The Phnom Penh Post

Tainted prahok found in Takeo

Over 3 tonnes of contaminated prahok – made of fish illegally imported from Vietnam – were confiscated on Friday by Takeo authorities from some of the same sites that in September had already been warned to stop using smuggled fish.​ ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tainted-prahok-found-takeo

Ministry drafting new minimum wage law to cover all workers

The Labour Ministry said last week it was drafting a minimum wage law that would expand beyond the garment industry and cover all workers, a proposal that drew cautious praise from union leaders and advocates, along with a healthy dose of scepticism. ...

Bun Sengkong and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-drafting-new-minimum-wage-law-cover-all-workers

Ministry sets out rules on disposal of batteries

The Ministry of Environment on Thursday issued its first prakas on safe battery management, laying out specific guidelines on the collection, storage, treatment, delivery and disposal of batteries by households and businesses alike. ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-sets-out-rules-disposal-batteries

Voter registration push slows in recent days

The number of people registering to vote has dropped sharply in recent days, statistics show, with an election watchdog calling on the National Election Committee to step up its game. ...

Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voter-registration-push-slows-recent-days

Kampong Cham piques the interest of developers

Kampong Cham may no longer be the quiet city it is today if its purported economic potential continues to be realised. Local developers have already taken a keen interest in the town with the development of the first borey underway. ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/kampong-cham-piques-interest-developers

Waiting to tap rubber’s rebound

The large-scale rubber plantations that arrived in force in Cambodia a decade ago as global rubber prices moved to historic peaks are facing sober prospects as trees they planted before the commodity’s prices headed south begin to reach maturity. ...

Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/waiting-tap-rubbers-rebound

US diplomat expresses concern, hopes over upcoming elections

United States Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel yesterday said Cambodia’s political stalemate was a matter of concern, but nonetheless expressed hope the coming elections would be free and fair. ...

Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-diplomat-expresses-concern-hopes-over-upcoming-elections

Ticon follows factory shift to Cambodia

Ticon Industrial Connection Plc, a Thai-based factory and warehouse developer, is expanding its operations into fast-growing Southeast Asian economies, including Cambodia, to help offset sluggish growth at home. ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ticon-follows-factory-shift-cambodia

Plotted land trend spreading to numerous provinces

While big-scale land selling seems to be grinding to a halt, plotted land sales are understood to be picking up speed, spreading from Phnom Penh to many other provinces. ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/plotted-land-trend-spreading-numerous-provinces

Schools to offer career guidance

As part of ongoing education reforms, a new curriculum set to be implemented in 2018 will address the lack of career counselling in high schools across Cambodia, a Ministry of Education official told attendees of an education forum yesterday. ...

Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/schools-offer-career-guidance

Rosewood, first-grade timber seized in busts

Nearly 500 pieces of illegal first-grade timber were seized in a series of busts conducted by police across three different provinces this week. ...

Mech Dara and Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosewood-first-grade-timber-seized-busts

Push for border use of local currencies

Business leaders from the Lower Mekong region are urging their respective governments to use local currencies for trading in border regions instead of the US dollar, arguing that this would facilitate business transactions and reduce exchange costs, a Thai newspaper reported yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/push-border-use-local-currencies

Military voting scheme ‘concerning’: watchdog

An election watchdog yesterday announced it had uncovered plans to move registration stations closer to military bases in Kampong Speu, Tbong Khmum and Kampong Chhnang provinces.​ ...

Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-voting-scheme-concerning-watchdog

Miners ask Hun Sen to let them dig deeper

More than 500 villagers in Mondulkiri’s Chung Phlas’ mining community thumbprinted a letter sent to Prime Minister Hun Sen, and to the Ministry of Mines and Energy and its provincial counterpart, requesting that those holding a community mining licence be allowed to dig below the ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/miners-ask-hun-sen-let-them-dig-deeper

Timber inspection halted in Ratanakkiri

Authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district were thwarted in their attempt to inspect an ethnic Jarai community’s timber stocks on Tuesday, with some officials and observers ascribing the incident to a clash of cultures. ...

Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-inspection-halted-ratanakkiri

Hundreds of hectares cleared in Mondulkiri: gov

Mondulkiri’s provincial governor yesterday said officials are investigating allegations of the clearing of 200 to 300 hectares of protected forestland in Keo Seima district. ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-hectares-cleared-mondulkiri-gov

Software for cleaner money

Tess International, a Malaysia-based provider of software solutions for the financial sector, signed a distributor agreement yesterday with Cambodian management consulting and business technology firm IdeaLink Consulting to provide software to Cambodian banks and microfinance institutions that helps them combat financial crimes. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/software-cleaner-money

Cambodia on alert for US taxpayers

With the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the tax-collection arm of the United States government, stepping up its global sweep to catch American individuals and corporations hiding their overseas earnings, the American Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia yesterday held a presentation for investors and financial institutions ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-alert-us-taxpayers

Local chiefs still key to registration, study finds

Despite having access to other sources of information about the election process, including television and smartphones, Cambodia’s urban poor remain heavily reliant on potentially biased village-level officials when it comes to voter registration, according to a new report. ...

Ananth Baliga and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-chiefs-still-key-registration-study-finds

Study links toilet usage, height

A new study has found that open defecation, which is still commonly practised in Cambodia, has direct links to reduced heights in children, with a decrease in the practice over five years leading to increases in height. ...

Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-links-toilet-usage-height

Agro report reveals drop in state fisheries revenue

A report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture for the first nine months of this year showed a dramatic decline in government revenue from the fisheries sector, while providing incomplete information on revenue from other agricultural sectors. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/agro-report-reveals-drop-state-fisheries-revenue

Navy to hold exercises with US sailors off coast

Cambodian Navy personnel are preparing to hold joint exercises with counterparts from the United States next month, an official said yesterday. Mey Dina, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Royal Cambodian Armed Force’s Navy, said about 200 officers from both countries would begin the ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/navy-hold-exercises-us-sailors-coast

Gov’t eyes million-tonne rice quota deal with Indonesia

Cambodia is close to signing an ambitious agreement with the Indonesian government that would pave the way for the Kingdom’s rice producers to export 1 million tonnes of rice under a new quota scheme, a state official said yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-eyes-million-tonne-rice-quota-deal-indonesia

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