Massive $23.2B project gets ‘green light’
Several subordinates of a senior minister within the office of the prime minister registered and rubber-stamped a gargantuan $23.2 billion investment project chaired by the minister’s wife, while officials in the know say the project stands little chance of getting off the ground. ...
Jack Davies, Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/massive-232b-project-gets-green-light
Cambodia keeps cool after coup in Thailand
As news broke yesterday evening that the Thai political situation had evolved from martial law to a full-blown coup d’etat, Cambodian government officials said they hoped the army’s takeover would be transitional and dismissed any concerns that tensions could rise on the Cambodia-Thailand border. ”We wish ...
Kevin Ponniah and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-keeps-cool-after-coup-thailand
Cambodia, Laos speeds up border demarcation
The 6th Cambodia-Laos Joint Border Committee’s meeting kicked off Wednesday to speed up border demarcation between The two countries. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MjY2ZWJmZWM0OWF
Million-home dilemma
A soaring population and increased migration to urban areas will create demand for more than a million new homes by 2030, according to a draft national housing policy. Approved by the Council of Ministers on Friday after a series of revisions, the draft highlights the increasing ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/million-home-dilemma
KNLF members charged with inciting violence
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged 10 members of The Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), a political advocacy group vehemently opposed to The ruling CPP, with plotting to incite violence following Their arrests last week. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/arrested-knlf-members-charged-with-inciting-violence-70995/
School for autistic students to vacate NBIC to make room for the disabled
The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has told The Rabbit School, a local NGO that educates autistic students, to move its operations from government-run National Borei for Infants and Children (NBIC) to a new premise, school director Hun Touch said. The ministry’s ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/school-autistic-students-vacate-nbic-make-room-disabled
Press release on the GovTech conference under the theme "Empowring Digital Transformation in the Public Sector"
On 24 October 2023, at the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT), H.E. Chea Vandeth, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) and Chairman of the Digital Government Committee (CDC) presided over the opening ceremony of the first GovTech conference, under the theme “Empowering Digital Transformation ...
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT)
City says ‘fake cops’ nailed
Capital police yesterday revealed the identities of five men who had allegedly been posing as Flying Tigers – an elite Ministry of Interior rapid-response unit – and extorting money from victims who believed they were in danger of being jailed. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/city-says-fake-cops-nailed
PM again hits at US as bomb removal planned
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) will begin removal next week of two chemical bombs found in Svay Rieng in January, as Prime Minister Hun Sen again took aim yesterday at The United States for allegedly not shouldering The burden of its war legacy. ...
Phak Seangly and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-again-hits-us-bomb-removal-planned
Crash kills four staffers of NGO
Sok Samnang, the Takeo provincial police chief, said 14 Save the Children employees were returning to Phnom Penh in a private minibus from a child protection workshop in Kep province when the incident happened. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crash-kills-four-staffers-ngo
Second industrial lab centre on the way
A new laboratory for testing local products and issue quality certificates will open in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district by the end of 2019, the Ministry of Handicraft recently announced. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50509878/second-industrial-lab-centre-on-the-way/
Cashew, poultry feed rules on the way
The Institute of Statistics Cambodia issued two new draft standards yesterday, one for cashew nuts and anoTher for chicken- and duck-feed production. The new guidelines aim to bring The products in line with international standards and also help producers increase Their exports. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cashew-poultry-feed-rules-way
Ministry of Labor knights Australian industrial commissioner
The Arbitration Council says The Ministry of Labor has knighted an Australian industrial commissioner for his long period of work as an honorary advisor to The council. In a statement posted on its website Friday, The council said Labour and Vocational Training Minister Ith Samheng awarded ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=OTZiMjJhNTM1NzQ
First sentence given for facebook comments
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday fined a 29-year-old hairstylist and make-up artist 2 million riel, or about $500, and ordered her to pay 5 million riel, or about $1,250, in compensation to a rival beauty parlor owner she defamed on Facebook. The sentence is ...
Eang Mengleng And Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/first-sentence-given-for-facebook-comments-51649/
SMEs look to regional buyers
Cambodia’s ASEAN Economic Minister yesterday urged small and medium-size enterprises to focus on countries in Southeast Asia, rather than Europe and the United States, for export destinations. Cham Prasidh, also the minister of commerce, said yesterday that regional markets have traditionally held a second place to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056469/Business/smes-look-to-regional-buyers.html
Meet eyes Angkor management
Representatives from countries and preservation organisations across the globe gathered in Siem Reap yesterday as Prime Minister Hun Sen officiated the kickoff of an intergovernmental conference focused on Angkor Wat. the event marks the third once-per-decade conference of the International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meet-eyes-angkor-management
Journalists in CPP firing line over ‘1-party’ tag
The single-party National Assembly sat for The third day of its third plenary session Thursday, with a senior ruling party lawmaker calling on Information Minister Khieu Kanharith to examine wheTher journalists who call The Assembly “single party” can be punished under law. Sixty-four of The 68 ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-in-cpp-firing-line-over-1-party-tag-59430/
FAO gives policy recommendations in response to dire farming warning
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said The country’s economically crucial agriculture sector must implement a raft of new measures to combat escalating natural disasters that are threatening Cambodian crops and livestock. ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50730610/fao-gives-policy-recommendations-in-response-to-dire-farming-warning/
UN panel notes problems in bid to foster gender equality
A UN women’s rights committee has praised the government’s efforts to promote gender equality and combat violence against women, but noted its concern that there are no provisions in the constitution that define direct or indirect discrimination against women. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50658848/un-panel-notes-problems-in-bid-to-foster-gender-equality/
Cambodia ranks 14th in prevalence of ‘slavery': index
More than 155,000 people in Cambodia are living as modern “slaves”, according to a global index released this week. The Global Slavery Index 2014, released on Monday by Australia-based NGO Walk Free Foundation (WFF), ranks Cambodia 14th out of 167 countries for The prevalence of slavery, ...
Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-ranks-14th-prevalence-%E2%80%98slavery-index