Deal inked to fast-track Cambodian work permits for Thailand
Cambodia and Thailand have reached an agreement to facilitate 40,000 migrant Cambodian workers renewing work permits due to expire on July 31. ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/deal-inked-to-fast-track-cambodian-work-permits-for-thailand
NEC requests King, govt to honour 191 outstanding officials
Tbe National Election Committee (NEC) has requested the King and the Government to honour outstanding officials with medals in order to encourage the government sector. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501318146/nec-requests-king-govt-to-honour-191-outstanding-officials/
Constitutional Council to resume inquiries Tuesday
Cambodia’s Constitutional Council will resume their inquiries Tuesday into the opposition party’s poll complaints regarding the alleged irregularities of the election, according to the general secretariat of the Constitutional Council. In a statement issued Saturday, the council had already resolved 14 complaints among the 33 received ...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=N2M1YjgzYmFiMjc
Union appeals to casinos over suspended workers’ wages
The Collective Union of Movement of Workers is appealing to casino owners to disburse last month’s wages of suspended employees amid the temporary closure of gambling venues across the Kingdom over novel coronavirus fears. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50709040/union-appeals-to-casinos-over-suspended-workers-wages/
CHRC rejects report to UN on ‘human rights crisis’
Cambodina Human Rights Committee (CHRC) spokesman Chin Malin on Wednesday rejected a report by a group of NGOs to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that the Kingdom is facing an “ongoing human rights crisis”. Malin said he also expected that the possible adoption of ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/chrc-rejects-report-un-human-rights-crisis
Thailand Asked to Help Stop Labor Smuggling
Cambodian officials asked their Thai counterparts during a meeting Friday to crack down on human smugglers on their side of the border who bring Cambodians in to work in Thailand. Banteay Meanchey provincial government spokesman Ouk Keoratanak said a delegation led by provincial Deputy Governor Try ...
‘No to corruption amid state-land distribution’: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday warned of legal action against anyone caught taking advantage of state-mandated land distributions, two days after he ordered several ministries to oversee the transfer of state-protected land to its long-term occupants. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50741609/no-to-corruption-amid-state-land-distribution-pm/
Three more COVID-19 patients succumb to the virus in Cambodia, death toll now 29
The Ministry of Health on the morning of April 11, 2021 issued a press release confirming the death of a 36-year-old Cambodian due to COVID-19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50837099/three-more-covid-19-patients-succumb-to-the-virus-in-cambodia-death-toll-now-29/
Cambodia-Ukraine friendly relations to continue to develop
Ukrainian top leaders have congratulated Dr Hun Manet on his assumption of the office as the Prime Minister of Cambodia for the 7th Legislature of the National Assembly. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501350854/cambodia-ukraine-friendly-relations-to-continue-to-develop/
Work starts on house for preserving Vietnamese martyrs’ remains in Cambodia
Construction of a house for preserving remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who had laid down their lives during wartime in Cambodia started in the Cambodian province of Battambang on July 13. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501113218/work-starts-on-house-for-preserving-vietnamese-martyrs-remains-in-cambodia/
Japan to open Toyota factory in Cambodia
Japan will establish a Toyota car factory in Cambodia, affirmed Kishida Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan in a bilateral meeting with Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501159273/japan-to-open-toyota-factory-in-cambodia/
A King’s temple remembered
The elders of Banteay Village have a favorite comparison when discussing the temple perched above a floodplain on the outskirts of town. ...
James Reddick and Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15951/a-king---s-temple-remembered/
Fire Destroys 32 Homes In Russei Keo District
Two people received burns when a large fire gutted 32 houses in Russei Keo district’s Kilometer Nine commune on Friday, police said. The fire broke out at 11 a.m. in a village of wooden houses at the rear of the Cambodian Television Network station, said municipal ...
Rights Worker Leaves Cambodia; Court Questioning Postponed
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday agreed to delay today’s scheduled questioning of well-known rights investigator Chan Soveth, who has been charged with aiding an unnamed perpetrator in an unnamed crime. Local human rights group Adhoc requested a delay of the court appearance on the grounds that Mr. Soveth is ...
Justice ministry: 89 per cent court case backlog cleared
Just 222 days after the launch of a campaign to address the court case backlog throughout the Kingdom, the Ministry of Justice has cleared 35,100, or 89 per cent, out of a total of 39,152 cases that were pending. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-ministry-89-cent-court-case-backlog-cleared
Hun Sen to return to Facebook
Former Prime Minister Hun Sen will resume the use of his Facebook page, now renamed “Samdech Hun Sen of Cambodia”, after Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms Inc declined the request of its Oversight Board to temporarily suspend the account over alleged breaches of its policies. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-return-facebook
Cambodia’s rice exports to China exceed those to EU
Cambodia exported more rice to China than the EU for the first time during the first half of this year, a report from the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality said. The report shows that the Kingdom’s rice exports during the first ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-rice-exports-china-exceed-those-eu
CPP supporters protest against opposition leader
The ruling Cambodian Poeple’s Party’s Supporters today protested against Kem Sokha, the deputy President of the oppostion Cambodia National Rescue Party, in Kampong Cham province. The opposition sees the protest a a disturbance. Hundreds of the CPP supporters rallied in front of the CNRP Headquarters in ...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZjkwOWZkNDUwNzY
‘Virtually no Red Zones’ in Phnom Penh starting from today
Phnom Penh authorities announced yesterday that as of today, the capital will be virtually free of Red Zones, because the number of Covid-19 infections has been steadily declining. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50858709/virtually-no-red-zones-in-phnom-penh-starting-from-today/
US' Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines arrive
The first batch of 455,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine donated by the US touched down in Phnom Penh on the morning of July 30. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccines-arrive