Sokha: CNRP will win elections
Kem Sokha has claimed official and unofficial opinion polls show the opposition CNRP is on track to win a majority at the commune elections in June.Addressing supporters at a fundraising drive in Auckland, New Zealand last week, the opposition leader said his party was making ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37388/sokha--cnrp-will-win-elections/
Bank ordered to replace its logo
ACLEDA Bank, Cambodia’s largest bank in terms of assets, will have to shell out millions in the next three weeks to comply with a Council of Ministers decision last Friday that the private financial institution must redesign and replace its logo on all company materials ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bank-ordered-replace-its-logo
Don’t intimidate, law enforcement warned
The Interior Ministry and the National Election Committee have banned all forms of law enforcement from using their power to intimidate or threaten voters during the commune election campaign period.In a joint announcement, the NEC and the ministry said that it was crucial for the ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38748/don---t-intimidate--law-enforcement-warned/
PM approves headscarves in the workplace
Employers must allow all Muslim women to wear headscarves and traditional clothing to work, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Addressing workers in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, Mr Hun Sen said he met Muslim women on a recent visit to Kampong Cham, who told him they ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083772/pm-approves-headscarves-workplace/
Ministry says economic growth has benefitted people equitably
The strong economic growth Cambodia has experienced in the last few decades has benefitted everyone and created opportunities for all, a high-ranking government official said yesterday. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50665228/ministry-says-economic-growth-has-benefitted-people-equitably/
Strikes break out in wake of wage policy
Two strikes have broken out at large processing companies in the past week as employers respond to the government’s minimum wage policy with what workers say are cutbacks in conditions. Almost all the 800 Cambodian workers who staged industrial action at a seafood company in Songkhla ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/288647/strikes-break-out-in-wake-of-wage-policy
Cambodia, Among Others, Feeding China's Demand for Timber
The growing market for timber in China is leading to widespread logging around the world, including in Cambodia, according to a report released yesterday. The report from London-based NGO the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) – entitled Appetite for Destruction: China’s trade in illegal timber – outlines ...
Temasek unit opens bank in first Cambodian investment
A unit of Temasek Holdings Private Ltd has opened a new bank in Cambodia with local partners in the first investment by the Singapore state investor in the country, the Straits Times reported on Friday. The bank has 11 branches in seven provinces, with five ...
Eveline Danubrata and Sunil Nair
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/singapore-press-idUSL4N0HN05120130927
Kuoy villagers say patrols put logging on pause
For three days last week, the Preah Roka forest in Preah Vihear province was silent, the usual cacophony of chainsaws notably absent. The buzz of trucks arriving empty and later leaving heavily loaded with timber had been replaced by ethnic Kuoy villagers, about 300 in all, ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kuoy-villagers-say-patrols-put-logging-pause
Poll results predictable: observers
Upcoming elections for district, city and provincial councillors will follow a period of “education”, the National Election Committee has announced, despite observers’ view that the results are all but preordained. And though the May 18 vote is only open to sitting commune councillors, NEC secretary-general Tep ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poll-results-predictable-observers
Gov’t unlikely to meet target to reduce road deaths
Without more efforts to punish traffic violators, the government is all but certain to miss its 2020 goal of cutting traffic deaths by 20 percent and drunk driving deaths by 50 percent, road safety experts said at a forum Tuesday. There were 1,910 deaths due to ...
Simon Henderson and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-unlikely-to-meet-target-to-reduce-road-deaths-56156/
Phnom Penh seeks to create new center for homeless, beggars
Phnom Penh’s department of social affairs has asked City Hall to use a building in Pur Senchey district as a new, citywide detention facility for homeless people and beggars, including children, officials said Tuesday. The center would temporarily house all beggars and homeless people in an ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-seeks-to-create-new-center-for-homeless-beggars-56142/
Med students won’t boycott test
Medical students who vowed on Sunday to boycott the first government-ordered national exams under claims of discrimination backtracked on their threats yesterday. Da Nhel, 27, a representative of the student doctors, said that just hours after threatening to boycott the exams, which were approved by the ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/med-students-won%E2%80%99t-boycott-test
Credit up 30 per cent in 2014
Both deposits and loans in Cambodia’s banking sector increased about 30 per cent last year, a rise that industry insiders say is a productivity boost for the Kingdom’s economy. By the end of December, deposits at all Cambodian banks reached $10 billion, a 32 per cent ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/credit-30-cent-2014
New gas safety rules
As part of a new safety initiative, the Ministry of Mines and Energy will require all petrol station owners to present a certificate acknowledging that their businesses follow risk-prevention protocols. The directive came in response to a series of petrol fires and explosions that damaged property ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-gas-safety-rules
Government talks tough on counterfeit drugs
The government says that it is increasing its efforts to clamp down against counterfeit drugs in Cambodia.Speaking at a Pharmaceutical and Medical Expo yesterday in Phnom Penh, Nov Phalla, deputy director at the Department of Drugs and Food at the Ministry of Health said the ...
Sok Chan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/government-talks-tough-counterfeit-drugs
Online crackdown continues
Prime Minister Hun Sen has vowed to clamp down on all online and arcade gambling operations in a move to safeguard national security and curb money laundering in the Kingdom. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50672721/continue-to-crack-down-on-online-and-arcade-gambling-pm
Cambodia collects $2.95 billion as fiscal revenue in first half of 2020
The Royal Government of Cambodia collected $2,956 billion as revenue from all sources of taxes, a slight decrease of 0.7 percent compared to the same period last year. ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50746069/cambodia-collects-2-95-billion-as-fiscal-revenue-in-first-half-of-2020/
Tax inspections on vehicles to begin in early February
Tax officials in collaboration with sub-national authorities will begin tax inspections on all means of transportation and vehicles for 2020 throughout the country by early next month. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tax-inspections-vehicles-begin-early-february
Health Ministry issues safety guidelines for New Year
The Ministry of Health has urged the people to take all preventive measures against Covid-19 and follow safety protocols as the nation prepares to celebrate the Khmer New Year this month. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501051495/health-ministry-issues-safety-guidelines-for-new-year/