Government
Mental health patients relocated to new centre
Dozens of patients with mental health disorders were admitted to the newly built Mental Health Rehab Centre in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district. The centre was established under the Ministries of Social Affairs, Health and Interior. The three-hectare treatment facility was funded with a $500,000 budget ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622648/mental-health-patients-relocated-to-new-centre/
Water problems in Sihanoukville
Officials from the Public Works and Transport Ministry and the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration are studying how to jointly address damaged infrastructure and have decided to first tackle water and road problems. In May, an inter-ministerial committee made up of officials from various ministries agreed to ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622637/water-problems-in-sihanoukville/
NGO seizes 2,300 chainsaws
International wildlife and forest conservation organisation, Wildlife Alliance, said on Monday that 2,300 chainsaws were seized from illegal loggers in the Southern Cardamom Mountains in the last two years. The seizing of the chainsaws is a joint programme initiated by the Ministry of Environment and ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-seizes-2300-chainsaws
MoU inked with GIZ to improve garment sustainability
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Germany’s international development organisation, the Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The MOU serves to implement the second phase of a multinational project aimed at improving the sustainability of the ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mou-inked-giz-improve-garment-sustainability
Key commerce laws to be passed this year
A raft of new laws to boost the local economy is in the pipeline and will be passed before the end of the year, according to a senior public official. Mao Thora, secretary of state at the Ministry of Commerce, told Khmer Times on Tuesday that the E-commerce ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622358/key-commerce-laws-to-be-passed-this-year/
Study on mass transit system completed
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has concluded a feasibility study on the AGT, an electric mass transit system that could help reduce traffic congestion in Phnom Penh. However, the result of the study has not been made public yet, said Vasim Sorya, spokesman for the ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622359/study-on-mass-transit-system-completed/
King urges tree planting on Arbour Day
On a visit to Kratie province on Tuesday to celebrate Arbour Day, also known as National Tree Planting Day, King Norodom Sihamoni called on the people to plant trees in public areas and on their farmland and join together to prevent deforestation and environmental crimes. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king-urges-tree-planting-arbour-day
PM wants authorities to address all public concerns
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on authorities to address all concerns raised by the the public in line with the Kingdom’s efforts to implement sustainable development goals. In a message to mark today’s celebration of the 30th World Population Day under the theme, “25 years ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622492/pm-wants-authorities-to-address-all-public-concerns/
RCAF seeks Chinese language aid
RCAF deputy commander General Ith Sarath has requested the Chinese military help teach the Chinese language to military officials. Gen Sarath on Monday met with Brigadier General Xu Wenhua, deputy director of the Royal Academy of Artillery and Air Defence of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622468/rcaf-seeks-chinese-language-aid/
Firms reminded of indemnity duty
With claims that some companies are attempting to avoid forking out seniority indemnity payments, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has reminded the owners and bosses of garment and footwear companies of their obligation to implement the new policy. Indemnity payments for workers in ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firms-reminded-indemnity-duty
Ministry probes land grab in Kampong Chhnang
The Agriculture Ministry has ordered officials to investigate and take action against people who illegally cleared state land in Kampong Chhnang province’s in Rolea Ba’ier district. Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon yesterday said that after receiving information about the land grab in the district’s Trapaing Ampil, Pra ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50622443/ministry-probes-land-grab-in-kampong-chhnang/
Military Police vow Mondulkiri forestry crimes investigation
The National Military Police vowed to act on the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ order to crack down on forestry crimes which allegedly occurred beyond the perimeter of concession land near the Vietnamese border in Mondulkiri province. Eng Hy, National Military Police spokesperson, claimed ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-police-vow-mondulkiri-forestry-crimes-investigation
Chinese Embassy petitioned
More than 20 protesters representing 140 families involved in land disputes in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy on Monday to submit a petition requesting it intervene and ask the Union Development Group (UDG) to provide them with ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-embassy-petitioned
National committee set to destroy timber vehicles
In order to preserve the Kingdom’s forests, the National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention has warned it will take strict action against offenders by burning any vehicles used to transport timber at the crime scene itself. But environmental activists said this course of action would ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-committee-set-destroy-timber-vehicles
City Hall launches bus app
In a bid to improve public transportation services, City Hall on Friday launched an app that enables travellers to track the location of city buses. In a press release, City Hall said it cooperated with JICA to install GPS on buses for the City Bus app, ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50621812/city-hall-launches-bus-app-2/
Illegal building sites to have power cut
The government is to act against illegal construction sites nationwide by cutting off their electricity and water and halting the supply of materials. The measures come as the latest move against unlicensed projects after 28 people were killed and 26 injured following the collapse on ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-building-sites-have-power-cut
PM’s Geneva trip ‘a success’
After Prime Minister Hun Sen returned from his July 3-5 visit to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Switzerland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation described the meetings as “successful”. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-geneva-trip-success
Gov’t launches revenue strategy
The government launched the Revenue Mobilisation Strategy 2019-2023 on Thursday. The 77-page book details key strategies such as modernisation of the General Department of Taxation’s (GDT) fiscal revenue system in response to the increasing demand for service quality, social equity guarantee and sustainability of revenue ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-launches-revenue-strategy
Thousands of crimes along the borders prevented: Defence Ministry
The Defence Ministry yesterday reported that it cracked down on more than 2,900 border crimes during the first six months of this year while pledging to continue cooperation with neighbouring countries to fight crimes. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50620479/thousands-of-crimes-along-the-borders-prevented-defence-ministry/
Gov’t reviews access to information law draft
A fifth iter-ministerial meeting was held on Wednesday to continue reviewing and discussing the first draft of the Access to Information Law, even as civil society called on the ministries to accelerate its discussions. Following the meeting, which was led by the Ministry of Information, ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-reviews-access-information-law-draft
Ministry calls for stricter controls to stop cassava virus
The Ministry of Agriculture is calling for stricter border controls after 12 provinces recently reported cases of the mosaic virus in cassava plantations, according to a ministry official. The cassava mosaic virus has been spreading around the country through the work of farmers but originates from ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50620241/ministry-calls-for-stricter-controls-to-stop-cassava-virus/
Police searching for illegal fishing suspects
Siem Reap provincial authorities are searching for the owners of two confiscated boats which were used for illegal fishing during the closed fishing season in Chi Kreng district’s Anlong Samnor commune. Colonel Sok Theavuth, district police chief, yesterday said that provincial anti-economic crime police, in collaboration ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50620306/police-searching-for-illegal-fishing-suspects-2/
MoU inked on better service delivery
NGOs and government officials said Cambodians, especially poor people in rural areas, are now more informed about their right to receive public services, and that public service agents are friendlier and performing better than previously. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mou-inked-better-service-delivery
New forestry committee formed
The government has created a new national committee to tackle forest land clearing and grabbing. However, the move was immediately shot down by a prominent forest activist who said it would be ineffective, given the systemic collusion between the authorities and land grabbers. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-forestry-committee-formed