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Cambodia unveils new measures to support local firms
Cambodia has unveiled several measures to support local manufacturers and exporters in case the European Union (EU) decides to temporarily strip trade preferences from the country, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency. The Cambodian Ministry of Commerce issued a statement on February 12, saying that it ...
VNA
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/cambodia-unveils-new-measures-to-support-local-firms/146528.vnp
Access to Information draft law ready
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith yesterday confirmed that the draft law on Access to Information has been inserted into the 6th mandate of the government’s strategic plan. In an announcement dated yesterday that addressed public and civil society groups’ requests, Mr Kanharith said the ministry had ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50577422/access-to-information-draft-law-ready/
Army accused of clearing land
Membes of Battambang province’s forest community and relevant authorities on Tuesday claimed that over 100ha of forest land in Samlot Protected Area have been illegally cleared by wealthy citizens and armed forces in order to place it under their ownership. Samlot community representative Yat Neang, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/army-accused-clearing-land
Government reshuffles coastal managemet committee members
The government reshuffled members of the National Committee for Coastal Management and Development in late January, according to a government statement received by The Post on Tuesday. Prime Minister Hun Sen continues to serve as the committee’s honorary president, while Minister of Land Management, Urban ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-reshuffles-coastal-managemet-committee-members
Environment ministry works to better identify timber sources
Minister of Environment Say Sam Al said on Monday that his ministry is working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to identify whether transported timber is from legal or illegal sources. Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) president Pich Sros, who is also a member ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-works-better-identify-timber-sources
Kingdom’s satellite project still under study
The Telecom Regulator of Cambodia yesterday said that the Kingdom’s plan to launch its first satellite is still being studied after the Defence Ministry denied media reports that it will be sent into space in 2021. TRC spokesman Im Vutha yesterday said that the project ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50577036/kingdoms-satellite-project-still-under-study-2/
Samroang city water shortages
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has decided to dig a one-hectare pond to store day-to-day water for the Oddar Meanchey provincial prison and its surroundings. The prison is located in Samroang city, an area currently facing shortages of water. Provincial Governor Pen Kosal ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50577080/samroang-city-water-shortages/
NGOs call for speedy passage of information freedom law
A group of 19 non-governmental organisations and associations have urged the Kingdom’s legislative and executive bodies to expedite the passage of a draft law on freedom of information, which the group said had been delayed for years. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-call-speedy-passage-information-freedom-law
Ministry issues guidelines to deal with hot weather
The Health Ministry yesterday issued guidelines on how people can prevent illnesses during extremely hot weather caused by the El Nino phenomenon. Ly Sovann, Communicable Disease Control Department director, yesterday said that people should drink boiled water regularly and avoid drinking too much alcohol or ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50576721/ministry-issues-guidelines-to-deal-with-hot-weather-2/
Villagers provide fresh evidence in 14-year dispute
Forty-five families in Kampong Chhnang province on Thursday attended the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to submit additional evidence with regard to a 14-year-long land dispute with KDC International. The villagers, from Kampong Tralach district’s Lor Peang village, submitted evidence confirming to the court that the ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-provide-fresh-evidence-14-year-dispute
Project aims to test climate change response strategies
The Ministry of Environment has funded a Cambodia Climate Change Alliance project and selected five schools to test climate change response strategies by planting trees and developing gardens with increased biodiversity. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/project-aims-test-climate-change-response-strategies
Land row villagers see hope
The Preah Vihear provincial authority and other relevant parties issued a statement on Wednesday that contained five points aimed to end a land dispute between 330 families and private company Metrei Pheap. This follows the submission of a petition requesting Prime Minister Hun Sen to ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-row-villagers-see-hope
Paddy rice production reaches 7.4 million in 2018
Cambodia produced 7.4 million tonnes of paddy rice in 2018, a 3.5 percent increase, according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s annual report. In its report, the ministry said total production in 2018 was only 88.47 percent of what the government expected, adding that 2.4 million ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575496/paddy-rice-production-reaches-7-4-million-in-2018/
Preah Vihear land dispute drags on
Preah Vihear provincial authorities have requested villagers to stop clearing disputed land and wait for authorities to find a solution according to the “tiger skin formula”, which aims to reduce the impact of economic land concessions (ELCs) on villagers’ farming land. The villagers have been ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-land-dispute-drags
Ministry tallies forestry crimes
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday stated that last year it cracked down on more than 1,000 cases. In a report, the ministry said that there were a total of 1,093 cases last year, noting that 582 resulted in fines and 511 were ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575309/ministry-tallies-forestry-crimes/
Water Ministry to implement two mega projects
The Water Resources Ministry and the Asian Development Bank in Cambodia will implement two mega projects totalling $380 million to improve water management in the Kingdom this year. According to a ministry statement, ADB Cambodia’s country director Sunniya Durrani-Jama met Water Resources Minister Lim Kean ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575344/water-ministry-to-implement-two-mega-projects/
Cambodia’s agriculture sector must supply own raw materials
Agricultural sector insiders said relying on neighbouring markets to source raw materials for Cambodia’s agriculture products is a short-term strategy that needs to be managed. During a discussion, last week with Vu Quang Minh, Vietnamese ambassador to Cambodia, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-agriculture-sector-must-supply-own-raw-materials
Ministry ups mental health centres
The Health Ministry has published a list of more than 400 health centres offering treatment for mental disorders and drug abuse, including their locations and contact numbers. The ministry expanded its outreach efforts to address mental health issues and drug abuse in public health facilities ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575069/ministry-ups-mental-health-centres-2/
Preah Vihear villagers band at PM residence in Phnom Penh, seek resolution to land dispute
Some 200 villagers from Preah Vihear province gathered at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s residence in Phnom Penh on Thursday to deliver a petition seeking a resolution to their long-running land dispute. They also sought the release of 13 villagers who had been detained since January 19 for ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-band-pm-residence-phnom-penh-seek-resolution-land-dispute
Rural road work continues to boost livelihoods
The Rural Development Ministry last year paved more than 40,000 kilometres of roads in rural areas to accommodate business travel. According to the ministry’s annual report, in 2018 ministry officials worked with development partners to pave 39,045 kilometres of dirt road, 165 kilometres of asphalt ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50574457/rural-road-work-continues-to-boost-livelihoods/
NCMD urges provincial governors to protect zones
The National Committee for the Management and Development of Coastal Zone has urged four provincial administrations to protect coastal zones and prevent illegal encroachment of coastal zones. These provincial administrations include Preah Sihanouk, Kampot, Kep and Koh Kong. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50573898/ncmd-urges-provincial-governors-to-protect-zones/
Cambodia’s tax revenue enjoys rise once again
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected over $2 billion in tax revenue last year, up 13.37 per cent from the same period in 2017, according to a statement released by the department on Tuesday. At the December 2018 tax collection revenue meeting, General Department ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-tax-revenue-enjoys-rise-once-again
Government calls on NGOs to avoid activities linked to crime
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on Tuesday called on all foreign NGOs to avoid at all costs activities which could be associated or linked to money laundering, financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. He said ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-calls-ngos-avoid-activities-linked-crime
Ministry to conduct CSO census
The Ministry of Interior and the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC) are to conduct a census aimed at ascertaining the exact number of registered civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Kingdom, the ministry’s General Department of Administration director-general Prak Sam Oeun told The Post on ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-conduct-cso-census