Hun Sen proposes law to punish anyone denying Cambodia’s genocidal past
<p>Senate president Hun Sen proposed drafting a law against people who claim that Cambodia did not experience a genocide and wanted to start a “color revolution”. A political analyst has said the law would further shrink citizens’ freedom of expression in relation to historical events. ...p>
Khuon Narim and Ly Rosslan
https://cambojanews.com/hun-sen-proposes-law-to-punish-anyone-denying-cambodias-genocidal-past/
Workers of Vietnamese-owned Hoang Anh Gia Lai still suffer years after plantation closes
<p>For nearly three years, about 300 local workers, 50% of them women, worked in a Vietnamese banana plantation belonging to Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Co (HAGL), covering 245 hectares in Talao commune, Andong Meas district in Ratanakiri province. ...p>
Him Khortieth
https://cambojanews.com/workers-of-vietnamese-owned-hoang-anh-gia-lai-still-suffer-years-after-plantation-closes/
Govt sets up teams to monitor development works
<p>The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) Saturday announced the establishment of working groups to monitor, review and evaluate the implementation of the development plans and strategic policies of the ministries and institutions based on the slogan ‘Strengthen and Organise Individual Home’. ...p>
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501519498/govt-sets-up-teams-to-monitor-development-works/
Kingdom emerges biggest supplier of raw cashew nuts to Vietnam
<p>Cambodia has knocked off Ivory Coast to become Vietnam’s biggest supplier of raw cashew nuts. Earlier it was the African nation that held the position. The General Department of Customs of Vietnam made the announcement on Saturday. ...p>
Jigme PaldenPazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501519482/kingdom-emerges-biggest-supplier-of-raw-cashew-nuts-to-vietnam/
Govt provides robust assistance to 1.3 million migrant workers
<p>A senior official at the Ministry of Labour said that as of June, 2024, there were approximately 1.3 million Cambodian migrant workers living abroad, with most of them located in Thailand and South Korea. ...p>
Science and technology policy and administration
<p>Cambodia has the ambition to transform and digitalize the government system and its economy. The overarching determination comes after the country’s ambitious economic goal of 2050, the readiness to keep up with the region’s science and technology development, and the global megatrend, the fourth industrial ...p>
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
<p>According to the Kingdom of Cambodia’s 2019 general population census, the total Cambodian population is 15,552,211 (51.31% of females).59 By 2021, the population increased to 16,589,023.60 Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams and other minorities also live in the country. Indigenous ethnic groups known as “Khmer Loeu” live ...p>
Court monitoring
<p>Respect for strong values is the key to citizens’ trust in their courts.127 The international values recognized for judges are independence and impartiality, integrity, equality of treatment, diligence and competence. A judge cannot both decide a case and have a personal interest in its resolution. ...p>
Health services and centers
<p>“Citizens’ health is guaranteed. The state is taking care of disease prevention and cure. The poor are entitled to get access to health checks without any payment, at any public health center, infirmary and maternity center.The State shall organize and establish infirmaries and maternity centers.”173// ...p>
ODC presents at the Bantheay Meanchey BarCamp
<p>participants are having group photo after the presentation.On May 25-26, 2018 the ODC team joined the Banteay Meanchey BarCamp. Being the second BarCamp conference organised in 2018, and the first time the event was taken place at the Meanchey University of the Banteay Meanchey province. ...p>
Bank Says No Railway Evictee To Be Left Behind
<p>The Asian Development Bank announced yesterday that the organizations behind the rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways, including the government and the Australian development agency, have jointly pledged to address the complaints of people facing eviction from dwellings across the rail lines. The Australian government provided ...p>
H&M in second mass faint
<p>The second mass fainting to hit a factory in Kampong Chnnang that supplies knitwear for H&M this week has prompted intervention from provincial labour officials and an investigation by the Swedish-based company. The International Labour Organisation, which monitors the M&V factory where as many as ...p>
Tep Nimol and Vincent MacIssac, P. 2
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hm-second-mass-faint
Press release on the prohibition of taking identity card, family record, and residence record as guarantee for provision of credit
<p>On 17 July 2018, the National Bank of Cambodia issued a press release on the prohibition of taking identity card, family record, and residence record as guarantee for provision of credit, following the directive No. B7-016-210 Sor. Chor. Nor, dated 11th March 2016. However, the ...p>
National Bank of Cambodia
Japan’s assistance for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
<p>On 28 December 2018, the Government of Japan disbursed an amount of USD1.2 million as its 2018 Fiscal Year contribution to the United Nations component of the ECCC budget. The Government of Japan decided to make this contribution to continue to support the judicial process of the ...p>
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Cambodia rejects suspicions reversal on us base upgrade signals plans to host Chinese military assets
<p>Cambodia’s Minister of Defense Tea Banh on Monday dismissed suspicions that his government had reneged on accepting an offer from the U.S. to upgrade buildings at a naval base in preah Sihanouk province because it plans to host Chinese military assets at the site. In a ...p>
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/base-07012019152820.html
Press release: Implementation of measures against individuals/companies and the means involved in forest crime
<p>On 8 July 2019, the National Committee for prevention and Crackdown on National Resources Offences issued a press release on the implementation of strict legal measures to combat forest crimes. Means related to forest crimes such as cars, tractor, and motorbikes will be requested to local ...p>
National Committee for Prevention and Crackdown on National Resources Offences
More than 40 families given land to move off roadside
<p>preah Sihanouk provincial authorities provided plots of land to 45 families on Saturday after they agreed to move off a roadside in Sihanoukville’s Buon commune. provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun said on Saturday during a land distribution ceremony that the 45 families squatted and lived on a ...p>
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50654899/more-than-40-families-given-land-to-move-off-roadside/
Press release on ASEAN-Occupational Safety and Health Network (ASEAN-OSHNET)
<p>On 26 March 2018, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training of the Kingdom of Cambodia issued a press release on being a host of 3 events on ASEAN-Occupational Safety and Health Network (ASEAN-OSHNET) from 02-04 April 2018 at Empress Angkor Resort and Spa Hotel in ...p>
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Cambodian civil society groups condemn ongoing attacks on freedom of the media
<p>On May 09 2018, the undersigned of 79 civil society groups, condemn the latest blow to press freedom in Cambodia, with the opaque sale of The phnom penh post, and the new owner’s immediate interference in the paper’s editorial independence, which compelled 13 senior staff and reporters to ...p>
Cambodian Center for Human Right
