Government
Negotiations to continue for next year’s minimum wage
Negotiations for next year’s minimum wage will continue this week as the parties work to reach an agreement that will impact about 800,000 workers in the textile, garment and footwear industries, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training said on Thursday. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/negotiations-continue-next-years-minimum-wage
Ministry orders halt to sale of ivory souvenirs
The Ministry of Environment has issued a total of 59 notices to souvenir vendors in the capital and Siem Reap and Preah Sihanouk provinces instructing them to halt the selling of sculptures made of elephant ivory or rhinoceros horns and all forms of trade involving ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-orders-halt-sale-ivory-souvenirs
Ministry forms committee as students protest exam results
The Education Ministry has formed a committee tasked with addressing complaints from students who failed the national high school exam and demanded a review of their grades. A ministry press statement issued yesterday acknowledged that many students have protested the results of the exam and filed ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642929/ministry-forms-committee-as-students-protest-exam-results/
Mitigation policy aids more than 60,000 families
The Social Affairs Ministry yesterday said the government has helped more than 60,000 impoverished families affected by natural disasters since it first launched its mitigation policy in 2014. Lao Veng, deputy director of the ministry’s general technical department, said during a press conference at the Council ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642974/mitigation-policy-aids-more-than-60000-families/
Official briefs court on ELCs over logging
A senior Agriculture Ministry official on Tuesday appeared at Mondulkiri Provincial Court to clarify how companies, including a Vietnamese firm under investigation over illegal logging, are granted Economic Land Concessions. Mam Vanda, provincial court spokesman, yesterday said that Chan Savuth, a ministry secretary of state, provided ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642910/official-briefs-court-on-elcs-over-logging/
Hun Sen gains Laos’ support in preventing Sam Rainsy return to Cambodia
In a meeting of prime ministers Wednesday, Cambodia’s Hun Sen appeared to eliminate neighboring Laos as a potential route by which self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy could return to Cambodia as he has pledged to do in November. ...
Eugene Whong
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-laos-prime-minister-meeting-2019-09122019155659.html
Ministry scolds park rangers
The Environment Ministry on Tuesday issued two directives reminding park rangers to properly manage their small arms and refrain from donning unsanctioned uniforms. According to the first directive, rangers must follow 10 points on how to properly store their weapons, meet safety standards and when to ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642429/ministry-scolds-park-rangers/
NGO, indigenous communities call for stronger conservation efforts
The NGO Forum on Cambodia and indigenous communities have called for stronger efforts on the conservation of indigenous languages and the development of indigenous peoples in the Kingdom. The request was made as more than 300 million indigenous people in over 90 countries around the world ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642249/ngo-indigenous-communities-call-for-stronger-conservation-efforts/
US told not to meddle in Kingdom’s internal affairs after Embassy issues Kem Sokha video
The Foreign Affairs Ministry has called on the United States to respect the Kingdom’s laws, saying that it should not meddle in Cambodia’s internal affairs. The ministry’s reaction follows a video clip released by the US embassy in Phnom Penh on Tuesday in which US State ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642431/us-told-not-to-meddle-in-kingdoms-internal-affairs/
Hun Sen issues new directive over impending floods
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday issued another directive to all relevant ministries, institutions and local authorities to take preventive measures to deal with upcoming floods. He noted a severe flooding in the upper Mekong provinces which occurred last week and that the water is only slowly ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642107/hun-sen-issues-new-directive-over-impending-floods/
China to provide security equipment ahead of major events
The Chinese government will help Cambodia by providing security equipment and experience ahead of two international events to be held in the Kingdom in 2020 and 2023. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641756/china-to-provide-security-equipment-ahead-of-major-events/
Cambodia, Laos to sign 2,400-MW power deal
Cambodia and Laos will sign a power deal next week during the state visit of the Laotian prime minister. Through next week’s agreement, the Kingdom will buy 2,400 megawatts from neighbouring Laos. Next week’s deal will be discussed at the Council of Ministers tomorrow, according ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641688/cambodia-laos-to-sign-2400-mw-power-deal/
Roads in 11 provinces damaged by floods
Transport Minister Sun Chanthol on Sunday said that 46 roads in 11 provinces have been severely damaged by floods and the ministry will repair them after water recedes. He said a total of 60 kilometers of roads, including national ones, were involved and the ministry had ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641781/roads-in-11-provinces-damaged-by-floods/
PM allocates $100M for road repairs and construction in Sihanoukville
Prime Minister Hun Sen has allocated $100 million from national reserve funds to repair 22 stretches of roads, ring roads and construct new roads in Preah Sihanouk province. The allocation was approved during a Council of Ministers meeting on August 30. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-allocates-100m-road-repairs-and-construction-sihanoukville
Cambodia not a claimant state in South China Sea dispute
Cambodia is not a claimant state to the territorial dispute in the South China Sea and, as such, it can afford to have its own stance toward the issue. Stating this exclusively to Khmer Times during a recent interview, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said: “Cambodia has to ...
Khmer Times staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641384/cambodia-not-a-claimant-state-in-south-china-sea-dispute/
Cambodia ready to implement UN agreement on paperless trade: gov’t
The government last week said it is ready to implement a regional agreement on paperless trade signed two years ago. In August 2017, Cambodia signed the Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific. Speaking during a meeting last week ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641266/cambodia-ready-to-implement-un-agreement-on-paperless-trade-govt/
‘Ninety-nine oknha in army’
A senior military official said on Sunday that the Ministry of National Defence had found almost 100 military personnel with the title “oknha”. He told The Post that the ministry was preparing procedural formalities to enable the oknha to choose between keeping the honorific or ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ninety-nine-oknha-army
Literacy linked with life skill
Every year, the world celebrates 8th of September as the International Literacy Day, to recognize the important role of literacy as the basis for poverty reduction, democratization, and sustainable development. International evidence demonstrates that literacy improves the quality of people’s lives as literate people are capable ...
Khmer Time Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641073/literacy-linked-with-life-skill/
Ministry reveals informal rice export figures
In the first eight months of the year, Cambodia exported 1.6 million tonnes of paddy rice to neighbouring Vietnam through informal channels, a recent report from the Ministry of Agriculture revealed. That figure is significantly higher than the total amount of milled rice shipped abroad through ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50640842/ministry-reveals-informal-rice-export-figures/
Gov’t to amend traffic law as death toll continues to rise
The government is set to amend traffic laws as the nationwide death toll from road accidents continue to rise. Speaking at the 2nd annual conference on road safety on Thursday, Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol, who is also vice-chairman of the National ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-amend-traffic-law-death-toll-continues-rise
Preah Sihanouk land dispute residents urged to provide evidence
Twenty-three residents of Preah Sihanouk province’s Bit Traing commune in Prey Nop district, who are entrenched in an eight-year land dispute, were urged on Wednesday by the Ministry of Justice to submit legal documents as proof of ownership to Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court. “We do ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-land-dispute-residents-urged-provide-evidence
GMAC urges government to reduce financial burden on employers
As minimum wage negotiations continue, GMAC has asked the government to refrain from increasing the agreed-upon pay bump for garment workers by $5 because it reduces the industry’s competitiveness due to the added financial burden on employers. Minimum wage negotiations between employers, the government and unions ...
May Kunmakara & Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50640403/gmac-urges-government-to-reduce-financial-burden-on-employers/
Contract farming schemes rising: Ministry
The Ministry of Agriculture said the number of contract farming schemes is increasing remarkably, helping enhance productivity and market access for farmers. From January to August, a total of 91 contract farming schemes were inked in various sectors, including rice, sugarcane and livestock production, the ministry ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50639917/contract-farming-schemes-rising-ministry/
Ministry to ‘secretly’ inspect national road constructions
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport announced it will “secretly inspect” Cambodian roads to ensure their quality meets the Kingdom’s standards. Pal Chandara, secretary of state and spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, said a newly formed working group would inspect ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-secretly-inspect-national-road-constructions