Illegal timber seized from cashew plantation
Forestry administration officers went to seize slabs of illegally logged timber from a cashew plantation in Thala Bori Vat district, Stung Treng on August 10. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50914546/illegal-timber-seized-from-cashew-plantation/
Posts ministry offers rapid test kits at cost from S Korea, China
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has announced that it will distribute two types of Covid-19 antigen rapid tests from South Korea and China, which will be made widely available at cost price. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/posts-ministry-offers-rapid-test-kits-cost-s-korea-china
Asean-India vow to tackle climate change and price volatility
India and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) nations on Friday agreed to joIntly work to mitigate the challenges of climate change, enhance livelihood opportunities through agro- forestry, exchange farm machIneries and develop heterotic rice hybrids.Keep readIng ...
LiveMint Reporter
Flooded religious sites to be restored
Flood-hit religious sites and monuments will soon be mucked out and repaired following a damage assessment, religious affairs officials said. A tally of losses, displaced monks and swamped pagodas was started on 11 August by a 16-member committee under the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Keep reading ...
Thailand’s Khon Kaen and Phuket recognised for their smart-city projects
Carrying out smart-city transformations is feasible when emerging technologies and innovation are leveraged to make cities more liveable and its residents to be forward-looking. The winning projects showcased best practices of urban innovation focusing on use of technology.Keep reading ...
King signs South Korea FTA ratification into law
The bill sailed through The National Assembly on December 29, The 9th Committee of The Senate on December 30, and The Senate on January 6. All votes were unanimous. The document was enacted into law by a Royal Code signed by The King on January ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/king-signs-south-korea-fta-ratification-law
Ministry setting up cash for 2m disabled
The Finance Ministry is seeking a lifeline for The 2 million disabled and underprivileged people who are adversely affected by The coronavirus outbreak, says finance permanent secretary Prasong Poontaneat.The ministry is working out The details with The Social Development and Human Security Ministry, which has ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Govt urged to focus on boosting vocational education
Upgrading vocational education will be the key to boosting the country’s competitiveness and helping it step out of the middle-income trap, the Future innovative Thailand institute (FIT) has advised.To implement the upgrade, the FIT called on the government to provide wage support to vocational students ...
The Nation Reporter
Cambodia’s Opposition Calls for Halt to Foreign Investment, Loans
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government as the two sides remained stalled in talks in a deadlock over disputed national elections. the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said in a public statement that it could not guarantee that any agreements made with Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investment-10292013173412.html
Deadline to vacate Phnom Penh’s largest lake set
Prek Pnov district authorities have notified local fishermen to remove lattices and ponds completely from the Boeung Tamok Lake by the end of this year. the warning comes after years of delays. Prek Pnov district governor Sok Sambath told the Post on November 19 time had ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadline-vacate-phnom-penhs-largest-lake-set
Sam Heng: Social security must widen to include more workers
As of last year, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) registered more than 10,000 healthcare enterprises to cover more than 1.7 million workers under occupational risk and healthcare schemes. Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Sam Heng is pushing for the schemes to be implemented ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-heng-social-security-must-widen-include-more-workers
PM warns banned rivals over return
Prime Minister Hun Sen told banned former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) politicians to request a restoration of their political rights or miss out on the 2022 commune elections. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-warns-banned-rivals-over-return
E-money, pay&go alliance
E-Money, which operates under Metfone, and Pay&Go SEA (Cambodia), entered into a partnership for money transfers, mobile phone top-ups and the payment of utility bills. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26522/e-money--pay-amp-go-alliance/
Thailand, China launch railway project
Thailand and China launched a railway project here Saturday, marking the beginning of bilateral cooperation to develop Thailand’s first standard-gauge double-track railway line. ...
Xinhua News Staff
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18868/thailand--china-launch-railway-project/
Prime minister defends traffic law, slams sister
Prime Minister Hun Sen hit back at critics of the new traffic law on Tuesday, singling out his own sister for what he said were unnecessarily negative Facebook posts. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-defends-traffic-law-slams-sister-104511/
Local coffee sector gets a jolt
Several international and local coffee industry representatives gathered yesterday for the start of a three-day event promoting partnerships and franchising opportunities to satisfy Cambodia’s growing coffee cravings. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-coffee-sector-gets-jolt
Port IPO opens to subscribers
Subscription for the initial public offering of Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) opened yesterday, with its underwriter predicting a strong investor response following an oversubscribed bookbuilding exercise late last month. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/port-ipo-opens-subscribers
Indochine protesters attacked
Five striking workers at a Kandal province garment factory were injured yesterday after a group of men allegedly showed up at the protest, attempted to steal equipment and beat several strikers. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/indochine-protesters-attacked
Funding ‘not misused’
During a defence of his 30-year legacy on Wednesday, Prime Minister Hun Sen also took pains to extricate the nation’s newest, longest and most expensive bridge from corruption allegations. ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/funding-not-misused
Two women arrested for trafficking five to China
The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Wednesday charged two women with human trafficking for allegedly luring five oTher women to China with promises of jobs, only to force Them into marriage. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-women-arrested-for-trafficking-five-to-china-81249/