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Gov’t pushes census to 2019

The 2018 national population census will be pushed back a year in order to focus on the 2018 national elections, the government announced on Friday. According to article 6 of the Statistics Law, the census must be conducted at least once every 10 years, with the ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30167/gov---t-pushes-census-to-2019/

Defense ministry looking for recruits

The Ministry of National Defense announced on Friday that it is seeking more than 400 candidates to join the military in 2017. The announcement stated that the ministry was seeking both male and female candidates to work in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). Candidates must have ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30163/defense-ministry-looking-for-recruits/

PM offers opposition ceasefire

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday responded to calls from acting opposition leader Kem Sokha for Cambodia’s “political family” to unite for the upcoming Pchum Ben festival, saying he would observe a “ceasefire” amid the escalating war of words between himself and the opposition. Speaking at a ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30119/pm-offers-opposition-ceasefire/

Universities in agricultural innovation

As rice farmers struggle to cope with the aftereffects of one of the worst droughts in Cambodia’s recent history and moribund infrastructure makes it difficult to transport and sell their products across the country, universities here and in the United States are joining forces to ...

Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30110/universities-in-agricultural-innovation/

PM pushes voter registration amid claims of inaction

The National Election Committee (NEC) and all political parties should urge citizens – including those overseas – to register to vote, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday, even as a prominent opposition lawmaker accused the government of offering “nothing” to enfranchise Cambodia’s thousands of migrant workers. ...

Mech Dara, Bun Sengkong and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pushes-voter-registration-amid-claims-inaction

Local factories pump out $5.3B in products

Cambodian factories manufactured industrial products worth $5.3 billion during the first seven months of 2016, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft.​ ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-factories-pump-out-53b-products

PM: keep old border posts

It has been five months since the government updated the country on how far along they were with the demarcation process along the border with Vietnam. Yet Prime Minister Hun Sen has an entirely different focus: the border posts slowly being replaced. In a directive sent out ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30051/pm--keep-old-border-posts/

ICRC offers prisons help

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is willing to offer assistance in future prison building projects, and in the preparation of prison management policies that are in line with international standards, the National Police website said on Tuesday. According to the website, the ICRC ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30054/icrc-offers-prisons-help/

Familiar wage figure floated by minister

In the midst of annual minimum wage negotiations, Minister of Labour Ith Samheng used a visit from members of the Southeast Asian Youth Programme to reiterate that the minimum wage for garment workers would reach at least $160 a month by 2018, state media reported. ...

Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/familiar-wage-figure-floated-minister

Kratie disputants pay visit to ministry

Twenty Cham villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district yesterday visited the Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning to demand authorities resolve their community’s seven-year-old land dispute with two rubber companies. ...

Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-disputants-pay-visit-ministry

PM hands out prizes for Cambodia's ‘A’-team

For the third year in row, students scoring an A on Cambodia’s high-stakes Grade 12 exit exam were granted an audience with Prime Minister Hun Sen and lavished with gifts, while the Ministry of Education came in for its own accolades on reforms that are ...

Yesenia Amaro and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-hands-out-prizes-cambodias-team

Non-taxpayers targeted

The government will not increase the rate for income tax and other taxes for the next two years, but will instead concentrate on expanding the base for tax collection, taking into account that there are still many individuals and businesses that do not pay tax ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30034/non-taxpayers-targeted/

Two new power plants planned

Two new power plants are being planned for Cambodia, a $167 million garbage-fueled plant for Phnom Penh, and an $89 million solar plant for Siem Reap province, the tourism ministry announced. In a statement on the ministry’s Facebook page yesterday, the ministry unveiled plans for the ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29970/two-new-power-plants-planned/

PM calls for increased vigilance for Zika virus

Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the inauguration of a hospital in Phnom Penh yesterday, called on the Ministry of Health, the public and those who have recently travelled abroad to take precautionary measures to prevent Zika from reaching the Kingdom. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-increased-vigilance-zika-virus

New facility for young offenders

The Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday confirmed it would construct a new national facility to rehabilitate child offenders. The news follows a meeting last Thursday when spokesman Touch Channy told attendees that the new centre to detain juvenile offenders would be built following the recent adoption ...

Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-facility-young-offenders

Centre eyes potatoes for a changing diet

Cambodia’s first experimental farm and research centre for potato cultivation opened yesterday as experts confirmed that the Kingdom’s soils are suitable for the starchy tuber – raising hopes that local crops could one day satisfy the fast-food cravings that have put potatoes in high demand. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/centre-eyes-potatoes-changing-diet

CNRP to rejoin national assembly

Senior opposition member Son Chhay said yesterday that he and his fellow party members would enter the National Assembly to resolve some ongoing problems and planned to summon four ministers for clarifications as well as to appeal for the health minister’s resignation. After visiting opposition officials ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29990/cnrp-to-rejoin-national-assembly/

Cambodian rails linked to Thailand’s

The long-awaited railroad between Phnom Penh and Bangkok moved one step closer to completion yesterday after tracks on the Cambodian side were connected to those in Thailand. The Poipet-Phnom Penh rail line was joined to the Bangkok-Sa Kaeo line during a ceremony at the international border ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-rails-linked-thailands

Terms announced on rice lending package

The government-owned bank charged with issuing $27 million in emergency loans to rice millers as part of an initiative aimed at propping up the struggling rice industry announced the terms of the credit lines yesterday, and said it would ensure that the funds were used ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/terms-announced-rice-lending-package

Prime minister vows to ‘eliminate’ opponents who protest

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said he would “eliminate” opponents who dare to protest against his government during a speech in which he also declared that he personally ordered the military to deploy around the CNRP’s headquarters late last month. Speaking at a graduation ceremony ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-vows-eliminate-opponents-protest-118198/

Unfinished Railway Connected to Thailand

Cambodia’s northern railway line has been linked to Thailand at the border in Poipet City, officials said at a ceremony on Monday—although sections of track in Cambodia still need to be finished before trains can start running between the two countries. At a ceremony marking a ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unfinished-railway-connected-thailand-118206/

Turks push to close the Zaman schools

The Turkish government is preparing documents and evidence to give to the Cambodian government in order to close Zaman schools, an official said yesterday. Turkey’s ambassador to Cambodia Ilhan Kemal Tug told Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong yesterday that his government was gathering evidence and documents ...

Ven Rathavong and Ban Sokrith
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29935/turks-push-to-close-the-zaman-schools/

Prime minister seeks $300 million from china for rice sector

In the latest effort to mitigate the impact of plummeting rice prices, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the government was seeking $300 million from China to boost the capacity of rice millers and provide funds to them for purchasing paddy from farmers. ...

Kuch Naren and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-seeks-300-million-china-rice-sector-118209/

PM: the water festival is on again

The annual boat races in Phnom Penh, marking the Water Festival celebrations, will take place between November 13 and 15 even if water levels in the Tonle Sap are low, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. Speaking at a university graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh, the ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29936/pm--the-water-festival-is-on-again/

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