Clarification by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the national internet gateway establishment
On 15 February 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a clarification by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the National Internet Gateway establishment. The spokesperson has noted with disappointment the continued misinterpretations, especially in some ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Angkor revenue up, tourists amount down
According to a new report by the Ministry of Tourism published yesterday, revenue from ticket sales to the Angkor Archeological Park reached $39.48 million in the first quarter of 2018, 28 percent higher than the corresponding period last year. Ministry data showed 854,584 tourists visited the ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50269499/angkor-revenue-up-tourists-amount-down/
Chinese visitors to the Kingdom spike
During the first four months of the year, Cambodia welcomed more than 647,000 Chinese visitors, an increase of more than 79 percent, according to the Cambodian Tourism Minister. ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507277/chinese-visitors-to-the-kingdom-spike/
UN notes Kingdom’s peacekeeping efforts
The Defence Ministry has announced that the United Nations has ranked Cambodia 29th among 122 countries that have sent peacekeeping forces to conflict areas around the world. Last year, the UN ranked Cambodia as 32nd for the most troops sent abroad. Cambodia also ranked 17th ...
Ven Rathavong and Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541575/un-notes-kingdoms-peacekeeping-efforts/
Political parties grow by six to 44 after registration last year
Forty-four political parties are registered to legally conduct activities in the Kingdom, according to an Interior Ministry report. The report, obtained by Khmer Times yesterday, said six new parties were registered last year, bringing the total to 44. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50565377/political-parties-grow-by-six-to-44-after-registration-last-year/
New name for Real Camerin’s political party gets approval
The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday gave its approval to Real Camerin to name his new political party the Khmer Conservative Party, after his first proposal, the Khmer Empire Party, was denied last month. Camerin, a former lawmaker of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-name-real-camerins-political-party-gets-approval
China, Cambodia mark successful law enforcement cooperation
The Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh on Thursday lauded law enforcement cooperation efforts between the two countries that have seen around 1,000 Chinese nationals, accused of varying crimes, deported in the last 12 months. To mark the occasion, the Chinese Embassy posted on Facebook that at least 1,000 ...
Kann Vicheika
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/china-Cambodia-mark-successful-law-enforcement-cooperation/5128307.html
Exports to US up 25 pct in Q1
Cambodian exports to the United States, the world’s largest economy, rose sharply during the first three months of the year following a marked increase in the shipments of travel goods after the US renewed its Generalized System of Preferences in March. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50490954/exports-to-us-up-25-pct-in-q1/
Prime Minister to reveal new oil policy next week
With the price of oil in the international market on the rise, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced he will unveil a new policy to deal with the impact of more expensive crude on the 28th of this month. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502734/prime-minister-to-reveal-new-oil-policy-next-week/
Interior ministry official charged over land grab
Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged a government official who allegedly tried to grab state land by fraudulently using Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s wife’s name to threaten a commune chief in Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50542474/interior-ministry-official-charged-over-land-grab-2/
Government denies claims former Thai PM Yingluck issued Cambodian passport
Government officials on Thursday denied claims that a Cambodian passport was issued to former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who reportedly used it to register a company in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong-based English language South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Wednesday reported Hong Kong ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-denies-claims-former-thai-pm-yingluck-issued-cambodian-passport
Gov’t: move to revoke improper documents nearing conclusion
The General Immigration Department said that the program to revoke official documents that were not properly issued, to mostly 70,000 ethnic Vietnamese, was about 70 per cent complete. Khun Sambo, deputy director general of the department, which is under the Ministry of Interior, said it ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-move-revoke-improper-documents-nearing-conclusion
PM calls for reshuffle of ministry
Prime minister-designate Hun Sen on Friday sent a letter to King Norodom Sihamoni, requesting a reshuffle among top brass at the Ministry of Interior. Seen by The Post on Saturday, the letter indicates that 10 senior officials have reached retirement age. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-reshuffle-ministry
PM: Leaders age like wine
Defending the fact that the leadership has remained largely the same in the sixth mandate of the government, Prime Minister Hun Sen said reforms were more about improving job efficiencies. Several analysts have begged to differ, however, saying reforms won’t make much progress under an ...
Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-leaders-age-wine
Cruise tourists on rise, but benefits are scant
While international tourist arrivals by cruise ship have increased every year at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP), Cambodia does not appear to be benefitting much from such visitors, the Ministry of Tourism has said. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cruise-tourists-rise-benefits-are-scant
Kandal locals ask for government intervention as lake filled in
More than 300 families briefly blocked the entrance to the Kandal Provincial Hall on Monday morning to ask the governor to intervene in a land dispute with well-connected conglomerate ING Holdings, which they say has built a fence around Boeung Chi Po, one of multiple ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-locals-ask-government-intervention-lake-filled
Palm sugar GI status in EU hits a glitch
The process of obtaining geographical indication (GI) status for Kampong Speu palm sugar in the European Union suffered a setback this week after a company asked for revisions to the wording of the product’s guidebook, according to a producers association. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50518153/palm-sugar-gi-status-in-eu-hits-a-glitch/
Kingdom’s satellite project still under study
The Telecom Regulator of Cambodia yesterday said that the Kingdom’s plan to launch its first satellite is still being studied after the Defence Ministry denied media reports that it will be sent into space in 2021. TRC spokesman Im Vutha yesterday said that the project ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50577036/kingdoms-satellite-project-still-under-study-2/
‘Ninety-nine oknha in army’
A senior military official said on Sunday that the Ministry of National Defence had found almost 100 military personnel with the title “oknha”. He told The Post that the ministry was preparing procedural formalities to enable the oknha to choose between keeping the honorific or ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ninety-nine-oknha-army
Ministry recognises Khmer Conservative Party
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday issued a proclamation letter recognising the new Khmer Conservative Party with former opposition party lawmaker Real Camerin at the helm. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50645044/ministry-recognises-khmer-conservative-party/