The Phnom Penh Post
Malnutrition comes at steep price
Malnutrition remains a challenge that threatens the lives of thousands of children and leads to annual economic losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, senior government officials and experts said yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/malnutrition-comes-steep-price
Gov’t back for seconds at Licadho
For the second time in as many weeks, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has asked rights group Licadho to provide data collected on the identity of land dispute complainants. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-back-seconds-licadho
Cambodia hopes for global climate pact
Cambodia is particularly at risk from man-made climate change due to its dependence on agriculture and its geography, Minister of Environment Say Sam Al said yesterday. The minister, speaking at a workshop marking 20 years of meetings on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/cambodia-hopes-global-climate-pact
Business input sought on use of donor funds
Business has been encouraged to have more input into the allocation of donor money spent on projects aiming to boost trade in the Kingdom. Speaking during a panel discussion yesterday at a conference on government-private sector partnership, representatives from both government and development agencies said the ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business-input-sought-use-donor-funds
One in five students ‘saw gender violence’
More than 60 per cent of Cambodian students have experienced gender-based violence in schools, with staff committing the violence a fifth of the time, according to a new research report from Plan International and the International Center for Research on Women. ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/one-five-students-saw-gender-violence
MoC says registration online will boost rank
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol said yesterday that his ministry was initiating reforms that would see Cambodia’s ease of starting a business ranking leap from the current 184 to 21. He said the government would also need to make changes to the Company Registration Law, reduce ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/moc-says-registration-online-will-boost-rank
Logo rhythms: Prince seeks to change party’s look
FUNCINPEC heavyweight Nhek Bun Chhay has made his internal feud with party president Prince Norodom Ranariddh personal. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/logo-rhythms-prince-seeks-change-partys-look
Port gives rice exporters a cut in storage costs
In a bid to ramp up rice exports to 1 million tonnes in 2015, the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port announced yesterday that rice stored in its warehouses would not be charge any fees for up to 18 days. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/port-gives-rice-exporters-cut-storage-costs
New step towards adoptions
Despite Cambodia’s unofficial freeze on inter-country adoptions, the Ministry of Social Affairs recently urged partner countries to reforge, in principle, their adoption partnerships with the Kingdom. In a statement issued on Monday, the ministry opened the application process for international adoption agencies, as only adoption agencies ...
Sarah Taguiam and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-step-towards-adoptions
Time for business to step up
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol called on business owners to clean up their activities in the Kingdom, in order to remain competitive, especially in light of the ASEAN Economic Community integration due to be realised at the end of the year. Private sector companies have traditionally raised ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/time-business-step
New border crossing set to make trade easier
Planning for the Stung Bot checkpoint on the Thai border is almost finalised, with the construction of new infrastructure to support trade facilitation to be completed by the end of 2018, officials said yesterday. Vasim Sorya, the director general of administration at the Ministry of Public ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-border-crossing-set-make-trade-easier
Gov’t issues own dispute data
After heaping criticism on rights group Licadho for allegedly exaggerating the seriousness of Cambodia’s land rights crisis last month, the government has released its own annual report on land disputes. In a letter the following day, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-issues-own-dispute-data
Unseasonal storms hit northwest
Two people were injured and more than 60 homes left damaged after freak storms swept through Preah Vihear and Banteay Meanchey provinces over the weekend. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/unseasonal-storms-hit-northwest
CRF calls to tighten code of conduct
The Cambodian Rice Federation has pushed for the full implementation of a code of conduct which bars Cambodian firms from exporting cheap rice from neighbouring countries under its own name. The code of conduct sought to reassure the European Union that Cambodia was not flouting the ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/crf-calls-tighten-code-conduct
Fund intended to improve country’s urban sanitation
The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fund-intended-improve-countrys-urban-sanitation
Release plan ignores issue: org
Local rights group Licadho yesterday praised the government’s plan to release a number of incarcerated women who are pregnant or have their children with them in prison within the next week, but said deeper reforms are needed. In a statement, the NGO said it welcomed an ...
Alice Cuddy and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/release-plan-ignores-issue-org
National cassava body in the works
A year after establishing the Cambodia Rice Federation, the Ministry of Commerce is planning to set up a cassava organisation to boost production of the root vegetable in the Kingdom. According to Ratha, the federation will work similarly to the Cambodia Rice Federation and will ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-cassava-body-works
Teachers push ministry over nixed scholarship
More than 400 teachers who took part in an eight-month teaching course at the National Institute of Education (NIE) are demanding the government pay them scholarship funds that were initially promised only to be later axed over cost concerns. In a petition sent yesterday to the ...
Sen David and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/teachers-push-ministry-over-nixed-scholarship
Arrested trio to get embassy assistance
The Cambodian government will provide legal representation to three citizens who were shot at and arrested by Thai soldiers last week while allegedly smuggling drugs across the border. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/arrested-trio-get-embassy-assistance
Project to connect 150,000 to grid
Thirty-one thousand new households, with 150,000 people, across three western provinces will soon have access to reliable and affordable electricity, after a $23.9 million investment project, launched Thursday, will connect them to the national grid. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/project-connect-150000-grid
Three men arrested, one shot by Thai forces
A Cambodian national was shot and two others arrested in Thailand last week while allegedly smuggling drugs across the border, officials said yesterday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/three-men-arrested-one-shot-thai-forces
Teachers to get wage hike
Cambodia’s lowest paid high-school and primary-school teachers will receive a $25 increase to their base monthly salary by the end of May, the government revealed on Monday. Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the raise at the opening of the National Literacy Campaign on Monday and reiterated ...
Tat Oudom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/teachers-get-wage-hike
Risk of hearing loss increasing: experts
Increasing exposure to damaging sound levels in recreational areas and the unsafe use of personal audio devices are putting Cambodians, especially teenagers and young adults, at a high risk of hearing loss, health experts said yesterday. ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/risk-hearing-loss-increasing-experts
Body notes ‘significant’ anti-laundering strides
An inter-governmental anti-money laundering group has stopped monitoring Cambodia after it said the Kingdom had made “significant progress” toward fighting financial crimes. ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/body-notes-significant-anti-laundering-strides