Preah Sihanouk ‘not to be crime base’
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has declared that Preah Sihanouk province must not develop a reputation for being a “crime base”, insisting that its image must be restored ahead of the Commune Council Election in order to regain the trust of foreign investors. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-not-be-crime-base
Cambodia’s export to Japan jumps 11.4%
Cambodia exported $1.81 billion worth of products to Japan in the first 11 months of last year, a year-on-year increase of 11.4 percent, according to the data from the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) yesterday. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501216672/cambodias-export-to-japan-jumps-11-4/
Cambodia’s new government approves goals for new mandate
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on August 24 chaired the first meeting of the Council of Ministers, with the official launch of the government’s Pentagon Strategy Phase I high on the agenda. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501349610/cambodias-new-government-approves-goals-for-new-mandate/
Cashew exports to Vietnam decline 16%, says CAC
Cambodia exported 607,000 tonnes of Raw Cashew Nuts (RCN) to Vietnam in the first eight months of 2023 earning $820 million, a decrease of 15.8 percent compared to the same period last year. ...
Nheng Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501361913/cashew-exports-to-vietnam-decline-16-says-cac/
Sar Kheng: Crime rate down in 2022 thanks to government policy
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said that the implementation of the safe village-commune policy in 2022 had reduced the crime rate by nine per cent, while the nationwide rate of conviction for those arrested for criminal offences was at 92 per cent. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-crime-rate-down-2022-thanks-government-policy
Classes to boost tourism
រThe plan to attract two million Chinese tourists by 2020 will succeed, the tourism minister said yesterday during an MoU signing ceremony with the Confucius Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27266/classes-to-boost-tourism/
Chinese FDI to flow in on Silk Road
Cambodia could see massive investments as a result of China’s latest pledge to funnel an enormous sum into developing infrastructure as part of its New Silk Road initiative, an analyst said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-fdi-flow-silk-road
Kratie conspiracy: Rebels are still being hunted: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday expressed his condolences for the family of a 14-year-old girl shot dead by government security forces in Kratie last month, but stopped short of calling for an investigation. ...
Hun Sen admits leading until age 90 unlikely
Breaking from a history of boasting about the potential longevity of his tenure as Cambodia’s leader, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that he would likely have to retire sometime before he turns 90. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-admits-leading-until-age-90-unlikely-79049/
New NEC members named, with vote to go ahead today
A vote at the National Assembly to officially select the nine members of the new National Election Committee (NEC) was on Wednesday rescheduled for Thursday, hours after the names of the presumptive candidates were leaked. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-nec-members-named-with-vote-to-go-ahead-81695/
CPP wants shorter campaign
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party is pushing for the campaign period of the next national election to be cut to just 14 days, less than half of the 30-day period currently allocated for campaigning. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-wants-shorter-campaign
Rong Chhun ready to scrap
Newly appointed election monitor Rong Chhun has come out swinging ahead of today’s official swearing in of the nine new National Election Committee members, saying he is “sharpening his spurs” for a potential showdown. ...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rong-chhun-ready-scrap
‘Sorcerer’ slaying examined
Three people in Oddar Meanchey province will be questioned today over the alleged premeditated murder of a “gentle” 60-year-old woman accused by a local family of practising sorcery, police said yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sorcerer-slaying-examined
Development fears at Cambodia's most beautiful beach
Dozens of independent bungalows at one of Cambodia’s most unspoiled beaches are to be bulldozed with weeks, raising fears that a “soulless” mega-resort will replace them. ...
Nathan Thompson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/cambodia/articles/otres-beach-cambodia-threatened-by-development/
Cop denies graft claim after ACU clears him
In the wake of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) clearing him of any wrongdoing, a Phnom Penh commune police chief yesterday refuted allegations that he had accepted protection pay-offs from neighbourhood drug dealers. ...
Niem Chheng and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cop-denies-graft-claim-after-acu-clears-him
Pig disease contained; pork sales still down
The recent outbreak of “blue-ear pig disease” in two districts of Siem Reap province has been successfully contained, but consumer demand for pork in the province has not recovered, a senior official said. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pig-disease-contained-pork-sales-still-down-93700/
Officials say Sesan dam will cause floods in September
Stung Treng provincial authorities say they have warned villagers living upstream of the Lower Sesan II dam to expect floods in September as one of the dam’s 50-megawatt turbines goes into operation. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-say-sesan-dam-will-cause-floods-september
CNRP to push $500k per commune plan in national assembly
In what one observer said was simply an act of politicking, the opposition CNRP on Thursday said it would push its campaign pledge of giving $500,000 to every commune in the National Assembly. ...
Ben Sokhean and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/131182-131182/
New Ranariddh party approved
Prince Norodom Ranariddh is officially back in the political game. The Ministry of Interior has approved the former prime minister’s Community of Royalist People’s Party (CRPP), Ranariddh’s cabinet chief, Noranarith Anandayath, said yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-ranariddh-party-approved
Gov’t forms body to monitor Kazantip organizers
Provincial authorities here are closely monitoring the movements of the Kazantip festival’s organizers to ensure that no replica parties are in the pipeline after the cancellation of the famously debauched rave earlier this week. ...
Hul Reaksmey and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-forms-body-to-monitor-kazantip-organizers-78458/