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China’s mobile clinics to boost rural health
Twenty mobile clinics out of 40 provided by the Chinese government were deployed yesterday in 11 citities and provincial health departments to bring timely and effective services to people, especially in rural areas. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492136/chinas-mobile-clinics-to-boost-rural-health/
Cambodia gears up for Ebola prevention
The Health Ministry has issued advice to be careful about the Ebola virus disease after the World Health Organisation announced a renewed outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492103/cambodia-gears-up-for-ebola-prevention/
NEC extends window for remaining four parties
The National Election Committee yesterday officially recognised 16 political parties to contest the upcoming national election while extending a five-day window to review documents from four remaining parties. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492134/nec-extends-window-for-remaining-four-parties/
NEC confirms 15 registered
The National Election Committee (NEC) has confirmed that 15 political parties have been registered and that the candidate list for the national elections on July 29 has been completed. A government spokesman has expressed optimism that democracy in Cambodia remains strong despite the absence of ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-confirms-15-registered
Rice storage facilities nearly ready for next harvest season
Three new rice storage and drying facilities will be ready in July for the upcoming harvest season and will boost the sector’s capacity and export potential, even as the Ministry of Agriculture claimed the sector still needs more storage space to meet demand. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-storage-facilities-nearly-ready-next-harvest-season
Koh Kong land dispute to be reinvestigated
The Land Management Ministry on Friday announced that it will solve a land dispute in the province following a weeks-long demonstration by hundreds of villagers who descended upon the ministry’s office in Phnom Penh. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50491767/koh-kong-land-dispute-to-be-reinvestigated/
Villagers push gold mining demands
More than 500 families from Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district protested on Saturday in a renewed call to be allowed to mine for gold at depths of more than 20 metres. The families, rallying in Chong Plas commune, also accused a Chinese firm of destroying ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50491728/villagers-push-gold-mining-demands/
Ministry’s plan for net sparks fears
The government has ordered all domestic and international internet traffic in the Kingdom to pass through a Data Management Centre (DMC) that has been newly created by the state-owned Telecom Cambodia, in a move some have claimed is an attempt to censor government critics. Spokesman ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministrys-plan-net-sparks-fears
Cambodia-China tourism forum held in Phnom Penh
The first high-level Cambodia-China Tourism Forum was held here on Thursday, aiming at exploring opportunities to further promote tourism ties between the two countries. ...
Liang yu
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/18/c_137187142.htm
GMAC says new labour policy could hurt business
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia yesterday issued a statement asking for the Labour Ministry to reconsider its intent to amend article 89 concerning worker protection and severance pay. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50491048/gmac-says-new-labour-policy-could-hurt-business/
Exports to US up 25 pct in Q1
Cambodian exports to the United States, the world’s largest economy, rose sharply during the first three months of the year following a marked increase in the shipments of travel goods after the US renewed its Generalized System of Preferences in March. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490954/exports-to-us-up-25-pct-in-q1/
Protesters block road to ministry
Around 300 people representing hundreds of families in Koh Kong province, who were evicted from their homes to make way for a sugar company owned by businessman and CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat, blocked the road that leads to the Ministry of Land Management on ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-block-road-ministry
Disappointed in election preparations in Cambodia, house committee to meet on possible sanctions
The lawmakers were set to discuss the Cambodia Democracy Act and an amendment that could see Phnom Penh handed further sanctions over its crackdown on the opposition, civil society, and independent media. ...
Sok Khemara
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-congress-to-hold-final-hearing-on-possible-cambodia-sanctions/4398333.html
Election body asks Interior to pursue Rainsy, CNRP for boycott calls
Speaking during a meeting with stakeholders, officials from the National Election Committee (NEC) said it had requested the Ministry of Interior to take legal action against the dissolved Cambodian National Rescue Party and its former leader, Sam Rainsy, for calling on people to forgo voting ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/election-body-asks-interior-pursue-rainsy-cnrp-boycott-calls
Villagers locked in land dispute dispersed by the authorities
About 100 security personnel were deployed yesterday to evict 600 residents who have been occupying Wat Chas pagoda in Chroy Changva district after they refused to retreat pending a Land Management Ministry decision on a petition to solve land disputes in three provinces. ...
Pech Sotheary and Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490636/villagers-locked-in-land-dispute-dispersed-by-the-authorities/
Hundreds of villagers demand their land
More than 100 Koh Kong province villagers returned to the Land Management Ministry office in Phnom Penh demanding that the authorities speed up the distribution process of three hectares of land owed to each family as compensation in two districts after authorities declared it had ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490635/hundreds-of-villagers-demand-their-land/
Nicfec opts not to observe, citing fears of volunteers, election watchdog will not field monitors
NGO Nicfec on Wednesday joined fellow election watchdog Comfrel in deciding not to register poll observers with the National Election Committee (NEC) for July’s national elections, citing a lack of volunteers resulting from, they say, fear of being accused of being part of a colour ...
Agricultural mapping project to be expanded nationwide
With agricultural mapping still in its infancy in the Kingdom, authorities have announced that their programme to boost yields through the use of spatial information technology will be extended to the whole country, an endeavour that will take at least three years to complete. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50489460/agricultural-mapping-project-to-be-expanded-nationwide/
Salt producers told to add iodine or risk losing licence
Salt producers must now add iodine to their product or face losing their business licence after the government passed a Prakas banning sales of non-iodised salt. The move aims to tackle iodine deficiency, which is considered the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490141/salt-producers-told-to-add-iodine-or-risk-losing-licence/
Chinese lab promises help for Cambodia’s agriculture sector
A Chinese laboratory pledged this week to aid the development of Cambodia’s agricultural sector by sharing expertise, technology and human resources. Representatives of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Centre, located in China’s southern province of Hunan, made the pledge on Sunday during an official visit ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490139/chinese-lab-promises-help-for-cambodias-agriculture-sector/
KPP joins call to boycott but NEC, CPP brush off legitimacy concerns, hailing number of parties
Responding to the National Election Committee’s official announcement that 20 political parties will be on the ballot for the July 29 national elections, the CNRP and Khmer Power Party – both of which have former leaders in jail – claimed they wouldn’t recognise the poll ...
Cambodia PM hopes Trump meeting can bring peace to Korean peninsula
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said he hoped that the forthcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would bring peace to the region. ...
Neou Vannarin
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodia-pm-hopes-trump-meeting-can-bring-peace-to-korean-peninsula/4394820.html
NEC official mocks plight of CNRP
The National Election Committee (NEC) Chairman Sik Bun Hok has mocked the dissolved Cambodian National Rescue Party, saying its violation of the constitution led to its disolution. He made his comments during his speech at the National Institute of Education for a workshop on the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-official-mocks-plight-cnrp
US Senator holds talks on ‘strengthening cooperation’
Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen and delegates held talks in Phnom Penh with Minister of Foreign Affairs Prak Sokhon on Wednesday aimed at strengthening cooperation between Cambodia and the United States. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-senator-holds-talks-strengthening-cooperation