Ministries and other national bodies

Ministry of Industry and Handicraft

Japan helps with Kampot’s water supply

A groundbreaking ceremony for a Kampot water treatment plant was held yesterday in the presence of Japan’s Ambassador to Cambodia Yuji Kumamaru as well as Cham Prasidh, the Minister of Industry and Handicrafts. ...

Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26116/japan-helps-with-kampot---s-water-supply/

Cambodia to seek patent membership

Cambodia is planning to be a member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) to protect the intellectual property rights of foreign products coming into the Kingdom. This, a high ranking government official said, will shore up investor confidence and attract more foreign investment to the ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25601/cambodia-to-seek-patent--membership/

Kingdom eyes improved food safety standard

While food safety control services and inspection systems for food products at the Industrial Laboratory Center of Cambodia (ILCC) have showed some improvements, the ILCC still lags behind Asean standards, according to Ministry of Industry and Handicraft secretary of state Sat Samy.   ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25063/kingdom-eyes-improved-food-safety-standard/

Accurate scales to be placed at markets

The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts is planning to install so-called “justice scales” at all markets throughout the Kingdom to ensure customers are not being overcharged for items that weigh less than their sellers claim, according to ministry spokesman Oum Sitha.     ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24981/accurate-scales-to-be-placed-at-markets/

Pig skin to kick off leather industry

Agro-industrial giant Mong Reththy Group is finalising construction on the Kingdom’s first pig skin processing factory and expects production to begin by the end of the year, a company executive said yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pig-skin-kick-leather-industry

Factories create 12,000 new first-quarter jobs

Forty factories were registered during the first three months of the year, creating over 12,000 jobs, according to new data by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-create-12000-new-first-quarter-jobs

Japan to help with patent law

The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft and the Japan Patent Office (JPO) yesterday signed an agreement for facilitating patent grants to obtain protection in Cambodia. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24606/japan-to-help-with-patent-law/

Garment sector grows another 13 pct: report

Cambodia’s garment and footwear exports grew by 13 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2016, Chinese news agency Xinhua said on Monday, citing a report by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-sector-grows-another-13-pct-report

Kingdom licenses first round of new factories

Forty new factories received permission to operate in Cambodia during the first three months of this year, while 54 factories have applied for licenses and 21 are currently undergoing renewal procedures, according to a report released yesterday by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-licenses-first-round-new-factories

Industry ministry aims to increase patent protection

Due to the lack of qualified personnel to evaluate new patents and enforce the existing law, the Industry Ministry is cooperating with the European Patent Office to enhance their capacity so that Cambodia can better ensure protection of patents to draw more investment, Industry Minister ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19745/industry-ministry-aims-to-increase-patent-protection/

First Singapore patent recognised in Cambodia: IPOS

The first Singapore patent has been granted protection and recognised in Cambodia, less than two months after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH). ...

Channel News Asia News Staff
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/first-singapore-patent/1706144.html

Inspection guide for SMEs waits for funding

Due to a lack of funding, the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts has delayed publishing guidelines that are meant to increase clarity on inspection procedures for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). ...

Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/inspection-guide-smes-waits-funding

Businesses up, reveals survey

Cambodia increased the number of business enterprises it had to 513,759 companies at the end of March last year, up from the 463,363 enterprises accounted for in 2011, according to the final results of the 2014 Cambodia Inter-Censal Economic Survey. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/businesses-reveals-survey

Factories up but new jobs on the decline

Despite a noticeable increase in the number of factory registrations during the first nine months of the year, new job creation has declined, according to the latest government data. Figures from the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft released yesterday showed that 149 factories registered during the ...

Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-new-jobs-decline

Gov’t urges sauce makers to increase iron content

Manufacturers of soy and fish sauces should fortify the products with iron in order to improve Cambodians’ health, government officials said yesterday. During a workshop on iron fortification, Sat Samy, secretary of state at the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts, called on producers to help combat ...

Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-urges-sauce-makers-to-increase-iron-content-67579/

Online registration option to be rolled out to SMEs

The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft will introduce an online registration platform for Cambodia’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) this year, a ministry official confirmed yesterday. Heng Sok Kong, secretary of state at the ministry, said the new software for web registration was built in partnership ...

Annie Lee
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/online-registration-option-be-rolled-out-smes

Registration of garment factories up in first half

The number of garment factories registered in Cambodia reached 1,200 at the end of June, an 8 per cent increase over six months ago, according to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. The report also showed that the garment sector employed 733,300 workers ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/registration-garment-factories-first-half

Poipet poor ‘bearing brunt of water woes’

A private utilities company owned by wealthy businessman and ruling Cambodian People’s Party Senator Kok An is fulfilling only about half of Poipet’s demand for clean water, despite being contracted to supply the whole town, according to the city governor. With priority for the distribution of ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-poor-%E2%80%98bearing-brunt-water-woes%E2%80%99

Villagers await water

Hundreds of families in Koh Kong province have since early May been affected by drought and a lack of clean water, which is supposed to be provided by tycoon and ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat. Due to the annual drought in the province, two reservoirs ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-await-water

Clean water in pipeline for Kep

The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will invest $1.3 million in a water treatment plant in Kep province to supply clean water to more than 1,000 households there, the company’s head said last week. Speaking at the announcement of PPWSA’s 2013 results in Phnom Penh ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/clean-water-pipeline-kep

Minister calls for old car ban

Imports of older cars and vans should be banned to help reduce pollution, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts Cham Prasidh said on Monday. Speaking to Cambodia’s business community at a Green Industry workshop in Phnom Penh on Monday, Prasidh said all countries had a role to ...

Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/minister-calls-old-car-ban

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