Senior cop warned on building canal
The Takeo provincial Environment Department on Monday warned authorites would take legal action against a senior police official in Koh Andet district who tried to use a vehicle to clear land illegally in The protected lake Boeung Prek Lapouv. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senior-cop-warned-building-canal
Government blasts European Parliament’s resolution
The government has lashed out at a European Parliament resolution passed last week that calls for former opposition leader Kem Sokha’s treason charges to be dropped and human rights to be restored, arguing The resolution was biased. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533677/government-blasts-european-parliaments-resolution/
World Bank: more skilled worker training needed to sustain Cambodia growth
Cambodia’s economic health remains strong at about 6 or 7 percent annual growth, but the country needs to harness its young population and invest in training and skills to ensure this trend continues, the World Bank said. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/more-skilled-workers-training-needed-to-sustain-cambodia-growth-says-world-bank/4394843.html
Cambodians march for end to forced evictions on World Habitat Day
Around 1,500 protesters marked World Habitat Day on Monday by marching through Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh and calling on the government to put a stop to forced evictions in the Southeast Asian nation. ...
Prach Chiv
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/habitat-10052015160322.html
Hun Sen says lawmakers hurled insults before beatings
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that the soldiers who violently attacked two CNRP lawmakers last week were only reacting to racial insults, while Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said he would have “used a gun” against the lawmakers. ...
Khuon Narim and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-lawmakers-hurled-insults-before-beatings-99524/
Jiangsu province opens trade, economic office in coastal Cambodia
East China’s Jiangsu province on Wednesday opened a trade and economic representative office in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) in southwest Cambodia, aiming to further boost trade and investment ties between the two countries. ...
Xinhua News Staff
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-12/10/content_22679139.htm
NEC says commune elections likely for June 2017
National Election Committee (NEC) Secretary-General Tep Nytha said on Thursday that next year’s crucial commune council elections would likely be held in June but that the decision must ultimately come from the government. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-says-commune-elections-likely-for-june-2017-111642/
Direct international flights from Sihanoukville
The national carrier, Cambodia Angkor Air, officially launched on Friday its scheduled flight services connecting Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to The Kingdom’s coastal resort in Sihanoukville, in a move that could furTher boost tourist arrivals. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26274/direct-international-flights-from-sihanoukville/
Funcinpec aims for 26 seats in election: prince
Prince Norodom Ranariddh said on Friday that he hoped the royalist Funcinpec party, which he has promised to revitalize since again becoming its president in January, would win 26 seats in the 2018 national election, up from zero in 2013. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funcinpec-aims-for-26-seats-in-election-prince-94070/
Kem Sokha pledges to quit if CNRP loses in Kompong Cham
CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha said on Saturday that he is so confident the opposition party will win a majority in Kompong Cham province at the 2018 national election that he will quit politics if they do not. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-pledges-to-quit-if-cnrp-loses-in-kompong-cham-95602/
Index Creative Village to tap Cambodian market next year
Index Creative Village, the country’s leading event management company, will expand its business into Cambodia next year by organising trade fairs in response to its clients’ need to capitalise on the Asean economic integration. ...
Watchiranont Thongtep
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Index-Creative-Village-to-tap-Cambodian-market-nex-30271560.html
Security to beef up for 8th Congress on AIPA next week
More than 5,000 competent forces will deploy for security and public order during the 8thCongress on the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) that will be held in Phnom Penh next Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/security-to-beef-up-for-8th-congress-on-aipa-next-week-9091
NGOs, military police join forces in logging crackdown
Six prominent conservation groups yesterday vowed to help a military police task force fight illegal logging near the eastern border yesterday. However, scepticism persists that the highly publicised operation, which has resulted in few arrests, is merely for show. ...
Mech Dara and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-military-police-join-forces-logging-crackdown
Unionists arrested by undercover police out on bail
Two unionists jailed since February 2 have been released on bail by the Kompong Speu Provincial Court, although they remain charged with incitement and intentional violence in connection with a protest outside the Cerie garment factory, officials said Thursday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unionists-arrested-by-undercover-police-out-on-bail-109759/
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation vital to regional stability, boosting economic development: Cambodia
With the inaugural Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) leaders’ meeting scheduled to open next week in China, Cambodia said the LMC is important for all Lancang-Mekong countries to maintain regional peace and stability and to boost economic development. ...
Xin Hua Team
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-03/19/c_135203233.htm
South China Sea verdict final, Japan’s abe tells Hun Sen
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared to rebuke Cambodia’s position on the South China Sea dispute over the weekend, saying that an international tribunal’s ruling on China’s territorial claims should be respected. ...
Ben Paviour and Michael Dickison
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-china-sea-verdict-final-japans-abe-tells-hun-sen-115604/
Cambodian Premier: In democratic countries, power cannot be transferred directly to child
Prime Minister Hun Sen said here this morning at a graduation ceremony that in the democratic countries, power cannot be transferred from a father to his child, according to the state news agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-premier:-in-democratic-countries-power-cannot-be-transferred-directly-to-child-9028
Industrial park to install solar energy system
Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) has signed an agreement with a Singaporean clean energy firm to install and operate a solar panel system inside the 357-hectare industrial park, the company said yesterday in a press release. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/industrial-park-install-solar-energy-system
Sokha vows neutrality in Cambodia’s civil service
Cambodia’s civil servants and security forces must be politically neutral, and will be if the Cambodia National Rescue Party takes power after the 2018 election, acting opposition leader Kem Sokha told supporters in Banteay Meanchey on Saturday. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-vows-neutrality-cambodias-civil-service
Interior ministry admits to prison drug problem
In what one commentator described as “a bold step”, the Interior Ministry’s prisons department has seemingly admitted it has a drug problem, and last week sent a letter requesting the Health Ministry’s assistance in tackling it. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-ministry-admits-prison-drug-problem