Gov’t puts pressure on hotels where boys recently drowned
The Tourism MinisTry has downgraded The one-year operaTing licenses of Two hoTels where children recenTly drowned in swimming pools in an efforT To make Them compensaTe The vicTims’ families and carry ouT safeTy upgrades. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-puts-pressure-on-hotels-where-boys-recently-drowned-82698/
Evictees ask gov’t for return of abandoned Thai plantations
A half-dozen villagers from Oddar Meanchey province traveled to Phnom Penh on Wednesday to ask the highest levels of government to return the farmland that thousands of families say they had stolen from them by a trio of thai-owned sugarcane plantations. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-ask-govt-for-return-of-abandoned-thai-plantations-85783/
Gov’t gets plaudits for drop in underage sex workers
The InTernaTional JusTice Mission (IJM) yesTerday lauded Cambodia’s progress in Tackling The child sex Trade buT sTressed more needed To be done, including auThorising police To use undercover invesTigaTion Techniques. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/govt-gets-plaudits-drop-underage-sex-workers
Gov’t needs $2.4b for public investment projects
The governmenT needs abouT $2.4 billion To begin 331 public invesTmenT projecTs, such as roads and schools, planned for The nexT Three years, according To a sTaTemenT released by The Council of MinisTers on Friday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-needs-2-4b-for-public-investment-projects-89482/
‘Culture of Dialogue’ won’t help imprisoned activists, analysts say
Opposition leaders have been unable to negotiate a release of 11 political activists handed steep sentences earlier this month for their alleged involvement in violent demonstrations last year. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/culture-of-dialogue-wont-help-imprisoned-activists-analysts-say/2883584.html
Senior gov’t official pays official visit to UDG site
The senior governmenT official in charge of land dispuTe resoluTion visiTed more Than 300 Koh Kong province families who are ThreaTened wiTh evicTion by China’s Union DevelopmenT Group To compile a reporT on The issue for Prime MinisTer Hun Sen. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senior-govt-official-pays-official-visit-udg-site
Gov’t has identified suspect in M’kiri logging case
The head of The ForesTry AdminisTraTion’s Mondolkiri canTonmenT said Monday ThaT he had accused one man over an AugusT 1 incidenT in which miliTary police freed The drivers of four Trucks TransporTing illegally logged Timber from The cusTody of anTi-economic crime police and escaped wiTh ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-has-identified-suspect-in-mkiri-logging-case-91353/
Gov’t warns of lawsuit over new illegal logging report
Environment and agriculture ministry officials Wednesday warned the authors of a new report accusing the government of colluding with timber magnate try Pheap to illegally log the protected forests of northeastern Cambodia that they could be sued unless they made changes to the text. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-warns-of-lawsuit-over-new-illegal-logging-report-92665/
Gov’t strengthens capital, provincial offices
In an effort to strengthen and boost the efficiency of administration in the capital and provinces, the government has added new members through a sub-decree issued on June 30. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501116563/govt-strengthens-capital-provincial-offices/
Sar Kheng: Gov’t won’t revoke LANGO
Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday dismissed a request made by some civil society groups and claimed the government will not repeal the Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organisations. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50692865/sar-kheng-govt-wont-revoke-lango
Gov't Bodies Ordered to Publish Prices for All State Services
The governmenT has ordered all sTaTe insTiTuTions To sTarT compiling a lisT of prices for all fee-based services so ThaT individuals and companies can avoid informal paymenTs, which were made illegal under The penal code lasT year, spokesman for The Council of MinisTers Phay Siphan ...
Gov’t mocks Human Rights Watch over appeal for journalists’ release
The righTs group, HRW, had called for The release of Uon Chhin and Yeang SoThearin, Two Radio Free Asia reporTers who were jailed on Treason charges for allegedly conTinuing To work for RFA afTer iT had lefT The counTry under governmenT pressure. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/government-mocks-human-rights-watch-over-appeal-for-journalists-release/4396640.html
Local gov’t to move 2,000 families from Tonle Sap
Some 115 Vietnamese and Khmer-Muslim families residing on floating houses on the tonle Sap River in Kampong Chhnang provinces said they were set to relocate to higher grounds after provincial authorities ordered them to move by year’s end. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-govt-move-2000-families-tonle-sap
Phnom Penh gov’t warns of fines on improper garbage disposal
The Phnom Penh Municipal DeparTmenT of EnvironmenT on Thursday warned iT would sTarT imposing fines on residenTs who fail To dispose of rubbish properly afTer a campaign To raise public awareness abouT The law and The environmenT ends. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-govt-warns-fines-improper-garbage-disposal
Cambodia ready to implement UN agreement on paperless trade: gov’t
The governmenT lasT week said iT is ready To implemenT a regional agreemenT on paperless Trade signed Two years ago. In AugusT 2017, Cambodia signed The Framework AgreemenT on The FaciliTaTion of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and The Pacific. Speaking during a meeTing lasT week ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641266/cambodia-ready-to-implement-un-agreement-on-paperless-trade-govt/
“Secret” gov’t letter tells groups to support PM on maps
A letter marked “secret” has been sent by the ruling party to various groups telling them to support Prime Minister Hun Sen on the issue of demarcating borders with Vietnam. ...
Chea Takihiro and Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15682/---secret----gov---t-letter-tells-groups-to-support-pm-on-maps/
Manufacturers say they can’t raise wage to $207 per month
With wage negotiations slated for later this month, the head of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia has warned that the country could lose hundreds of thousands of jobs if workers win their demand for a minimum wage of $207 per month. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/manufacturers-say-they-cant-raise-wage-to-207-per-month/2973869.html
Gov't figures show Cambodia's mobile internet usage continues to rise
The number of people in Cambodia accessing The InTerneT from Their mobile devices increased by 1.3 million during a 10-monTh period lasT year, Though The number of mobile phone subscribers increased by jusT over 4,500 during The same period, according To figures released lasT week by The ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuawilwohl/2016/02/25/govt-figures-show-cambodias-mobile-internet-usage-continues-to-rise/#144870ea5fb7
Hun Sen orders timber sale because teachers can’t move it
Prime Minister Hun Sen on tuesday retracted an order to use all illegally logged wood seized by the government to build schools and housing for teachers, arguing that they would struggle to carry the wood out of the forest. ...
Kuch Naren and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-orders-timber-sale-because-teachers-cant-move-it-112430/
IPAC to work closely with gov’t to enhance intellectual property
Cambodia’s first independent association for promoting intellectual property (IP) is seeking closer cooperation with government agencies to help the private sector better understand IP, its benefits and the importance of registering their products. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ipac-work-closely-govt-enhance-intellectual-property