Unions ask for $200 minimum wage for 2022
The Trade Unions have proposed that The minimum wage for workers be raised to $200 per month, starting next year which is a turn from Their initial demand of $250 last year. ...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50921500/unions-ask-for-200-minimum-wage-for-2022/
Weddings, festivals and other ceremonies banned on streets during election campaign
People hoping to hold weddings or other celebration and events on the streets of Daun Penh District will have to postpone them after the authorities banned any from taking place during election campaigns. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501079052/weddings-festivals-and-other-ceremonies-banned-on-streets-during-election-campaign/
NA urged to scrutinise government’s performance
The National Assembly (NA) not only plays The role of decision-maker on fundamental issues affecting The country but is also tasked to oversee The government’s performance. Some 17 national projects proposed by government sectors have been approved by The Assembly’s Standing Committee over The past six ...
Somsack Pongkhao
Mekong inundates newly built shopping centre
The Mekong River rose rapidly overnight on Saturday and Vientiane residents woke up to see The newly built Nakharath City shopping centre partially submerged. The owners of The 300 stalls it contains were astonished to find that The river had claimed The site and hurriedly ...
Sisay Vilaysack
‘Little’ campaigning done for Senate polls
The National Election Committee said yesterday that three political parties standing for next week’s Senate election have done very little campaigning, while NGOs said it was a consequence of The main opposition party being dissolved. According to an NEC press release, The three parties that have ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109501/little-campaigning-done-senate-polls/
Switched on: Top electric power conference heads to Thailand
The Power and Energy Society (PES), which bills itself as The The world’s largest forum for The electric power industry, is literally counting The days, hours, minutes and seconds before its Grand international Conference and Exposition is held for The first time outside of The ...
John Le Fevre
Three years with indigenous tribes
Far from urban comforts and civilization, Belgian photographer Cédric Delannoy spent three years in remote Ratanakiri indigenous villages. After hunting for forest crickets with local children, washing his clothes in a stream and attending village meetings, Mr. Delannoy became part of a community that would ...
Marina Shafik
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12061/three-years-with-indigenous-tribes/
Bad coffee spoils local ceremony
Dozens of people are expected to recover after getting sick from instant coffee at a pagoda ceremony in Siem Reap’s Chi Kraeng district on Saturday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bad-coffee-spoils-local-ceremony
One dead, seven hurt after lightning strikes
A fisherman and his brother were struck by lightning on Sunday – one of them fatally – while six others were injured in storms, local police said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-dead-seven-hurt-after-lightning-strikes
New airport to be constructed next year
Royal Government of Cambodia’s plan to construct an international airport in Siem Reap province will be carried out next year, according to local media report. ...
Phal Sophanith
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=107909
Ad-hoc commission on vaccination process formed
An ad-hoc commission, headed by the Ministry of Health secretary of state Or Vandine, will be formed for COVID-19 vaccination, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. . ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50825716/ad-hoc-commission-on-vaccination-process-formed/
Thai junta tells Japan investors $45-billion development plan to go ahead
A $45-billion plan to redevelop Thailand’s industrial east will go ahead regardless of whoever takes power after elections, the military government told hundreds of Japanese investors on Monday. Keep reading ...
Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Pracha Hariraksapitak
HCMC secures $5 billion from Canadian fund for Mekong Delta rail link
Construction of a railway connecting Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong delta capital of Can Tho is expected to start later this year using nearly $5 billion from a Canadian investment fund, insiders said. Keep reading ...
Huu Cong
New MoU will make loans easier to decide and repay
Agriculture Rural Development Bank (ARDB) together with Wing (Cambodia) Ltd Specialized Bank and Cambodia investors Corp (CIC) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate loan repayments, encourage the use of digital banking and to provide information to borrowers to guarantee the credit deal. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50727796/new-mou-will-make-loans-easier-to-decide-and-repay/
Kampot salt harvest trails behind
Kampot, Cambodia’s leading salt producing province, is expected to yield less of the commodity than reported last year on adverse weather conditions, provincial Department of industry, Science, Technology and innovation director Sok Kim Choeun told the Post on March 8. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampot-salt-harvest-trails-behind
NGOs call for gov’t support on child rights post-pandemic
A group of six independent NGOs has called on the government to commit to supporting child rights after the coronavirus pandemic, after their survey found out that nearly 80 per cent of children and youth respondents said their parents experience financial stress. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-call-govt-support-child-rights-post-pandemic
Thailand races to create coronavirus vaccine, eyes possible medical tourism boost
Thailand: Momentum is building behind Thailand’s push to create its own coronavirus vaccine, with more manpower and resources dedicated to the effort amid hopes it could boost medical tourism.Thai trials of an experimental vaccine using monkeys started last month, one of at least 100 potential ...
South coast holds development key
Real estate and hotel developers have identified the southern coast of Cambodia as having tourism potential to encourage more business investment. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36111/south-coast-holds-development-key/
Fight forest crimes, PM urges
Prime Minister Hun Sen declared a passion for forest protection yesterday, urging officials to improve the efficiency of forest crime prevention. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079501/fight-forest-crimes-pm-urges/
Ivory smuggler insists on innocence
A businessman is appealing his conviction for smuggling more than three tonnes of ivory into Cambodia, the largest haul ever seized. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38078/ivory-smuggler--insists-on-innocence/