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Gov’t to buy power from companies
In a bid to end ongoing blackouts across the country, the government is planning to buy power from the private sector to supply households. The country is now experiencing daily power cuts as a result of extremely hot and dry weather. The seven hydropower dams ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50589834/govt-to-buy-power-from-companies/
Cambodia to buy 200 megawatts from Laos
Cambodia will buy 200 megawatts from Laos to feed rising demand for power in the Kingdom. Electricite du Cambodge has signed an agreement to purchase 200 MW from Laos from 2019 to 2021. The tariff at which the power will be sold has not been ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50589805/cambodia-to-buy-200-megawatts-from-laos/
Seniority payments delayed
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has postponed seniority indemnity payments for non garment and footwear workers until 2021, it said in a statement. “Seniority payments” replaced Cambodia’s previous system of “indemnity for dismissal” payments – a legal concept requiring employers to give employees ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/seniority-payments-delayed
US aids Prey Lang area with protection fund
The United States has begun making payments towards its $37 million aid for the protection of the Prey Lang protected area. The Prey Lang protected area encompasses four different provinces, including Kampong Thom, Kratie, Stung Treng and Preah Vihear. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50589794/us-aids-prey-lang-area-with-protection-fund/
Nokor Tep women’s hospital launched in Phnom Penh
The Women’s Affairs Ministry last week launched the Nokor Tep hospital in Dangkor district in a bid to provide female reproductive services to those less fortunate. Women’s Affairs Minister Ing Kantha Phavi said the hospital’s first task is to secure equipment and human resources. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50589884/nokor-tep-womens-hospital-launched-in-phnom-penh/
Mondulkiri land decision annulled
Mondulkiri provincial governor Svay Sam Eang has issued an announcement nullifying the provincial administration’s 2015 decision that granted a portion of the Doh Kramom Mountain area to the Ministry of Mines and Energy. On June 3, 2015, the provincial hall agreed to cede a 5.07ha ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-land-decision-annulled
HRW urges authorities to reveal activist whereabouts
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Cambodian authorities to immediately reveal the whereabouts of a land activist who was “forcibly disappeared” in Preah Vihear province. It said it was the first time such a thing had occurred since the country was ruled by a single ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hrw-urges-authorities-reveal-activist-whereabouts
Two held encroachment case
Two men who allegedly led some 30 villagers to illegally grab and clear forest land within the Ream National Park for private ownership were detained by the Preah Sihanouk provincial authority on Saturday. Neth Pheaktra, secretary of state and spokesperson of the Ministry of Environment, ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-held-encroachment-case
Customs outline ivory crackdown guidelines
As a member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), Cambodia has been pursuing ways to improve its law enforcement activities to prevent and crack down on the trafficking of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/customs-outline-ivory-crackdown-guidelines
Daily power cuts
Electric power consumption has recently surpassed expectations. The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has explained that demanding more power than can be supplied has led to a nation-wide power shortage. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50589624/daily-power-cuts/
Sihanoukville water treatment plants ‘set for testing’
Officials have said that four facilities designed to prevent waste water from reaching the sea in Preah Sihanouk province would be ready for testing on Monday, as engineers readied to complete the projects before deadline. Yos Chorm Narady, under-secretary of state at the Ministry of ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-water-treatment-plants-set-testing
Government pushes talks with NGOs
A senior Ministry of Interior official on Tuesday instructed municipal, district and commune authorities to set aside a specific time to hold forums with NGOs twice a year to show the willingness and commitment of sub-national administrations to address their concerns. Secretary of state at ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-pushes-talks-ngos
Ministry set to meet the salt community over challenges
The Minister of Industry and Handicraft will hold a meeting with the Kingdom’s salt community in Kep and Kampot provinces next week to discuss the industry’s challenges, ministry spokesman Oum Sotha said. The meeting comes after the Kingdom’s sole salt industry community, Salt Producers Community ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-set-meet-salt-community-over-challenges
GDT requires tax invoice amounts shown in local riel
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has ordered that all taxpayers show the total amount of their tax invoices in Cambodian riel. The change will come into effect on April 1. The GDT instruction issued on Monday indicates that tax invoices are required to show ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-requires-tax-invoice-amounts-shown-local-riel
Government issues advice amid heatwave
The Ministry of Health has issued advice on avoiding health problems as temperatures continue to rise this hot season, warning some conditions brought risks to life. The announcement comes as the weather heated up across Cambodia, with the dry season predicted to prolong into the ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-issues-advice-amid-heatwave
Prey Ang Ten park ranger injured in machete attack
A forest ranger protecting the Prey Ang Ten biodiversity conservation corridor in Kampong Thom province was attacked on Tuesday by an unidentified perpetrator, causing injuries to his head, neck and wrist. Neth Pheaktra, spokesman of the Environment Ministry, yesterday said the incident occurred as five ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50588876/prey-ang-ten-park-ranger-injured-in-machete-attack/
PM Hun Sen: Cambodia will not die without preferential EBA agreement
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday reiterated that he would not be overly concerned if Cambodia had its access to the EU’s preferential “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement withdrawn because the Kingdom would not die without it. Hun Sen was speaking to factory workers in ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-hun-sen-cambodia-will-not-die-without-preferential-eba-agreement
Kingdom may hire Turkish power ship
Cambodia is considering negotiating with Turkey to hire a 200MW-capacity power ship to meet electricity demands as the country faces an ongoing electrical shortage, according to the prime minister. Speaking to garment workers in Pursat province on Wednesday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Electricite du ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-may-hire-turkish-power-ship
Sar Kheng tells P Sihanouk governor to listen to NGOs
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has instructed Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Yun Min to accept input from the public and civil society organisations and create a working group to receive their requests and complaints. Speaking at the provincial hall on Monday, Sar Kheng said addressing ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-tells-p-sihanouk-governor-listen-ngos
First Civil Society Day event attended by some 300 groups
Cambodia’s first Civil Society Day was held on Tuesday, with at least 300 members of civil society groups in attendance at Phnom Penh’s Hotel Cambodiana for the event. Held under the theme Inclusive Partnership for Democratic and Sustainable Development, the day is intended to enable ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-civil-society-day-event-attended-some-300-groups
EU warned as delegation lands
Civil society groups and associations released a public statement on Tuesday expressing concern over the EU starting the process to withdraw Cambodia’s access to its preferential “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement, as a delegation from the bloc landed in Phnom Penh the same day. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-warned-delegation-lands
Cassava production tumbles nearly 1% throughout 2018
Cambodia produced more that 13 million tonnes of cassava last year, a drop on 2017 despite a six per cent increase in cultivation to 650,510ha nationwide, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The data shows Cambodia produced 13,750,076 tonnes of cassava last ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-production-tumbles-nearly-1-throughout-2018
Fire leaves 48 families homeless
The Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) said on Tuesday that 48 families have been made homeless after a fire swept through their homes in Phnom Penh on Sunday afternoon. No one was injured in the blaze, which happened in the Sambok Chab area of Meanchey district’s ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fire-leaves-48-families-homeless
Ten K Speu mining companies allowed to resume operations
Some 10 of the 90 Kampong Speu province mining companies ordered to stop have been permitted to resume operations after meeting guidelines laid out by authorities, a Ministry of Mines and Energy official told The Post on Tuesday. The firms were earlier ordered to cease ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ten-k-speu-mining-companies-allowed-resume-operations