The Environment Ministry strengthens cooperation with all stakeholders to improve Cambodia’s environmental quality
The successful implementation of the Ministry of Environment’s Circular Strategy on Environment is indispensable. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501514610/the-environment-ministry-strengthens-cooperation-with-all-stakeholders-to-improve-cambodias-environmental-quality/
Number of associations, NGOs grows, while many inactive
The General Department of Administration of the Ministry of Interior held a review meeting to discuss the registration of associations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on Monday. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501540948/number-of-associations-ngos-grows-while-many-inactive/
New Borei Keila offer rejected
Borei Keila residents have continued to reject compensation in exchange for leaving their land, claiming the latest offer was inadequate. Two of the remaining 11 families met with the 7 Makara district governor in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss compensation. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102236/new-borei-keila-offer-rejected/
More moves announced for cabinet reshuffle
Another four government officials will be promoted to senior secretarial positions in three ministries as part of the upcoming cabinet reshuffle, which Prime Minister Hun Sen claims will increase government efficiency, according to a letter to the president of the National Assembly last Friday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23299/more-moves-announced-for-cabinet-reshuffle/
Maybank offers share trading platform
Maybank Cambodia recently purchased an online stock and share trading platform to allow its premier wealth customers access regional and global markets. Cythia Liaw, Maybank Cambodia CEO, said Friday that the trading platform – KE Trade – was developed by Singapore-based Maybank Kim Eng, the fully ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31414/maybank-offers-share-trading-platform/
Photo tourism turns profits
Nathan Horton’s business model is straightforward. A professional photographer, Horton helps amateur photographers take pictures abroad. Photo tourism is an increasingly lucrative trade in Cambodia. Horton, who runs half-day jaunts in Phnom Penh and longer journeys into the provinces, is one of the practitioners capitalising on ...
Laura Ma
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/photo-tourism-turns-profits
Environment Minister Denies Hardship at Tourism Project
The Minister of Environment has countered a rights worker’s claim that villagers relocated to make way for a Chinese-backed mega-tourism project in Koh Kong province lack proper access to medical care. About 1,100 families have been forcibly evicted from their coastal villages in Botum Sakor National ...
Success story of data literacy training program: ROEUN Narith
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Many of the data transparency training participants have been using data in one way or another in their day-to-day work. They sign-up for the program to improve their ability to use data as a means of storytelling to a new level. Roeun Narith is the ...
Preah Vihear villagers reject offer
The provincial government in Preah Vihear is pushing ahead with a compensation and housing scheme for villagers whose existing homes are in the way of a cultural preservation area near the province’s famous 11th-century temple. But the villagers are reluctant to accept the package, saying the ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-reject-offer
Shelter standards launched
Following reports of abuse and poor conditions at the Kingdom’s shelters, the government yesterday launched official recommendations that seek to ensure better care is offered to victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation. ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/shelter-standards-launched
43 awarded tax agent licenses
As part of ongoing government efforts to modernize and streamline the country’s tax system, 43 tax agent licenses were awarded yesterday. The 43 companies are now legally recognized as offering tax declaration services to the public and private sectors. Eighteen had previously been doing this work ...
Chea vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31518/43-awarded-tax-agent-licenses/
Vehicle registration laws issued
The government on Monday issued a sub-decree on the registration for vehicle identification cards and number plates at the request of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. Article 22 of Chapter Three in the sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen gives the right ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vehicle-registration-laws-issued
Boeung Trabek residents resist offers
Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeung Trabek area yesterday balked at the options to either pay the government for land certificates or sell their land to the municipality during a forum attended by local authorities, area inhabitants and housing rights officials. City officials earlier this year said ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-trabek-residents-resist-offers
Cambodian garment manufacturers, trade unionists talk over pay rise with no agreement
Cambodia’s garment manufacturers and trade unionists on Monday began a negotiation on pay rise for garment workers in 2014 but reached no any agreement because the union representatives demanded to double the current wage. The talk was made between the employers represented by Nang Sothy, co-chair ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/16/c_132972280.htm
Petitioners set for Round 2 of showdown with City Hall
Protesters were due to march on four foreign embassies this morning to deliver petitions calling for the release of the 23 detainees held at the remote Correctional Centre 3 after being arrested during the crackdown earlier this month. The march – to the embassies of Germany, ...
Mom Kunthear and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/petitioners-set-round-2-showdown-city-hall
Vattanac: A Tale of Two City Developments
Vattanac may still be a family business, but a symbol of its big aspirations can be seen emerging from Phnom Penh’s skyline on Monivong Boulevard, where the company is building a 38-story tower that will house its headquarters next year. The tower, which was designed ...
Finance Ministry Accused of Ignoring Education Sector
The Ministry of Education on Tuesday again publicly accused the Ministry of Finance of not injecting enough funds into the education sector in order to bring Cambodia in line with the rest of Southeast Asia. Speaking at the close of a two-day workshop to formulate the ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/finance-ministry-accused-of-ignoring-education%E2%80%88sector-41040/
New airline gets closer to launch
Cambodia Bayon Airlines will soon import two Modern Ark 60 aircrafts from the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), with plans to begin domestic flights before the end of the year, a company representative said yesterday. Bayon will sign an agreement with AVIC on Thursday ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-airline-gets-closer-launch
Deadline for online business registration now extended to July
Uncertainty over business conditions and the impact of the spread of Covid-19 has prompted the Ministry of Commerce to postpone the issuing of fines until July for online business owners who are late to apply for e-commerce permits or licences. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deadline-online-business-registration-now-extended-july