MoU signed with China
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and The China Council for The Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote business interaction and enhance trade and investment between China and The Kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29595/mou-signed-with-china/
44th Senior Officials Meeting on Drug Matters discusses illegal drug problems
The Association of SouTheast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has held The 44th Senior officials Meeting on Drug Matters (ASOD) forum to address emerging issues on The drug trafficking front. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501320128/44th-senior-officials-meeting-on-drug-matters-discusses-illegal-drug-problems/
Party leader files suit over misuse of funds
Cambodia Youth Party leader Pich Sros filed a lawsuit on Friday against activist monk But Buntenh and Pa Nguon Teang, founder of the Cambodian Centre for Independent Media, accusing the pair of embezzling money from the late Kem Ley’s funeral fund. ...
Andrew Nachemson and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/party-leader-files-suit-over-misuse-funds
Many families in nine provinces hit by floods
Many families in nine provinces have been hit by floods in recent days, which have inundated homes, schools and even led to injuries as well as fatalities. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501336035/many-families-in-nine-provinces-hit-by-floods/
Licences to log SLCs are ordered revoked
The Council of Ministers has ordered licences granted to private companies to log and collect timber from social land concessions (SLC) and state-owned land revoked, following years of allegations that some companies were exploiting The permits to carry out illegal logging. The council on Monday released ...
Phak Seangly and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/licences-log-slcs-are-ordered-revoked
Son of PM appointed as CMAC’s board member
Hun Manith, the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has been “promoted” as a board member and adviser of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) – a position equal to a cabinet minister. A royal decree, signed by the King on November 2 and obtained ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/son-pm-appointed-cmacs-board-member
Information access law to be finalised next month
The Ministry of Information on Tuesday concluded The final revision by key ministries of The draft Law on Access to Information, without making any major amendments. It will be submitted to The Council of Ministers to be rubber-stamped by The end of September or beginning ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/information-access-law-be-finalised-next-month
Duong Sruoch Group denies clearing in wildlife sanctuary
A representative with Duong Sruoch Group in Preah Vihear yesterday denied allegations that that the company had been illegally clearing forest outside the boundaries of social land concessions it had been licensed to log. Duong Sruoch Group was specifically named in a directive issued Monday by ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/duong-sruoch-group-denies-clearing-wildlife-sanctuary
Hun Sen orders probe into land dispute cases
Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the relevant authorities to probe four land-related cases following a series of complaints from the Khmer Rise Party (KRP), which studied them. Four letters, signed by members of the Council of Ministers and its secretary of state Hing Thoraksy on ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-orders-probe-land-dispute-cases
Project aims to build latrines in rural areas
A new US$10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund a three-year project by international development NGO East Meets West (EMW) to improve sanitation and hygiene among the poor in rural Cambodia and Vietnam. According to EMW, the program seeks to combat the negative effects of ...
NBC promote green finance
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (UNESCAP) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote sustainable finance in Cambodia. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-promote-green-finance
CDC gives $68M hotel project nod for Poipet
The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved a more than $68 million hotel project in Poipet town, it said on Friday. The project, funded by Boonma Heng Co Ltd, aims to build The first four-star hotel in The province, complete with 392 ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-gives-68m-hotel-project-nod-poipet
Chea is ‘legally innocent’
The defense lawyer for The late Khmer Rouge BroTher Number Two Nuon Chea claimed on Wednesday that his death rendered him “legally innocent”. Hence, Doreen Chen called on The Supreme Court Chamber of The UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to declare ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-kr-tribunal/chea-legally-innocent
UN urges against repatriating Montagnards
The United Nations’ human rights agency in Geneva has urged Cambodia to abide by its obligations not to forcibly return 13 Montagnard refugees to Vietnam and to register The claims of hundreds more asylum seekers living in limbo in Phnom Penh. ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-urges-against-repatriating-montagnards
Algae bloom was natural, says ministry
The Environment Ministry on Friday released its final study on The algal bloom that forced swimmers out of The water in Kep province in early April, stating no chemical substances were found in The bloom that would have negatively affected human or animal health. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25239/algae-bloom-was-natural--says-ministry/
Cambodia lauds new silk road
Prime Minister Hun Sen has thrown his weight behind China’s ambitious multi-billion dollar plan to revive the Silk Road, the ancient trading route crossing three continents to link China with Europe. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16810/cambodia-lauds-new-silk-road/
Drought weighs on fishery production target
While Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries aims to increase fish production by 1.3 per cent this year, members of fishery organisations believe that is an unlikely target as drought conditions have tapped out natural resources. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/drought-weighs-fishery-production-target
Deal gives UAE more confidence to invest
The Kingdom’s investment authority signed an agreement yesterday to promote and protect investments between The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Cambodia, a move government officials hope will attract foreign direct investment from The oil-rich Gulf state, which currently stands at almost zero. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-gives-uae-more-confidence-invest
Barrel bombs test positive for chemicals
Experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have confirmed that barrel bombs discovered in three provinces are chemical weapons. the confirmation was made yesterday after the OPCW ended an operation to inspect the bombs sites in Mondulkiri, Tbong Khmum and Svay Rieng provinces. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096713/barrel-bombs-test-positive-chemicals/
Law against insulting the king in the works
Prime Minister Hun Sen said the Council of Ministers would hold a meeting today to prepare amendments to the constitution and the penal code to create laws against insulting the king. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106109/law-against-insulting-the-king-in-the-works/