With new book, quest to recover stolen Battambang statues begins
The Ministry of Culture released a book on Monday of about 68 Khmer sculptures that were stolen from museums in Battambang City during decades of war and conflict, and intends to use The publication in a global search to recover The artifacts. ...
Michelle Vachon
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-new-book-quest-to-recover-stolen-bbang-statues-begins-113643/
Ministry eyes Boeung Kak sentence
The Ministry of Justice has called on The Phnom Penh Municipal Court to re-examine wheTher The decision to sentence 13 Boeung Kak women to two and a half years in jail was just, according to a letter obtained by The Post yesterday. The letter was ...
Officials say Cambodia's price rises manageable
Cambodia’s inflation rose by 5.49 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of the year, due to increases in food and fuel prices, according to the monthly data from the National Institute of Statistics compiled by the Post. However, economists and government officials said they were ...
China provides agricultural engines to Cambodia for post-flood rehabilitation
China’s Yunnan province on Monday provided 200 agricultural engines to Cambodia’s northwestern Banteay Meanchey province for post-flood rehabilitation. A handover ceremony was held here between Yu Dingcheng, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People ‘s Congress, and Oung Oeun, chief of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-12/02/c_132935559.htm
Flood death toll rises to 13 in Cambodia
Flash floods have killed at least 13 people and affected about 3,000 families in Cambodia since early this month, a disaster control spokesman said Wednesday. Four provinces being hit by floods are Banteay Meanchey, Preah Vihear, Kampong Thom, and Kratie, Keo Vy, chief of the Cabinet ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/806961.shtml#.Uh6rPdKBmN8
World Bank To Review Environmental Complaints Against Company
The World Bank says it will investigate reports from indigenous groups in Cambodia that a company funded by The bank’s International Finance Corporation is involved in deforestation and land grabs. The bank’s Office Of The Compliance Adviser Ombudsman, or CAO, will first examine The credibility Of ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/world-bank-to-review-environmental-complaints-against-company/1853122.html
Baby of slain Dutch woman dies in hospital
Dana Beerdsen, a 19-month-old Dutch girl who was critically injured last month in an attack in which her mother was stabbed to death in their Phnom Penh home, died in a Bangkok hospital on Wednesday night, according to police. Lieutenant Colonel Mom Sitha, municipal foreign police ...
Lauren Crothers and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/baby-of-slain-dutch-woman-dies-in-hospital-58413/
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
SDG 1 No poverty
Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1) seeks to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere”, ensuring extreme poverty is eradicated and overall poverty is reduced by 50%.This goal provides a much more comprehensive approach than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the issue of poverty. ...
Kampong Cham imposes private tutor ban for state teachers
The Kampong Cham provincial Department of Education, Youth and Sports has prohibited teachers from tutoring extra classes outside regular state hours. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-cham-imposes-private-tutor-ban-state-teachers
Blood on the border
Sixty-nine Cambodians were shot dead by Thai soldiers while crossing the border illegally last year, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Tuesday at the launch of its annual report. “Cambodians were shot dead by Thai soldiers in 55 [incidents] last year in which ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/blood-border
Be cautious when hiring new officials, says Hun Sen
Former Prime Minister Hun Sen said that he supports reforms in ministries and other institutions but prefers retention of senior officials who worked hard and served the country and people in the past. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501352070/be-cautious-when-hiring-new-officials-says-hun-sen/
Family’s world shrinks daily
Dozens of trucks, bulldozers and excavators have pushed Var Sokhoeurn to the edge of his remaining land at the Lower Sesan II dam site in Stung Treng province’s Srepok district. When Post reporters visited Sokhoeurn’s family last month, much of his land, where he grew cassava and other ...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/family%E2%80%99s-world-shrinks-daily
Merit in rice trade plan
The cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal allowing The Commerce Ministry to form a rice trade partnership with Asean’s four oTher rice-producing countries, namely Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, to stabilise rice prices in The global market and to promote food security in The region. The ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/321297/rice-trade-area-plan-has-merit
WB: Cambodia among the fastest electrifying
Cambodia is currently among the fastest electrifying countries in the world, with coverage reaching 89.1 per cent as of the end of 2017, a newly published World Bank report says. the Kingdom has made significant progress in providing access to electricity, becoming one of four ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wb-cambodia-among-fastest-electrifying
Statement of the Labour Advisory Committee
On 26 September 2014 at 3:00 p.m. the Labor Advisory Committee conducted 10th meeting of the 8th mandate at the office of Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training in order to discuss the minimum wage in 2014 for laborers in garment and textile sector and ...
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
Cambodia denies PDRC protest link
Cambodian Defence Minister Tea Banh has categorically denied a report that Cambodian troops have been sent into Thailand to stir trouble in areas where the People’s Democratic Reform Committee is staging anti-government protests. Defence spokesman Col Paphathip Sawangsaeng said Gen Tea Banh made the denial to ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/394440/cambodia-denies-its-troops-stirred-trouble-at-pdrc-protests
China's Huaneng takes majority stake in Se San River II hydro project, Cambodia
China Huaneng Group has successfully completed the acquisition of a majority 51% stake in Cambodia Se San River II Hydropower Co., Ltd. the acquisition was completed last month in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. ...
Water Power and Dam Construction News Staff
http://www.waterpowermagazine.com/news/newschinas-huaneng-takes-majority-stake-in-se-san-river-ii-hydro-project-cambodia-4183165
‘The devil is in the details’ – Tax versus incentives in new investment law
The new Law on Investment is expected to come into force next year, 10 years after The government embarked on a plan to repeal The existing statute, which was enacted in 1994, and amended in 2003. ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/special-reports/devil-details-tax-versus-incentives-new-investment-law
Press release on the functions of health nutrition products
On 01 March 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release stated that health nutrition products have a function to only support the body and improve strength, but do not have effective in preventing or treating diseases such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure. ...
Ministry of Health