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    Accurate scales to be placed at markets

    The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts is planning to install so-called “justice scales” at all markets throughout the Kingdom to ensure customers are not being overcharged for items that weigh less than their sellers claim, according to ministry spokesman Oum Sitha.     ...

    Pav Suy
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24981/accurate-scales-to-be-placed-at-markets/

    Government struggles to ease capital congestion

    Experts warn that soaring population, vehicle use, condominium construction, minimal enforcement of parking and vehicle tax laws and lackluster public transit options could spell decades of gridlock if action is not taken soon. ...

    Ben Paviour
    https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-struggles-to-ease-capital-congestion-112568/

    Asian responses to Sino-US rivalry: Cambodia’s perspective

    The Asian strategic environment is being overturned by a radical shift in the distribution of wealth and power between the major powers and the corresponding shift in their strategic expectations as well as by responses from smaller powers to those shifts.    ...

    Cheunboran Chanborey
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24971/asian-responses-to-sino-us--rivalry--cambodia---s-perspective/

    Garment workers to get health insurance

    Garment workers across the Kingdom will receive health insurance from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) by 2018, according to officials. ...

    Mom Kunthear
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24928/garment-workers-to-get-health-insurance/

    Pig skin to kick off leather industry

    Agro-industrial giant Mong Reththy Group is finalising construction on the Kingdom’s first pig skin processing factory and expects production to begin by the end of the year, a company executive said yesterday. ...

    Cheng Sokhorng
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pig-skin-kick-leather-industry

    Nearly six million hectares to be protected

    Minister of Environment Say Sam Al has sent a letter to the Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction asking to register nearly six million  hectares of land as protected under the Ministry of the Environment.    ...

    May Titthara
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24932/nearly-six-million-hectares-to-be-protected/

    Commuter rail link from city to airport considered

    Royal Railways, the company that holds a 30-year concession to operate the Kingdom’s railway network, is conducting a feasibility study on establishing a commuter rail service to run between the capital’s airport and its central district, the company’s chief executive said yesterday. ...

    Kali Kotoski
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commuter-rail-link-city-airport-considered

    Women encouraged to enter politics

    In the lead-up to the upcoming elections, three provinces have been selected to participate in a three-year project designed to encourage women, first-time voters and the youth to actively participate in politics. ...

    Mom Kunthea
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24873/women-encouraged-to-enter-politics/

    Ambassador to Australia faces graft claims

    Cambodia’s ambassador to Australia was told by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday to respond to allegations that he and his staff have been illegally selling large quantities of tax-exempt alcohol and tobacco to a store in Melbourne.   ...

    Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'Connell
    https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ambassador-to-australia-faces-graft-claims-112488/

    ADB praises economy

    The Asian Development Bank on Monday named Cambodia as the fastest growing economy in Asia in its latest new analysis article titled Here Comes Cambodia: Asia’s New Tiger Economy. ...

    May Kunmakara
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24857/adb-praises-economy/

    Thai timber found with Khmer script

    More than 100 pieces of luxury rosewood bearing Cambodian names and a phone number were found by Thai police and forest conservation officers in a national park in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province on Tuesday.   ...

    Khouth Sophak Chakrya
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-timber-found-khmer-script

    Cambodia, Vietnam sign security agreement

    Cambodia and Vietnam’s security ministries signed a cooperation agreement yesterday to fight crime and strengthen security between the two neighbors. ...

    Ven Rathavong
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24871/cambodia--vietnam-sign-security-agreement/

    Ministry sees export market growing

    Cambodia’s total agricultural production was down slightly last year while a larger share of this production went to exports, the Ministry of Agriculture said in its annual report, released yesterday. ...

    Cheng Sokhorng
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-sees-export-market-growing

    Kingdom to clean up to ASEAN standards

    The Kingdom’s first automated measures to apply for sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) certification of imports and exports will be launched by the end of June in an effort to boost and facilitate communication between Ministry of Agriculture officials and importers and exporters applying for SPS ...

    Sok Chan
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24860/kingdom-to-clean-up-to-asean-standards/

    Ambassador brushes off black monday allegations

    The US Ambassador to Cambodia yesterday denied American involvement in the Black Monday protest, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesman. ...

    Ros Chanveasna
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24872/ambassador-brushes-off-black-monday-allegations/

    Royal railways considering airport train

    Royal Railways is conducting a feasibility study on a rail line that would whisk passengers from the center of Phnom Penh to the airport in less than 15 minutes, the company’s CEO said on Wednesday. ...

    Ben Paviour
    https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/royal-railways-considering-airport-train-112496/

    Mango exports to EU growing

    Almost 60 tons of Cambodian mangoes were exported to the European Union during the harvesting season this year, according to Mong Reththy, who runs the country’s largest agricultural export company. ...

    Sum Manet
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24859/mango-exports-to-eu-growing/

    Nearly half of 2016 tax target already collected

    In the first four months of the year, the government collected nearly half of its tax revenue target for all of 2016, local media reported yesterday, citing Kong Vibol, director of the General Department of Taxation (GDT).   ...

    Post Staff
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nearly-half-2016-tax-target-already-collected

    Fleet of more than 100 fire trucks arrive from China

    The first tranche of fire trucks headed to Cambodia in a deal the government struck with China last year to furnish the country with fire-fighting vehicles for the provinces arrived on Wednesday, the head of the national police force’s fire department said.   ...

    Phan Soumy
    https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/112499-112499/

    Deforestation costs acknowledged

    In a startling admission yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture finally acknowledged that the Kingdom’s forest cover has decreased rapidly over the past few decades, down from a high of 73 percent in 1965 to now, where only 49.5 percent of the country’s forests remain. ...

    May Titthara
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24876/deforestation-costs-acknowledged/

    Official to address Vietnamese land allegation

    Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that he will appoint a government official to answer questions in the National Assembly about economic land concessions (ELC) allegedly granted to members of the Vietnamese military in Rattanakiri province. ...

    Taing Vida
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24875/official-to-address-vietnamese-land-allegation/

    Pursat demining death caused by use of incorrect equipment

    A deminer killed in Pursat province late last month was using the “wrong tool” while clearing an area of land in the infamous K-5 minefield when he detonated an anti-personnel landmine, according to a preliminary investigation by HALO Trust, the NGO for which he worked. ...

    Peter Ford
    https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pursat-demining-death-caused-by-use-of-incorrect-equipment-112460/

    National bank to receive support from IFC

    The International Finance Corporation (IFC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) yesterday in a move that officials are predicting will usher in a new era of responsible corporate governing practices, transparency, financial risk management and public confidence in the ...

    May Kunmakara
    http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24858/national-bank-to-receive-support-from-ifc/

    MEF and USAID launch transparency initiative

    USAID and the US Treasury Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) have launched a joint initiative with the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) to improve fiscal transparency and accountability in the management of public finances, according to a press release issued yesterday.   ...

    Post Staff
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mef-and-usaid-launch-transparency-initiative

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