Minister dismisses lawmaker’s HIV concerns
Health Minister Mam Bunheng said Wednesday that he was unconcerned by a letter sent to him by the head of the National Assembly’s health commission last month concerning a spate of recently discovered HIV cases in Kandal province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-dismisses-lawmakers-hiv-concerns-109701/
Time’s up for expired products
About 20 tons of expired food products seized by police in March were set ablaze yesterday, according to the Ministry of Interior. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27012/time---s-up-for-expired-products/
Kingdom to feel typhoon’s effects
After wreaking havoc in Taiwan and mainland China this weekend, Typhoon Nepartak will bring heavy rain to the Kingdom today, according to the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27060/kingdom-to-feel-typhoon---s-effects/
China to help Cambodia’s military
China will help Cambodia improve its military capacity and provide military technical skills, National Defense Minister Tea Banh said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ban Sokrith and Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30614/china-to-help-cambodia---s-military/
Donaco’s Poipet gamble pays off
Casino operator Donaco International Ltd posted a seven-fold increase in revenue in its first full-year financial filing since acquiring the star Vegas Resort and Club in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet commune, according to the company’s audited annual report, released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/donacos-poipet-gamble-pays
Waiting to tap rubber’s rebound
The large-scale rubber plantations that arrived in force in Cambodia a decade ago as global rubber prices moved to historic peaks are facing sober prospects as trees they planted before the commodity’s prices headed south begin to reach maturity. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/waiting-tap-rubbers-rebound
Sok An’s roles distributed: PM
Prime Minister Hun sen announced yesterday that some institutions under the control of the late Deputy Prime Minister sok An, who was also head of the Council of Ministers, are being moved to relevant ministries, refuting the comments an official had made the day before. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36797/sok-an---s-roles-distributed--pm/
VIPs roll into capital’s casino
Nagacorp Ltd, the Hong Kong-listed operator of Cambodia’s NagaWorld casino and hotel complex, posted $3.73 billion in VIP rolling chip volume during the first quarter of 2017, a 34 percent year-on-year increase, while mass market buy-ins and electronic gaming machine (EGM) growth remained steady, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vips-roll-capitals-casino
PM backs China’s key role
Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday that China has been playing a critical role in contributing to the development of the Cambodian economy through direct investment and helping to develop infrastructure. In 2016 trade reached about $4.8 billion of which exports from Cambodia amounted to ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37454/pm-backs-china---s-key-role/
Smooth sailing for port’s IPO
Earlier this month sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAs) became the fifth listed firm on the Cambodian securities Exchange (CsX) following an initial public offering that raised $27 million. The Post’s Brian Ng sat down with shuzo shikata, CEO of sBI Royal securities (sBIR), the sole underwriter ss='cambodia-color'>...
Brian Ng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smooth-sailing-ports-ipo
Australia’s top brass in town
A senior Australian military official will visit Cambodia today and tomorrow to boost armed forces cooperation as part of a tour to strengthen peace in the region. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074766/australias-top-brass-town/
Solar lights up Cambodia’s villages
Solar home SyStemS are an appropriate Solution to provide affordable, reliable and clean electricity in rural Cambodia, and the Green Microfinance Programme aSSiStS villagerS to take out loanS to purchaSe them. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080936/solar-lights-cambodias-villages/
Kingdom’s prospects for fintech discussed
While financial technology, or fintech, has made little traction so far in Cambodia, panellists at a conference in Phnom Penh on Friday expressed confidence that the sector was poised for rapid growth. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-prospects-fintech-discussed
Sweden worried over CNRP’s dissolution
A SwediSh diplomat yeSterday warned that the potential diSSolution of the Cambodia National ReScue Party could lead the Scandinavian country to rethink itS relationShip with the Kingdom, though She didn&rSquo;t detail which actionS were on the table. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sweden-worried-over-cnrps-dissolution
Women’s Day plea for Vanny
Communities affected by land disputes have used the occasion of International Women’s Day today to urge the government to free activist Tep Vanny. They also called for the release of civil society organization officials and an NEC official who are being held in prison. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36220/women---s-day-plea-for-vanny/
Prison’s out for water festival
Out of 600 prisoners at Kampong Thom prison 18 may have their sentences reduced by six to 12 months for the upcoming Water Festival in November. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079922/prisons-water-festival/
Fresh calls for Sokha’s release
With Cambodia’s former opposition leader Kem sokha languishing in a remote jail for more than three months now, international organisations and parliamentarians have renewed their calls for his immediate release and for the reversal of the controversial dissolution of his Cambodia National Rescue Party. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fresh-calls-sokhas-release
Government’s efforts to decentralise continue
In the past two decades, the government has transferred about $2 billion to lower level administrations in an effort to decentralize.The figure was revealed yesterday during the first day of a two-day conference on decentralization on Koh Pich. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109838/governments-efforts-decentralise-continue/
Women’s center aims for sustainability
One year strong and more than 900 jobs later, the Us state Department-supported start-up center WECREATE, which invests in the economic empowerment of women, is beginning its expansion throughout the Lower Mekong Region. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30972/women---s-center-aims-for-sustainability/
Coke’s new $100 million plant
Coca-Cola officially opened a new $100 million plant in Phnom Penh yesterday to expand its production capacity to meet increased demand for the Coke beverage in the Kingdom and Asean. The plant, situated on a 12.5-hectare land, in the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone is able ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32783/coke---s-new--100-million-plant/