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Ministry moves forward to establish tree breeding centre
A plan to establish a $5.5 million luxury tree breeding centre was set in motion during a meeting between the Agriculture Ministry and China’s Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation yesterday. The plan was raised by Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon and Zhao Shucong, ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50637749/ministry-moves-forward-to-establish-tree-breeding-centre-2/
NCDM: Deaths from natural disasters down 88% this year
Deaths due to natural disasters in the first eight months of the year were down 88 per cent on the same period last year, data from the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) obtained by The Post on Monday showed. Natural disasters killed 87 people ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ncdm-deaths-natural-disasters-down-88-year
PM pushes for lifelong learning opportunities
Prime Minister Hun Sen has tasked all relevant ministries, institutions, authorities, educational institutions, learning centres and monasteries to develop lifelong learning opportunities for the people to better their lives. In a message published yesterday to mark this year’s National Literacy Day, Mr Hun Sen said ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50637359/pm-pushes-for-lifelong-learning-opportunities/
Thousands of trees planted in Siem Reap, Preah Vihear
The Environment Ministry has planted 40,000 tree saplings in the protected areas of Preah Jayavarman-Norodom National Park in Siem Reap province and Beong Per Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province. The tree planting event was held on Friday and Saturday, and involved provincial authorities, monks, and ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50637360/thousands-of-trees-planted-in-siem-reap-preah-vihear/
Ministry: SMEs vital to economy, but 95% not registered
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are key factors in the Kingdom’s industrial sector growth, but around 95 per cent of Cambodia’s SMEs have not been properly registered, the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft said on Friday. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-smes-vital-economy-95-not-registered
Firm returns 14 rubbish-filled containers to contries of origin
Chungyuen Plastic Manufacture Co Ltd has returned 14 containers of plastic waste found at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port last month to their countries of origin. It also paid a one billion riel ($250,000) fine, the General Department of Customs and Excise said on Friday. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-returns-14-rubbish-filled-containers-contries-origin
Ministry needs millions to improve drainage
The Public Works and Transport Ministry on Friday said it plans to spend about $170 million to improve Sihanoukville’s wastewater treatment system and deal with floods. Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said during a workshop in the capital that he will push for the budget to be ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50637052/ministry-needs-millions-to-improve-drainage/
Council of Ministers authorises courts to allow asset freezing of forestry criminals
The Council of Ministers has authorised the courts to allow the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the National Committee for Prevention and Crackdown on Natural Resource Crimes to freeze the assets of anyone involved in forestry crimes. ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/council-ministers-authorises-courts-allow-asset-freezing-forestry-criminals
Chinese firm inks deal with SNTP on electricity supply in Preah Sihanouk
The China Machine-Building International Corporation (CMIC) – affiliated to Sinomach subsidiary CNEG – has signed a cooperation agreement with Cambodia’s SNTP Company on providing electricity in Preah Sihanouk province, according to a company press release. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-inks-deal-sntp-electricity-supply-preah-sihanouk
Meteorology ministry issues weather warning
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued renewed weather warnings on Thursday of thunderstorms, strong winds and powerful waves predicted until next Wednesday. It also urged the public to take great care regarding lightning strikes. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meteorology-ministry-issues-weather-warning
Gov’t: Being competitive key to growth
Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak on Wednesday said the Cambodian government has focused on its competitiveness strategies and the growth of Industry 4.0 in the Kingdom to withstand the trends of global protectionism and geopolitical polarisation. Speaking at a workshop on “Cambodian Trade Integration Strategy ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-being-competitive-key-growth
Kratie chief urges CSO responsibility
As the Ministry of Interior prepares to meet NGOs for the third time next Thursday, Kratie provincial governor Va Thorn has urged an estimated 152 civil society organisations, associations and communities in the province to follow the law, maintain political neutrality and refrain from getting ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-chief-urges-cso-responsibility
Six parties fined for not providing annual reports
The Interior Ministry is set to fine six political parties for not submitting their annual reports and financial statements for two consecutive years. Bun Honn, a ministry secretary of state, yesterday said the six parties are among 44 which are registered in the Kingdom. Speaking ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635965/six-parties-fined-for-not-providing-annual-reports/
Information access law to be finalised next month
The Ministry of Information on Tuesday concluded the final revision by key ministries of the draft Law on Access to Information, without making any major amendments. It will be submitted to the Council of Ministers to be rubber-stamped by the end of September or beginning ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/information-access-law-be-finalised-next-month
Ministry official questioned over suspected illegal ELCs
A Mondulkiri provincial prosecutor questioned Lor Raksmey, an under-secretary of state at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest and Fisheries on Wednesday over his alleged involvement in illegally granting economic land concessions (ELCs) covering 9,741ha to a private company. Provincial court spokesman Meas Bros told The ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-official-questioned-over-suspected-illegal-elcs
NRWPO call for probe into alleged land grab in sanctuary
The director of the Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organisation (NRWPO) requested the Ministry of Environment on Tuesday order an investigation into an alleged land grab in Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Oral district’s Trapaing Chor commune in Kampong Speu province. NRWPO director Chea Hean ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nrwpo-call-probe-alleged-land-grab-sanctuary
Road damage harming S’ville trade
The Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol said on Tuesday that road damage in Preah Sihanouk province caused by recent rainfall and traffic congestion has been affecting the transport of goods between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville Autonomous Port. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/road-damage-harming-sville-trade
Construction date yet to be set for $1.3B coal-fired station
A nearly $1.3 billion coal-fired power station project in Preah Sihanouk province is still in the research and development stage with a construction date still not set, a Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman told The Post. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/construction-date-yet-be-set-13b-coal-fired-station
Committee inspects hundreds of projects
Provincial Hall spokesman Kheang Phearom recently revealed that Land Management Ministry and provincial officials have reviewed the permits and safety standards of nearly 300 construction projects in Preah Sihanouk. Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered for the creation of the Committee for the Inspection of Quality ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635601/committee-inspects-hundreds-of-projects/
Bidding on major artery renovation to begin next month
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday announced that the renovation of National Road 4, which connects the capital with Sihanoukville in the south, will begin early next year. The ministry said bidding for the project will start in September. National Road 4 is one ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635502/bidding-on-major-artery-renovation-to-begin-next-month/
Committee to manage criminal seizures formed
The ministries of Economy and Finance, and Justice have established a committee to manage property seized from crime, a document signed by the respective ministers said. The “Managing Committee of Confiscated Property” is to handle the sale of items transferred from the courts after a ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/committee-manage-criminal-seizures-formed
Koh Kong villagers deny dispute resolved
Representatives of villagers who are locked in a land dispute with Heng Huy Agriculture Group in Koh Kong province have denied a press release from the Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, which said the dispute had already been resolved. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-villagers-deny-dispute-resolved
‘Media crucial in fight against trafficking’
The Ministry of Information and the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT) joined hands to strengthen the capacity of journalists, TV presenters and commentators to upgrade their skills in helping to address human trafficking. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/media-crucial-fight-against-trafficking
Ministry records decrease in dengue
The Health Ministry yesterday said that the number of people contracting dengue fever continues to decrease across the Kingdom in the wake of a spike. The ministry noted that about 2,400 new cases were found across the Kingdom this month since a spike in July. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635149/ministry-records-decrease-in-dengue/