Interior Ministry investigates forgery
The Immigration Department at the Interior Ministry has put in a request to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor to conduct a preliminary investigation into a commune chief who allegedly forged a birth certificate for a Chinese national in exchange for $12,000. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32060/interior-ministry-investigates-forgery/
BRED bank to carve out a niche in the market
Bred Banque Populaire – part of the second-largest banking group in France – officially launched operations in Cambodia yesterday after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its headquarters, marking the first venture of a European bank in the Kingdom since the late 1990s. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bred-bank-carve-out-niche-market
CNRP vexed as CPP continues to call Sokha’s presidency illegitimate
Opposition lawmakers yesterday left a meeting at the Interior Ministry exasperated, as officials from the latter continued to deem the presidency of their leader, Kem Sokha, and the vice presidency of three senior lawmakers, illegitimate, but offered no clear path to a resolution. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-vexed-cpp-continues-call-sokhas-presidency-illegitimate
Centers in Thailand to grant migrant workers travel documents
The Thai government has agreed to set up stations across Thailand where Cambodian illegal migrant workers can register for documents that will allow them to stay and work in the country, Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng said at a news conference on Thursday. ...
Chhorn Phearun and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/centers-in-thailand-to-grant-migrant-workers-travel-documents-132234/
Parliament boycotts bear little fruit for opposition
While highly contentious new rules were being passed in the National Assembly on Monday banning the CNRP from collaborating with its former leader Sam Rainsy, photographs were posted to Facebook of senior opposition lawmakers dining at a riverside hotel in Kampot province. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parliament-boycotts-bear-little-fruit-for-opposition-132457/
NGOs help six more workers to repatriate from Malaysia
NGOs in Cambodia and Malaysia are working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to repatriate six of the 30 Cambodians who sought shelter at the country’s embassy after the Malaysian government started mass arrests of undocumented migrant workers on July 1. ...
Zsomber Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-help-six-more-workers-to-repatriate-from-malaysia-132923/
Petrol labs to track fuel cheats
The Ministry of Commerce yesterday launched a petroleum mobile lab to detect fraud and cheating at petrol stations and ensure fair competition. The lab, under the authority of CamControl, will drive across the country, starting from Phnom Penh. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080945/petrol-labs-track-fuel-cheats/
ADB stays hopeful on forecast for Kingdom
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) maintained its economic growth forecast for Cambodia at 7.1 percent for 2017 and 2018 buoyed by the strong performance of developing economies across Asia and the ongoing recovery of large industrial countries, according to a release yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/adb-stays-hopeful-forecast-kingdom
Vietnam to scoop up more Cambodian cashews
Vietnam, a major buyer of the Cambodian cashew nut, has unveiled a plan to purchase cashews in even greater volumes during next year’s harvest season, giving hope to farmers who rely on selling their crops at good prices from February through May. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam-scoop-more-cambodian-cashews
NEC body to fight bad press
Amid accusations of bias in favour of the ruling party – and following the removal of the main opposition party from the electoral field – the National Election Committee has announced the creation of a new press reaction team to “attack back at negative points”. ...
Niem Chheng and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-body-fight-bad-press
Forestry crimes triple, but fines down: report
Illegal forest clearing is taking place at about three times the rate it did last year, but fines for forestry and wildlife crimes have fallen dramatically, according to a progress report released last week by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries (MAFF). ...
Mech Dara and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forestry-crimes-triple-fines-down-report
PM opens Laos border checkpoint
Prime Minister Hun Sen and Lao President Bounnhang Vorachith met yesterday at the inauguration of a checkpoint on the border between both countries, subsequently reaching an agreement to allow residents on both sides to cross freely with only a special border pass. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34060/26-millers-pass-china-test/
House collapses into river, others removed
One home collapsed into the Tonle Bassac river on Saturday in Kandal’s Sa’ang district, while two others are at risk of collapse and eight others had to be dismantled and moved across the road, away from the riverbank, officials said yesterday. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/house-collapses-river-others-removed
Private prison breaks ground
Ground was officially broken yesterday on a new facility at Prey Sar prison that will soon enable the upper crust of the Kingdom’s underworld to buy their way out of overcrowded jails and into the relative luxury of a privately run institution. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/private-prison-breaks-ground
Kingdom’s largest wholesale outlet to kick off end of 2017
Earlier this month, Makro, a well-known wholesale supermart based in Bangkok, Thailand, began putting up signs on the zinc walls surrounding its sales office in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, advertising its imminent opening at the end of the year. ...
Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/kingdoms-largest-wholesale-outlet-kick-end-2017
EU meets rights body
A European Union election expert mission yesterday met with the government’s Cambodia Human Rights Committee in a closed-door meeting as part of its visit to the Kingdom, at the end of which it will submit recommendations to the Cambodian authorities. ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-meets-rights-body
Flooded mangrove forest filled in with sand from illegal dredging
At least 2 hectares of flooded mangrove forest in Koh Kong’s Peam Krasaop Wildlife Sanctuary have been filled in with sand from illegal dredging nearby, with local authorities and an NGO yesterday claiming an unidentified “powerful” tycoon was behind the environmental crimes. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooded-mangrove-forest-filled-sand-illegal-dredging
Government unit publishes 132-page treatise on threat of ‘colour revolution’
The Council of Ministers released a no-holds-barred book about its efforts to root out a purported foreign-backed “colour revolution” in Cambodia yesterday, lashing out at superpowers like the United States for supposedly trying to cause “immeasurable catastrophe” in the country. ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-unit-publishes-132-page-treatise-threat-colour-revolution
Minister to be grilled on sand export discrepancy
Minister for Mines and Energy Suy Sem will appear at the National Assembly on Thursday to answer questions about a more than $700 million discrepancy in data on sand exports to Singapore, according to a letter signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-be-grilled-sand-export-discrepancy
Nearly 6,000 border crimes in 2016: ministry
The National Defense Ministry’s annual draft report showed that Cambodia’s borders are still at risk of abuse from Thailand, Vietnam and Laos, despite the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) cracking down on nearly 6,000 border crimes over the past year. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33829/nearly-6-000-border-crimes-in-2016--ministry/