Vehicles used in Mondulkiri forest crimes are destroyed
National Military Police commander Sao Sokha on Wednesday ordered the destruction of more than 20 vehicles involved in forestry crimes in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district. Sokha, who also heads the National Committee for Prevention and Crackdown on Natural Resource Crimes, gave the order after ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vehicles-used-mondulkiri-forest-crimes-are-destroyed
GDT: Chinese companies must fulfil duty obligations
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) said Chinese investment is contributing greatly to the Kingdom’s tax revenue and called on Chinese companies to properly fulfil their tax obligations. Speaking at a forum on Mechanism of Cambodia-China Fiscal Cooperation on Friday, GDT director-general Kong Vibol said: ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-chinese-companies-must-fulfil-duty-obligations
‘Defamed’ Korean company denies Prey Lang illegal logging claims
The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) has alleged that Korean-owned Think Biotech (Cambodia) Co Ltd is illegally harvesting timber from resin trees in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. But a company representative refuted the claim and accused the community of making up rumours to defame ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defamed-korean-company-denies-prey-lang-illegal-logging-claims
Food safety draft law under study
The draft Law on Food Safety is now being studied by the Council of Ministers and is expected to be approved before the end of the year, government officials said. Tech Seak Ngon, general department of customs and excise deputy director, yesterday told a press ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600367/food-safety-draft-law-under-study/
Press release on the outcome of the meeting of the permanence committee of the national assembly
On 25 December 2018, the National Assembly of Cambodia published an press release on the outcome of meeting of the Permanence Committee of the National Assembly which was organized at 03:00 PM. After the meeting, the Permanence Committee of the National Assembly decided to hand ...
National Assembly of Cambodia
More than 300 kakoh logs seized in Ratanakkiri secret timber stash
More than 300 kakoh logs were confiscated on Monday by Ratanakkiri provincial anti-financial crime police, in cooperation with Banlung district authorities at a secret timber storage site in Yeak Loam commune’s Labo village. The logs have been handed over to local Forestry Administration officials pending legal procedures. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-300-kakoh-logs-seized-ratanakkiri-secret-timber-stash
CNRP says peace accords not yet fully implemented
Twenty-four years after warring political factions signed the Paris Peace Agreements, a comprehensive pact to end civil strife and restore democracy in Cambodia, deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha said on Friday that many of its promises remain elusive.Marking the anniversary of the accord at an ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-says-peace-accords-not-yet-fully-implemented-98177/
Banking on human resources
Acleda Bank, Cambodia’s largest bank, is morphing its existing training centre into a full-fledged educational institution, after obtaining a licence last month. The new institute will look to provide bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration, with majors in finance and banking. The Post’s Sorn ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-human-resources
Angkor Sankranti brings flood of tourists to Siem Reap
Siem Reap is gearing up for this year’s Angkor Sankranti from April 14 to 16 and hopes to attract more than the almost one million people who visited last year, with hotels and guesthouses already being booked out. Ang Seila, manager of Reserve and Duty at ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23627/angkor-sankranti-brings-flood-of-tourists-to-siem-reap/
Chinese bring sight to Kampong Cham
A team of more than 30 doctors and nurses from Hainan province in China have spent the last four days at Kampong Cham provincial hospital removing cataracts from low-income patients. Kang Baiying, a team member and a Hainan provincial official, said her team had been on ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29329/chinese-bring-sight-to-k-cham/
Government investigates rice sector
Following a Monday announcement from the Agriculture Ministry that provincial officials must ensure that the country’s rice millers pay adequate prices for rice paddy, the ministry followed up yesterday, saying that working groups had started discussing the situation with rice millers and rice farmers. In a ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29775/government-investigates--rice-sector/
Youth to protest Vietnam land grabs
The Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) is urging the public to join a mass demonstration on October 10 against Vietnam, due to what they say is a continued encroachment by the neighboring country on Cambodian territory through two settlements currently under construction. In an announcement sent out ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30212/youth-to-protest-vietnam-land-grabs/
Hun Sen announces broad cuts of petty taxes
The country’s lower class will receive a series of tax breaks starting in 2016, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Thursday, with tariffs on motorbikes, tuk-tuks and farm machinery to be waived, along with fees at stalls in state-owned markets.Striking a populist tone during the inauguration ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-announces-broad-cuts-of-petty-taxes-98057/
Cambodian political repression meets American human rights law in Long Beach
Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, is the President of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the country’s ruling party since 1979. In recent years, when an opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), started gaining momentum and making their voices heard, Sen’s government found ...
Mary Wald
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-wald/cambodian-political-repre_b_9657752.html
New push from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to activate government response to end violence against women
On 04 July 2016, The Ministry of Women’s Affairs led a special meeting with representatives from 15 line ministries and civil society organizations to boost the implementation and monitoring of the Second National Action Plan to Prevent Violence against Women, the key national policy to address intimate ...
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Mine action center resumes breeding dogs as fundraiser
The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has restarted a long-dormant dog breeding program it hopes will replenish its stock of explosive-sniffing canines as well as its dwindling coffers by selling them to others, including riot police. The first litter of six Malinois, a type of Belgian ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mine-action-center-resumes-breeding-dogs-fundraiser-117170/
Central bank urges Riel spending
Cambodia’s central bank yesterday again raised the issue of the country’s highly dollarised economy, suggesting that government policies and action plans will be enforced over the long term to promote the use of the riel, giving the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) more monetary control.Speaking ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-urges-riel-spending
Families protest over land dispute
Sixty-five people representing 71 families in Chrey Lors and Chhveang communes in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district protested at the Ministry of Land Management yesterday and requested the ministry’s intervention and resolution of a nearly 10-year-old land dispute with the SKD company. One of the representatives, ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29713/families-protest-over-land-dispute/
Gov’t studies new tree species
The Ministry of Environment signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday with two Chinese companies to study planting “Paulownia-Guotong” – an extremely fast-growing tree used to make furniture and wooden equipment – and practice growing it in Cambodia. Speaking at a workshop on a feasibility ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30205/gov---t-studies-new-tree-species/
Logging complaint filed
Nine Phnong ethnic community representatives and a senior Adhoc officer jointly filed a lawsuit yesterday at the Mondulkiri Provincial Court against eight local officials they allege have turned a blind eye to illegal logging in the Phnom Nam Lyr wildlife sanctuary.The suit follows their inspection ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-complaint-filed