National government

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Cambodia and Vietnam to boost ties

Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn yesterday met with newly appointed Vietnamese ambassador to Cambodia Vu Quang Minh to discuss boosting ties between the two nations. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108459/cambodia-vietnam-boost-ties/

Government lays out plan for non-tax revenue

The Ministry of Economy and Finance held a workshop yesterday to finalise a draft on a sub-decree managing non-tax revenue sources, part of the government’s attempt to improve its revenue collection. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-lays-out-plan-non-tax-revenue

Ministry meets with protesting garment workers following factory closures

Officials from the Ministry of Labour met with former workers from three garment factories in the capital’s Por Senchey district this morning after the owner absconded without warning last week, leaving 2,000 workers without their severance or salary for the month of January. ...

Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-meets-protesting-garment-workers-following-factory-closures

Ministers meet again to send workers to Malaysia

The Labour Minister led a delegation to visit Malaysia last week to discuss sending migrant labourers and maids there with the country’s Minister of Human Resources. The Ministry of Labour issued a statement on Friday saying that Labour Minister Ith Samheng met with Human Resources Minister ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108042/ministers-meet-send-workers-malaysia/

Officials crack down on 500 illegal trucks

Authorities have cracked down on nearly 500 illegally modified trucks throughout the country in the past few days after Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened to sack officials who fail to protect the nation’s roads and bridges. According to a Facebook post made by the Prime Minister ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108059/officials-crack-500-illegal-trucks-2/

Ministry issues rice wine warning

The Health Ministry has asked people to be careful when purchasing rice wine for Chinese New Year to avoid negative health effects following two deaths and more than ten cases of poisoning from rice wine consumption in 2017.Chinese New Year takes place next week from ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107384/ministry-issues-rice-wine-warning/

Banteay Meanchey gets free TV

The tower in the provincial capital of Sisophon will provide – for the first time in the province – free national public programming such as local and national news broadcasts, according to Sek Sokhum, the province’s information department director. Previously, those hoping to watch TV ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/banteay-meanchey-gets-free-tv

Hun Sen decries overloaded trucks

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that the majority of road damage in the country was caused by overloaded cement trucks. Mr Hun Sen made the comments while presiding over the inauguration ceremony for the Chip Mong Insee Cement Cooperation in Kampot province’s Banteay Meas ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107266/hun-sen-decries-overloaded-trucks/

New rail link with Vietnam on the cards

Plans for a railway line connecting Bavet city in Svay Rieng province to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city were revealed this week by the Minister of Transport. During a meeting with Nguyen Nhat, Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Transport, Cambodian Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said both governments ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107086/new-rail-link-vietnam-cards/

Ministry calls for ease in vote preparation

The Ministry of Interior yesterday instructed provincial authorities to “make it easy” for parties preparing for the upcoming national elections, including facilitating the building of party banners and the holding of meetings – after a year in which the government systematically removed CNRP banners and ...

Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-calls-ease-vote-preparation

No need for a labour court, Hun Sen says

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that the country does not need a labour court to solve disputes because the current trilateral mechanism in place is sufficient. Speaking to garment factory workers in Phnom Penh, Mr Hun Sen explained that the current mechanism, which brings employer ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107112/no-need-labour-court-hun-sen-says/

Rise in timber exports to Vietnam

The value of logs and sawn wood exported from Cambodia to Vietnam last year increased by about $31.5 million compared to 2016, customs data has shown. The Vietnamese data, obtained by Khmer Times yesterday, said about 163,071 cubic metres of Cambodian logs were imported to the ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107116/rise-timber-exports-vietnam/

Cambodia pledges to fight terrorism threat

Cambodia has vowed to improve collaboration with regional partners in a bid to enhance counter-terrorism cooperation while there is no sign of terrorism in the country, according to a senior government official.The pledge was made during a two-day Asean Defence Ministers meeting that kicked off ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107117/cambodia-pledges-fight-terrorism-threat/

Thai firm to help bolster agarwood quality

A Cambodian company is teaming up with a Thai investment partner to spend $100 million improving the quality of Cambodia’s agarwood trees, according to a memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies yesterday. ...

Hor Kimsay and Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-firm-help-bolster-agarwood-quality

Payments lagging as deadline for telecom fees approaches

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has collected less than one-third of a set of annual fees owed to it by telecommunications companies by the end of this month, with more than 80 percent of the fees so far coming from a single provider. ...

Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/payments-lagging-deadline-telecom-fees-approaches

Former NEC official fired from ministry

The Education Minister has issued a letter criticizing officials in its scientific research department for not ensuring their subordinates work regularly after firing former unionist and election official Rong Chhun for absenteeism. ...

Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106906/former-nec-official-fired-ministry/

Police and Phnom Penh City Hall pat selves on back for political crackdown

The National Police and Phnom Penh City Hall released their year-end reports yesterday, with both congratulating themselves for helping to carry out a political crackdown widely condemned by international observers. ...

Mech Dara, Ben Sokhean and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-and-phnom-penh-city-hall-pat-selves-back-political-crackdown

Cambodia blocks online access to shuttered Cambodia Daily

Cambodia’s government has ordered internet service providers to block online access to The Cambodia Daily newspaper, which closed last year amid a widespread crackdown on media and civil society groups criticizing Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party.​ ...

Richard Finney
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/access-02052018171458.html

Working group to aid migrant workers

Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday that the government will establish an inter-ministerial working group in Banteay Meanchey province to resolve issues for illegal migrant workers deported from Thailand. ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106733/working-group-aid-migrant-workers/

Vietnamese fishing boat escapes chase

Authorities yesterday chased a Vietnamese fishing boat suspected of conducting illegal fishing off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province. Police reported that a Vietnamese trawler was damaged during the operation conducted by Cambodian coastal guards. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106696/vietnamese-fishing-boat-escapes-chase/

Government critic fired from Education Ministry

Former unionist and election official Rong Chhun, who resigned from the National Election Committee (NEC) following the forced dissolution of the opposition, has been fired from the Education Ministry for being absent without permission. ...

Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-critic-fired-education-ministry

Deal for yuan trade with China in works

Officials in Cambodia and China’s Guangdong province are cooperating to establish trade using yuan instead of US dollars, part of the two countries’ increasingly close economic relationship. The suggestion to use yuan directly, instead of using US dollars as an intermediary currency, was made by ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-yuan-trade-china-works

Airport railway 50 percent done

The Minister of Public Works and Transportation announced yesterday that the railway line connecting Phnom Penh to the airport is 50 percent complete. Sun Chanthol said the project from the Phnom Penh train station to the airport is half finished and added that trains are on ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106736/airport-railway-50-percent-done/

Government seeking loan to repair national road

The Transport Ministry said yesterday it has asked the World Bank for a $110 million loan to upgrade National Road 4. Speaking after a signing ceremony with a Chinese company to repair two other national roads, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said the ministry and the World ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106732/government-seeking-loan-repair-national-road/

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