Workers Refuse to Restart Work at Thai Factory
About 600 Cambodian workers at a seafood factory in Thailand are refusing to go back to work, and are demanding compensation after a mass brawl with Burmese co-workers broke out on Monday ending in two deaths, a worker said yesterday. The fight broke out after hundreds ...
Aid ‘to fund’ refugees
Australian opposition parties have accused the government there of using its foreign aid budget to pay Cambodia to resettle refugees that have sought asylum in Australia. Senators from the Labor and Greens parties interrogated Attorney-General George Brandis at a hearing on Wednesday, accusing the government of ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/aid-%E2%80%98-fund%E2%80%99-refugees
Official outlines CPP’s stance in stalled reform negotiations
A senior CPP official on Monday night outlined the ruling party’s stance in its stalled negotiations with the opposition CNRP on the creation of the new bipartisan election commission. The CPP is insisting that NEC members not be allowed to hold foreign passports and that ...
Alex Willemyns and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-outlines-cpps-stance-in-stalled-reform-negotiations-71803/
Gov’t accepts request for law to ban monks voting
The government on Thursday formally accepted a request from Cambodia’s top Buddhist monks to consider drafting a law that would ban the country’s more than 50,000 monks from voting. At the end of the meeting Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An, the minister of ...
Och Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-accepts-request-for-law-to-ban-monks-voting-74511/
The rising global health crisis no one is talking about
Motorcycle fatalities are claiming the lives of a third of people in Asia–but governments don’t seem to notice. In Cambodia, HIV/AIDS-related deaths equate to 2,300 per year, and the government allocates $58 million to combat the disease—but 2,000 deaths are caused by highway fatalities, with ...
Michelle Bergmann
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/02/09/asia-motorcycle-deaths
Cambodia backs topics raised at 132nd IPU Assembly
Cambodian National Assembly (NA) supports topics that are raised by the 132nd Assembly of the Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) organizing committee and believed that those topics will be agreed among IPU members, said Heng Samrin, president of Cambodian National Assembly, while meeting with his Vietnamese ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-backs-topics-raised-at-132nd-ipu-assembly-8360
Rubber exports approach $100 million January-April
Cambodia exported $99.87 million of natural rubber from January to April this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
Brian Badzmierowski
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50850637/rubber-exports-approach-100-million-january-april/
Cambodia trade with China hits $3 billion
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and China increased by 19.7 percent to $3 billion during the first four months of this year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50863783/cambodia-trade-with-china-hits-3-billion/
Indigenous Mondulkiri people allege land grabs
Over 100 hectares of land used for traditional slash-and burn farming has been cleared by the O’Raing district governor of Mondulkiri province, indigenous people alleged yesterday. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50971425/indigenous-mondulkiri-people-allege-land-grabs/
Phnom Penh officials praised for COVID-19 prevention efforts
Khuong Sreng, Governor of Phnom Penh, praised the officials of Phnom Penh Capital Administration for their hard work in preventing Covid-19 and pointed out that for more than 20 consecutive days there has been no Covid-19 cases in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501087315/phnom-penh-officials-praised-for-covid-19-prevention-efforts/
First National Assembly Session successfully passes two agenda items
The new National Assembly (NA) of Cambodia held their first meeting on the morning of August 31, and successfully concluded two agenda items. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-national-assembly-session-successfully-passes-two-agenda-items
10 new Covid cases in Cambodia
The Ministry of Health on June 29 reported 10 new Covid-19 cases, eight of which were detected in the community and the others on inbound travellers. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/10-new-covid-cases-cambodia
Cambodia hasn’t put all its eggs in China’s basket
Cambodia’s foreign policy is largely shaped by the worldview of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has more than four decades of practical experience in diplomacy and foreign affairs. ...
Chheang Vannarith
https://asiatimes.com/2022/09/cambodia-hasnt-put-all-its-eggs-in-chinas-basket/
Cambodia seeks more cooperation with Singapore
Cambodia is seeking more cooperation on national security issues with Singapore. Prime Minister Hun Sen made the request when receiving Lau Peet Meng, Director of Security and Intelligence Division (SID) of Singapore, who paid a courtesy call on him at the Peace Palace yesterday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501247129/cambodia-seeks-more-cooperation-with-singapore/
Cambodia to attend Mekong-Lancang Foreign Ministers’Meeting this week
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation(MFAIC) Sok Chenda Sophea, will lead a delegation to take part in the 9th Mekong-Lancang Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Chiang Mai on Friday, at the invitation of his Thai counterpart Maris Sangiampongsa. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501541209/cambodia-to-attend-mekong-lancang-foreign-ministersmeeting-this-week/
Police Detain Three Mobile Phone Promoters
Enforcing a new ban against hanging posters and distributing promotional leaflets in Phnom Penh, police detained three Smart Mobile promoters while they were distributing flyers ahead of a music concert Tuesday, a company representative said. Boeng Trabek commune police chief Nheng Samoeun said that he ...
Declare assets, ACU tells former officials
The Anti-Corruption Unit has sent a letter of warning to three recently dismissed Senate advisers to declare their assets and debt as required by law. In a notification signed by ACU chairman Om Yentieng on Monday, the trio – identified as Vong Sopheap, Kouch Cheahuot and ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/declare-assets-acu-tells-former-officials
Research centre adds solar power station in Siem Reap
The Ministry of Environment and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Cambodia officially launched a solar power plant and battery storage system at the Kesor Kol Sok An Phnom Kulen Research and Conservation Centre on Kulen mountain in Siem Reap province. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/research-centre-adds-solar-power-station-siem-reap
Sustainable pathways needed for water-secure Asean region
The inaugural Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Mekong River Commission (MRC) Water Security Dialogue held last week has tabled three thematic solutions related to policy, technology, and partnership that can help countries in the Mekong and broader Asean address existential water security challenges ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922443/sustainable-pathways-needed-for-water-secure-asean-region/
Kin Phea: Kingdom needs to act as referee, maintain amity in international spats
With Cambodia set to take over the ASEAN chair and host the ASEAN Summit in 2022, there are a number of prominent issues the Kingdom will need to take the lead on, including the crisis in Myanmar, tensions over the South China Sea and the ...