New boss to take over from Sok Bun
Following real estate tycoon Sok Bun’s resignation last month, Teho International, developers of the $500 million The Bay condominium and hotel project, have appointed Yim Chhay Line as a director to the board of the joint venture in Cambodia. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-boss-take-over-sok-bun
Market plans inspire rally
Nearly 200 vendors from Phnom Penh’s Doeum Kor Market gathered in Wat Botum Park yesterday to offer a petition asking Prime Minister Hun Sen to block city plans to demolish and replace the market with a multi-storey building. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/market-plans-inspire-rally
Viet Nam shares budget problems with Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar
Budget decisions and oversight were among the subjects discussed by representatives from Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar together with foreign experts at a joint workshop that opened in the central coastal city of Da Nang yesterday. ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/274625/viet-nam-shares-budget-problems-with-laos-cambodia-myanmar.html
Minister of Information: the draft Law on Access to Information is for all
Information minister Khieu Kanharith said the law on Access to Information has been drafted to serve not only the journalists, but it’s for all Cambodians as well as foreigners working and doing business in Cambodia. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/minister-of-information:-the-draft-law-on-access-to-information-is-for-all-8856
Prime Minister Hun Sen may visit New Zealand next year
Minister of foreign affairs of New Zealand Murray McCully invited Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian counterpart to pay visit in New Zealand next year, said spokesperson of the ministry of foreign affairs Chum Sontary. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-may-visit-new-zealand-next-year-8859
Schooled on penalties
Despite unprecedentedly strict anti-cheating measures being implemented in last year’s grade 12 examinations, the Kingdom’s Anti-Corruption Unit pledged yesterday that punishments will be tougher still for proctors caught selling answers and accepting bribes this time around. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/schooled-penalties
Demining dogs arrive from Bosnia; more to come
A pack of 10 Belgian shepherds arrived in Cambodia from Bosnia on Friday to bolster the country’s aging team of explosives-sniffing canines, courtesy of Norwegian People’s Aid, which is covering the roughly $36,000 cost, an official said Sunday. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/demining-dogs-arrive-from-bosnia-more-to-come-92350/
CNRP tells donors to retrieve their funds
A district official with the Cambodia National Rescue Party has offered a group of disgruntled donors in Kandal their money back after they lodged a complaint with local police over the opposition’s fundraising efforts for its Sun TV station. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-tells-donors-retrieve-their-funds
Two more arrested sending brides to China
A young couple has confessed to trafficking Cambodian women to be sold to men in China after they were arrested at the Phnom Penh International Airport Tuesday night while preparing to board a flight to Shanghai with their two latest victims, police said. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-arrested-sending-brides-to-china-93260/
UN rights envoy to make first official visit
More than five months after being appointed as the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith will make her first official visit to the country later this month, according to the government’s Human Rights Committee. ...
Kuch Naren and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-rights-envoy-to-make-first-official-visit-93512/
Gov’t plans satellite border surveillance
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the government to launch a satellite surveillance system to monitor the country’s border areas in an effort to bolster national defense and curb illegal activities such as logging, drug trafficking and people smuggling, officials said Sunday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-plans-satellite-border-surveillance-93548/
Ministries discuss cooperation to combat forgery
The Ministry of Transport has requested for a cooperated effort with the Ministry of Interior in order to prevent forgery of identity documents when applying for motorcycle registrations, by connecting both departments’ online systems. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50744748/ministries-discuss-cooperation-to-combat-forgery/
Seventy-one peacekeepers cleared of COVID-19
Seventy-one Cambodian blue helm ets were cleared of COVID-19 and discharged from their 14-day quarantine centre in Phnom Penh after completing their mandatory isolation. ...
Khann Chanvirak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50756161/seventy-one-peacekeepers-cleared-of-covid-19/
Environment ministry talks green building certifications
The Ministry of Environment is discussing the first draft of their green building guidelines and certification in Cambodia. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-talks-green-building-certifications
Kingdom’s 2021 salt production will meet domestic demand
Domestic salt production can supply domestic demand this year, relieving Cambodia of the need to engage in imports according to Kampot province’s department of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50911832/kingdoms-2021-salt-production-will-meet-domestic-demand/
New investment law draft ready to make Cambodia more attractive
The Council of the Ministers approved the new investment law draft last week in order to attract increased investment flow to the Kingdom and enhance the nation’s economic diversification and competitiveness. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50891685/covid-19-victim-new-investment-law-draft-ready-to-make-cambodia-more-attractive/
Garment sector wage negotiations resume today, workers may strike
The tripartite meetings to decide the 2022 garment factory minimum wage will resume today amid stalemated negotiations. Unions have warned of demonstrations if the talks do not result in a resolution. ...
BRI projects help Cambodia cushion economic fallout of COVID-19 pandemic
Projects under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have been helping buffer Cambodia’s economic development against the fallout of COVID-19, officials and academics said in recent interviews. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50927813/bri-projects-help-cambodia-cushion-economic-fallout-of-covid-19-pandemic/
Droves of up to 2,000 migrant Cambodian workers flee Thailand
More than 2,000 Cambodian migrants have reportedly returned back to their home country at Chong Chom border crossing in Surin due to the closure of worker camps. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50894041/droves-of-up-to-2000-migrant-cambodian-workers-flee-thailand/
Cambodia asks World Bank to further support Cambodia’s development by mobilizing grant aids
Cambodia has asked the World Bank (WB) to help mobilise more grant aid to support the country’s projects promoting skills, education and health, particularly in the context of COVID-19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50935923/cambodia-asks-world-bank-to-further-support-cambodias-development-by-mobilizing-grant-aids/