PM decides to lift mandatory mask wearing for 4 provinces
In a move which appears to signal the hastening of a move towards a post COVID normalcy, PM Hun Sun has decided to lift mandatory mask wearing for 4 provinces. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501056200/pm-decides-to-lift-mandatory-mask-wearing-for-4-provinces/
Cambodia has more than 1.3 million migrant workers working abroad, remitting more than $3 billion in 2021
Cambodia now has a total of 1,301,609 workers in seven countries. Prime Minister Hun Sen said this in a message to mark the forthcoming May 1 International Labour Day. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501065365/cambodia-has-more-than-1-3-million-migrant-workers-working-abroad-remitting-more-than-3-billion-in-2021/
King appoints Hun Manet as Prime Minister
King Norodom Sihamoni on August 7 issued a royal decree appointing Hun Manet, an elected lawmaker for Phnom Penh, as the prime minister of Cambodia. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king-appoints-hun-manet-prime-minister
Cambodia-China friendship like flower that never withers
In a compound that carries distinctive local features in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia, there is a two-storey building surrounded by Saraca dives. It is the headquarters of the Cambodia-China Friendship Association (CCFA). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501113225/cambodia-china-friendship-like-flower-that-never-withers/
ASEAN working on future direction post-2025, says Sec-Gen, adds Timor Leste’s membership on the cards
ASEAN secretary-general Datuk Lim Jock Hoi said that its high-level task force is now in the process of charting the future direction beyond 2025 for the 10-member grouping. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501160058/asean-working-on-future-direction-post-2025-says-sec-gen-adds-timor-lestes-membership-on-the-cards/
COVID-19 pandemic pushes 460,000 people in Cambodia to fall below poverty line
The World Bank in a report has estimated that some 460,000 people in Cambodia have fallen below poverty income thresholds since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501193081/covid-19-pandemic-pushes-460000-people-in-cambodia-to-fall-below-poverty-line/
Laos launches 500-kilovolt power transmission line reaching Cambodia
Laos has launched a 500-kilovolt power transmission line linking a power substation at a village in its southern Champasak province to the border area of Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501215174/laos-launches-500-kilovolt-power-transmission-line-reaching-cambodia/
Seven Cambodian refugees nabbed by Thai police await UNHCR help
Thai authorities arrested 10 Cambodian refugees while attending the Paris Peace Agreement course in Bangkok on December 29, with seven of them being held at Suan Plu Immigration Detention Center while awaiting intervention by the UNHCR. ...
Pok Ponlue and Seoung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/seven-cambodian-refugees-nabbed-by-thai-police-await-unhcr-help/
Missing in Malaysia: Father says concerns fell on deaf ears
The father of an 18-year-old girl who he said had been missing in Malaysia for more than a year, has filed a complaint with the rights group Adhoc against the labour firm that sent her there. Minh Ngi, 46, from Preah Vihear province, said yesterday the ...
International union urges brands to lead on pay rises
Changes to unfair wages for garment sector workers has to start at the top, with global brands paying higher prices for clothes, said leaders of an international labor organization at a meeting yesterday. IndustriALL is pushing for this through its ACT program. If successful, it ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18537/international-union-urges-brands-to-lead-on-pay-rises/
Hun Sen, opposition cause stir in France
Prime Minister Hun Sen has slammed the opposition for claiming the government forced a group of Cambodian exchange students studying in France to meet with him.A Cambodian radio station in France said the Cambodian embassy was forcing students to meet the prime minister at Maison ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17153/hun-sen--opposition-cause-stir-in-france/
ACU chief Yentieng ‘sorry’ for jab at cops
The head of Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), Om Yentieng, has apologised for suggesting that the Kingdom’s traffic police might be corrupt.Yentieng’s about-face came yesterday at a public meeting about the new Traffic Law – which goes into effect today – attended by Deputy Prime Minister ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-chief-yentieng-sorry-jab-cops
Road blocked as strike escalates
Thousands of workers from factories owned by Tai Yang Enterprise in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district blocked National Road 4 for more than seven hours yesterday to push the company to meet their demands. May Sopheaktra said workers decided to block the road after the companytried ...
Polling stations set for soldiers at Preah Vihear
Soldiers stationed around the Preah Vihear temple on the Thai-Cambodian border on Election Day won’t have to forgo the opportunity to vote, military officials in Preah Vihear province said. Men Sophea, a military official posted at Phnom Trop, several kilometres away from the temple complex, said ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/polling-stations-set-soldiers-preah-vihear
Remains ‘bound for NGO’
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party said yesterday that charred human remains retrieved by a local party member in Kampong Speu province on Saturday would be handed over to human rights organisations for examination. Despite a seeming lack of evidence or investigation, opposition activists have speculated ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/remains-%E2%80%98bound-ngo%E2%80%99
Cambodian opposition's 55 lawmakers swear into parliament after 10-month boycott
All fifty-five politicians from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) took their oaths as parliamentarians on Tuesday afternoon after boycotting the parliament for ten months against disputed election results in July last year. CNRP president Sam Rainsy led the group to a swearing-in ceremony, which ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=233629
Passenger from Cambodia detected COVID-19 positive in China
A 27 year old female passenger, Chen Moumou, of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, was tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival in Guangdong on 25th March, 2020. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706385/passenger-from-cambodia-detected-covid-19-positive-in-china/
Sar Kheng asks provincial governors to stem illegal border crossings
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all governors of provinces bordering Thailand to prevent migrant workers from sneaking into Thailand in a move to curb the coronavirus. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50723189/sar-kheng-asks-provincial-governors-to-stem-illegal-border-crossings/
Thai company donates COVID-19 aid to the Kingdom
Thai Fermentation Industry Co Ltd which produces Rachachuros Genuine MSG, donated $155,000 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a bid to support the Cambodia government to combat the COVID-19. ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50720140/thai-company-donates-covid-19-aid-to-the-kingdom/
Capital to construct 27 overpasses
Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng said on Monday that the capital will boast a total of 27 pedestrian overpasses if the public approves the five now in the trial phase. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-construct-27-overpasses