Press statement: “Free and independent press is not a license to break the law with impunity” States the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson
On 14 February 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has issued a press statement related to the revoked license of a foreign-funded media outlet in Cambodia. According to the press statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson is utterly dismayed at and dismissed ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Elephants at centre of tourism tiff
For the ethnic Bunong people in this northeastern province, animals are an integral part of the local economy. Pigs, chickens and water buffaloes offer a variety of sustenance and labour. But it’s the elephants that bring foreigners – and foreigners bring cash. “When I get tours, the ...
Laura Ma
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/elephants-centre-tourism-tiff
After Reform Promise, a Return to Statecraft as Usual
In an epic, six-hour address in September, Prime Minister Hun Sen apologized for the government’s many “problems” and promised a more reformist government over the next five years of his rule. Targeting corruption, deforestation and the lack of transparency across government sectors, the prime minister made ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-reform-promise-a-return-to-statecraft-as-usual-48602/
Two US Congressmen seek review of Cambodia’s duty-free exports status
Two US congressmen on Tuesday introduced the Cambodia Trade Act bill to ask US President Donald Trump’s administration to review the preferential trade treatment under the General System of Preferences that Cambodia receives from the United States. The CTA bill will require the administration to ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50582341/two-us-congressmen-seek-review-of-cambodias-duty-free-exports-status/
MRC urged to prioritise steps to protect river basin
Development partners on Thursday asked the Mekong River Commission to prioritise policies to protect the basin in future development strategies, noting that the Mekong river basin is among the most vulnerable regions due to climate change. Representatives from Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, the ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50617079/mrc-urged-to-prioritise-steps-to-protect-river-basin/
Right to remain silent
Opposition lawmakers and transparency groups have slammed a recent Council of Ministers directive ordering government employees to deny access to parliamentary commissions investigating corruption, saying it severely undermines democracy. Released yesterday by Secretary of State Tek Reth Samrach, the letter dictates public employees must follow the ...
Taing Vida and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/right-remain-silent-0
Military officer arrested over land-clearing allegations
Police in Pursat province arrested a high-ranking military officer on Monday, accusing him of encroaching and clearing around 40 hectares of the state’s protected forest areas in Veal Veng district. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50756944/military-officer-arrested-over-land-clearing-allegations/
Commission to save natural resources
The government created a national commission last week to prevent and crack down on crimes involving natural resources. National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha will head the commission and Hou Sakun, the deputy commissioner general of the National Police, will be second in command. Environment Ministry and ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33006/commission-to-save-natural-resources/
RDB loans $30M to boost rice purchases
The government has provided $30 million in loans to rice millers since September to facilitate the purchase of paddy rice, with the head of a state-run bank saying more money was available if necessary. The loans were issued to 38 rice millers by the state-owned ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rdb-loans-30m-boost-rice-purchases
Vietnamese funding curbs will not delay hospital development
Despite Vietnamese state-owned companies withdrawing funding from projects outside of their core business, the $20 million expansion of the Vietnamese-backed Cho Ray Phnom Penh Hospital remains on track, the hospital’s head said yesterday. In July 2012 the Vietnamese government requested that state-owned enterprises withdraw investment in ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnamese-funding-curbs-will-not-delay-hospital-development
Hun Sen, Pompeo discuss US-Cambodia bilateral partnership
Prime Minister Hun Sen and United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday spoke by phone to discuss various issues, including the Kingdom’s sovereignty, security cooperation and COVID-19 pandemic response. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50711146/hun-sen-pompeo-discuss-us-cambodia-bilateral-partnership/
China Looks to Increase Media Presence
The Chinese Information Minister met Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on Sunday to discuss introducing more of a Chinese perspective to the media in Cambodia. The two men also agreed to send a delegation from the Council of Ministers Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) ...
Hun Sen Points To Economic Benefit of Beer
Prime Minister Hun Sen encouraged the public to help the country by drinking beer during the inauguration of the new $60 million Khmer Brewery factory in Phnom Penh yesterday. “Don’t forget, [if you] drink one bottle or one can of beer, how much will the state ...
Construction on submarine cable yet to begin
Web surfers and social-media addicts will have to hold out longer in the wait for Cambodia to boost its internet speeds, as construction on the Kingdom’s first submarine internet cable is behind schedule. Paul Blanche-Horgan, CEO of Ezecom, Cambodia’s largest internet provider, confirmed yesterday that the ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/construction-submarine-cable-yet-begin
Overflight fees set to increase
Cambodia may raise fees for planes moving through the Kingdom’s airspace after granting Cambodia Air Traffic Services Company permission to increase the fees by 5.5 percent. Cambodia’s overflight fees are low, and will remain low, compared to other countries in the region, Soy Sokhan, undersecretary ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082951326/Business/overflight-fees-set-to-increase.html
PM calls on West to learn from past and avoid a ‘third mistake’
Speaking at the event on the capital’s Chroy Changvar peninsula, Hun Sen appealed to both the “greatest power country” and democratic nations to avoid making such mistakes in the future. The prime minister did not mention any state by name, referring only to the “greatest power ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-west-learn-past-and-avoid-third-mistake
Does Cambodia’s New Opposition Party Really Matter?
Cambodia’s former opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s reverence for political change is exceeded only by his reverence for himself as the instigator of it. That may be why, this weekend in the United States, he launched the Cambodia National Rescue Movement (CNRM), a new body that is ...
David Hutt
https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/does-cambodias-new-opposition-party-really-matter/
Democratization in Cambodia in retreat following violent 2013
Democracy is in retreat since July’s national election as the ruling CPP has increasingly used armed forces to protect its grip on power and stubbornly refused to reform state institutions, the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) said in a new report ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/democratization-in-cambodia-in-retreat-following-violent-2013-56145/
US announces new Ambassador to Cambodia
The United States has announced nomination of new Ambassador to Cambodia to replace William E. Todd who has been serving the position since 2012, according to the White House. According to the Statement, William A. Heidt currently serves as Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/us-announces-new-ambassador-to-cambodia-8404
Minister praises Mekong dolphin conservation, amid concerns over rising deaths
While the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has stated that the death of Mekong River dolphins is on the decline, World Wildlife Fund Cambodia (WWF) has stated that cases have continued to rise in the last three years. ...