Announcement on the death of COVID-19 on a 62-year-old Cambodian woman
On 23 March 2021, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the death of a 62-year-old Cambodian woman who died from COVID-19 at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. The woman who died had lived in Steung Meanchey commune, Meanchey district, Phnom Penh. ...
Ministry of Health
Announcement on the death of COVID-19 on a 46-year-old Cambodian man
On 19 March 2021, the Ministry of Health released an announcement on the death of a 46-year-old Cambodian man who died from COVID-19 at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. The man who died had lived in Boeung Salang commune, Toul Kork district, Phnom Penh. ...
Ministry of Health
Phay Siphan: Preah Sihanouk will become a second Singapore
Government spokesman Phay Siphan said on Monday that Preah Sihanouk province will become a second Singapore, as authorities were warned that its development, fuelled largely by Chinese investment, was coming at a cost to locals. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phay-siphan-preah-sihanouk-will-become-second-singapore
China donates hardware to support 2019 census
The Chinese government yesterday handed $2.5 million worth of cars, motorbikes and other equipment to the government to facilitate the 2019 census. Chinese Ambassador Xiong Bo presided over the handover at the Interior Ministry. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536929/china-donates-hardware-to-support-2019-census/
PM decides to protect 1 million hectares of forest
Prime Minister Hun Sen has agreed to legally protect nearly 1 million hectares of the Kingdom’s forest land, including the Prey Lang forest. Speaking during the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport’s annual meeting at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Mr. Hun Sen said he ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23482/pm-decides-to-protect-1-million-hectares-of-forest/
Educational reforms unveiled
Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron said reforms to the education curriculum is aimed at raising its standards and quality to compete with countries in the region that exhibited better academic performance. In a lecture to trainee teachers at the National Institute ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/educational-reforms-unveiled
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training notified to Cambodian laborers who have just turned from Thailand
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training notified to Cambodian laborers, who have just turned from Thailand, as well as the public about the available job opportunities at the companies, enterprises, and industrious and service sector which amounted to 16,146 posts. ...
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
Ministers promise quick land dispute resolution
The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday promised to settle land disputes between villagers and sugar companies granted economic land concessions in Kampong Speu, Koh Kong and Preah Vihear provinces. Minister Chea Sophara made the promise after an inter-ministerial meeting at his office ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080803/ministers-promise-quick-land-dispute-resolution/
Provincial top cops on notice following crime wave
Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday took aim at the police chiefs of Battambang, Kandal and Pursat provinces, warning that they should be prepared to lose their titles if they fail to crack down on a recent crime wave.Kheng said the three police chiefs needed to ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/provincial-top-cops-notice-following-crime-wave
Unions press ahead with strike plans despite arrest threats
Union leaders planning a stay-at-home strike to demand a higher minimum wage for the country’s garment workers say they will press on with the strike after the Khmer New Year, despite the threat of arrest for anyone handing out leaflets promoting their plans. On Sunday, a ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-press-ahead-with-strike-plans-despite-arrest-threats-56012/
Press release: Ministry of Health announces the COVID-19 vaccination program
On 08 February 2021, the Ministry of Health announced the vaccination of the COVID-19 vaccine program. The vaccination will officially commence on 10 February 2021 at some public hospitals such as Calematte, Preah Ang Duong Hospital, Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital, and the National Pediatric Hospital. ...
Ministry of Health
Announcement on the death of COVID-19 on two Cambodian men
On 23 April 2021, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the death of COVID-19 on two Cambodian men, a 40-year-old and a 56-year-old died at Svay Rieng Provincial Health Department. These are the 60th and 61st cases of Cambodian men who died from ...
Ministry of Health
China offers cassava hope
Cambodia has marked its first Cassava Day with expectations of greater exports to China, one of the world’s big markets for the tuberous root. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36202/china-offers-cassava-hope/
Cambodia's unions cry foul on fainting figures
Union reps and government officials are offering significantly different – if both substantial – numbers in their year-end tallies of garment workers who fainted on the job in 2012. The Free Trade Union yesterday announced that the number of workers to faint in factories rose to ...
Food safety lab launched
A mobile laboratory that will be able to analyze food samples at markets around the country was launched by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday, at the same time the ministry announced it was seeking Chinese support in building testing facilities at land borders to analyze ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32101/food-safety-lab-launched/
Bird flu kills two siblings in northeastern Cambodia
A seven-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister from Cambodia’s northeastern Kratie Province died from H5N1 human avian influenza on Friday bring the death number of the cases to three so far this year, a health official confirmed Wednesday. H5N1 influenza is a flu that normally ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-02/12/c_133109100.htm
New Year sees tourism boost
Cambodia’s beaches and temples saw an increase in local and foreign tourists during the three-day Lunar New Year celebrations, according to figures released by provincial officials. Siem Reap, home to the world-renowned Angkor Archaeological Park and a major tourist destination, received around 69,200 visitors, an increase ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-year-sees-tourism-boost
RCAF officials forced to pick oknha title or their position
More than two-thirds of senior officials at the General Command Headquarters of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) have decided to relinquish their oknha titles to maintain their roles in the armed forces, an RCAF official said. of 61 senior officials, 45 relinquished their title ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-officials-forced-pick-oknha-title-or-their-position
Out of the woods: Forest crime often goes unpunished
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries saw at least 2,400 cases of forest- and wildlife-related crimes in 2014, of which almost 1,800 were forwarded to the courts, though fewer than 10 people were sentenced in relation to the crimes, ministry figures say. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/out-woods-forest-crime-often-goes-unpunished
Thai banks offer joint loan to provider of microfinance in Cambodia
Three Thai banks – Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), TMB Bank (TMB) and Kiatnakin Bank (KKB) – together with Netherlands-based ING Bank have offered a syndicated loan of US$65 million (Bt2.2 billion) to PRASAC Microfinance Institution, the biggest microfinance provider in Cambodia. ...
Sucheera Pinijparakarn
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Thai-banks-offer-joint-loan-to-provider-of-microfi-30263464.html