Drainage upgrades to come amid rains: city
Cambodia will this year experience heavier rainfall than in previous years during an extended rainy season that is expected to last well into December in the coastal and central lowland areas, according to an announcement made by the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology last ...
Jovina Chua and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drainage-upgrades-come-amid-rains-city
UN human rights envoy wants quick solution to montagnard situation in Cambodia
A United Nations human rights expert has called for a speedy solution to the situation of the Montagnards from Vietnam still hiding in the forests of northeastern Cambodia, after crossing the border to escape alleged persecution. About 13 of the 50 Montagnards—Christian indigenous people from ...
Ratha Visal
http://bit.ly/18FL4z8
Education Lagging in Science, Technology, Experts Say
Experts say the government has not yet done enough to promote the studies of science at the university level, leaving Cambodia behind on technology and other science subjects. Louise Ahrens, a project coordinator at Maryknoll, a US-based organization that provides education counseling at the Royal University ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/education-lagging-in-science-technology-experts-say/1798183.html
Stability, growth require job creation
Cambodia is entering a new phase of economic growth in which the development of a skilled workforce will be critical to social stability and regional competitiveness, government officials and economists said Thursday at the 2014 Cambodia Outlook Conference. Delivering the keynote speech at the conference, Prime ...
Colin Meyn and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stability-growth-require-job-creation-53317/
Belgium steadfast in support for Cambodian students
The Government of Belgium is providing scholarship support for Cambodian students wishing to pursue master’s and doctoral degree programmes at some of Belgium’s most renowned universities. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501375054/belgium-steadfast-in-support-for-cambodian-students/
Another Korean ministry says it didn’t help envoy
South Korea’s Ministry of Justice has become the second of that nation’s ministries to deny it is working with Cambodia’s ambassador to the country, Suth Dina, to clamp down on illegal migrants and political dissent. ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/another-korean-ministry-says-it-didnt-help-envoy
Steady FDI helps keep economy on course
Total foreign direct investment receipts have remained consistent over the past five years, according to a new government report that incorporates central bank data. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/steady-fdi-helps-keep-economy-course
Court to check on origins of senator’s fake border treaty
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court decided Wednesday to reinvestigate the origins of the doctored treaty that provided the impetus for the arrest of opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, after the senator’s lawyer told the court that his client did not forge it. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-to-check-on-origins-of%E2%80%88senators-fake-border-treaty-96846/
Gov't touts internet record despite telecom bill concerns
Government officials defended the Kingdom’s record on internet freedom yesterday, despite concerns that recent and proposed legislation could curtail the rights of those speaking out online. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-touts-internet-record-despite-telecom-bill-concerns
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//
New campaign will fight plastic bag blight
UNESCO and the ministries of Tourism and Environment this weekend will launch a campaign aimed at ridding the capital of the plastic waste currently choking its waterways and piling up in its landfills.The campaign, starting on Friday, will seek to educate Cambodians about how to ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-campaign-will-fight-plastic-bag-blight
Gov’t decides on New Year prisoner pardons
The government has finalised plans for next month’s annual Khmer New Year clemency, with more than 800 prisoners across the country expected to receive pardons and sentence reductions, according to an Interior Ministry official. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-decides-new-year-prisoner-pardons
Stop issuing docs to ‘illegals’, officials told
The director of immigration at the Interior Ministry has warned local authorities to immediately cease distributing identity documents to illegal immigrants after recent census data revealed that allegedly crooked officials have been handing out papers. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stop-issuing-docs-illegals-officials-told
Passes set to replace passports for migrants
In an effort to curb illegal migration, the Ministry of Interior issued a letter on Tuesday announcing that all migrant workers who want to gain employment abroad will be able to obtain so-called migrant passes instead of having to wait for a regular passport. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/passes-set-replace-passports-migrants
Union helps resolve complaints brought against journalists
The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia (UJFC) intervened to resolve 33 cases last year where complaints were brought against Cambodian journalists, according to a report issued on January 11. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/union-helps-resolve-complaints-brought-against-journalists
Environment ministry warns public to beware of fraudulent brokers selling protected land
The Ministry of Environment has warned the public about scammers who were deceiving people by claiming they legally owned land in protected areas and providing them with fake ownership deeds in bogus land sales when it isn’t possible for anyone to privately own protected land. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-warns-public-beware-fraudulent-brokers-selling-protected-land
Work starts on two bridges in An Giang
Nhan Dan Online – The southern province of An Giang has begun construction of two bridges in Tan Chau town, as part of a bigger project linking two provincial roads with the Vinh Xuong border gate between Vietnam and Cambodia. ...
Beyond Chea Vichea, Many Cases Lack Accountability, Justice
Ahead of the 10-year anniversary on Wednesday of the assassination of Free Trade Union (FTU) President Chea Vichea, police said Monday that despite their inability to bring anyone to justice for the high-profile slaying, the case remains open. However, Chea Mony, the brother of Chea Vichea, ...
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-ambassador-distances-local-delegation-from-resolution-50914/
Takeo garment workers protest at Ministry of Labour
More than 300 garment workers from Takeo province protested in front of the Ministry of Labour yesterday, following two weeks of strikes over working conditions.Workers requested intervention from the ministry over the dismissal of 1,000 striking workers as well as 13 demands including lunch money, ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/takeo-garment-workers-protest-ministry-labour