Kingdom to host Asean ministerial meeting for environmental issues
Cambodia is set to host the 15th Asean Ministerial Meeting for the Environment from October 7-11 in Siem Reap province. Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra told The Post on Wednesday that the ministry and stakeholders alike are prepared to host the event but could ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-host-asean-ministerial-meeting-environmental-issues
Khmer-Vietnamese Association gets nod
The Interior Ministry has authorised the Khmer-Vietnamese Association to register on its list of organisations, Vietnamese media have reported. The association was established to bring together Khmer people of Vietnamese origin and other Vietnamese in Cambodia for humanitarian work and to spread information about the ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502313/khmer-vietnamese-association-gets-nod/
Officials close tobacco factory in Phnom Penh
The Interior Ministry’s Counter Counterfeit Committee has suspended a company operating a tobacco factory in Sen Sok district in Phnom Penh after officials found that it was involved in the illegal production of tobacco products. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502239/officials-close-tobacco-factory-in-phnom-penh/
Ministry rejects Prince Chakravuth’s position
The Interior Ministry has rejected the decision of the royalist Funcinpec Party to appoint Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s son as acting president while the Prince continues his recovery from a car crash in Thailand. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533006/ministry-rejects-prince-chakravuths-position/
Cambodia gears up for Ebola prevention
The Health Ministry has issued advice to be careful about the Ebola virus disease after the World Health Organisation announced a renewed outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492103/cambodia-gears-up-for-ebola-prevention/
Firetruck fleet set to double with China deal
The Interior Ministry has struck a deal with China to buy 200 firetrucks this year, nearly doubling Cambodia’s current fleet in a bid to better serve the country’s rural reaches, officials said on Monday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firetruck-fleet-set-to-double-with-china-deal-108838/
Indonesian firm lands deal to supply uniforms
Indonesian firm Sri Rejeki signed a $50 million deal with the Ministry of Interior last week to supply Cambodia’s police and armed forces with new uniforms, according to the Indonesian Embassy and media reports. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/108800-108800/
Analysts suggest now is the time to replace aging, ineffective officials
Cambodia’s ministries are run by an increasingly aged demographic. Some analysts say the government should consider beginning to replace the people in many of these posts with younger officials. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/analysts-suggest-now-is-the-time-to-replace-aging-ineffective-officials/3209638.html
Interpol offices coming to border
The Ministry of Interior has installed Interpol offices at eight major checkpoints along Cambodia’s borders, the Interior Ministry’s Interpol office acting director Major General Lim Sokha Raksmey said yesterday. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25128/interpol-offices-coming-to-border/
UN urges sustainable growth
The international community has been urged to stand by its commitment to support the development of the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries while in Cambodia – despite its rapid economic growth – the United Nations warns of environmental risks that could undermine sustainable development. ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/un-urges-sustainable-growth
With asylum hope over, 16 montagnards return to Vietnam
A group of 16 Montagnard asylum-seekers who fled to Cambodia from Vietnam over the past two years returned to their home country on Tuesday after failing to secure refugee status in Phnom Penh, an Interior Ministry official said on Wednesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-asylum-hope-over-16-montagnards-return-to-vietnam-115421/
Justice ministry to consider laws on surrogate mothers
Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana agreed to consider drafting the country’s first surrogacy law during a Friday meeting with Australia’s ambassador to Cambodia, according to the minister’s spokesman. ...
Kang Sothear and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/justice-ministry-to-consider-laws-on-surrogate-mothers-116112/
ASEAN market watch: Cambodian corruption, telecoms bidding in Myanmar, and increasing Philippine trade deficits
Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks Cambodia as the ‘Most Corrupt’ country in Southeast Asia. Cambodia score was 21 out a possible 100 points, which is the same as the country’s score in 2014. ...
Reported rape cases up in 2015
Reported rape cases increased by 12 percent last year compared to 2014, despite an overall drop in crime in 2015, according to an Interior Ministry report released on Tuesday. ...
Khuon Narim and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/reported-rape-cases-up-in-2015-108884/
Health budget boost planned to help poor
With the costs of health care on the rise, Health Minister Mam Bun Heng yesterday revealed plans to increase public health funding in order to provide greater medical coverage for those unable to afford it. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-budget-boost-planned-help-poor
Ministry to ease off detention in land disputes
The Ministry of Justice on Friday announced two key changes to court policy related to land dispute cases as part of the government’s broader efforts to improve its handling of such disputes in the lead-up to the 2018 national election. ...
‘Advice’ for judiciary questioned
A transparency advocate yesterday cautiously greeted a plan for consultation between judges, prosecutors and Justice Ministry officials handling land dispute and other controversial cases, though an international lawyer said it could compromise judicial independence. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/advice-judiciary-questioned
Fuel prices to inch up today on revised caps
The government issued its first scheduled recalculation of the fuel-pricing mechanism it rolled out on March 15, increasing the price cap on gasoline by 100 riel. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fuel-prices-inch-today-revised-caps
For commerce minister, feud preceded move
When the National Assembly meets today to approve the prime minister’s second cabinet reshuffle since the last election, it will be a case of back to the future for outgoing Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-commerce-minister-feud-preceded-move-110777/
Press freedom ranking low but rising
Cambodia ranked 128th in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) 2015 ranking of press freedom in countries across the world, the watchdog said yesterday on its website. ...
Jonathan Greig
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24031/press-freedom-ranking-low-but-rising/