Government
Deminers to get training in China
The Cambodian Mine Action Authority is going to dispatch 40 of its demining staff to China to receive training next month as part of China’s commitment in supporting mine clearance. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50527762/deminers-to-get-training-in-china/
Event to counter bushmeat consumption
As International Vulture Awareness Day approaches, conservationists have called for a boycott of bushmeat and a halt to using poison to hunt wildlife. Ny Naiky, BirdLife International Cambodia Programme coordinator who has been tasked with vulture conservation, said yesterday that red-head, white-romped and slender-billed vultures ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50527300/event-to-counter-bushmeat-consumption/
Eighteen of 20 parties now in forum after GDP, OMLP join
Two more parties have decided to participate in the Consultation Forum, which had its inaugural meeting last week. This brings its membership to 18 of the 20 parties that participated in the July 29 national elections. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eighteen-20-parties-now-forum-after-gdp-omlp-join
Ministry plans to support pedestrian welfare
The Land Management Ministry announced last week a series of construction projects to increase safe spaces for pedestrians, including new sidewalks and bike lanes in Phnom Penh and provincial cities. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50526760/ministry-plans-to-support-pedestrian-welfare/
Cassava in focus of Green Leader, UN deal
Hong Kong-based Green Leader Holding Group and the United Nations Development Progamme (UNDP) signed a cost-sharing agreement on Thursday to implement an $800,000 project on accelerating the cassava market. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-focus-green-leader-un-deal
PM: Ease debt load on flood victims
Prime Minister-designate Hun Sen on Thursday urged the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) to work with all microfinance institutions (MFIs) to find ways to ease debt burdens on those displaced from flooding in the Kingdom. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-ease-debt-load-flood-victims
Kratie disputants protest in capital
Some 300 villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district protested outside the land management ministry in Phnom Penh on Thursday, calling for a solution to their long-running land dispute with a rubber plantation in the province. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-disputants-protest-capital
Fishermen and farmers want environmental issues addressed
With the government pushing the sustainable development goals (SDG) agenda forward, fishermen and farmers urged authorities to address the various ecological and environmental challenges they face during an event this week in Siem Reap. ...
Kazi Mahmood
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50526423/fishermen-and-farmers-want-environmental-issues-addressed/
Hun Sen defends new Consultation Forum
Prime Minister-designate Hun Sen on Thursday defended his establishment of the Consultation Forum, saying it gives opposition parties an opportunity to contribute to nation-building. Speaking to over 17,000 garment workers in Kandal province, the Cambodian People’s Party leader was responding to criticisms from some members ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-defends-new-consultation-forum
Plans for World Cleanup Day event
The Environment Ministry has asked the Interior Ministry to help facilitate its World Cleanup Day event planned for next month to raise environmental protection awareness. ...
Or Sreypich
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50525760/plans-for-world-cleanup-day-event/
Ministry issues health warning over receding flood waters
The Health Ministry is appealing to flood victims to take precautions against contracting diseases as waters recede. Health Minister Mam Bun Heng on Tuesday made the appeal during a visit to distribute medicine to families in Tboung Khmum province. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50525762/ministry-issues-health-warning-over-receding-flood-waters/
Parents urged to be cautious over dengue
The Health Ministry has urged parents who suspect their children to be suffering from dengue infections, to immediately send them to state-run hospitals for treatment. The call follows the death of 13 children due to dengue fever over the last eight months. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parents-urged-be-cautious-over-dengue
China eyes poverty reduction
China, which lifted a large number of its almost 1.5 billion citizens from economic hardship over the decades, has pledged to assist Cambodia to alleviate poverty among its people. The assurance was conveyed by Huang Xilian, the Chinese Ambassador to Asean during the two Asean-China-UNDP ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-eyes-poverty-reduction
Development goals in focus at Siem Reap meet
A two-day symposium kicked off in Siem Reap on Monday, jointly hosted by members of Asean, China and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The meeting sought to focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and discuss ways of alleviating poverty. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/development-goals-focus-siem-reap-meet
Ministry: Selling untitled lands creates conflict
In a bid to prevent land conflicts across the country, the Land Management Ministry is requesting capital and provincial authorities to stop the practice of registering land without approval. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524688/ministry-selling-untitled-lands-creates-conflict/
Crackdown on illegal fishing in Tonle Sap
Pursat provincial police and fishery administration officials cracked down on a large scale illegal fishing operation along Tonle Sap lake and seized equipment including over 5,300 fishing nets in Kandieng district’s Raing Til commune. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524750/crackdown-on-illegal-fishing-in-tonle-sap/
Over 100,000 Kingdom high school students sit exams
A Total of 117,062 students sat for their high school examinations nationwide on Monday, braving incessant rains and the marauding floods in some provinces, said the Ministry of Education. And the number of candidates this year was much higher compared to last year’s 103,112 students. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-100000-kingdom-high-school-students-sit-exams
First highway to break ground in November
Construction of the Kingdom’s first-ever highway, stretching 190 kilometres to connect Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, was confirmed to start in November. The highway will begin in Phnom Penh’s Chaom Chao area, starting at street Tom Nop Kop Srov, which links national roads 4 and 5, ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524648/first-highway-to-break-ground-in-november/
Kingdom counts 18 dead from Mekong floods
At least 18 people in the Kingdom have died and more than 40,000 families impacted by the Mekong River flooding this season, National Committee for Natural Disaster spokesman Keo Vy, told The Post on Monday. He said floodwaters in the five riverside provinces of Tbong ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-counts-18-dead-mekong-floods
UN: Large number of voters ‘alienated’
The spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) claimed a significant proportion of the Cambodian population was left alienated in the July 29 elections after the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-large-number-voters-alienated
Ministry to monitor Kirirom national park
Senior Environment Ministry officials on Saturday agreed to continue to work together and cooperate with local forest rangers in order to maintain order and prevent forestry crimes from occurring in Kirirom national park. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524365/ministry-to-monitor-kirirom-national-park/
Number of flood deaths rises to 18
The Ministry of Water Resources and Metereology said yesterday that flooding of the Mekong, Sekong and Sesan rivers was caused by tropical storm Bebinca and that the death toll from floods in some provinces have risen to 18. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524368/number-of-flood-deaths-rises-to-18/
Hun Sen formally appointed as PM
King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday appointed Hun Sen as prime minister with the duty of organising a government for approval by the National Assembly. On his re-appointment, Mr Hun Sen pledged to do his best to serve the whole nation for another five-year term after ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524420/hun-sen-formally-appointed-as-pm/
KrisEnergy set to review bids for drilling services
Singapore-based firm KrisEnergy, which operates Cambodia’s offshore Block A, is now reviewing bids submitted by contractors for integrated drilling services and a facilities platform. They were submitted during the second quarter. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-set-review-bids-drilling-services