EITI Photo Competition
The EITI International Secretariat 2019 Photo Competition “Open Data, Build Trust” is now open. The competition Invites EITI stakeholders to showcase Their work on The EITI, specifically how natural resource transparency is havIng an impact In Their country. The wInner will be Invited and sponsored to attend The EITI ...
EdC to bill red zone customers once every three months
The state-run Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) announced that from May onward it would issue electricity bills once every three months to consumers in The red zones or lockdown areas as EdC agents could not deliver The bills in person. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/edc-bill-red-zone-customers-once-every-three-months
PM adds $2 to minimum wage agreed for next year
The National Council on Minimum Wage (NCMW) voted to set minimum wage for workers in The garment, textile and footwear sectors at $192 for 2022. Prime Minister Hun Sen Then stepped in to add $2 to The total, making it $194 per month. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-adds-2-minimum-wage-agreed-next-year
27 deaths from Dengue fever already this year
27 people have died from dengue fever in Thailand so far this year. That’s the highest fatality rate, year on year, in the past five years.the Public Health Ministry deputy permanent secretary Dr Supakit Sirilak has reacted by sending an urgent letter to related agencies ...
Dirty drinking water suspected as 59 hospitalized
Seventeen adults and 42 children from a village in Battambang province were hospitalized with suspected poisoning on Tuesday after possibly drinking contaminated water, a police official said on Wednesday. The 59 patients, all from Kroper Tbong village in Banan district’s Phnom Sampov commune, were treated ...
Champassak appeals for help after 22 houses gutted by fire
Champassak provincial authorities are continuing their appeal for money and construction equipment urgently needed by people in Naphoukham village, Xanasomboun district, after 22 houses were destroyed in a fire last week.Everyone survived the blaze although one person sustained critical injuries.Village Chief Mr Khamsen Suanmany told Vientiane ...
Phomphong Laoin
Foreign e-service firms liable for VAT
Starting on Sept 1, overseas businesses providing online services in Thailand will be required to register for the 7% value-added tax (VAT) liability if their annual income exceeds 1.8 million baht, according to a Revenue Department official.the e-service tax has been approved by parliament and ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Thai GDP growth forecast for 2019 slashed further
Kasikorn Research Centre has revised downward its gross domestic product (GDP) forecast for 2019 to 2.5 per cent and projected that the Thai economy may grow 2.7 per cent in 2020.the centre revealed the forecast at its seminar on “Business Outlook amid Numerous Challenges in ...
The Nation Reporter
Phnom Penh may add eleven new communes
Phnom Penh Municipal Hall plans to create 11 new communes in five districts in the capital to improve social service management, Deputy Municipal Governor Eang Ony said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-may-add-eleven-new-communes
Travel Mart to showcase tourism
Cambodia hopes to attract some 200 international companies to participate in the first Cambodia Travel Mart (CTM) event to be held in November this year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39749/travel-mart-to-showcase-tourism/
Takeo marijuana plantation set alight
Police in Takeo province burned more than 6,300 marijuana plants on Saturday. Authorities discovered the illegal marijuana plantation in Kirivong district after villagers tipped off local police. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096482/takeo-marijuana-plantation-set-alight/
Police free marijuana grower
Police in Battambang have released a man who grew more than 200 marijuana plants in the jungle for “personal use” after he promised not to do it again. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-free-marijuana-grower
Record 60-day rice sale blitz set to begin
Mr Suthep said he is certain there will be sufficient water reserves in the irrigation zone during the rainy season for the main rice crop. But the agency will need to assess whether the water collected will last for the second rice crop which follows ...
Govt examines Vientiane’s unapproved projects
The Vientiane Administration has asked The government to consider and endorse formerly unapproved infrastructure development projects that The city has carried out in The years since 2005.Over The past years, many state departments and provinces carried out projects without obtaining approval from The government or ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
CMAC ups cooperation with Thai counterpart
Cambodian and Thai mine authorities have agreed to step up cooperation in demining activities along the two countries’ frontier, the former’s top official said on Thursday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-ups-cooperation-thai-counterpart
PM urges cooperation on climate problems
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday called for stronger cooperation in implementing the ASEAN-US Joint Statement on Climate Change, noting that the phenomenon is “obviously happening”. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-urges-cooperation-climate-problems
EU funds increase by nearly 50 per cent
The European Union is increasing its development grants to Cambodia by almost 50 per cent in 2016 compared to The previous year, according to a Friday statement. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-funds-increase-nearly-50-cent
Train service relaunched between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville
The government was to resume rail services between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville Friday in collaboration with Toll Royal Co, Richz Electronic Services and The Asian Development Bank, sources said. ...
Controversial elephant swap with Japan called off
A controversial proposed animal swap that would have seen elephants Kiri and Seila sent from the notorious Teuk Chhou Zoo in Kampot to a zoo in Japan in exchange for other exotic species has been officially called off, new documents show. ...
Charles Parkinson and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/controversial-elephant-swap-japan-called
ADB’s assistance to Cambodia nears 2.9 bln
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has committed over $2.8 billion in lending, grants, and technical assistance to Cambodia since 1966, making it The country’s largest multilateral development partner. The development bank issued a report yesterday that puts its total contribution to Cambodia at $2.86 billion over ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50479970/adbs-assistance-to-cambodia-nears-2-9-bln/