Amid overcrowding, prison numbers rise
Prison overcrowding continues to be a major issue plaguing Cambodia, Ministry of Interior officials said on Monday, as they revealed a 3 per cent increase in population at correctional facilities and prisons nationwide. In 2014, the number of prisoners rose from 14,702 in 2013 to 15,165 ...
Pech Sotheary and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/amid-overcrowding-prison-numbers-rise
NGO law in crosshairs
Despite the deployment of law enforcement officials across the capital in a bid to halt the demonstration, activists yesterday marched as promised to the National Assembly to protest the looming adoption of highly controversial union and NGO laws. Starting at about 8am, hundreds of land activists, ...
Pech Sotheary and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-law-crosshairs
Putting border issue on the map
The Cambodian government yesterday produced some of the maps it has been using to demarcate the eastern frontier, stressing that they match the constitutionally mandated map despite having been developed in Vietnam. at a press conference at the Council of Ministers, the government’s senior official on ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/putting-border-issue-map
Going straight in the 'forest of gold'
Until recently, the illegal mining community at the remote village of Poutung did their digging at risk of arrest. They have since become the first to be given official sanction. But operating under the law has its own challengesUntil a month ago, Poutung village was ...
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/miners-going-straight-mondulkiris-forest-gold
Fines up after new rule: gov’t
The announcement last month that traffic cops will collect 70 per cent of fines they give out has already seen enforcement increase, according to a senior official at the Interior Ministry.Speaking yesterday, General Run Roth Veasna, director of the ministry’s Department of Order, said tickets ...
Charles Parkinson and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fines-after-new-rule-govt
Gov’t calls for lower fuel prices
The government yesterday asked fuel retailers to lower petroleum prices, so as to reflect the drop in global prices in the last few months.At a meeting chaired by Chhoun Dara, a secretary of stAte At the Commerce Ministry, oil companies were given a week to ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-calls-lower-fuel-prices
Ministry throws weight behind wetlands plan
At a consultAtive meeting with the Prey Veng provincial administrAtion on Thursday, the Ministry of Environment expressed support for its initiAtive to turn the wetlands At Boeung Snae lake, in Ba Phnom district’s BAtheay commune, into a protected area. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-throws-weight-behind-wetlands-plan
Kingdom’s economic growth may be lower than previous prediction
Cambodia’s economic growth in 2020 would not be at the same rate as previously predicted at 6.5 percent, said Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Khan Sophirom
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50695340/kingdoms-economic-growth-may-be-lower-than-previous-prediction
Nine face charges in Kandal land dispute
Kandal provincial police arrested at least 30 people after a clash with protesters on September 12 over a land dispute at the new Phnom Penh International Airport construction site in Kandal Stung district’s Boeung Khyang commune. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nine-face-charges-kandal-land-dispute
Central bank, CMA roll out local-level ‘safe finance’ plan
The Kingdom’s central bank and the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) have jointly launched a project aimed at promoting financial literacy, consumer empowerment and consumer protections at the community level. ...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-cma-roll-out-local-level-safe-finance-plan
‘Fintech playing key role in financial inclusion efforts’
The fintech sector is playing a major role in the financial inclusion efforts pioneered by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), Governor Dr Chea Serey said while delivering the keynote address at the CamTech Summit 2023 yesterday at the Centre for Banking Studies. ...
Sreekanth Ravindran
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501399932/fintech-playing-key-role-in-financial-inclusion-efforts/
Ministry to create more communities to protect forest
The Ministry of Environment plans to establish at least 10 additional natural resource protection communities by year-end and in subsequent years to improve the livelihoods of communities and contribute to prevention of forest crime at the local level. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501440112/ministry-to-create-more-communities-to-protect-forest/
Render justice on wing star union’s chief, CATU urges Kampong Speu court
About 40 trade union representatives and members of the Cambodian Confederation of Trade Unions (CatU) gathered at Chea Chan’s trial at the Kampong Speu Provincial Court, with banners on Wednesday, demanding his release. ...
Sovann Sreypich
https://cambojanews.com/render-justice-on-wing-star-unions-chief-catu-urges-kampong-speu-court/
WHO to continue strengthening cooperation with Cambodia
Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, received here at the Peace Palace yesterday visiting Dr. Saia Ma’uPiukala, Regional Director for the Western Pacific at the World Health Organisation (WHO). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501509993/who-to-continue-strengthening-cooperation-with-cambodia/
Floods force GDP revision
Cambodia has lowered its economic growth projection from 7 to 6 per cent for 2011 after more than a month of flood devastation in the Kingdom and continued economic turmoil in the United States and Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon said yesterday. The full impact ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101252083/Business/floods-force-gdp-revision.html
Inflation Hits 7.1 Percent in June, Officials Say
Inflation reached 7.1 percent in June compared to the same month last year as consumer prices continued to rise in Cambodia, an official at the Ministry for Planning said yesterday. The release of the inflation figure comes after officials and the ministry said earlier this ...
Warrant sought for shooter
The Ministry of Interior has sought a warrant for the suspect who shot three people at a protest outside a shoe factory last week amid more allegations from government and police officials that the perpetrator was Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith. Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012030154802/National-news/warrant-sought-for-shooter.html
Ban on Thesis Topics Needed, Scholars Say
Academics at the Royal University of Law and Economics defended banning thesis topics for fourth-year students, arguing that subjects such as illegal drug use and land disputes are written about too often at the school. In a Feb. 2 letter posted online and signed by the ...
PPWSA edges closer to IPO
As expected, the book-building phase for Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s initial public offering was significantly oversubscribed, the estimate being 17 times. Interested investors had the opportunity to bid at a price no lower than 4,050 riel a share, and at a maximum of 6,350 riel ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032855274/Business/ppwsa-edges-closer-to-ipo.html
Press release of Phnom Penh Capital Hall on providing the public free of charge to travel to hometown by city buses during the Pchum Ben festival
On 03 October 2018, Phnom Penh Capital Hall issued an announcement to the public to inform the public that during the coming Pchum Ben festival, the capital hall will arrange 215 public city buses to serve officials, military forces, citizen, workers, and the public travelling to ...
Phnom Penh Capital Hall