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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/
Mixed results in Cambodia’s drug war: officials
Senior government figures yesterday noted major flaws in an ongoing drug crackdown, among them a lack of rehabilitation for incarcerated users, during a day-long review of the campaign yesterday. The government also proposed establishing five ill-defined “white villages” – or drug-free locations – on the ...
Niem Chheng and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-results-cambodias-drug-war-officials
RCAF commander criticises US debt demands
Lieutenant General Hun Manet, deputy commander of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Infantry Unit, on Saturday said the United States lent money to the Lon Nol regime for weapons that were used to kill Cambodians.Speaking to soldiers while inaugurating a new building in Siem Reap ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106536/rcaf-commander-criticises-us-debt-demands/
‘Fake news’ being investigated
The Ministry of National Defence is cooperating with involved authorities to investigate a case of alleged fake news that said a well-known deputy commander supported the Cambodia National Rescue Movement. Ministry spokesman Chhum Socheat said the Ministry of National Defence was cooperating with authorities to investigate ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106512/fake-news-investigated/
Jump in fainting cases in 2017 for garment workers
The National Social Security Fund of the Ministry of Labour said more than 1,600 workers fainted in 22 factories in 2017, an increase of more than 400 from the previous year. According to a Facebook post that published the conclusion of the 2017 annual results and ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106532/jump-fainting-cases-2017-garment-workers/
Health Ministry issues dengue fever warning
The Ministry of Health has warned that dengue fever cases could spike this year after a fall in cases in 2017 when compared to 2016. A report from the ministry said that in the first three weeks of 2018, there was a 130 percent spike in ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106515/health-ministry-issues-dengue-fever-warning/