Despite IOM deal, residency eludes refugees
When the International Organization for Migration agreed to help Cambodia with a controversial refugee resettlement plan earlier this year, it did so on the condition that the government furnish the refugees already in the country with the paperwork they need to find employment. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-iom-deal-residency-eludes-refugees-85689/
‘Secession’ Leader Says He Will Return to Cambodia, Stage Protest
The convicted ringleader of a so-called secessionist movement in May in Kratie province, who is currently in self-imposed exile to avoid a 30-year prison sentence, has said that he will soon return to Cambodia to organize a large-scale demonstration against the government. Bun Ratha—who was sentenced ...
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 ...
Phnom Penh Port Says City Center Ban on Trucks Hurting Exports
The Phnom Penh Autonomous Port has requested that City Hall reduce the length of its daily ban forbidding container trucks from traveling on Phnom Penh roads between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. because cargo is unable to reach the port, resulting in a decrease in ...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-port-says-city-center-ban-on-trucks-hurting-exports-46759/
Release of Sokha on bail ‘amounts to house arrest’
Former president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Kem Sokha was released from priSon on Monday on court-supervised bail due to unspecified health conditions, with one of his lawyers saying the conditions set were So strict they amounted to house arrest. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/release-sokha-bail-amounts-house-arrest
After prod, Rice Federation springs to action
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) will work closely with the government to curb Vietnamese rice imports flooding the domestic market and channel more lending to domestic millers so that they can compete with rivals in neighboring countries, it said yesterday in a statement. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22407/after-prod--rice-federation-springs-to-action/
Hun Sen chides Cambodia Daily, lauds Trump
Prime Minister Hun Sen met with members of the press yesterday, not shying away from classifying some journalists and media outlets as extortionists and tax evaders, while applauding United States President Donald Trump’s efforts to go after so-called fake news. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sen-chides-cambodia-daily-lauds-trump
Soggy forecast for rice farmers
Extreme weather attributed to the tail-end of an El Niño event continues to wreak havoc on the nation’s agricultural sector, with more than 20,000 hectares of rice fields damaged so far this year, a government agricultural expert said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/soggy-forecast-rice-farmers
Water at Prey Sar back … sort of
After nearly a year of dry taps, the water supply at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison has finally been restored, but inmates are still being forced to pay for the so-called luxury commodity, according to those who live and work there. ...
Alice Cuddy and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-prey-sar-back-sort
Unions want full payment for garment workers
Unions are calling for garment factory owners to pay full wages to their employees for the lockdown period but the Labour Ministry says there is no law to state that employers must do so. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50865048/unions-want-full-payment-for-garment-workers/
Gov’t has spent $350 million for cash assistance subsidies
The government has so far spent $350 million in cash assistance subsidy programmes for more than 600,000 families poor and vulnerable families which suffered from Covid-19. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50881711/govt-has-spent-350-million-for-cash-assistance-subsidies/
Ministry, WHO: Be prepared for Omicron variant
The Ministry of Health called on the public to be vigilant and prepared for the arrival of the Omicron variant in Cambodia so that they will not have any regrets when it gets here. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-who-be-prepared-omicron-variant
PM pledges not to raise electricity prices
Prime Minister Hun Sen has stated that Cambodia will not raise electricity prices – despite neighbouring countries doing so. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501254959/pm-pledges-not-to-raise-electricity-prices/
Cambodian Opposition Refuses to Call Off Parliament Boycott
Cambodia’s opposition said it will not attend the scheduled opening of parliament next week despite a request by the king to call off their boycott. The opposition continues to insist that the ruling party agree to an independent investigation into allegations of massive voting fraud ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodias-opposition-rejects-offer-to-attend-parliaments-opening/1752326.html
Climate concerns for Cambodia
The government needed better mechanisms to adapt to the effects of climate change, which could result in droughts and floods that cause deaths, destroy rice paddies and place an undue burden on the budget, a senior official said yesterday. Environment Minister Mok Mareth told a workshop ...
Quick to criticize, drivers forget they have a role in snarled traffic
Drivers on Cambodia’s chaotic streets are often quick to criticize the traffic police, who seem unable to bring things under control. However, the drivers themselves forget that poor driving and the ignoring of traffic laws lead to so many snarls. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/quick-to-criticize-drivers-forget-they-have-a-role-in-snarled-traffic/3033004.html
New parties to register
As Cambodia inches closer to the 2017 commune elections, the Interior Ministry has implored all of the Kingdom’s political parties to get their affairs in order and finish the necessary paperwork so their organization is listed on the ballot. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27603/new-parties-to-register/
New insurance product gives rice farmers a break
Farmers hit by drought in Battambang this year are already benefitting from a new crop insurance product for rice farmers introduced by Forte Insurance, with at least 60 families in two districts of the country’s main rice-growing province collecting payments so far. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16797/new-insurance-product-gives-rice-farmers-a-break/
Government taken to task at UN meet
The UN’s special rapporteur on Cambodia yesterday slammed the Kingdom’s government at the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council, going so far as to express doubt as to whether next year’s crucial elections will be free and fair. ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-taken-task-un-meet
Proposed law to ban insulting monarchy prompts free speech fears
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng held a meeting with other top ministry officials yesterday to discuss introducing a legal amendment banning insults to the King, similar to so-called “lèse-majesté” laws in Thailand, which critics have characterised as a cudgel to suppress dissent. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/proposed-law-ban-insulting-monarchy-prompts-free-speech-fears