US to sanction 4 countries for refusing deportations
The Trump administration will impose visa sanctions on four countries that refuse to take back foreign nationals deemed to be in the US illegally, Department of Homeland Security spokesman Dave Lapan said Wednesday. The four countries — Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone, according to ...
Daivd Shortell
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/trump-visa-sanctions-immigration/index.html
Integration for ASEAN legal eagles discussed
More than 70 judges and judicial officials from ASEAN member states attended a US-supported ASEAN workshop in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss legal and judicial cooperation, the protection of investors and the state of the rule of law in the region. ...
Park's own Cleveland clinic
As two volunteers guided a man unsteady on his feet into a medical tent on the second day of a three-day pro-opposition demonstration at Freedom Park yesterday, Chan Bun Han instructed another to get the patient a bottle of water after they laid him on ...
Sean Teehan, P.6
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
Phnom Penh, Lowell enter ‘Sister City’ relationship
Phnom Penh on Wednesday cemented a “sister city” relationship with Lowell, Massachusetts, which has the second largest Cambodian-American population in the U.S. after Long Beach, California. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-lowell-enter-sister-city-relationship-76170/
Cambodia’s skies open
The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation says three more airlines will apply for an Air Operator Certificate over the first quarter of 2015. The SSCA general director, Kao Sivorn, told local media that three carriers have applied with an intention of serving regional routes, but declined ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2015/01/cambodias-skies-open/
Former Prime Minister says US blacklisted him
Former Prime Minister Pen Sovann claimed Monday that he has been barred from entering the U.S. because of an assistant who overstayed his U.S. visa more than a decade ago, and paid a visit to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh in an effort to ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-prime-minister-says-us%E2%80%88blacklisted-him-75941/
Press release: Sweden and USAID fund to enhance Cambodia's labour dispute resolution services
On 27 February 2020, the Arbitration Council has posted a press release on receiving the additional fund from Sweden and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to enhance Cambodia’s labour dispute resolution services. According to the press, approximately 1.5 million USD has been ...
The Arbitration Council
U.S. Government support assists more than 2,500 flood-affected families in Pursat
Cambodia recently suffer the worse flood in the history, people suffer dramatically over 200 thousand household suffer from the flood therefore. On 02 November 2020, the U.S. government through U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and distributed through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) ...
U.S. Embassy in Cambodia
Capital’s airport records 28% cargo rise
Phnom Penh International Airport handled 55,000 tonnes of air freight in 2021, surging by about 28 per cent from a year earlier, according to a State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) report. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/capitals-airport-records-28-cargo-rise
Vietnam actively joins cross-border payment connectivity effort
Cambodian media has reported on August 25 that the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in regional payment connectivity with the central banks of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501349303/vietnam-actively-joins-cross-border-payment-connectivity-effort/
NGO to count Prey Lang Sanctuary wildlife
USAID Greening Prey Lang is conducting a line transect survey in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary to check wildlife species populations in the protected area. Line transect sampling is a distance sampling method for estimating the abundance of wild animal populations. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501179535/ngo-to-count-prey-lang-sanctuary-wildlife/
Cambodia Misses Deadline to Submit UN Human Rights Report
Cambodia failed Monday to make its deadline to submit a key human rights report—known as the universal period review (UPR)—to the U.N., said Mak Sambath, deputy chairman of the government’s Human Rights Committee. Having missed the submission deadline, the government is now hoping to get its ...
Kuch Naren and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-misses-deadline-to-submit-un-human-rights-report-46138/
USAID to provide skills training ahead of ASEAN integration
USAID has announced a regional project to train hundreds of instructors and students to be more competitive for Asean integration at the end of next year. Many young Cambodians say they fear the impending competition from an EU-like economic integration that would free up goods and ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/usaid-to-provide-skills-training-ahead-of-asean-int/2527791.html
Students Protest At UN Envoy’s University Lecture
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi on Tuesday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banners calling for him to end his work in Cambodia. Special rapporteur Subedi delivered a lecture to about ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-protest-at-un-envoys-university-lecture-25855/
Finance Ministry To Tackle Graft With ‘Rewards’
Finance Minister Keat Chhon announced a new plan on Thursday to cut down on rampant state corruption by dispersing three-quarters of non-tax revenue to ministries and their employees as financial “rewards.” With Anti-Corruption Unit chief Om Yentieng by his side, Mr. Chhon laid out the bare ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/finance-ministry-to-tackle-graft-with-rewards-8993/
RFA, VOA agency fires back
The Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent US agency that oversees government-sponsored stations Radio Free Asia and Voice of America, has hit back after the Cambodian government accused the broadcasters of being tools of the opposition. In a statement released Thursday, BBG chair Jeffrey Shell rejected ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rfa-voa-agency-fires-back
O’Touk area development ‘a concern’
Civil society organisations monitoring land disputes in Preah Sihanouk province continue to voice concerns over the environmental impact of developing public land after permission was granted to reclaim a site in the O’Touk area to build a boat terminal. Sok Sokhom, the director of the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/otouk-area-development-concern
US government to provide $425K for war-era cluster bomb clearance
The US government will provide an extra $425,000 to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) for it to clear the remnants of cluster bombs dropped on eastern Cambodia 40 years ago and carry out research. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-government-provide-425k-war-era-cluster-bomb-clearance
More than 200 protest over land woes in Preah Sihanouk
More than 200 villagers from Stung Hav and Prey Nop districts yesterday held a protest in front of Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall over land disputes and a delay in the issuing of titles for state land which the government had agreed to transfer to some of ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50606516/more-than-200-protest-over-land-woes-in-preah-sihanouk/
Joint commitment toward mine-free Cambodia
Australia, the Cambodian Mine Action and Victims Assistance Authority and the UN development programme on Friday signed a joint statement reaffirming their ongoing commitment to working toward a mine-free Cambodia by 2025. ...
Poovenraj Kanagaraj
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50660644/joint-commitment-toward-mine-free-cambodia/