Six illegal logging tractors seized
Svay Leu diStrict foreStry adminiStration office in Siem Reap province haS given a month&rSquo;S notice to the ownerS of homemade tractorS impounded laSt week for tranSporting illegal timber. AuthoritieS warned that if no action waS taken the adminiStration would take the caSe to court. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-illegal-logging-tractors-seized
Draft law proposes tougher enforcement of COVID-19 rules
As Cambodia is dealing with the third wave of COVID-19 community infection, which can be traced back to people’s stubbornness and lack of willingness to cooperate by escaping quarantine, the government is pushing for institutionalisation of the COVID-19 rules. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50819455/draft-law-proposes-tougher-enforcement-of-covid-19-rules/
Gov’t mulls Angkor entry for vaccinated foreign tourists in Q4
International tourists with proof of Covid-19 vaccination in the fourth quarter (Q4) of this year could be allowed into siem Reap province’s Angkor Archaeological Park even within 14 days of arrival to Cambodia, amid tentative government plans to ease its quarantine policy, according to Minister ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-mulls-angkor-entry-vaccinated-foreign-tourists-q4
NIPTICT signs MoU with Bosch to launch Digital Makerspace
The National Institute of Post, Telecommunications and Information Communications Technology (NIPTICT) and Bosch (Cambodia), a local subsidiary of the Bosch Group, Germany’s leading electronics and engineering company, signed a memorandum of understanding this week to develop a Digital Makerspace at the institution. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807537/niptict-signs-mou-with-bosch-to-launch-digital-makerspace/
ABC: No shortage in capital for lending
CAMBODIA’s financial sector will not face a shortage of cash to lend to local enterprises and accelerate business anytime soon, according to Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) president In Channy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/abc-no-shortage-capital-lending
Cambodia generates over $30 million from milled rice exports in January
Cambodia’s gross revenue from rice exports in the first month of this year declined by 32.07 percent compared to the same period in 2019. Figures from the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) show that the Kingdom earned in total Us$30.76 million from milled rice exports. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phal Sophanith/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809992/cambodia-generates-over-30-million-from-milled-rice-exports-in-january/
Gov’t expands public services
The government’s project to support phase II of the Implementation of the social Accountability Framework (IsAF) for a period of five years was launched on February 18 with officials saying that there were many areas in need of reforms at the sub-national level even though ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-expands-public-services
Pricing talks on wind energy project underway
State-run Electricité du Cambodge (EDC) and Singapore-baSed The Blue Circle are in preliminary talkS on the price of wind generated power, aS Senior officialS place high hopeS for having the renewable energy factor into the nation&rSquo;S energy mix Soon. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50832275/pricing-talks-on-wind-energy-project-underway/
Over 50 homes ready for veterans in Pursat
The Pursat Provincial Administration said 58 of 164 houses for Cambodian veterans have been built on social land concessions in Prangil commune’s say village in Phnom Kravanh district. The homes are ready for veterans and their families to move in. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-50-homes-ready-veterans-pursat
Trapped Pompadour green pigeons set free
Over 100 Pompadour green pigeons have been seized from wildlife traffickers and released back into the wild by Keo seima Wildlife sanctuary rangers and the Wildlife Conservation society (WCs Cambodia) after they were poached in the sanctuary in sre Chhouk commune in Mondulkiri province’s Keo ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trapped-pompadour-green-pigeons-set-free
Kingdom lifts ban on frozen items shipped in from India
Cambodia has lifted a ban on the import of frozen meats and other frozen items classified as “high-risk” originating from India, amid recent improvements in the south Asian country’s epidemiological situation and as all samples of frozen meat imports have tested negative for the novel ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-lifts-ban-frozen-items-shipped-india
Gov’t gives financial aid to lockdown-affected workers
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has provided financial assistance to 59,012 workers from 175 factories in the garment, footwear and bag industry located in lockdown areas in Phnom Penh, Kandal province’s Takhmao town and sihanoukville (Phase 2, 3 and 4). ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-gives-financial-aid-lockdown-affected-workers
MENA market peppered with potential: CPSF
The Cambodian Pepper and SpiceS Federation (CPSF) haS been connecting with 25 local exporterS to explore and foSter new avenueS to delve into the Middle EaStern and North African (MENA) marketS, a whole world of diverSe cuiSineS that are rich in SpiceS and rely heavily SS='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mena-market-peppered-potential-cpsf
GDP reports 73 per cent of inmates now vaccinated
The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP) has vaccinated over 73 per cent of the 37,000 inmates throughout the country as of August 5 and is continuing to vaccinate prisoners in seven remaining provinces with the Us-donated Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 jabs. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gdp-reports-73-cent-inmates-now-vaccinated
Ethics committee refutes statement by Reporters Without Borders
Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) secretary-general Puy Kea, who is also the speaker of the Information Ministry’s Monitoring Committee for Journalism Ethics told Khmer Times yesterday that the creation of the committee is not to put pressure on print or social media, as Reporters Without Borders ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phnom Chambap visit-ban violators to be fined $250
Despite a ban on visiting Phnom Chambap mountain in Takeo province’s Bati district due to the danger of contaminated water and to prevent the spread of Covid-19, people still stubbornly visit the place, and the authorities have started issuing fines of $250 per person. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918845/phnom-chambap-visit-ban-violators-to-be-fined-250/
Ministry onboards Cambodia Post to e-marketplace
The Ministry of Commerce plans to integrate state-owned Cambodia Post’s transportation system into CambodiaTrade.com, looking to make the distribution and delivery process easier, faster and safer for small- and medium-sized enterprises (sME) and consumers that buy merchandise on the e-marketplace. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-onboards-cambodia-post-e-marketplace
Central bank sells $130M over five September forex auctions
The National Bank of Cambodia held five currency auctions from september 2-21 and sold $130 million on the foreign exchange (forex) market, meant to stabilise the riel’s fluctuations against the greenback, shore up economic activity during the ongoing health crisis and power a faster economic ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-sells-130m-over-five-september-forex-auctions
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand strategy for post pandemic era refined
With the Covid-19 pandemic expected to leave long-term impacts on global investment patterns and consumer behaviour, the CLMVT countries are counting on closer economic cooperation within southeast Asia to help them benefit from each other’s strengths. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50926312/cambodia-laos-myanmar-vietnam-and-thailand-strategy-for-post-pandemic-era-refined/
CCHR to launch its human rights education platform: free of expression
On July 11 2021, Cambodian Center for Human Rights issued a media alert on launching its Human Rights Education Platform: Freedom of Expression, with three online modules related to freedom of expression in order to build the public’s knowledge on the right to freedom of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights