Former National Aids authority official alleges corruption
A former official at the National Aids Authority (NAA) alleged this week that the organization falsified letters authorizing missions to three different provinces so that fraudulent expenses could be claimed. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-national-aids-authority-official-alleges-corruption-79213/
Cambodia should not revert progress made in fighting COVID-19 pandemic, says WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Cambodia said that the country should not revert the progress made so far in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50950729/cambodia-should-not-revert-progress-made-in-fighting-covid-19-pandemic-says-who/
The slaughterhouse blues
It’s 1am and, as Phnom Penh sleeps, the haunting squeals of distressed animals are all that can be heard in the darkness of a field in Russey Keo district. Pigs in open-air sheds have sensed what’s coming: Hundreds of them are about to be slaughtered for ...
Shane Worrell and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/slaughterhouse-blues
Residents not budging
About 40 families in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district are disputing local authorities’ demand that they abandon their homes without compensation so the government can increase a nearby canal’s capacity. The residents, who were asked on September 28 to vacate their homes within a week by Meanchey ...
Senator Kok An's Case Back in
The Appeal Court yesterday began hearing now-incarcerated former Anco Brothers deputy general director Heng Chheang’s appeal against Senator Kok An’s requested Phnom Penh Municipal Court injunction over his property. Chheang, and his wife, Tep Kolap, former Phnom Penh International University director, were convicted and sentenced to ...
Major Gap Emerging Between Labor Market and Job Seekers
PHNOM PENH – As more and more Cambodians enter the job market, with a growing population of young people, there still remain plenty of job opportunities with foreign investors at home, according to a new study by the Ministry of Labor. But people either don’t ...
Government urges NGOs to support migrant workers from Thailand
Relevant organizations have been actively cooperating with the government in providing transportation service for illegal migrant workers to return to their home after they were sent back by the junta in Thailand. The temporary estimation for the aid so far amounts to nearly 200,000$. The government ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NDUzNzQxYjI3N2R
Phnom Penh warms to new buses on second day of service
On the second day of Phnom Penh’s monthlong public bus experiment, there was a visible uptick in passengers Thursday traveling the single route along Monivong Boulevard. About a dozen passengers interviewed, who included civil servants, NGO staff and a large number of uniformed students, were ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-warms-to-new-buses-on-second-day-of-service-51641/
In Cambodia, calls for Panama papers probe
Civil society groups and anti-corruption experts have urged Cambodia’s government to open an investigation into why Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana was named in the so-called Panama Papers. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-panama-papers-probe-justice-minister-ang-vong-vathana/3280296.html
Permits given for $2b of projects this year
Figures from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction show that more than $2 billion worth of Cambodian construction projects have been given the green light so far this year. ...
Hin Pisei
http://phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/permits-given-2b-projects-year
Japan provides $52M in grants
The Japanese government has provided more than $52 million in grants for Cambodia’s socio-economic development projects so far this year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/japan-provides-52m-grants
Nauru refugees settle into new neighborhood
In a sprawling villa down a quiet dirt road in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district, four refugees have reached what not so long ago would have seemed like a inconceivable end destination. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Holly Robertson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nauru-refugees-settle-into-new-neighborhood-85106/
New law bypassing illicit cigarettes
The tobacco industry has urged the government to crack down on cigarette smuggling ahead of new laws mandating graphic health warnings, saying failure to do so gave smuggled products a competitive edge. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-law-bypassing-illicit-cigarettes
Drought prompts calls for fish farms, imports
The prolonged drought is raising fears that domestic fish supplies will be so depleted that the Kingdom may need to start importing fish to compensate for a shortfall at markets, officials said. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24523/drought-prompts-calls-for-fish-farms--imports/
Kingdom’s prospects for fintech discussed
While financial technology, or fintech, has made little traction so far in Cambodia, panellists at a conference in Phnom Penh on Friday expressed confidence that the sector was poised for rapid growth. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-prospects-fintech-discussed
PM invites opposition members to join CPP
Prime Minister Hun Sen has promised CNRP commune officials they can keep their positions once their party is dissolved, so long as they disavow their former party and join the ruling CPP. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087199/pm-invites-opposition-members-join-cpp/
Cambodia seeks to promote trade relations with Britain
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged the United Kingdom to increase purchase orders for Cambodian products so as to further promote trade relations between the two countries. ...
ShanghaiDaily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=246415
Cambodia, Laos achieve 86 percent of border demarcation
Cambodia and Laos have so far achieved 86 percent of joint border demarcation and the two neighbors vowed to fully complete it as soon as possible, a spokesman said Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140819/cambodia-laos-achieve-86-percent-border-demarcation
Border issue ‘big’ because no other problems
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong said Sunday that the opposition CNRP has only been enjoying so much success in its recent campaign against Vietnamese incursions into Cambodia because no other problems exist in the country. ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/border-issue-big-because-no-other-problems-92923/
Caution: Children at work
Labour legislation in Cambodia is so weak and so often ignored that half the Kingdom’s children between the ages of seven and 14 participate in the workforce, the world’s largest federation of unions has told the World Trade Organisation General Council in Geneva. Children, women and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110252486/National-news/caution-children-at-work.html