Announcement on the 324.000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine that will arrive in Cambodia on the evening of 02 March 2021
On 28 February 2021, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the 324.000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine that will arrive in Cambodia on the evening of 02 March 2021. the arriving doses above are the first consignment provided to Cambodia by the COVAX Facility. ...
Ministry of Health
Press release: The Kingdom of Cambodia is among the first countries to receive COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca from COVAX
On 03 March 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release stating that the Kingdom of Cambodia is among the first countries to receive COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca from COVAX. the 324,000 doses of vaccine, which arrived on 02 March 2021 is the first total ...
Ministry of Health
‘Thousands of tonnes’ of weapons imported: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen bragged yesterday about importing “thousands or tens of thousands” of tonnes of weaponry overnight in the run-up to a major joint military exercise with China. “Samdech Tea Banh, the minister of defence, he does not transport flowers,” the premier said to an ...
Ben Sokhean and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thousands-tonnes-weapons-imported-pm
Familiar feel to shuffle
Ten of the Kingdom’s 24 ministerial positions are set to be reshuffled at the launch of the new government, according to an internal party memo obtained yesterday. Among those tapped for a cabinet position is Say Sam El – the 34-year-old son of Senate deputy president ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/familiar-feel-shuffle
Government scrubs database that exposed Hun family riches
The Commerce Ministry has scrubbed its website of all corporate shareholder information since last month’s release of a report damned by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s children for shedding light on The first family’s sprawling business empire. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-scrubs-database-exposed-hun-family-riches-116772/
Illegal logging ‘rampant’ in sanctuary
Provincial military police confiscated three tractors transporting three metres of luxury wood and two circular saws travelling out of Kampong Speu’s protected Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary yesterday. Chea Hean, director of Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organisation (NRWPO), arrived to investigate illegal logging in the sanctuary ...
Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-logging-%E2%80%98rampant%E2%80%99-sanctuary
Ministry scolds park rangers
The Environment Ministry on Tuesday issued two directives reminding park rangers to properly manage Their small arms and refrain from donning unsanctioned uniforms. According to The first directive, rangers must follow 10 points on how to properly store Their weapons, meet safety standards and when to ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642429/ministry-scolds-park-rangers/
Three new natural protected areas established to be under the management and conservation of Ministry of Environment
On 13 September 2016, the Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to establish three new Natural Protected Areas with a total land area of 27 941.06 hectares to be under the management and conservation of Ministry of Environment. Those three Natural Protected Areas include of ...
Ministry of Environment
Notification on the inscription of "Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site" on the World Heritage List
On 09 July 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts issued a statement to inform Cambodian people that on 08 July 2017, during the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee in Krakow, Poland, “Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site” was inscribed on UNESCO’s World ...
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
Observers call for the inclusion of civil servants in union law
Experts yesterday urged the Ministry of Labor to extend the latest draft of a forthcoming trade union law to include civil servants, who are currently shut out of the law in contravention of international conventions Rong Chhun, president of both the Cambodian Confederation of Unions and ...
GDT now allows you to pay the tax man online
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) announced yesterday that it has officially launched an e-payment platform that allows individual and corporate taxpayers to pay Their obligations online and directly through bank accounts, a move that businesses in The Kingdom hope will trim waiting periods. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-now-allows-you-pay-tax-man-online
Petrol prices should reflect drop in import costs: gov’t
Local petroleum retailers responded to a government deadline yesterday by agreeing to adopt a flexible pricing mechanism to reflect fluctuations in global oil prices, but there will not be any immediate price reductions, according to a Commerce Ministry spokesperson. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/petrol-prices-should-reflect-drop-import-costs-govt
Cambodia-Vietnam trade up 30 percent in 2017
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam last year increased nearly 30 percent to about $3.8 billion according to Vietnamese state-run media, while Cambodia has yet to report trade statistics for most of 2017. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-vietnam-trade-30-percent-2017
More jailed mothers set to be freed
Another 37 female prisoners who are pregnant or have children will receive royal pardons during next week’s Khmer New Year holiday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-jailed-mothers-set-be-freed
Publisher tells court his posts sought attention and ‘Likes’, not chaos
A news publisher who was imprisoned over criticisms of Prime Minister Hun Sen in several social media posts pleaded guilty at his trial on Tuesday but said he was just trying to arouse interest and more “likes.” ...
Ouch Sony
https://vodenglish.news/publisher-tells-court-his-posts-sought-attention-and-likes-not-chaos/
A year after law, acid easily available on streets
“What law? No one has ever come to speak to me about that,” said 33-year-old Lim Vannak, scanning the large plastic buckets of corrosive acids she had lined up on the pavement of Phnom Penh’s Street 144 on a recent morning. Acid in the wrong hands ...
Sek Odom and Alice Cuddy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/a-year-after-law-acid-easily-available-on-streets-51663/
Over 20 VOD ex-employees have applied for government jobs ahead of Feb 28th deadline
More than 20 former employees of shuttered radio station VOD – closed by order of the Prime Minister last week – have now applied for government jobs in ministries and institutions. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501243355/over-20-vod-ex-employees-have-applied-for-government-jobs/
On world rabies day, a call for cooperation
Government officials and public health workers met with about 100 students at the Ministry of Health’s school of nursing in Phnom Penh on Monday to mark World Rabies Day, calling for a united effort to eradicate a virus that kills hundreds of Cambodians each year. ...
Meghan Tribe
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-world-rabies-day-a-call-for-cooperation-95814/
Freeze on transfer of civil servants between ministries
The Ministry of Civil Service has issued a circular putting a freeze on transfer of civil servants from one institution to anoTher to maintain workflow and stability. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501370103/freeze-on-transfer-of-civil-servants-between-ministries/
Cambodia at UN To Defend Rights Record
Cambodia’s opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, is currently in Geneva, where the UN Human Rights Committee is reviewing the country’s rights record. Cambodian government officials are defending their rights record for the second time in four years at the Universal Periodic Review. Sam Rainsy, who heads the Cambodia ...
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-at-un-to-defend-rights-record/1839449.html