Japan’s top airline to add Phnom Penh route in September
All Nippon Airways (ANA) – Japan’s largest carrier – will begin flying between Tokyo and Phnom Penh on September 1, the spokesman for the Secretariat of State of Civil Aviation told Khmer Times yesterday, adding that the first direct flight from Japan to Cambodia will ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20134//
US report critical of government’s treatment of opposition
The U.S. State Department’s annual Human Rights Report, released on Wednesday, highlights poor treatment of Cambodia’s political opposition in 2015, and raises concerns about the judiciary’s “broad interpretation” of the crime of incitement. ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-report-critical-of-governments-treatment-of-opposition-111340/
US to issue visa sanctions against Cambodian officials ‘undermining democracy’
The US State Department will issue visa restrictions on individuals “involved in undermining democracy in Cambodia”, the Trump administration announced overnight yesterday, following the dissolution of the main opposition party last month and the arrest in September of former opposition leader Kem Sokha. ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/us-issue-visa-sanctions-against-cambodian-officials-undermining-democracy
US, Cambodia trade reaches $3 billion
The trade volume between Cambodia and the United States in 2016 reached about $3 billion, while nearly 240,000 American tourists visited the kingdom. Foreign Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry told reporters yesterday after a meeting between Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn and Mom Rady, a Democratic member ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37034/us--cambodia-trade-reaches--3-billion/
China pledges more investment in Cambodia, but is Phnom Penh selling itself short?
Li’s visit comes at a time when Cambodia’s government, under Prime Minister Hun Sen, is facing rising pressure from the United States and the European Union over its human rights record. Both have threatened sanctions in response to a ruling by the nation’s top court ...
Laura Zhou and Sarah Zheng
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2128118/china-pledges-more-investment-cambodia-phnom-penh#comments
Beach sellers must make room for Chinese investors
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities will ask the government to deal with 10 sellers who refuse to relocate from Koh Puos – or Hawaii beach – and Lomher Kay beach. Vendors’ representatives have asked for compensation from provincial authorities to relocate to a new area. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099381/beach-sellers-must-make-room-chinese-investors/
Foreign minister lashes out at US over Khmer Rouge ‘support’
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn on Sunday criticised the United States government for allegedly failing to recognise Khmer Rouge-perpetrated genocide until recently, accusing the US of suppressing criticism of the Pol Pot regime. ...
Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/foreign-minister-lashes-out-us-over-khmer-rouge-support
Ukraine considers military shipbuilding cooperation with Cambodia
Ukraine is considering plans to cooperate with Cambodia, Thailand and South Korea in the field of military shipbuilding, according to Interfax-Ukraine. A report late Wednesday quoted Ukroboronprom State Concern as saying that prospects for military and technical cooperation with Cambodia were discussed with Cambodian Navy officials ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MTQ5MmUxYWEwZjB
Cambodia exports to US rise by over 10 pct
Driven by a slowly recovering American economy, Cambodian exports to the US increased 11 per cent in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the same period last year, according to the latest US government data. Cambodian exports from January to March totalled $771 million, up ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-exports-us-rise-over-10-pct
SME Bank operation date accelerated to counter sectors economic headwinds
The state-run Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank has been confirmed to bring forward their opening date to earlier this year than previously planned, stated a senior government official yesterday at the Council of Ministers. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50698611/sme-bank-operation-date-accelerated-to-counter-sectors-economic-headwinds
Announcement on the result of the new mandate meeting of the Permanent Council of Ministers dated on 31 March 2020
On Monday, March 31, 2020, at the Peace Palace of the Council of Ministers, a new mandate meeting of the Permanent Council of Ministers was presided over by Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia to review ...
Office of the Council of Ministers
Declaring a state of emergency is unlikely, PM says
Prime Minister Hun Sen said today that declaring a state of emergency will be unlikely as COVID-19 is under control. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50710601/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-is-unlikely-pm-says/
State of Emergency draft signed into law
Acting Head of State Say Chhum yesterday signed the draft law on “State of Emergency” into legislation after the Constitutional Council of Cambodia unanimously approved it earlier this week, a decree obtained yesterday evening revealed. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50718535/state-of-emergency-draft-signed-into-law/
Statement by Cambodian Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the 45th Session of the Human Rights Council
On 05 October 2020, Cambodian Ambassador and Permanent Representative Sokkhoeurn AN stated at the 45th session of the human right council, responding on 12 points of the report of the secretary general on role and achievements of the OHCHR in Cambodia such as the relation ...
Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United Nations at Geneva
National Assembly passes draft law to better manage state assets
The National Assembly yesterday passed the draft law on state property management to generate more revenue. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50770570/national-assembly-passes-draft-law-to-better-manage-state-assets/
Six illegal logging tractors seized
Svay Leu district forestry administration office in Siem Reap province has given a month’s notice to the owners of homemade tractors impounded last week for transporting illegal timber. Authorities warned that if no action was taken the administration would take the case to court. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-illegal-logging-tractors-seized
Cambodia seeks partners for planned Mondulkiri airport
Cambodia is looking for partners for the development of a planned airport in Mondulkiri province south of Sen Monorom town after PowerChina International Group Ltd (PIG) withdrew during the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent negotiations with other foreign companies fell through, according to a senior civil ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-seeks-partners-planned-mondulkiri-airport
Cambodia operates 494 flights a week
Cambodia received and operated 494 flights per week at its three airports in the first three months of this year, according to the preliminary data from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA)—Cambodia’s regulatory and development agency for civil aviation activity and infrastructure. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501271800/cambodia-operates-494-flights-a-week/
SSCA eyes 300 weekly China flights
Cambodia and China appear to be pressing ahead with plans to raise the number of direct commercial flights between them to at least 300 per week, which private sector operators envisage will underpin strong growth in tourist flows from the Asian economic powerhouse. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ssca-eyes-300-weekly-china-flights