatening to kill the deputy leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, police have finally transferred the case to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, officials have told the Post.In December 2013, Pheng Vannak, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/facebook-threat-case-moved-court
Rice loans to be disbursed soon
Cambodia’s beleaguered rice millers can now breathe a sigh of relief after a tumultuous three months in what seemed to be government ineptitude in disbursing an emergency loan of $30 million to prevent them from becoming insolvent. In June, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) announced that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29421/rice-loans-to-be-disbursed-soon/
Phone retailers ordered to pay tax on inventories
Following raids on phone shops selling grey-market devices last week, the government is giving retailers a two-week window to declare their stock of mobile phone handsets and pay the relevant taxes or face hefty fines.Many of the capital’s vendors have already received a notice from ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/phone-retailers-ordered-pay-tax-inventories
Top of the class – the minister who rebuilds systems
After almost 15 years working at various economic-related agencies, primarily the ministry of economy and finance, H.E. Hang Chuon Naron has been at the forefront of transforming Cambodia’s broken economy into one that is more open and competitive. since 2013 he has been minister of ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20804/top-of-the-class-----the-minister-who-rebuilds-systems/
JICA moots city transit system
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is helping Cambodia conduct a feasibility study on an automated gateway transit system (AGT) to overcome Phnom Penh’s daily gridlock, caused by traffic congestion, during peak hours. Hideaki Wase, an urban transportation advisor in JICA, told Khmer Times yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28026/jica-moots-city-transit-system/
Plan to certify organic quality
GIZ Cambodia, a branch of Germany’s international development agency, signed an agreement yesterday with local organic food retailer Khmer Organic Cooperative to provide technical support to develop organic vegetable production and to assist the firm in obtaining certification for its products. The agreement calls for the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plan-certify-organic-quality
Gov’t studies new tree species
The Ministry of Environment signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday with two Chinese companies to study planting “Paulownia-Guotong” – an extremely fast-growing tree used to make furniture and wooden equipment – and practice growing it in Cambodia. speaking at a workshop on a feasibility ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30205/gov---t-studies-new-tree-species/