PM touts free bus tickets for New Year
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that all people can ride the public bus for free in Phnom Penh, and from the capital to the provinces along National Roads 1 and 5, for Khmer New Year. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50298150/pm-touts-free-bus-tickets-for-new-year/
PM: Electricity rates to drop ‘in 14 days’
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday pledged that electricity rates will drop across the Kingdom next year, saying his “sharing policy”, promised before the July 29 national elections, “will come true in the next 14 days”. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-electricity-rates-drop-14-days
Preah Sihanouk governor orders firm to end activities in national park
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Yun Min has ordered a local company to cease all development in the Prek Koh Khyong area within the Ream National Park, which the firm plans to turn into a tourist attraction. ...
PM vows to keep out Islamic State
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday cautioned against complacency in the global fight against the so-called Islamic State, pledging that Cambodia would not become a safe country for jihadists plotting to attack countries in the region. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-vows-keep-out-islamic-state
Reward offered for logger info
Rewards will be given to those who provide local police with the exact time and place that illegal timber is transported through the Ton Hon Cambodia-Vietnam border checkpoint, the Kampot provincial police chief said yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25681/reward-offered-for-logger-info/
Residents angry over canal wall collapse
Residents living next to a sewage canal in Chomchao commune are concerned about their safety after the walls containing the canal and the ground around it began to collapse when contractors began work on a nearby construction site. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18259/residents-angry-over-canal-wall-collapse/
NEC announces schedule for meetings with donors
The National Election Committee yesterday released a monthly meeting schedule with The European and Japanese embassies in a bid to ensure The voter-registration process, due to begin September 1, will go smoothly. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-announces-schedule-meetings-donors
SMEs eye bourse for funds
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Cambodia could start raising capital from the public, through the stock exchange, if government efforts to amend financial regulations to allow SMEs to be publicly listed get off the ground. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27409/smes-eye-bourse-for-funds/
Unionists freed after strike called off in Kampot
The Kampot Provincial Court on Thursday released three union leaders without charge after The Cambo T.D.G. garment factory dropped its complaint against The trio in return for an end to a two-week strike. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unionists-freed-after-strike-called-off-in-kampot-115168/
Thais deporting more than 100 daily
On an average day, more than 100 Cambodians are sent back from Thailand through the Poipet International Checkpoint amid the Thai government’s crackdown on undocumented foreign workers, according to the Banteay Meanchey provincial governor yesterday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29765/thais-deporting-more-than-100-daily/
Tycoon defends claim to Kandal land near planned new airport after US visa cancelled
A tycoon implicated in a land dispute involving a massive new airport in Kandal province defended her claims to the land yesterday, one week after the US Embassy cancelled her visa in connection with the dispute. ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoon-defends-claim-kandal-land-near-planned-new-airport-after-us-visa-cancelled
City considers adding more referral hospitals
Phnom Penh City Hall plans to build more referral hospitals in the capital in the coming years as the seven currently in use are nearing capacity, according to Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-considers-adding-more-referral-hospitals
Independent observers complain about pre-vote conditions
A day removed from Sunday’s commune elections, independent observers remained mostly positive about polling day but, troubled more by the conditions leading up to the day itself, refrained from declaring the elections free and fair. ...
Ben Sokhean and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/independent-observers-complain-about-pre-vote-conditions-130997/
Carving Tbong Khmum from Kampong Cham may see CPP gain assembly seat
Four years ago, when the opposition snatched Kampong Cham away from the ruling party in 2013 national elections, it hinted at a deeper shift taking place in what was then the Kingdom’s most populous province. ...
Mech Dara and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/carving-tbong-khmum-kampong-cham-may-see-cpp-gain-assembly-seat
End deadlock: Sokha
Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president Kem Sokha used the opposition’s attendance at a memorial service for the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk yesterday to call for an end to the country’s political deadlock by July 28. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/end-deadlock-sokha
Team set up to clear boundary dispute
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to jointly set up a team to survey the watershed at the Chong An Ma pass in Ubon Ratchathani province so a clear boundary can be drawn. the decision was made on Saturday ...
Wassana Nanuam
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/598368/team-set-up-to-clear-boundary-dispute
Tycoon compensates 135 families at SEZ
A long-running land dispute between more than 130 families and the company managing the Koh Kong Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is nearing its end, with only seven families left to sign the compensation agreement, officials confirmed yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoon-compensates-135-families-sez-0
NEC forms group to issue IDs
The National Election Committee (NEC) has set up a working group to assist The Interior Ministry in distributing microchipped national ID cards, which will be used in The new electronic voting system being introduced next year. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-forms-group-issue-ids
NEC chief still firmly in place
The National Election Committee has no plan to replace its secretary general, Tep Nytha, despite a pledge after The revamped body’s approval earlier this year to name someone new to The post within three months. ...
Shaun Turton and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-chief-still-firmly-place
Efficiency on factory floor boosts GTI profit
Cambodia’s second listed company Grand Twins International (GTI) posted an increase in profits for the quarter ending June 30, as the company, despite losing revenue, was able to reduce the costs and improve worker productivity. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/efficiency-factory-floor-boosts-gti-profit