UNESCO's General Conference president hails Cambodia for efforts to safeguard cultural heritage sites
The president of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Monday hailed Cambodia for its efforts to preserve and develop world heritage sites, a Cambodian spokesman said. Hao is visiting Cambodia to attend the official launching of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2014-12/01/c_133825742.htm
Police rescue stranded Cambodians
Seventy-five Cambodian workers and six children marooned for 10 days after being lured to build a resort on Koh Mook in Trang’s Kantang district were rescued on Sunday evening. Meanwhile, Employment Department chief Sumet Mahosot yesterday said 444,097 migrant workers and 48,541 accompanying persons had ...
Khanita Sitong and Thammarat Kijchalong
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Police-rescue-stranded-Cambodians-30240234.html
Seeking to cultivate young Cambodian leaders
US Ambassador William Todd created the Ambassador’s Youth Council in Cambodia in 2012, one of 80 such groups of youth around the world. The goal is to create better relations between Cambodia and the US and to cultivate young leaders for Cambodia, he said. “Those ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/seeking-to-cultivate-young-cambodian-leaders/2564238.html
Hun Sen asks western leaders to help resolve Cambodia’s border disputes
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen sent letters to the leaders of the three western countries on Wednesday asking to borrow a decades-old map to try to settle disputes over alleged territorial encroachment by Vietnam.The Cambodian leader sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama, French President ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/hun-sen-asks-western-leaders-to-help-resolve-border-disputes-07152015160828.html
Dammed if they don’t
People who have accepted relocation from the future reservoir zone of the Lower Sesan II hydropower project have called for the suspension of the resettlement program for one year and help to repair homes built by the Cambodian-Chinese energy firm constructing the dam.Villagers who held ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dammed-if-they-dont
Land Ministry issues more than 450,000 land titles
The Land Management Ministry has issued 456,210 land titles so far this year. The ministry’s annual report, launched yesterday, said that it also resolved 105 out of 817 land disputes it received; the National Land Dispute Authority solved two out of 81 cases. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50673867/land-ministry-issues-more-than-450000-land-titles
Global death toll of environmental activists rising, report says
In April, Chut Wutty was shot to death in the Cambodian forests he was so outspoken in defending, a slaying that outraged human rights activists suspicious of the conflicting explanations given by police. His death appears to be part of a chilling trend. Growing numbers of activists ...
No power shortage during dry season: Ministry
The Ministry of Mines and Energy said there is no shortage of electricity during this year’s dry season as compared to last year. Even so, the ministry said it would continue to boost electricity access in all households across the country by at least 78 ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50716106/no-power-shortage-during-dry-season-ministry/
Order signals likely end to airport land dispute
The Council of Ministers on Tuesday directed the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) to submit a confirmation that the city’s airport will not be expanded so that officials can begin issuing land titles to surrounding communities, seemingly signalling an end a long-running land dispute. ...
Touch Sokha and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/order-signals-likely-end-airport-land-dispute
Cambodia prepares ‘travel bubble’ plan to aid tourism
The Ministry of Tourism is moving to restore the devastated tourism sector by preparing a so-called travel bubble plan to gradually receive international tourists, even if the Kingdom is seeing a rise in new cases of COVID-19. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50751509/cambodia-prepares-travel-bubble-plan-to-aid-tourism/
UNDP provides 60 ambulances to Cambodia
The United Nations Development Programme yesterday announced that it has donated ambulances and other medical equipment to help the Kingdom combat COVID-19, which so far has seen 121 million people infected worldwide and 2.67 million deaths. ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50826374/undp-provides-60-ambulances-to-cambodia/
PM asks Senate to approve draft law on measures to prevent COVID-19 spread soonest
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on the Senate to conduct an online meeting to review and approve the draft law on measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other deadly infectious diseases so that it can come into force as soon as possible. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50822291/pm-asks-senate-to-approve-draft-law-on-measures-to-prevent-covid-19-spread-soonest/
Gov’t imposes inter-province travel ban ahead of New Year
The government has imposed inter-provincial travel ban from April 7-20 in a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19. However, Phnom Penh and neighbouring Kandal province are treated as one administrative region, so travel between them can continue. ...
Gov’t imposes inter-province travel ban ahead of New Year Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-imposes-inter-province-travel-ban-ahead-new-year
Red Zone residents gather en masse for Covid test
Residents in designated red zones in the capital are flocking to get their samples taken for Covid-19 testing, after the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall issued a directive mandating that each and every single one of them does so or face legal action. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/red-zone-residents-gather-en-masse-covid-test
Hun Sen: Enjoy Khmer New Year, but take precautions
Thanks to a steady decrease in Covid-19 cases, Prime Minister Hun Sen has permitted the return of Khmer New Year celebrations in mid-April, though he urges the public to continue practising all preventive measures that have so far succeeded in slowing the spread of the ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-enjoy-khmer-new-year-take-precautions
Small businesses urged to register with NSSF
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has instructed its officials to focus on outreach to small enterprises and encourage them to register with the NSSF, noting that Some of the businesses obligated to pay into the fund in its first month have been slow to ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/small-businesses-urged-register-nssf
NEC posts voter list at over 20K polling stations
The National Election Committee (NEC) has posted this year’s voter list at over 20,000 polling stations across the country so that citizens on the voter list can find their names and verify their eligibility to cast their ballots there as the national election will be ...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-posts-voter-list-over-20k-polling-stations
41 Sihanoukville projects get special investment incentives
In all, 41 projects have so far qualified for incentives under the ‘Special Investment Promotion Programme for Sihanoukville,’ initiated by Prime Minister Hun Manet in January this year, mainly to solve the issue of unfinished and abandoned constructions in the coastal city since 2019. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501499477/41-sihanoukville-projects-get-special-investment-incentives/
The Bottom Line
Clashes between garment workers and the local manufacturing industry came to a head in February when three women were shot while protesting for increased bonuses outside their workplace. It was almost five more months before manufacturers and governing bodies agreed to raise the earning potential ...
Cambodia should hold referendum to decide on reelection: political analysts
Cambodia should hold a referendum to decide whether the country calls a reelection or not after allegations of serious irregularities during July’s election that handed victory to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party, political analysts said. Kek Galabru, president of a renowned human rights group ...
Nzweek News Staff
http://www.nzweek.com/world/cambodia-should-hold-referendum-to-decide-on-reelection-political-analysts-2-105897/