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CDC approves eight projects so far in March
Cambodia approved eight investment projects worth over $69 million in the first three weeks of this month that are expected to deliver 5,249 jobs, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-approves-eight-projects-so-far-march
Tax revenue from casino sector drops
Tax revenue from Cambodia’s casino industry cratered in 2020 as Covid-19 prompted the government to tighten entry restrictions, limiting the number of international visitors to the Kingdom, according to a Ministry of Economy and Finance senior official on March 21. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-revenue-casino-sector-drops
BAKC inks MoU for victimised women
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) will work with Cambodia National Council for Women to provide legal defence services and train enforcement officials in relevant laws. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bakc-inks-mou-victimised-women
Mondulkiri province enforces 14 days’ quarantine for external visitors and travellers
The Governor of Mondulkiri Province, Svay Sam Eang, said that people from other capitals and provinces and those who are suspected to have health problems related to the February 20 community event must be quarantines for 14 days before they are allowed entry into the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50828153/mondulkiri-province-enforces-14-days-quarantine-for-external-visitors-and-travellers/
Prime Minister announces three-day Khmer New Year holiday
Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided to allow three days off for this year’s Khmer New Year celebrations after last year’s holidays were cancelled over the pandemic. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50828067/prime-minister-announces-three-day-khmer-new-year-holiday/
Japan funds project to end violence against children amid C-19
The Government of Japan has provided more than $3 million to UNICEF Cambodia to launch a new project aimed at ending violence against children in the Kingdom. ...
Rhea Mae Soco
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50828171/japan-funds-project-to-end-violence-against-children-amid-c-19/
Four charged over land grab in Preah Vihear
Four men were charged in the Preah Vihear Provincial Court for impersonating as environment officers, clearing 10 hectares of state land, and claiming it belongs to them. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50828141/four-charged-over-land-grab-in-preah-vihear/
Thailand donates $100,000 for Cambodian migrant workers
The Thai government has contributed $100,000 in assistance to Cambodia to help improve the well-being of Cambodian migrant workers in different quarantine centres along the border. ...
Rhea Mae Soco
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50828069/thailand-donates-100000-for-cambodian-migrant-workers/
All public and private educational institutions in Cambodia suspended
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has issued a proclamation announcing the temporary suspension of public and private educational institutions at all levels throughout the country. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50827832/all-public-and-private-educational-institutions-in-cambodia-suspended/
Preah Vihear villagers seek solution to ‘encroachment’
Around 230 families from three villages in Romtom commune of Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district said they are worried about the continued encroachment on their farmland by three companies which have licences for gold mining and agricultural in the area. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-seek-solution-encroachment
Ministry calls on the stop of ill-willed advocacy under the name of environmental protection
The Ministry of Environment has reiterated the government’s solid commitment in natural resource conservation, and called on the stop of any ill-willed campaign under the name of “environmental protection”. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50827084/ministry-calls-on-the-stop-of-ill-willed-advocacy-under-the-name-of-environmental-protection/
Six illegal logging tractors seized
Svay Leu district forestry administration office in Siem Reap province has given a month’s notice to the owners of homemade tractors impounded last week for transporting illegal timber. Authorities warned that if no action was taken the administration would take the case to court. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-illegal-logging-tractors-seized
20K tonnes of fish left unsold
President of the Cambodian Aquaculturist Association (CAA) has requested that relevant ministries find a solution to the more than 20,000 tonnes of aquaculture fish left unsold as imports flood the market. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/20k-tonnes-fish-left-unsold
‘Pandemic fuels demand for management of property’
The pandemic has increased pressure on building operators, resulting in an all-time high in demand for property management, US-based commercial real estate and service and investment firm CBRE – the largest in the world – said yesterday. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50826486/pandemic-fuels-demand-for-management-of-property/
GDT firm on March 31 tax deadline
General Department of Taxation (GDT) director-general Kong Vibol refused to budge on a March 31 deadline to file tax on income (ToI) for fiscal year 2020 despite the economic pressure on the business community caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-firm-march-31-tax-deadline
Tobacco exports trail off in 2020
Cambodia exported more than 5.8 thousand tonnes of dried tobacco leaves worth more than $17 million to nine countries last year, marking a 14 per cent and 28 per cent decline in volume and value, respectively, over 2019. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tobacco-exports-trail-2020
Kampong Speu could get cement plant
Conch KT Cement (Phnom Penh) Co Ltd plans to build a $263 million cement factory in Kampong Speu province with a two-million-tonne-a-year capacity, according to provincial governor Vei Samnang on March 18. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampong-speu-could-get-cement-plant
‘Pandemic fuels demand for management of property’
The pandemic has increased pressure on building operators, resulting in an all-time high in demand for property management, US-based commercial real estate and service and investment firm CBRE – the largest in the world – said yesterday. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50826486/pandemic-fuels-demand-for-management-of-property/
Kampong Speu reclaims 266ha state land
The Kampong Speu provincial authorities are working to identify land grabbers after reclaiming more than 266ha of land at nine sites in Oral district’s Tasal and Trapaing Chor communes as state property. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-reclaims-266ha-state-land
Teachers in Phnom Penh and four provinces to get jabs
The government has extended its vaccination drive to teachers in Phnom Penh and four provinces amid the February 20 community event. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50826223/teachers-in-phnom-penh-and-four-provinces-to-get-jabs/
Japan provides additional $483,000 to support projects in Cambodia
The Japanese Government has agreed to provide $483,204 in total to supports some projects in five provinces, under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (KUSANONE Grant). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50826505/japan-provides-additional-483000-to-support-projects-in-cambodia/
A military personnel infected with COVID-19 despite his second dose
Ministry of Defence General Tea Banh announced tonight a military officer has been infected with COVID-19 despite receiving his second dose. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50826363/a-military-personnel-infected-with-covid-19-despite-his-second-dose/
US Embassy in Cambodia issues alert on restrictions on travel between provinces
According to media reports, the Cambodian government has given provincial administrations authority to implement restrictions on travel between provinces in response to the current COVID-19 outbreak. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50826538/us-embassy-in-cambodia-issues-alert-on-restrictions-on-travel-between-provinces/
UNDP provides 60 ambulances to Cambodia
The United Nations Development Programme yesterday announced that it has donated ambulances and other medical equipment to help the Kingdom combat COVID-19, which so far has seen 121 million people infected worldwide and 2.67 million deaths. ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50826374/undp-provides-60-ambulances-to-cambodia/