Gov’t revenue from mining industry soars
The Ministry of Mines and Energy collected approximately $3.5 million in non-tax revenue from the extraction industry during the first six months of the year—about 92 percent of what it collected from the sector in all of 2014, ministry spokesman Meng Saktheara said Tuesday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/govt-revenue-from-mining-industry-soars-90768/
Phnom Penh markets to be “extended”
Khuong Sreng, Governor of Phnom Penh, has confirmed that the Phnom Penh Municipal Authority plans to expand the scope of sales in all 25 state markets after the COVID situation in Phnom Penh seems to be stabilising. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50871262/phnom-penh-markets-to-be-extended/
PM institutes land concessions moratorium
Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued an immediate and indefinite moratorium on the granting of new economic land concessions and called for a review of all existing concessions, a regulation signed by the premier yesterday states. Dated to an April 27 Council of Ministers’ meeting, the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050856036/National-news/conceding-a-problem.html
ACU to act on Telecom claims
The president of the group responsible for rooting out government graft said yesterday that his investigators will look into allegations of corruption filed by state-owned Telecom Cambodia (TC) employees against the director-general of the company, Lao Saroeun. Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) President Om Yentieng told reporters after ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022861665/National/acu-to-act-on-telecom-claims.html
Police Chiefs Told to Stop Taking Wages
The National Police commissioner has ordered police chiefs to stop taking money from law enforcement officials’ salaries for apparent good causes. A statement signed by General Neth Savoeun, dated August 22 but obtained Thursday, said police chiefs at all levels must cease the practice, which takes ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-chiefs-told-to-stop-taking-wages-41449/
National Census Identifies Half-Million Businesses
Cambodia has a total of 505,134 businesses supported by a workforce of 1,676,263, just 11.56 percent of the total population, according to a nationwide economic census released yesterday by the Ministry of Planning. Of the total number of people employed in the country, 1,026,084, or 61.2 ...
Hul Reaksmey and Philip Heijmans, P.1
Telecoms Regulator Calls For Price Meeting
The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) is calling all mobile phone operators to attend a meeting next week in order to reconsider the costs for within-and across-network calls, after disputes over bonus promotions in Cambodia’s crowded telecoms market. TRC director Mao Chakrya said that for the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050165340/Business/telecoms-regulator-calls-for-price-meeting.html
Angkor Gold share restored
Canadian exploration company Angkor Gold announced on Tuesday that it agreed to buy back all shares sold to investors in 2014, through its net smelter rights (NSR) scheme in the Kingdom’s first commercial underground gold mine in Phum Syarung, in Rattanakiri’s O’Yadaw district – now ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32628/angkor-gold-share-restored/
City hall plans to build two new dump sites
Phnom Penh City Hall will build two new waste management sites in order to to alleviate traffic congestion exacerbated by the need to transport all of the city’s garbage to a single dump in Dangkao district, municipal governor Pa Socheatvong announced on his Facebook page ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-plans-to-build-two-new-dump%E2%80%88sites-103581/
New NEC members insist they are neutral
Nuth Sokhom, former Funcinpec lawmaker; Hel Sarat, formerly of the Cambodian Nationality Party; and Dim Sovannarom, former deputy director of the government’s human rights body, were all confirmed to the NEC, replacing three CNRP-nominated members who resigned in protest of the party’s dissolution in November. ...
Ben Sokhean and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/new-nec-members-insist-they-are-neutral
Experts discuss legitimacy of Government without Opposition
Diplomats, legal experts and political analysts all met in a forum in Phnom Penh Tuesday to discuss the implications of last year’s election and the ongoing political deadlock. Some diplomats, like Dinesh Patnaik, india’s ambassador to Cambodia, questioned the legitimacy of a government the opposition refuses ...
Kong Sothanarith, Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/experts-discuss-legitimacy-of-government-without-opposition-/1883843.html
Gov’t to enforce fire safety after club blaze
In the wake of a nightclub fire In Bavet City that killed five people on Monday, the Tourism MInistry has decided to begIn more aggressively enforcIng a 2014 sub-decree that requires all bars, nightclubs and karaoke parlors to have multiple exits, fire extInguishers and soundproofIng, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-enforce-fire-safety-after-club-blaze-80843/
Council rules NGO law constitutional
The Constitutional Council of Cambodia on Wednesday deemed new legislation regulating the country’s non-governmental organizations to be in full compliance with the Constitution, rejecting all arguments—from the U.N. down to the NGOs themselves—that it flies in the face of the highest law of the land. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/council-rules-ngo-law-constitutional-91532/
B Meanchey hill excavation banned
Authorities in Banteay Meanchey province banned all activity related to excavation on Phnom Bak in Sisophon town to preserve it as a natural heritage site. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/b-meanchey-hill-excavation-banned
Sam Al vows to resolve land disputes
Minister of Environment Say Sam Al has vowed that all existing land disputes in Preah Sihanouk province will be resolved and no new cases would be entertained. He also threatened legal action against those who attempt to grab state land. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-al-vows-resolve-land-disputes
Sam Rainsy Party meets soon to pick new chief
Sam Rainsy Party deputy president Teav Vannol yesterday declined to say whether he would take leadership of the party in the wake of president Kong Korm’s retirement, though a fellow senator said it was all but a foregone conclusion. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-rainsy-party-meets-soon-pick-new-chief
Nearly half of 2016 tax target already collected
In the first four months of the year, the government collected nearly half of its tax revenue target for all of 2016, local media reported yesterday, citIng Kong Vibol, director of the General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nearly-half-2016-tax-target-already-collected
Justice minister calls for provincial spokespeople
Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana has called for all provincial court presidents and prosecutors’ offices to appoint spokespeople to answer questions from the public and the media “as soon as possible,” citing rising interest in the judiciary as the reason. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23534/justice-minister-calls-for-provincial-spokespeople/
Up to 1,000 hectares of flooded forest threatened
About 1,000 hectares of flooded forest in Preah Sihanouk’s Prey Nup district, all of which is overseen by the provincial fisheries department, is under threat of being systemically divided and sold to a private company, according to officials. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24808/up-to-1-000-hectares-of-flooded-forest-threatened/
NEC to host daily party panel discussions on television, radio
The National Election Committee will broadcast daily interview panels featuring all political parties that are running in upcoming local elections on state-run television and radio stations during the 14-day election campaign period, spokesman Hang Puthea said on Tuesday. ...