Arsenic in Kandal rice may be leaking into Phnom Penh markets
Once thought to be a problem that affected only rural areas, arsenic poisoning from tainted food could affect Cambodian cities such as Phnom Penh as well, according to research into rice and fish cultivated in Kandal province. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16767/arsenic-in-kandal-rice-may-be-leaking-into-phnom-penh-markets/
Toll expressway route unveiled
The Kingdom has settled on a route for a planned $2.5 billion high-speed toll road from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border in Bavet, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency revealed in a seminar yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/toll-expressway-route-unveiled
Truck found 26 tonnes over legal weight limit
An overloaded truck’s owner was ordered to pay 7.8 million riel ($1,917) in fines yesterday after his driver was caught with 61 tonnes of wood in his truck, 26 tonnes above the legal limit. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/truck-found-26-tonnes-over-legal-weight-limit
Health sector on notice
Legal action will be taken against health institutes that offer a low quality of care, according to a directive issued by the Minister of Health last week, which also emphasized the importance of digital record keeping in the medical sector. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26032/health-sector-on-notice/
Korean firm plans JV expressway to Sihanoukville
Cambodia’s Global CAM Project Development Plc on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Korea’s Green Eco Energy Co. Ltd. to build a high-speed expressway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, executives from the two firms said. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18056/korean-firm-plans-jv-expressway-to-sihanoukville/
Safety standards for high buildings questioned
While skyscrapers are ceaselessly filling up Phnom Penh’s skyline, many construction and property experts, as well as ordinary citizens, are questioning whether the government’s measures to ensure safety in high buildings within the capital go far enough. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-turmoil-eu-calls-for-review-of-aid-to-cambodia-113900/
Warning issued after Ponzi scheme busted
The Ministry of Interior and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) issued a joint release yesterday announcing that investigations of Empire Big Capital Ltd (EBC) and related firms AIF and ICA showed the companies had engaged in investment fraud. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/warning-issued-after-ponzi-scheme-busted
Over 83 pct of Cambodia's urban dwellers have access to clean water: minister
More than 83 percent of Cambodia’s urban residents have currently access to clean water, up from only 60.5 percent in 2012, Minister of Industry and Handicraft Cham Prasidh said on Thursday. ...
Shanghai Daily Team
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=331482
Ministry tells Banlung governor to undo market swap
The government yesterday ordered the governor of Banlung town in Ratanakkiri province to return the concession granting control of Banlung market back to its original holder after he tried to switch managers without the government’s permission. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-tells-banlung-governor-undo-market-swap
PM touts exemption for land bequests
The government has announced its intention to scrap a 4 per cent fee levied on the transfer of property when the transfer is being made as an inheritance. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-touts-exemption-land-bequests
Ministry says arsenic levels in rice 'no problem'
The Ministry of Agriculture has played down the results of a study that found high levels of arsenic in some samples of locally grown rice. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-says-arsenic-levels-rice-no-problem
NBC reveals interbank fund payment service
The National Bank of Cambodia will launch a new payment system to increase inter bank activity in a move to shore up confidence in the Kingdom’s rapidly expanding banking sector, it said in a press release yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-reveals-interbank-fund-payment-service
Timber exports to VN way up
Legal timber exports to Vietnam – the bulk of them rosewood – soared between 2013 and 2015, with the volume of logs exported increasing by a factor of 142 and seven times as much sawn wood passing across the border, according to a report by ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-exports-vn-way
Scientists using DNA to track Mekong’s ‘monsters’
Environmental DNA collection could be a “silver bullet” for tracking and protecting critically endangered fish in the Mekong, according to a new report. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/scientists-using-dna-track-mekongs-monsters
Drink a beer to save the planet
As a way to possibly boost funding for environmental protection in the Kingdom, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday floated the idea of an extra tax on cigarettes and alcohol. Speaking at a forum on the protection and conservation of natural resources in Phnom Penh, the prime ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28792/drink-a-beer-to-save-the-planet/
NGO files suit over ‘seizures’ in Phnom Oral
A Kampong Speu-based NGO has accused a police officer and several rangers working for the provincial Environment Department of seizing more than 100 hectares of Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, demanding a court order to restore the land and hold the parties to account. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-files-suit-over-seizures-phnom-oral
Gov’t pledges to step up land titling pace
The government yesterday vowed to finish distributing all land titles currently under consideration by 2020.In a speech, Im Chhun Lim, the minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, said the government was committed to improving land security in Cambodia in its bid to address ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-pledges-step-land-titling-pace
NGO accuses pair of trying to sell state land
A local conservation NGO has accused two people, one of them a soldier, of buying up and attempting to sell a parcel of state land near the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Speu province. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-accuses-pair-trying-sell-state-land
Resin brings income for rural people
A project funded by USAID’s Supporting Forest and Biodiversity initiative is helping local communities relying on forests as their means to earn a living by tapping into an alternate source of income. ...
Safiya charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29560/resin-brings-income-for-rural-people/
One province, one SME zone
Next year will be breakout year for Cambodia’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs), with specific zones being organized in each province to promote productivity, quality and regional competitiveness, the president of the SME federation said yesterday. Te Taing Por, president of the Federation of Associations ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30599/one-province--one-sme-zone/