Khmer Times
Assembly passes traffic law amendments
The National Assembly on December 26 approved amendments to nine articles in the Traffic Law, including an article which does not require people riding motorcycles under 125cc to have licenses. The amendments were passed with 93 out of 100 votes in favor of it, despite select ...
Cassava leaves farmers struggling
Cassava prices rose this month compared with a few months ago due to limited supply, but the market for cassava is uncertain. Sorn Yin, the president of Malai Trading that collects cassava in Banteay Meanchey province and sells to Thailand, said that despite the price rising ...
A struggle ‘on Chinese land’
Sitting on the edge of the dock, 68-year-old Vichay angrily pointed to three crumpled sheets of paper as he shuffled them around in his right hand. These wrinkled pages, he said, were the last remnants of evidence proving he owned the 15 hectares of land ...
Sihanoukville airport improved
Cambodia’s airport partner French concessionaire Vinci on December 24 held the ground-breaking ceremony for the extension of the terminal and taxiway at Sihanoukville International Airport to accommodate up to 500,000 tourists a year to visit the province, said officials. Sihanoukville International Airport received 100,000 tourists last ...
Overview of 2016 natural disasters
More than 130 people died and nearly 300 were injured in accidents caused by natural disasters across the country this year, according to a government official. Keo Vy, the cabinet chief and a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management, told Khmer Times yesterday ...
Traffic law to change again
The Permanent Committee of the National Assembly approved a number of amendments to the Traffic Law on December 22, sending them on to parliament’s 7th plenary session for final ratification on Monday. NA spokesman Leng Peng Long said the committee decided on amendments to nine articles ...
Garbage disposal discussed
The second national workshop on better waste management was held in the capital this week to discuss and finalize a strategy to deal with Cambodia’s less-than-effective methods of garbage disposal. Officials from the Ministry of Environment met with the Japan-based Institute of Global Environmental Strategies ...
Minister seeks land law decision
The Agriculture Minister has urged stakeholders to wind up consultations on the agricultural land draft law on December 20 to let experts prepare it for Cabinet review. The plea was made at a two-day National Consultation Workshop on “Agriculture Land Law” which ended on December 19. About ...
Fish yield up but exports fall
Export of Cambodia’s fish decreased in the first 11 months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, despite the yield of inland and marine fish seeing an increase, a ministry report said. According to a report released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry ...
United Nations: one third of Cambodian women suffer abuse
More than 30 percent of Cambodian women have experienced some form of domestic violence at the hands of their partner at some point in their lives, a report released on December 15 by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Population Fund revealed. According ...
