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Health ministry warns of a spike in dengue
Health Ministry officials are warning that this year will see an increased rate of dengue fever across the country, as the cyclical virus has already shown higher than usual rates of infection, with Mondolkiri province seeing an acute spike in cases. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/health-ministry-warns-of-a-spike-in-dengue-114967/
Another setback for online company registration goal
The Ministry of Commerce has extended the deadline for companies to register online after yet another poor response to its automated online business-registration system, a ministry official said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/another-setback-online-company-registration-goal
Land dispute resolution teams unveiled
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction unveiled the team members and case loads of the 27 land dispute resolution teams it announced it was creating on June 3 in an effort to more quickly handle such conflicts. ...
Pech Sotheary and Donna M Airoldi
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-dispute-resolution-teams-unveiled
Affordable houses for all
A public housing project, which aims to provide affordable housing for the lower middle class, low-income earners and state workers, is due to start at the end of the year after the completion of a study to determine its feasibility. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26739/affordable-houses-for-all/
PM: no customs privatization
In his speech to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Customs and Excise Department, he said the proposal to privatize the collection of customs and excise duties was politically motivated to put pressure on the government. ...
Chea vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26679/pm--no-customs-privatization/
Memorandum to fight money laundering
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Financial Intelligence Unit of the National Bank of Cambodia (FIUNBC) to exchange information on money laundering and the financing of terrorist activities. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26678/memorandum-to-fight-money-laundering/
Union law kicks in a month late
Unions expressed their continued dissatisfaction with the new Trade Union Law after the Ministry of Labor reminded them on Tuesday that it officially took effect last month. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26694/union-law-kicks-in-a-month-late/
Cambodia eyes more trade with Hong Kong
The Ministry of Commerce received a visiting business delegation led by Bruno Luk, director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade office in Singapore, Pao Hengdara, the ministry’s chief of cabinet, said yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-eyes-more-trade-hong-kong
New restrictions aim to curb rice imports
The Ministry of Economy and Finance announced on Monday that the government will block all illegal rice imports at its borders and limit legal rice shipments from Vietnam based on production cost. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-restrictions-aim-curb-rice-imports
Koh Kong sand-dredging opponents on trial over alleged threats
After more than 10 months in pretrial detention, a trio of activists from environmental group Mother Nature yesterday faced court for allegedly threatening to destroy dredging equipment during a protest against sand mining in Koh Kong province last year. ...
Phak Seangly and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-sand-dredging-opponents-trial-over-alleged-threats
Possible measles cases prompt investigation
Ministry of Health officials are investigating two suspected measles cases – one in Phnom Penh and another in Svay Rieng province. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/possible-measles-cases-prompt-investigation
Chinese firm floats proposal for rail link to capital’s port
A Chinese state railway construction contractor has approached the government with a bid to conduct a feasibility study on connecting the capital’s river port to the Kingdom’s sole operating railway line, a state official said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-floats-proposal-rail-link-capitals-port
South Korea seeking more migrant workers in ’16
The number of migrant workers who will travel to South Korea this year will nearly double compared with last year, according to the Labour Ministry. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/south-korea-seeking-more-migrant-workers-16
S. Korea's vice defense minister visits Cambodia, Laos this week
South Korea’s vice defense minister will visit Cambodia and Laos this week in the country’s widening efforts to win over countries close to North Korea as Pyongyang shows little sign of letting up on its military provocations. ...
Yonhap
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160627000628
Traffic fines to be paid electronically
The Ministry of Interior is setting up a system that will allow traffic fines to be paid electronically at banks and money transfer services. Run Roth Veasna, director of the department of traffic and order police, said the system could be up and running by ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-fines-be-paid-electronically
Rosewood exports undercut UN protections
Cambodia exported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of threatened Siamese rosewood in the 18 months after ratifying a 2013 international protocol designed to protect the species from destructive trade, according to a report released on Friday. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rosewood-exports-undercut-un-protections-114612/
Health Ministry acknowledges ‘complications’ in nod to CNM graft
The Ministry of Health this week called for closer oversight of contract employees and acknowledged “inappropriate phenomena” in paperwork filed by mid-level officials, an admission that comes just over a month after evidence came to light of widespread graft at the Kingdom’s National Malaria Centre ...
Bun Sengkong and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-acknowledges-complications-nod-cnm-graft
Interest shown in Siem Reap rail connection
Private sector companies have expressed interest in building a high-speed railway to connect Phnom Penh to Siem Reap and the Thai border town of Poipet, Transportation Minister Sun Chanthol announced yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/interest-shown-siem-reap-rail-connection
Army worms beating a retreat
The plague of army worms that were eating crops in a dozen provinces last week is now under control, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has reported, with the soybean crops recording the most damage. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26482/armyworms-beating-a-retreat/
Child labor rampant in kingdom
Cambodia’s dependence on illegal child labor, despite its small population, is endemic compared to neighboring countries, according to Veng Heang, director of the Child Labor Department at the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26438/child-labor-rampant-in-kingdom/
Tax authority sets window for road tax compliance
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) announced yesterday that the government will collect annual road tax payments from July 1 until November 30. ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-authority-sets-window-road-tax-compliance
Export cassava to Thailand, says ministry
Cambodia’s cassava growers have been asked to target Thailand as an export market due to the high demand for the starch-tuber in the neighboring country to produce ethanol, animal feed and flour, while little is done at home to stabilize prices and provide assistance to ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26425/export-cassava-to-thailand--says-ministry/
Making villages see the light
More than 60 percent of rural homes in the Kingdom will have electricity by the end of this month and all villages in the country will no longer be engulfed in pitch darkness at night when they are connected to the national grid by 2020. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26423/making-villages-see-the-light/
Fee proposed on plastic bags
The government has proposed slugging shoppers 500 riel for plastic bags in a bid to reduce environmental pollution. A draft prakas on plastic bags that would include the fee was reviewed yesterday in a Department of Environment workshop attended by government representatives along with mall and ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fee-proposed-plastic-bags