Old generals retiring as police end hiring freeze
The government has asked King Norodom Sihamoni to officially retire 49 generals in the police force as it prepares to end a two-year hiring freeze this year. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22275/old-generals-retiring-as-police-end-hiring-freeze/
Provincial governors set to retire
The government is preparing for the retirement of eight provincial governors, Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced at an event to commemorate International Women’s Day on Tuesday. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/provincial-governors-set-retire
Census of foreigners not finished
Interior Minister Sar Kheng called on immigration officials to finish counting and collecting information on all foreign nationals living in the Kingdom by July at the latest. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25072/census-of-foreigners-not-finished/
Health Ministry seeks better expense reports
The Ministry of Health has issued a set of guidelines calling on referral hospitals and health centres to provide increased documentation of their expenses with an aim of introducing more “transparency” to official spending. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-seeks-better-expense-reports
Time’s up for expired products
About 20 tons of expired food products seized by police in March were set ablaze yesterday, according to the Ministry of Interior. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27012/time---s-up-for-expired-products/
Government unveils portal for trademark registration
The Ministry of Commerce launched an online trademark registration gateway yesterday, allowing local and foreign individuals and firms to register their trademarks in Cambodia to protect them against infringement. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-unveils-portal-trademark-registration
Police request over $500k to reward drug-busting officers
The National Police has requested more than $500,000 from the Interior Ministry to fund bonuses for police officers involved in confiscating illegal drugs, officials said on Tuesday. ...
Han Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-request-500k-reward-drug-busting-officers-132140/
Petrol labs to track fuel cheats
The Ministry of Commerce yesterday launched a petroleum mobile lab to detect fraud and cheating at petrol stations and ensure fair competition. The lab, under the authority of CamControl, will drive across the country, starting from Phnom Penh. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080945/petrol-labs-track-fuel-cheats/
Probe leads to 8kg drug bust
After months of investigation, anti-drug officials with the Ministry of Interior cooperated with police forces in three Phnom Penh districts to arrest four suspected drug traffickers, seizing 8 kilograms of drugs on Saturday, according to the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD). ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/probe-leads-8kg-drug-bust
Notification on the request for the copies of all civil status documents
On 28 September 2017, the General Department of Identification of the Ministry of Interior informed the citizens, especially students, business owners, and workers who migrated from provinces to study and work in the capital may request the registrar, copies all kinds of identity at the ...
General Department of Identification
Hundreds of papers face closure
Nearly 300 local newspapers are facing closure next year due to inactivity in publishing, an official from the Ministry of Information’s general department of information and broadcasting has said. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096456/hundreds-papers-face-closure/
At capital coffee shops, political conversations tainted by fear
Many of the news media’s favorite political analysts aren’t picking up their telephones. They say they are busy with work, traveling abroad or focusing on their studies. ...
Ben Sokhean and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/126704-126704/
Suits filed over ponzi schemes
Nearly 7,500 Cambodians who have fallen victim to ponzi schemes have come forward to file class-action lawsuits against three companies that allegedly cheated them out of nearly $60 million, officials said yesterday, estimating that the companies may have defrauded as many 50,000 victims to the ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/suits-filed-over-ponzi-schemes
Kep province to get another Asean award
Kep province will be granted an award at the Asean Tourism Forum in Thailand later this month.According to a letter by the Tourism Ministry’s National Committee for Clean City Assessment signed by Tourism Minister Thong Khun, Kep will be given the Asean Clean Tourism award ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100583/kep-province-get-another-asean-award/
Tourism sector ‘needs 200K new workers’
A Ministry of Tourism official announced yesterday that the country would need an additional 200,000 trained tourism professionals if it was to fulfill its target of receiving 7 million international tourists a year by 2020. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-sector-needs-200k-new-workers
Campaign for local products
The “Buy Khmer Products” campaign continues this year, in a bid to promote local products among Cambodian people.Pan Sorasak, Minister of Commerce, said last Friday that the campaign is “a momentum to inspire and awaken Cambodian citizens to acknowledge the value of local products.” ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36154/campaign-for-local-products/
Sar Kheng downs offer of inclusion into CNRP
A remark by an opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) senior adviser that Minister of Interior Sar Kheng would remain deputy prime minister if the opposition party won the 2018 national elections drew a terse response from the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), with the minister ...
Leonie Kijewski and Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-downs-offer-inclusion-cnrp
Police chief examining smuggling transferred
Mondulkiri’s provincial police chief has been removed from his post less than two weeks after he spearheaded an investigation into military and police officials accused of involvement in illegal timber smuggling to Vietnam. ...
Mech Dara and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-chief-examining-smuggling-transferred
Vietnam to aid border drugs battle
Cambodia and Vietnam vowed to boost cooperation to prevent cross-border drug trafficking during the nations’ annual meeting yesterday. Lieutenant General Mak Chito, deputy National Police commissioner in charge of drug crimes, and Ngo Thai Dung, director of Drug Crime Prevention at the Vietnamese Defence Ministry, met ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080575/vietnam-aid-border-drugs-battle/
Rehab programme to be tested in Cambodia
A community-based treatment programme for drug users – which has reduced costs, rates of relapse and drug-user related crimes in trials in China – is set to be piloted in two Phnom Penh communes from December, stakeholders said yesterday. Community-based treatment has long been advocated ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rehab-programme-be-tested-cambodia