Anti-corruption chief Om Yentieng vows exposé
While pushing forward discussions on the slated whistleblower law, the Anti-Corruption Unit is also working on exposing a “conspiracy network” that “could be very harmful to national interests”, ACU chief Om Yentieng revealed on Monday. During a seminar on journalists’ role in good governance and anti-corruption ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-corruption-chief-om-yentieng-vows-expose
Cambodia-UK trade still alive after Brexit: Ministry of Commerce
Trade relation between Cambodia and the United Kingdom will improve in the future, said a senior official at Ministry of Commerce. The comments were made after the UK officially left the European Union on Jan 31 but is in a so-called transition period until Dec ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50688294/cambodia-uk-trade-still-alive-after-brexit-ministry-of-commerce
Government issues a directive to curb air pollution in Kingdom
With concern over increased air pollution affecting people’s health, the government yesterday issued a directive ordering all institutions to prevent and reduce emissions. According to a directive signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday, pollutants are produced by factories, vehicles, forest fire, rubbish and waste burning ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50676086/government-issues-a-directive-to-curb-air-pollution-in-kingdom
Lawsuit filed against local Mondulkiri leaders
Two separate complaints were filed at the Mondulkiri Provincial Court against four people including the first deputy chief of Bou Sra commune, in Pech Chreada district, and a provincial deputy governor. The case concerned the issuance of land titles on forest land and secretly digging ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawsuit-filed-against-local-mondulkiri-leaders
State TV broadcasts to go digital
The Ministry of Information will convene a meeting with the ministries of Posts and Telecommunications; and Economy and Finance, on Wednesday to review the progress of changing state analogue television broadcasts to digital. Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith on Monday chaired a meeting at the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/state-tv-broadcasts-go-digital
Foreign Ministry notes challenges to foreign policy
The Foreign Affairs Ministry said yesterday that Cambodia’s foreign policy faces huge challenges from foreign interference under the pretext of human rights, the South China Sea dispute and the trade war between the US and China. In its annual report, the ministry noted that the ...
Sun Mesa
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50685785/foreign-ministry-notes-challenges-to-foreign-policy
As KrisEnergy gears up to produce Cambodia’s first drop of oil, it has been besieged by creditors
The company told shareholders that it will appear in court in Singapore next Monday to request a second three-month extension to a debt moratorium. The moratorium has been in place since August, when KrisEnergy began efforts to restructure its debt load, which stood at $476.8 ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50693541/as-krisenergy-gears-up-to-produce-cambodias-first-drop-of-oil-it-has-been-besieged-by-creditors
Announcement on the result of the new mandate meeting of the Permanent Council of Ministers dated on 31 March 2020
On Monday, March 31, 2020, at the Peace Palace of the Council of Ministers, a new mandate meeting of the Permanent Council of Ministers was presided over by Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia to review ...
Office of the Council of Ministers
Training needed for tourist industry
Representatives of Cambodia’s booming tourism industry yesterday called on the Asian Development Bank to provide funding for workforce training in the sector. During the meeting at the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, tour operator Ho Vandy, who also co-chairs the Tourism Working Group in the Government-Private Sector Forum, said representatives ...
UK: Cambodia worker health part of M&S Plan A progress
UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is trialling a new campaign aimed at helping 14,000 garment workers in Cambodia deal with common health issues, as part of its Plan A ethical programme. The company, which aims to become the world’s most sustainable major retailer by 2015, ...
Katie Smith
http://www.just-style.com/news/cambodia-worker-health-part-of-ms-plan-a-progress_id119714.aspx
PM nixes ban on dual-national party leaders
In his latest abrupt policy backtracking, Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech on Thursday to rescind a recently announced plan to ban dual nationals from leading political parties—an effort that had ostensibly been aimed at the self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/104769-104769/
Rights record under fire
A pair of reports to be presented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today and tomorrow paint a bleak image of a country whose rights record has worsened considerably over the past year. An annual report from the Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) in ...
Three refugees met with delegation, minister says
Three of the refugees Australia is holding at a detention center on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru agreed to meet with Cambodian officials who traveled there last week to assess the possibility of resettling some of the asylum seekers in Cambodia, Interior Minister ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-refugees-met-with-delegation-minister-says-76512/
Approved investment drops
Latest figures show the total value of approved investment in the Kingdom declined by more than 70 per cent in the first half of this year compared to the equivalent period a year before. Economists and officials are unconcerned, however, saying that some big projects during ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012081457967/Business/big-dip-in-approved-investments.html
Mobile phone subscribers increase
The number of mobile subscribers (SIM cards sold) increased 25.28 per cent during the first half of the year as a result of an expansion in the telecommunications market, according to officials. Mobile phone service subscribers increased by 3,963,734 or 25.28 per cent to 19,642,563 compared ...
Regulator gears up for mobile pricing showdown
Cambodia’s telecommunications regulator yesterday stepped up efforts to avert a brewing price war between the country’s six mobile network operators, ordering the companies to submit profitability statements within the next 10 days and summoning all operators to a meeting at the end of the month ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/regulator-gears-mobile-pricing-showdown
Finance sector in good shape: NBC
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) says the banking sector will continue to grow confidently and actively contribute to economic activity. at the same time, the banking and finance sector continues to promote financial inclusion with the number of deposit clients reaching 8.2 million accounts ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50742892/finance-sector-in-good-shape-nbc/
LANGO discussions end in stalemate
The government and members of the civil society organisation met for the sixth and final time yesterday to discuss amendments to the Law on Association and Non-governmental Organisations, which still remains unresolved. The government working group led by Interior Ministry secretary of state Bun Honn ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50741970/lango-discussions-end-in-stalemate/
PM Hun Sen says ‘budget balanced’
PRIME Minister Hun Sen yesterday stated that the Kingdom has brought the budget into balance, with current savings standing at $3.5 billion. The statement was made in response to doubts about whether or not Cambodia is telling the truth when claiming to have up to ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50736883/pm-hun-sen-says-budget-balanced/
Logging’s roots deep
Hun Sen’s Cambodia has been shaped by the collection of illegal timber dollars, profiting a politically connected elite and in turn ensuring the ruling party’s grip on the state apparatus, a leading Australian researcher has said. Sarah Milne, a research fellow at the Australian National University, ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggings-roots-deep