Community sues border police over loggers
A group of villagers in Mondolkiri province filed a lawsuit this week against three local border police officers and a forestry official accusing them of allowing Vietnamese loggers to sneak across the nearby border and illegally log the forests they depend on for a living. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/104780-104780/
Disgraced official will face no legal action for embezzlement
The disgraced former director of Koh Kong’s provincial agriculture department will not be prosecuted despite admitting to profiting from the illegal sale of state land, Agriculture Minister Veng sakhon said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disgraced-official-will-face-no-legal-action-for-embezzlement-115331/
Measles confirmation prompts fears, action
Two measles cases investigated by the government in recent weeks have been confirmed positive, bringing the total number to five this year and causing concern among health officials about a possible outbreak after the World Health Organization declared the country measles-free just last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/measles-confirmation-prompts-fears-action
As common market nears, Interior minister calls for ASEAN cooperation on immigration
As border controls ease among AsEAN nations, Interior Minister sar Kheng warned Tuesday the downside could be a freer flow of criminals and illegal immigrants. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15494/as-common-market-nears--interior-minister-calls-for-asean-cooperation-on-immigration/
New orphanage rules met with fear, optimism
A new set of standards for orphanages that the Ministry of social Affairs plans to enforce over the coming months, combined with a global move toward community-based care, has at least one organization worried it will be forced to close down. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taylor o'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-orphanage-rules-met-with-fear-optimism-103144/
CNRP ends boycott, makes quiet return to NA
Ending their almost two-month boycott of parliament, opposition lawmakers yesterday joined their ruling party counterparts at the National Assembly in unanimously passing three laws.The plenary session, attended by 68 Cambodian People’s Party parliamentarians and 34 from the opposition Cambodia Nation Rescue Party, was by and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-ends-boycott-makes-quiet-return-na
Seventh Chinese man arrested for kidnapping
Military police in Phnom Penh on Wednesday arrested a seventh suspect in the kidnapping of three Chinese men freed on Monday from their captors, who had detained them for two months in a bid to make them pay back loans with the help of their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/seventh-chinese-man-arrested-for-kidnapping-103263/
Article 2 will stand: Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday hit back at opposition critics of his efforts to seek French expert help in modernising old colonial maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, rejecting their claims that such an effort would require a constitutional amendment. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/article-2-will-stand-hun-sen
Hoping to net more sea visits
The growing number of foreign visitors arriving by sea represents a promising source of tourism revenue for Cambodia, though limited port and tourism infrastructure has hampered its realisation, tourism stakeholders said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hoping-net-more-sea-visits
Rainsy asks New Zealand, Australia to ban CPP officials
Former opposition leader sam Rainsy met with government officials in Australia and New Zealand this week, requesting that the two nations issue visa bans against Cambodian People’s Party officials and their families in response to the arrest of opposition head Kem sokha for treason. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Andrew Nachemson and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-asks-new-zealand-australia-ban-cpp-officials
Disabled graduate lands civil service job
A 26-year-old disabled man who was struggling to find work and was featured in Khmer Times in July has passed an exam to become an official at the Information Department in Battambang province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084880/disabled-graduate-lands-civil-service-job/
Former party of Kem Ley to run nationwide in 2018
The Grassroots Democracy Party, co-founded by slain political analyst Kem Ley, has announced it will compete in the national elections next year in all provinces, though analysts yesterday doubted that it would be able to mount a serious challenge to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/former-party-kem-ley-run-nationwide-2018
A new military aid boost for China-Cambodia defense ties?
On January 28, Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh reportedly confirmed that China would provide Cambodia with a new round of military aid. The report comes as the two countries are looking to boost their defense ties in 2018 as they commemorate 60 years of their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prashanth Parameswaran
https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/a-new-military-aid-boost-for-china-cambodia-defense-ties/
Pensions to be paid through ATMs
The Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation will start dispensing pensions for former civil servants and veterans at select ATMs starting in April. Minister Vong soth issued a notice yesterday stating that pensioners will be able to withdraw their monthly allocations from Canadia Bank ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36843/pensions-to-be-paid-through-atms/
Five Cambodians deported from US arrive in Phnom Penh
Five Cambodians expelled from the U.s. arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, a U.s. Embassy spokesman said, as Cambodia continued to call for revisions to the 2002 agreement with the U.s. that allowed their deportation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/five-cambodians-deported-from-us-arrive-in-phnom-penh-127253/
Announcement on the 2018 YSEALI regional workshop: protecting the Mekong delta environment
The U.S. MiSSion to Vietnam and the ReSource Center for Community Development (RCCD), An Giang UniverSity Seek candidateS for the 2018 YSEALI Regional WorkShop: Protecting The Mekong Delta Environment which will be being held from June 4-9, 2018.ASEAN citizenS between the ageS of 18 and SS='cambodia-color'>...
US Embassy
Hun Sen’s lawyer receives promotion
After leading the legal team that won the widely condemned dissolution of the CNRP at the supreme Court in November, Ky Tech, lawyer for the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Hun sen, has been given a rank equivalent to minister just weeks after he ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sens-lawyer-receives-promotion
PM: stop renting out border land
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday again ordered Kandal provincial authorities to stop residents from leasing land to Vietnamese farmers, repeating a similar demand from in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31542/pm--stop-renting-out-border-land/
A year after letter to Hun Sen, U.S. Senator says little sign of progress in Cambodia
The senators say they wrote as friends of Cambodia, who wish to see a strong relationship between the two countries but who are troubled by the increased social and political turmoil in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Report shows need for Cambodia to diversify exports
Global credit rating agency Moody’s Investors services said yesterday that while it has retained Cambodia’s B2/stable sovereign rating alongside Vietnam’s B1/positive rating, the Kingdom’s low diversification of exports has put it at higher risk from external shocks than its eastern neighbour. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/report-shows-need-cambodia-diversify-exports