Snakebites an Under-Reported but Deadly Problem in Cambodia
n the ponds and rice paddies of the Cambodian countryside, trying to catch frogs can be deadly. Along Cambodia’s rivers, floodlands and lowlands live millions of venomous snakes, 10 species of which can be lethal if you disturb their slumber. Last week, a 13-year-old teenager from Kompong ...
Denise Hruby and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/snakebites-an-under-reported-but-deadly-problem-in-cambodia-47812/
Interbank lending gains traction
The central bank’s efforts to foster development of an interbank lending market appears to be taking off as The demand for negotiable certificates of deposits (NCDs) increased sharply last year, with The financial tool seeing wider usage among The Kingdom’s financial institutions. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/interbank-lending-gains-traction
Med students accuse uni of graft, gouging
The University of Health Sciences (UHS) rejected allegations from staff and students yesterday that Their management is embezzling funds from The national medical exit examinations. On Tuesday, UHS staff and students accused The university of pocketing funds from The $125 exams that were held between February ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/med-students-accuse-uni-graft-gouging
Slow rubber market puts law on back burner
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has postponed The finalisation of a draft rubber law amid declining rubber prices, according to a senior official. Under The draft law, producers must be more selective in choosing The type of rubber for plantation and only processed ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/slow-rubber-market-puts-law-back-burner
Trade logistics centre west of Phnom Penh is in planning
An assessement of plans to build a groundbreaking trade logistics centre west of Phnom Penh will begin soon, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation said. An early stage feasibility analysis of the Phnom Penh Logistics Complex is set to begin early next year, supported ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-logistics-centre-west-phnom-penh-planning
Poipet Airport project resumes in Cambodia
The Poipet Airport development project, which had been abandoned for more than 10 years, will resume construction in 2020 as The city welcomes more Chinese, say provincial authorities. Hotel and casino investment firm Holiday Palace began construction of The airport in 2007 and had already ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/poipet-resumes-airport-project
Rights group asks for land data sharing
Rights group Licadho has called on the government to make available statistics on the full extent of economic land concessions (ELCs) in response to data collected by the organisation over five years. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-group-asks-land-data-sharing
Traders urged to use riel
In an effort to boost the use of the riel, private companies have called on the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) to ensure that all goods worth less than $100 are priced in riel. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36683/traders-urged-to-use-riel/
Spending on Defense and Security up 17% in 2014
The country’s draft $3.4 billion national budget for 2014 proposes yet anoTher $920 million in new debt to make ends meet, The same amount taken on this year, according to a copy of The spending bill obtained Thursday. The draft budget calls for nearly $400 million—or ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/spending-on-defense-and-security-up-17-in-2014-46747/
A year after trial, still free
One year ago today, ex-Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith smiled as he sat before a judge at the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh on the first day of his trial for shooting and badly injuring three unarmed garment workers at a protest in Prey Veng ...
May Titthara and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/year-after-trial-still-free
Consumer protection draft law almost ready
Officials at the Ministry Of Commerce and Council Of Ministers announced yesterday that a draft consumer protection law, which is intended to ensure that food and consumer products made domestically or imported into Cambodia are safe, was almost complete. A quarter Of the almost 60 ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28562/consumer-protection-draft-law-almost-ready/
Cambodia’s rubber exports earn more than $200 million, up nearly 40%
Cambodia earned more than $200 million from the export of rubber and rubber products, an increase of more than 38 percent compared to the same period in 2022, reaching just over $149 million. This is according to the four-months report of 2023 of the General ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501293951/cambodias-rubber-exports-earn-more-than-200-million-up-nearly-40/
Follow NBC official exchange rate, taxpayers told
The General Department of Tax (GDT) of The Ministry of Economy and Finance has asked tax payers to follow The official exchange rate issued by National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), in a move to strengThen tax collection efficiency. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501177006/follow-nbc-official-exchange-rate-taxpayers-told/
More than 500 apply for June poll
The National Election Committee (NEC) has received more than 500 applications in The first month of registration for commune election observers, according to a statement released on Wednesday. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-500-apply-june-poll
Cambodia is ‘handicapped’ by dollarization
Cambodia is handicapped by the dollarization of its economy in three ways, according to Kith Sovannarith, Deputy Director General of Banking Supervision at the National Bank of Cambodia. ...
Riel Gains
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36365/cambodia-is----handicapped----by-dollarization/
Thai university to set up tourism school
Thailand’s Rajamangala University of Technology plans to set up a tourism and hospitality institute in Siem Reap province to build the capacity of Cambodians working in the tourism sector. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36200/thai-university-to-set-up-tourism-school/
TRC gives up revenue collection to ministry
The Kingdom’s telecom regulator announced this week that it would transfer telco operator revenues it traditionally receives to The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications as part of government reforms on revenue collection. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trc-gives-revenue-collection-ministry
Workers told to complain if indemnity is not paid
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training officials have appealed to workers in the textile sector to file complaints to the ministry immediately, if factory owners failed to make last year’s seniority indemnity payments. Meanwhile, some unions claimed that factories had failed to pay the second ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-told-complain-if-indemnity-not-paid
Cambodia, Thailand to reduce border violence
As Cambodian and Thai authorities agreed to ease up on the use of violence against illegal border crossers into both countries, Thailand stopped short of pledging to refrain from shooting trespassers into the neighbouring kingdom. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-thailand-reduce-border-violence
Cambodia revokes land licenses from 8 companies
Cambodian Environment Minister Say Samal said Monday that the government has canceled licenses of economic land concessions (ELCs) for eight companies after they have not undertaken development on the lands for years. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140929/cambodia-revokes-land-licenses-8-companies