Ministry cements MoU with eleven social work NGOs
The Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with 11 organisations involving $12.7 million in funding to improve the social affairs, social welfare, child welfare, anti-trafficking and disability work in Cambodia. Ministry spokesman Touch Channy said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-cements-mou-eleven-social-work-ngos
New form to keep track of foreigners in Kingdom
An electronic application form has been launched this year by the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Immigration, which aims to record data about foreigners living in and visiting Cambodia. However, the new measure has raised some concerns among some foreign residents. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sun Mesa
http://khmertimeskh.com/50699629/new-form-to-keep-track-of-foreigners-in-kingdom
Bikes, timber pieces seized in Mondulkiri, Ratanakkiri
Three purpose-fitted motorbikes used to carry processed wood and 12 illegal timber pieces of koki and sokrom luxury wood were seized by the Royal Gendarmerie in O’Yadav district, in Ratanakkiri province, and police in Mondulkiri’s Keo seima district, for further legal action, said the provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bikes-timber-pieces-seized-mondulkiri-ratanakkiri
New power supply will miss dry seaon because of virus
The combined 400 mega Watt (mW) supply of power plants proposed to run on heavy fuel oil in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district will not generate power as planned in the first part of this year because construction has been suspended by COVID-19. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50705761/new-power-supply-will-miss-dry-seaon-because-of-virus/
Cambodians shun banks: World Bank report
Cambodian people used banks less than any other country in the Asia-Pacific region last year in percentage terms of using financial services, recent data from the World Bank showed. The report, released this month, also pointed to high growth in the percentage of borrowers, which insiders ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056467/Business/cambodians-shun-banks.html
Labour firm staff sentenced
The director and employees of a maid recruitment agency were handed sentences of up to five years by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday and ordered to pay compensation for illegally detaining an under-aged girl. Presiding judge Duch Kimsorn said Century Manpower’s director Oung sakirin, chief of administration ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050155893/National-news/labour-firm-staff-sentenced.html
Cambodia calls for help in drug battle
At a Wednesday meeting of the signatories to the Mekong Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control, National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) secretary-general Meas Virith requested participating countries and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to seek a solution for the region’s burgeoning ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-calls-help-drug-battle
NGOs give support to summonsed worker
Charges against outspoken Adhoc head of monitoring Chan soveth are baseless, politically motivated and threaten to undermine human rights work in Cambodia, a coalition of NGOs said yesterday. soveth, who has been summonsed to court on August 24 over the vague charge of assisting “specific perpetrators”, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nearly $70 million investment projects licensed, to create 5,000 jobs
Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to five new investment projects with a total investment capital of $65.6 million. According to the council’s press releases issued recently, the new projects approved are expected to create nearly 5,000 jobs for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phal Sophanith/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50732891/nearly-70-million-investment-projects-licensed-to-create-5000-jobs/
PM forecasts economic contraction of 1.9 percent this year
Prime Minister Hun sen recently predicted that the country’s economy may contract 1.9 percent this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a circular on budget planning for 2021-2023, he said Cambodia has recorded a strong fall in demand from its trading partners. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50733913/pm-forecasts-economic-contraction-of-1-9-percent-this-year/
Record dogs new ACRA chief
The owner of a labor firm repeatedly accused of human trafficking, who is also the sister of one of the country’s top police officials, has been appointed head of the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies (ACRA). Grave concerns have been expressed by rights groups over the appointment of Ung seang ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102459382/National-news/record-dogs-new-acra-chief.html
USAID provides additional grant to stimulate conservation action
The United StateS Agency for International Development yeSterday announced the proviSion of an additional grant worth $100,000 to SanSom Mlup Prey OrganiSation, through the Greening Prey Lang Project. The grant SeekS to Stimulate conServation effortS which include the promotion of wildlife-friendly farming in communitieS living SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50732091/usaid-provides-additional-grant-to-stimulate-conservation-action/
Minister urges China telecoms to build digital infrastructure
Newly appointed Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth urged two Chinese telecom giants – China Communication Construction Co Ltd (CCCC) and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd – to further invest in the Kingdom’s telecommunications infrastructure in a move to bring Cambodia into the full realm ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-urges-china-telecoms-build-digital-infrastructure
Traffic fine increase gets green light
Nearly a year after being signed into law, Cambodia’s new traffic code is just weeks from finally being enforced.National Police chief Neth savoeun yesterday said that drivers have had plenty of notice, and the time for implementation has come. As of January 1, fines for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-fine-increase-gets-green-light
UN officials blocked from visiting villages near dam
Since Sunday, Military Police and provincial police officialS have been&nbSp;Stopping outSiderS from entering&nbSp;SeSan diStrict&rSquo;S Srekor and Kbal Romea villageS aS 200 people &ndaSh; moStly ethnic minoritieS from all over Cambodia &ndaSh; continued to gather in defiance of the blockade for a SerieS of eventS, including SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-officials-blocked-visiting-villages-near-dam
Future bourse potential touted
The lacklustre performance of Cambodia’s stock exchange, which has attracted only four companies since it launched in 2011 and whose stocks see days without a single trade, is expected to turn a corner soon, capital markets experts said during a panel discussion yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/future-bourse-potential-touted
Peacekeeper killed in Central African Republic
Cambodians at home and abroad yesterday mourned the passing of peacekeeper Im sam, who was shot to death during a guerrilla ambush in Central African Republic. He was the Kingdom’s first peacekeeper to ever be killed in combat, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/peacekeeper-killed-central-african-republic
PM pushes voter registration amid claims of inaction
The National Election Committee (NEC) and all political parties should urge citizens – including those overseas – to register to vote, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday, even as a prominent opposition lawmaker accused the government of offering “nothing” to enfranchise Cambodia’s thousands of migrant workers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara, Bun Sengkong and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pushes-voter-registration-amid-claims-inaction
Few takers for emergency rice loans
With the Kingdom’s main rice harvesting season wrapping up, just a fraction of a government emergency loan package that aimed at giving millers the liquidity they needed to purchase rice paddy duringthe harvest cycle has been disbursed, leaving the government and private sector divided on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/few-takers-emergency-rice-loans
Planning ministry hands out cash to 420,000 poor families in Kingdom
The Ministry of Planning has identified 20,000 more poor families in the country, bringing the total to over 580,000, while over 420,000 of them have received the government’s cash assistance. In the meantime, many social security cards from families not deemed to be poor have ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/planning-ministry-hands-out-cash-420000-poor-families-kingdom