Publish list of unlisted, equitised SOEs: deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has ordered all relevant agencies to publicise the list of equitised State-owned enterprises not listed on the stock market as of December 31, 2016. He issued the order in a meeting on Friday. According to the Ministry of Finance, ...
Vietnam’s Industry 4.0 Summit 2019 opens in Hanoi
The Vietnam’s Industry 4.0 Summit 2019 officially opened in Hanoi on October 3 as part of the activities to realise the Politburo’s Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW on actively participating in the Fourth Industrial Revolution to accelerate the national development. Under the theme of “Vietnam’s Strategy & Action ...
Mekong riverbanks to be restored
Mines Ministry officials on March 9 announced a project to shore up sections of the Mekong river affected by erosion that threatens families in Kandal province’s Mok Kampol district. Fifty-nine families living along the river say they have been affected by riverbank collapses. Speaking to about 100 ...
Human Rights Day marches gathering steam despite gov't obstacles
Authorities in Siem Reap on 9 December blocked a march celebrating International Human Rights Day (IHRD), as officials in Phnom Penh reiterated their threat to shut down a planned mass rally in the capital on 10 December. As IHRD, officially on 10 December, approaches, associated demonstrations across ...
Loan discussed, deals inked with Medvedev
Prime Minister Hun Sen met with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, at Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace on 24 November morning where the duo discussed an outstanding Soviet Union-era debt and signed off on deals ranging from cooperation in nuclear power to exchanging information on money laundering. Following ...
40% of localities to set up child-friendly investigation rooms in 2020-2025 period
Child-friendly investigation rooms will be established in 40% of cities and provinces nationwide in the 2020-2025 period, which is set as one of key targets of the Prime Minister-approved national action plan to prevent and combat violence against children and child sexual abuse in the ...
Shooting of Cambodian loggers along Thai border continues
Adding to a spate of similar incidents since October, Thai soldiers fired on a group of Cambodians who had illegally entered Thailand from Oddar Meanchey province on Saturday looking to log valuable rosewood trees and shot one in the hand, a provincial official said yesterday ...
PM says people can topple him if gov’t breaks its campaign pledges
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday that the people could rebel to overthrow him if he did not follow through on his promises. However, he said that would be unnecessary as he would voluntarily step down if such was the case. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-says-people-can-topple-him-if-govt-breaks-its-campaign-pledges
Strung Treng flood rescue efforts continue through elections
As the nation was in an election mood on Sunday, authorities revealed more than 1,400 families were impacted by floods in Siem Pang and Sesan, Strung Treng province after the collapse of a hydropower dam in southern Laos on Monday evening. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strung-treng-flood-rescue-efforts-continue-through-elections
Protected forest land clearing stopped in Koh Kong
Koh Kong provincial authorities detained and educated four people over the clearing of protected forest lands on Monday before releasing them. Deputy Koh Kong Governor Sok Sothy said yesterday that joint authorities cracked down on the land clearing in Koh Kong district. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50530796/protected-forest-land-clearing-stopped-in-koh-kong/
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
Raising the profile of LGBT rights
The Cambodia Human Rights Committee has defended the government’s record on LGBT rights and urged LGBT people to protect themselves from HIV. Keo Remy, director of CHRC, said on Sunday that LGBT people should not lose hope and be depressed by discrimination. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564715/raising-the-profile-of-lgbt-rights/
Labour Law revision could hurt employers: GMAC
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia welcomed the approval of the amendment of article 89 of the Labour Law on worker protection and severance pay by the government on Friday, but the organisation’s head said the move could financially burden employers. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50494469/labour-law-revision-could-hurt-employers-gmac/
Choeung Ek project awaits approval
Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng on Thursday signed a research report conducted by Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) over 12 months on sewer system development at Choeung Ek lake in the capital. The move will allow Jica to design a development project. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/choeung-ek-project-awaits-approval
NGO’s democracy training session shut down
A team of security officials led by a commune chief descended on a private home in rural Koh Kong province on Friday morning to prevent a group of students and activists from holding a democracy training session, an activist and officials said. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-democracy-training-session-shut-down-98181/
Vanful of luxury wood confiscated in Ratanakkiri after crash
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province said they confiscated a vanful of illegal luxury-grade timber on Wednesday after a van driver crashed into a motorbike on his way to the Vietnamese border with the wood, but let the driver go because he was injured. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vanful-of-luxury-wood-confiscated-in-ratanakkiri-after-crash-98796/
Cambodia's Angkor Wat earns over $47 mn in 10 months
Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat temple reached $47.68 million in the first 10 months of 2015 — up 0.62 percent year-on-year, according to an official statement on Tuesday. ...
Business Standard News Staff
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/cambodia-s-angkor-wat-earns-over-47-mn-in-10-months-115110300882_1.html
Kratie bans rice wine production after 17 die
Authorities in Kratie province have ordered an emergency ban on the production of rice wine as the death toll from methanol poisoning in the province over the past five days rose to 17 with the deaths on Sunday of five people in Chet Borei district. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-bans-rice-wine-production-after-17-die-102892/
US museum returns stolen Rama statue
A 10th century stone carving of the Hindu deity Rama, the last remaining statue from the Koh Ker temple complex that had been on public display outside Cambodia, was returned to Phnom Penh last week, officials confirmed on Sunday. ...
Peter Ford and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-museum-returns-stolen-rama-statue-109134/
Driver error leading cause of road traffic accidents in Cambodia
Human error is the leading cause of road traffic accidents in Cambodia and young people on motorcycles make up the largest number of deaths on the nation’s roads, where 1,108 fatalities were recorded in the first six months of 2016. ...
Dy Khamboly
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/driver-error-leading-cause-of-road-traffic-accidents-in-cambodia/3395621.html