Exclusive: Cambodia fm softens tone after scathing attack on ‘hypocritical’ west
Cambodia’s foreign minister last week launched a scathing attack on Western democracies, labeling them hypocritical and only interested in promoting human rights and democracy when it was in their own self-interest. ...
Families not included in land dispute resolution
Representatives for 15 families involved in a long-standing land dispute in Koh Kong province complained that authorities failed to find a resolution for them, despite providing compensation for 170 other families in the same area. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-not-included-land-dispute-resolution
Mondulkiri gets new protected communities
The Ministry of Environment has recognised nine new natural protected communities in Mondulkiri province. The purpose of these communities is to ensure the stability of local ecosystems and the protection of the natural habitat in the region. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093479/mondulkiri-gets-new-protected-communities/
Whistleblower law nearly done: ACU
Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) boss Om Yentieng has said the Kingdom’s whistleblower and witness protection draft law was nearly complete, while at the same time lashing out at Transparency International Cambodia for not assisting in the process, something the group flatly denied. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/whistleblower-law-nearly-done-acu
India to give $20 million in loans
India, the world’s second most populous nation, agreed to provide a $20 million concessional loan for the construction of electricity transmission lines in Cambodia after Prime Minister Hun Sen’s official four-day visit to India. According to a joint statement, “The two governments agreed to sign a ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104934/india-to-give-20-million-in-loans/
Government lays out plan for non-tax revenue
The Ministry of Economy and Finance held a workshop yesterday to finalise a draft on a sub-decree managing non-tax revenue sources, part of the government’s attempt to improve its revenue collection. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-lays-out-plan-non-tax-revenue
Religion ministry plans to sue activist monk But Buntenh under lèse majesté
The Ministry of Cults and Religion has said it will consider lodging a complaint against activist monk But Buntenh following his remarks that Cambodians, including the King, drink contaminated water. Cambodian Youth Party President Pich Sros, who initially had said he was thinking about lodging ...
Leonie Kijewski and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/religion-ministry-plans-sue-activist-monk-buntenh-under-lese-majeste
Students to get business training
The Ministry of Education has included a business training programme at 25 high schools across the country to give students the soft skills necessary to create their own jobs or find suitable jobs upon graduation. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112833/students-to-get-business-training/
Minister wants doctors at factory infirmaries
The Minister of Labour yesterday suggested that recently graduated doctors should find work at factory infirmaries following a government push for garment factories to take better care of their workers. ...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114377/workers-to-be-informed-of-their-labour-rights/
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Transport Ministry collects $500K in fines over 5 months
Some 500 overloaded trucks have been stopped and collectively fined more than $300,000 by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport in the past five months. According to a series of reports by the ministry, inspection stations across the country collected a total of $310,000 from ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/transport-ministry-collects-500k-fines-over-5-months
Cambodia-China tourism pact
A tourism development agreement was signed last week between Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism and China’s Shanghai Spring International Travel Service Group to boost the influx of Chinese tourists to the Kingdom. In announcing the agreement on Saturday, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said: “The memorandum ...
Chea Vannak and Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30853/cambodia-china-tourism-pact/
Vietnam: zero duties for rice, tobacco
Vietnam agreed yesterday to waive all duties on a total of 300,000 tons of rice and 3,000 tons of dried tobacco exported annually from Cambodia to the country, according to a bilateral agreement signed at two back-to-back summits to promote economic cooperation in the Greater ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31305/vietnam--zero-duties-for-rice--tobacco/
Spectrum licences up for grabs
The government announced yesterday that it will hold its first public auction for 4G spectrum frequencies, with two licences up for bid on frequencies reassigned after their original licence-holders failed to utilise them. ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/spectrum-licences-grabs
GE to help electrify Cambodia
A partnership with General Electric (GE), the Boston-based American multinational conglomerate, will be the best way forward for Cambodia to meet its 2035 goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by three million tons annually and electrifying 100 percent of rural areas, representatives from the company ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32285/ge-to-help-electrify-cambodia/
Government threatens land rights protesters with legal action
The Commerce Ministry has threatened to take unspecified legal “measures” against anyone joining a protest against a sugarcane plantation who does not have a personal claim in the dispute. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-threatens-land-rights-protesters-with-legal-action-127079/
Cassava exports up, prices low
Though the export of cassava from Cambodia to foreign markets increased by more than 50 percent in 2016, compared with previous years, export earnings were still low due to below-market-prices offered by buyers in Thailand and Vietnam. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37174/cassava-exports-up--prices-low/
White Building residents asked to help CPP
Land Management Minister Chea Sophara on Friday reminded more than 200 residents and soon-to-be evictees of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building to “help us back” by voting in upcoming elections in return for the government negotiating compensation for their properties. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/white-building-residents-asked-to-help-cpp-127793/
Construction sector investment falls by 22 percent
Investment capital in Cambodia’s construction industry is off to a dwindling start this year, falling 22.1 percent at the end of the first quarter compared with the same period last year. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/construction-sector-investment-falls-22-percent
Families ask ministry to handle land disputes
Families involved in several high-profile land dispute cases in Phnom Penh have asked the Land Management Ministry to take over their cases following the municipal government’s poor handling of their plights. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38754/families-ask-ministry-to-handle-land-disputes/
Non-aligned? Cambodia is neutral: Sokhonn
The minister of foreign affairs maintained yesterday that Cambodia is not allied with China, stating that the Kingdom is “neutral”, despite an apparent diplomatic shift towards the nascent superpower and away from the West. Minister Prak Sokhonn told a crowd of over 200 students at the ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/non-aligned-cambodia-neutral-sokhonn