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Local SMEs are urged to digitise payments

Cambodian businesses need to adapt and digitise their financial operations if they want to remain competitive regionally and around the world, industry insiders said yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-smes-are-urged-digitise-payments

$55m grant to fight HIV and TB

The government and the Global Fund have signed a grant agreement worth more than $55 million to implement anti-AIDS and tuberculosis programmes in Cambodia from 2018 to 2020. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097032/55m-grant-fight-hiv-tb/

Report targets corrupt business

Transparency International Cambodia yesterday released its first Business Integrity Country Agenda assessment report, aimed at reducing corruption and improving the overall business environment in the country. ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096822/report-targets-corrupt-business/

Cambodia’s fisheries at risk due to hydropower development on Mekong, MRC warns

Hydropower development will likely deal a serious economic blow to Cambodia, with dire outlooks for its fisheries and rice outputs predicted even under best-case scenarios, according to key findings from the Mekong River Commission (MRC). ...

Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-fisheries-risk-due-hydropower-development-mekong-mrc-warns

Gold processing to begin next year

Following the recent approval of its environment and social impact assessment by the Ministry of Environment, the kingdom’s first gold-processing plant will begin operations next year, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Monday. ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096661/gold-processing-begin-next-year/

Commerce Minister calls for self-reliance

As Cambodia continues its impressive economic development and reaches higher stages of industrialisation and social well-being, there is an urgent need to prepare for future cutbacks in international development assistance, the Commerce Minister said on Friday. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096663/commerce-minister-calls-self-reliance/

As Hun Sen goads West, minister quietly notes massive cost of sanctions

With Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly daring Western countries to impose sanctions in response to the recent dissolution of the country’s main opposition, the minister of commerce has quietly expressed concern at the staggering customs bill Cambodia would incur should the EU suspend its preferential ...

Hor Kimsay and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sen-goads-west-minister-quietly-notes-massive-cost-sanctions

EU firm sets plan for local rubber factory

Socfin Cambodia, the local branch of a Europe-based international rubber producing company that currently operates a 7,500-hectare rubber plantation in Mondulkiri, has announced plans to open the doors to its first rubber factory next April, with an initial investment of $5.7 million, a company executive ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-firm-sets-plan-local-rubber-factory

Information Ministry official denies wrongdoing following anti-corruption body’s allegations

A Ministry of Information department director denied wrongdoing yesterday after the Anti-Corruption Unit released a letter on Friday detailing allegations of bribery, nepotism and improper hiring practices, as well as the accused official’s response. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/information-ministry-official-denies-wrongdoing-following-anti-corruption-bodys-allegations

Hundreds of papers face closure

Nearly 300 local newspapers are facing closure next year due to inactivity in publishing, an official from the Ministry of Information’s general department of information and broadcasting has said. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096456/hundreds-papers-face-closure/

Sokha questioned on family’s private lives

Jailed former opposition leader Kem Sokha was questioned by a judge in prison yesterday, according to his lawyers, who classified the questioning as “aggressive” and “inappropriate”. ...

Ben Sokhean and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/sokha-questioned-familys-private-lives

The wonder of Banteay Chhmar

While Angkor Wat is world-famous, only a handful of hardy travellers know of the existence of the Banteay Chhmar temple, an impressive complex located some 20 kilometres from the Cambodian border with Thailand. ...

Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/95988/the-wonder-of-banteay-chhmar/

Farmers seek government help

A group of farmers and NGOs asked the government to help small-scale farmers at the 7th National Farmer Forum held at Chenla Theatre in Phnom Penh yesterday. The main issues raised were that of water supplies, capital funding, and export of products. The farmers also said ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096164/farmers-seek-government-help/

Ministry warns Lango delinquents to comply

The Ministry of Interior has issued a first warning to associations and NGOs that failed to submit the requisite reports to the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Finance before the deadline on September 30. According to a press release issued on Monday, only 648 ...

Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-warns-lango-delinquents-comply

Government hopes decentralisation boosts business registration

To promote the registration of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft will begin early next year to decentralise the process by granting provincial government officials the authority to register businesses. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-hopes-decentralisation-boosts-business-registration

PM wants to send workers to Japan

Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed hopes of sending Cambodians to Japan to work in nursing homes yesterday as part of a larger scheme to increase the number of Cambodian migrant workers. ...

Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-wants-send-workers-japan

Cambodia facing a dilemma on plan to give roads a facelift

With more than half of Cambodia’s 6,000 kilometres of roads being classified as “poor” or of “bad” quality by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, industry insiders said that the government needs to engage with the private sector to spur investment into quality construction ...

Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-facing-dilemma-plan-give-roads-facelift

Focus shifts to oversight of health care providers

After a yearlong campaign to register health providers, the Ministry of Health and medical councils now say they must turn their focus to training and oversight of nurses and doctors in the field. ...

Danielle Keeton-Olsen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/focus-shifts-oversight-health-care-providers

Environment ministry targets set

The Environment Minister instructed his staff to cooperate with relevant ministries and institutions to improve management in the sector at the closing of the ministry’s annual meeting on Monday. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095895/environment-ministry-targets-set/

Government fails to recoup on rubber expenses

Despite a 31 percent increase in Cambodian rubber exports during the first 11 months of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture is failing to recoup on expenses it has spent sending expert technicians into the field in order to help boost production. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-fails-recoup-rubber-expenses

New spy school announced

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the creation of a school to train spies to combat “colour revolution” and terrorism in Cambodia yesterday, tapping his son and Ministry of Defence Intelligence Director Hun Manith to lead it. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-spy-school-announced

Minimum wage law edges closer

A Labour Ministry official has said the law on the minimum wage will come into force in the first quarter of 2018, provided there are no more objections from stakeholders. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095662/minimum-wage-law-edges-closer/

Interior Minister demands better border control

Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday that authorities have failed to quell illegal border crossings by migrant workers. ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095520/interior-minister-demands-better-border-control/

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