Ministry to recruit 300 more rangers
The Environment Ministry has started it’s process of recruiting 300 new forest rangers to work in select provinces next year in a bid to fill staff shortages and reduce deforestation. Ministry spokesperson Sao Sopheap said yesterday that the existing 960-strong ranger workforce was insufficient to guard ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32907/ministry-to-recruit-300-more-rangers/
Government gives land to villagers
The Preah Sihanouk provincial hall has started providing land to nearly 300 families living illegally around the Kbal Chhay waterfall in Sihanoukville’s Muoy commune. The decision to provide land came after villagers blocked National Road 4 in September, burning tires in protest of resettlement from the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32955/government-gives-land-to-villagers/
Youth political expression hampered, opposition says
A number of young people were detained in 2016 for making social media posts deemed to be inciting violence. The opposition has said freedom of expression among its youth wing is limited compared to more seasoned activists. ...
Kann Vicheika
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/youth-political-expression-hampered-opposition-says/3714709.html
Interior Ministry report boasts of crackdown on political protests
Besieged by color revolutionaries, agitators and criminal politicians, the Interior Ministry kept the country safe from encroaching instability—at least, that was the ministry’s boast on Wednesday at its annual meeting. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-report-boasts-of-crackdown-on-political-protests-125669/
Expanding trade and tourism
Over the last few years the Director of the Statistics Department at the National Bank of Cambodia began observing an unanticipated development while conducting field observation studies of trade at border crossings – the riel is being accepted for purchases in neighbouring counties. ...
Riel Gains
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36315/expanding-trade-and-tourism/
Near-zero unemployment in Cambodia, claims Labor Minister
The Labor Ministry proclaimed yesterday that unemployment was nearly eradicated in Cambodia after a recent study showed that less than one percent of citizens remained without jobs. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37336/near-zero-unemployment-in-cambodia--claims-labor-minister/
Ministry defends sand exports; Mother Nature stands by claims
The Mines and Energy Ministry on Friday defended sand exports reported last week by an environmental NGO, saying Cambodia’s sand ban did not include the type seen in a video being loaded onto vessels off the coast of Sihanoukville. ...
Van Roeun and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-defends-sand-exports-mother-nature-stands-by-claims-129204/
Health Ministry warns of bird flu
The Ministry of Health yesterday warned people to be aware of the new avian influenza strain H7N9, which has spread to poultry in China and neighbouring countries. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074793/health-ministry-warns-bird-flu/
Interior Minister approves draft of fire safety building codes
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday approved a draft sub-decree detailing new fire safety building codes as well as regulations for businesses selling flammable materials, an official said. ...
Ministry says most NGOs ignore tax requirements
Only 200 of some 5,000 domestic NGOs have submitted required banking details to the Interior Ministry, its spokesman said on Monday, as the government steps up enforcement of tax requirements on organizations that may have racked up huge unpaid bills. ...
Hang Sokunthea and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-most-ngos-ignore-tax-requirements-133324/
PM asks Japan to invest $800m in skytrain
Prime Minister Hun Sen is to ask Japan to invest $800 million in building a skytrain link between the city and Phnom Penh International Airport. ...
May Kunmakara and Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077056/pm-asks-japan-invest-800m-skytrain/
Ministry vows to stop illegal Thai border crossings
Interior Minister Sar Kheng said on Wednesday that 100 to 200 Cambodians illegally cross the border with Thailand every day, well under an estimate from a U.N. agency that puts the figure at 3,000 to 4,000. ...
Leng Len
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-vows-to-stop-illegal-thai-border-crossings-133461/
KPP head arrested for Facebook post criticising deployment of troops to Laos border
Khmer Power Party head and former convicted “terrorist” Sourn Serey Ratha was arrested yesterday over a Facebook post criticising the deployment of troops to the Laos border by suggesting that grunts in the field would suffer while the military’s leaders hung back to enjoy “money” ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kpp-head-arrested-facebook-post-criticising-deployment-troops-laos-border
News anchor draws ire for saying women should ‘not resist’ rape
A local television presenter is facing heavy criticism for an inflammatory on-air suggestion that rape victims should not resist their attackers, and should instead accept sexual assault to avoid being killed – a reference to a brutal rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman in ...
Kong Meta and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/news-anchor-draws-ire-saying-women-should-not-resist-rape
Airport railway project halted
Following multiple protests by local villagers, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation has announced a halt to a railway project meant to lead to Phnom Penh International Airport. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077929/airport-railway-project-halted/
Push on for farm insurance
Insurance industry insiders are urging the government and development partners to set up and support a policy of subsidising insurance in the agricultural sector. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079418/push-farm-insurance/
80 tons of Kampot pepper expected to be on market this year
Kampot pepper, a Cambodian product that got geographical indication (IG) certification from the European Union, is expected to yield 80 matrix tons for the markets by this year. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=108800
Cambodia-Thai rail link not in talks agenda
The joint cabinet meeting between Cambodia and Thailand next month will exclude discussions on the Phnom Penh-Bangkok rail link, leaving the exact date of its launch in limbo. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080711/cambodia-thai-rail-link-not-talks-agenda/
Sihanoukville facing a trash crisis
Sihanoukville officials are scrambling to figure out how they will collect rubbish throughout the city – one of the top tourism destinations in the country – if waste management firm Cintri makes good on a recent threat to halt services on September 14, raising concerns ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-laos-set-border-committee
CNRP meetings ‘banned’ in Kampong Chhnang
Opposition members in Kampong Chhnang say they have been banned from meeting since the arrest of CNRP leader Kem Sokha on Sunday, with the provincial police chief yesterday saying he would “not allow” the party to “discuss politics”. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-meetings-banned-kampong-chhnang