Khmer Times

While food safety control services and inspection systems for food products at the Industrial Laboratory Center of Cambodia (ILCC) have showed some improvements, the ILCC still lags behind Asean standards, according to Ministry of Industry and Handicraft secretary of state Sat Samy.   ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng called on immigration officials to finish counting and collecting information on all foreign nationals living in the Kingdom by July at the latest.   ...

The National Gendarmerie announced it will recruit 300 students for its upcoming training class of deputy gendarmerie officers, with entrance exam application forms to be available from May 16 to June 2 at the 25 gendarmerie headquarters nationwide.     ...

The owner of a luxury timber shop in Phnom Penh was fined 64.189 million riel (about $16,047) in absentia yesterday after being convicted of transporting, trading and stocking timber without authorization from the Forest Administration, according to court officials.     ...

Seatel, a 100 percent 4G VoLTE telecommunication company in Cambodia, last Friday launched the FreeTel smartphone from Japan in the Cambodian market, as the use of smartphones in Cambodia has grown significantly. ...

The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts is planning to install so-called “justice scales” at all markets throughout the Kingdom to ensure customers are not being overcharged for items that weigh less than their sellers claim, according to ministry spokesman Oum Sitha.     ...

The Asian strategic environment is being overturned by a radical shift in the distribution of wealth and power between the major powers and the corresponding shift in their strategic expectations as well as by responses from smaller powers to those shifts.    ...

Garment workers across the Kingdom will receive health insurance from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) by 2018, according to officials. ...

Minister of Environment Say Sam Al has sent a letter to the Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction asking to register nearly six million  hectares of land as protected under the Ministry of the Environment.    ...

In the lead-up to the upcoming elections, three provinces have been selected to participate in a three-year project designed to encourage women, first-time voters and the youth to actively participate in politics. ...

The Asian Development Bank on Monday named Cambodia as the fastest growing economy in Asia in its latest new analysis article titled Here Comes Cambodia: Asia’s New Tiger Economy. ...

Cambodia and Vietnam’s security ministries signed a cooperation agreement yesterday to fight crime and strengthen security between the two neighbors. ...

The US Ambassador to Cambodia yesterday denied American involvement in the Black Monday protest, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesman. ...

The Kingdom’s first automated measures to apply for sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) certification of imports and exports will be launched by the end of June in an effort to boost and facilitate communication between Ministry of Agriculture officials and importers and exporters applying for SPS ...

Almost 60 tons of Cambodian mangoes were exported to the European Union during the harvesting season this year, according to Mong Reththy, who runs the country’s largest agricultural export company. ...

In a startling admission yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture finally acknowledged that the Kingdom’s forest cover has decreased rapidly over the past few decades, down from a high of 73 percent in 1965 to now, where only 49.5 percent of the country’s forests remain. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that he will appoint a government official to answer questions in the National Assembly about economic land concessions (ELC) allegedly granted to members of the Vietnamese military in Rattanakiri province. ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) yesterday in a move that officials are predicting will usher in a new era of responsible corporate governing practices, transparency, financial risk management and public confidence in the ...

With a $148 million injection of capital through a Share Purchase Agreement, National Bank of Canada (NBC) now holds a 90 percent stake in ABA Bank, according to ABA and NBC executives, who ensured that the agreement will not alter ABA Bank’s strategy but enhance ...

To help improve the logistics sector, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation has announced it will set up the Logistics Committee, which will work to improve the flow of goods in the Kingdom. ...

About 1,000 hectares of flooded forest in Preah Sihanouk’s Prey Nup district, all of which is overseen by the provincial fisheries department, is under threat of being systemically divided and sold to a private company, according to officials. ...

An environmental youth group has asked the National Assembly’s head of the Environment and Water Resource Commission, Pol Hom, to visit and investigate the pollution that will be caused by construction of Laos’ Don Sahong hydropower dam. ...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will send officials to South Korea next month to further investigate the case of former ambassador Suth Dina, who was arrested and detained at Prey Sar prison early last month on corruption charges. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen will pay an official visit to the Russia Federation next week, where he will have a bilateral meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. ...