Renewable energy to power Takeo milling plant
A Japan energy company yesterday said it planned to build a rice mill fuelled by rice husks in Cambodia’s Takeo province. New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) confirming cooperation ...
Measures outlined to save the endangered Mekong dolphin
Officials and environmentalists yesterday agreed to draw up new measures to save the endangered Mekong dolphin and find more information on why the species is disappearing. At the end of a three-day workshop in Kratie province, officials and representatives from the World Wildlife Fund signed a ...
Airport in Sihanoukville gets a major facelift
Sihanoukville International Airport is set to see higher passenger arrivals, thanks to the refurbishment of its passenger terminal, Cambodia Airports announced. In a press release on Wednesday, the operator of the Kingdom’s three airports said the refurbishment is in preparation for an increasing number of ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airport-sihanoukville-gets-major-facelift
ADB disburses $90 million loan to modernise agriculture industry
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) approved a $90 million loan on Wednesday to help Cambodia modernise the agriculture sector and enhance climate resilience. The Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chains Sector Project will cost more than $141 million to implement, with the government of Cambodia and beneficiaries ...
Authorities in Ratanakkiri find stash of 160 pieces of timber
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on Saturday commandeered 160 pieces of first-grade timber they stumbled upon. They believe the timber was a collected stash that illegal loggers had hidden in the forest as they waited for rain to cease before transporting it out, said ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-ratanakkiri-find-stash-160-pieces-timber
Families displaced in Siem Pang
Thousands of families along the Sekong river were evacuated last week after the collapse of a dam in Laos led to a deluge in the district. A member of the Kavet ethnic minority, Ms Doung and her family were among 15 other families in Santepheap ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50517410/families-displaced-in-siem-pang/
NEC to release final results as complaint window closes
The National Election Committee (NEC) is set to announce the final results of the July 29 national elections on Wednesday as scheduled, said NEC deputy secretary-general Som Sorida. However, two analysts expressed scepticism over the announcement, claiming that the political parties were aware that it ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-release-final-results-complaint-window-closes
Cambodia to conduct population census in March
Cambodia is going to conduct a population census in March next year, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said here on Tuesday. “We plan to spend 8.5 million U.S. dollars for the one-week census, which will be commenced from March 3, 2019,” he told reporters after a ...
Xinhua
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/14/c_137389562.htm
Builders in protest over ‘owed’ $7K
Dozns of construction workers in Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district protested on Wednesday, demanding more than $7,000 in wages their company owed them. The more than 30 workers were employed to construct a building at a sugarcane factory owned by Oknha Vinh Hour in ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/builders-protest-over-owed-7k
Number of capital slums down
The number of slums in Phnom Penh has dropped to 277 from 340 in 2013, a survey conducted by Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) and released on Tuesday said. While its data showed positive progress, it noted remaining challenges in places where residents don’t have land ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/number-capital-slums-down
Illegal loggers take to waterways
Stung Treng provincial police yesterday cracked down on an illegal timber operation that was transporting logs along the Sekong river in Stung Treng city. Provincial police chief Major General Mao Dara said the illegal timber operation was using rafts to float illegally felled trees along ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50532806/illegal-loggers-take-to-waterways/
Kingdom to finance 2019 general census
The Ministry of Planning said on Thursday that the government has earmarked $8 million for the general census to be conducted next year. Funding will come entirely from the national budget, with China and the United Nations Population Fund Cambodia (UNFPA) providing equipment and technical ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-finance-2019-general-census
Local government halts lake filling
Siem Reap provincial authorities have stopped three companies from illegally filling in a natural reservoir in Trav Kod resort. The province’s deputy administration director Sok Thol told The Post yesterday that the three companies had filled in the 30ha lake and built wooden cabins on ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-government-halts-lake-filling
Announcement No. 169: NEC provides voter registration services at Commune/Sangkat
On 01 October 2018, the NatiOnal ElectiOn Committee (NEC) has announced its voter registratiOn services at communes and villages, aim to provide voter registratiOn services closer to citizens. Moreover, the voter lists revisiOn and voter registratiOn 2018 will take place for 18 days. ...
National Election Committee
Homes in Phnom Penh to be torn down
Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district administration will tear down illegal houses and shops built on the bank of Prek Thnot river, said its administrative director Mok Puthea. He said illegal homes, shops, cafes and canteens in Teuk Thla village along the river in Kraing Pongro commune ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homes-phnom-penh-be-torn-down
Hun Sen: Claim that China is ‘invading’ Kingdom is crazy
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday slammed critics over claims that China is “invading” Cambodia, calling the argument “crazy”. Speaking to members of Cambodian diaspora in Geneva, Switzerland, Hun Sen said some people were concerned about the influx of Chinese nationals who live and work ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-claim-china-invading-kingdom-crazy
Road repairs increased last year
The Transport Ministry repaired more roads last year when compared to work done in 2017, according to its annual report. In the report issued on Wednesday, the ministry noted it repaired a total of 9,671 kilometres of national and provincial roads, an increase when compared ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50568071/road-repairs-increased-last-year/
Gov’t launches revenue strategy
The government launched the Revenue Mobilisation Strategy 2019-2023 on Thursday. The 77-page book details key strategies such as modernisation of the General Department of Taxation’s (GDT) fiscal revenue system in response to the increasing demand for service quality, social equity guarantee and sustainability of revenue ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-launches-revenue-strategy
Men nabbed for dolphin zone fishing
Two men have been placed in pre-trial detention for “fishing using electric shock devices” in a Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin conservation zone in Kratie province. A 104kg, 1.98m male dolphin was found dead in the same preservation area on Sunday after its flipper became entangled ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/men-nabbed-dolphin-zone-fishing
Certificate of origin issuance poised to be decentralised
The Ministry of Commerce has intensified its decentralisation policy and shifted its responsibility for issuing certificates of origin (COs) to provincial commerce departments, it said on Monday. To promote the Kingdom’s agricultural exports, the ministry announced a pilot launch from November 1 in three border ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/certificate-origin-issuance-poised-be-decentralised