CNRP lawmaker accuses police of stopping border post trip
CNRP lawmaker Mao Monyvann on Wednesday said his delegation of opposition lawmakers and party supporters was once again thwarted in their efforts to visit a disputed border post along Cambodia’s contentious frontier with Vietnam, this time by Cambodian police. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-accuses-police-of-stopping-border-post-trip-85360/
Gov’t: Montagnards not welcome
The government will not accept more Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam because it lacks the resources to do so and does not want to provoke Hanoi, Council of Ministers’ Phay Siphan told Khmer Times yesterday. ...
Donald Lee
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12696/gov---t--montagnards-not-welcome/
For disabled, few opportunities and little sympathy
For more than 30 years, Svay Simorn, a social worker in Phnom Penh, has cared for her daughter and grandson, both of whom are mentally disabled. Over time, she has experienced discrimination and isolation. ...
Oum Sonita
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/for-disabled-few-opportunities-and-little-sympathy/2873543.html
Cambodian Commerce Ministry to invest $450,000 in rice sector to boost exports
Cambodia’s Commerce Ministry has agreed to invest $450,000 as a one time seed capital in the country’s rice sector to help boost exports, local sources quoted an official from the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF). ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/23358/cambodian-commerce-ministry-invest-450000-rice-sector-boost-exports
Olympia City sets the bar higher
During a time when skyscrapers are emerging one after another in the capital of Cambodia, the Overseas Cambodia Investment Company (OCIC) is commencing the development of a 60-storey building and several high-rises to its’ Olympia City project. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/olympia-city-sets-bar-higher
Delta can spread in 15 seconds
The Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus is at least two times more transmissible, being able to infect the next person within 15 seconds, according to world experts. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50902050/delta-can-spread-in-15-seconds/
Victims press for compensation, imprisonment over million-dollar rural scam
Almost $1 million in compensation remains to be paid out and a perpetrator has yet to see jail time over a Kampong Cham scam that ensnared 180 families, the Supreme Court heard on Monday. ...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/victims-press-for-compensation-imprisonment-over-million-dollar-rural-scam/
All-out effort led to Cambodia peace conference in Tokyo in 1990 – a look back at history
For the first time after the end of World War II, Japan took the spotlight on the international stage as a mediator by hosting talks for a third country in 1990. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50996917/all-out-effort-led-to-cambodia-peace-conference-in-tokyo-in-1990-a-look-back-at-history/
Post-Covid school reopenings see drop in returning students
Poverty is stopping several students from returning to schools post-Covid times, say school authorities. The pandemic had affected millions of families across the country, but children suffered the most. ...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501078735/post-covid-school-reopenings-see-drop-in-returning-students/
Positive sign in EU rice tariff saga
The European Union yesterday failed to come to a consensus on taxing Cambodia fragrant and white rice, giving leaders of the local rice sector more time to plan the next step in their fight to stop the EU from imposing tariffs. ...
Sok Chan and Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50556403/positive-sign-in-eu-rice-tariff-saga/
Bridge broken by illegal load
Kampot’s Ta Reach bridge was severely damaged by a truck overloaded with illegal luxury timber over the weekend, prompting a manhunt for the truck’s driver, who was apparently on his way to Vietnam at the time of the accident. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26038/bridge-broken-by-illegal-load/
Exercise fad sends sales of bicycles freewheeling
With a greater number of Cambodians devoting time and money to exercise, bicycles are shedding their lowly image as a cheap means of transportation and fast becoming a symbol of the wealthier, more health-conscious elite. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exercise-fad-sends-sales-bicycles-freewheeling
Ministry removes officials from office for skipping work
The Ministry of Interior has removed four Oddar Meanchey provincial officials from office, including former deputy governor of Anlong Veng district Nhem En, for failing to show up for work, according to a ministry letter received by Khmer Times yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21423/ministry-removes-officials-from-office-for-skipping-work/
PAL looks to operate direct flight to Cambodia
Philippine Airlines (PAL) plans to enter Cambodian skies for the first time with the launch of a direct flight from Manila, aviation officials said yesterday, though whether the airline will serve Phnom Penh or Siem Reap has yet to be decided. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pal-looks-operate-direct-flight-cambodia
Government wage hikes depend on cost cutting
Slashing unnecessary spending by ministries will allow the government to guarantee a monthly minimum wage of $250 for civil servants in time for the 2018 national election, a secretary of state at the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-wage-hikes-depend-on-cost-cutting-114142/
Commission makes changes in first union draft law meeting
A joint commission of 10 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties yesterday met for the first time to review the draft law on trade unions, and two of 21 articles that were flagged as controversial by unions have changed slightly. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19441/commission-makes-changes-in-first-union-draft-law-meeting/
Travel goods exports could soar as US drops tariffs
New trade privileges that allow Cambodian-manufactured travel goods duty-free access to the United States for the first time could see exports of these items increase by over 400 per cent in the coming years, industry experts said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/travel-goods-exports-could-soar-us-drops-tariffs
Suspect logs found on plantation
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province have found more piles of possibly illegally logged wood as part of the government’s ongoing sweep of eastern Cambodia for illicit timber stocks, this time on a rubber plantation owned by wealthy businessman Soung Vang. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/suspect_logs_found_on_plantation-110061/
Court upholds Sokha detention for ‘treason’
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the legality of CNRP President Kem Sokha’s detention on widely condemned charges of “treason”, despite a team of defence lawyers laying out their arguments against his imprisonment for the first time before a court. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-upholds-sokha-detention-treason
Surrogacy exit rules released, with parents required to provide yearly updates
Parents of children born to surrogate mothers in Cambodia will be required to provide the government with yearly updates of their child’s mental and physical development, according to new guidelines officially disseminated to embassies for the first time yesterday. ...
Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/surrogacy-exit-rules-released-parents-required-provide-yearly-updates