Five people held for illegally-cut timber
A joint task-force consisting of the national police and Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district police on saturday arrested five people found transporting illegally-felled timber in santre commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524318/five-people-held-for-illegally-cut-timber/
Mondulkiri Bunong families seek government intervention
Fourteen indigenous families from Mondulkiri province’s Dak Dam commune have sought urgent intervention from local authorities and a human rights NGO after machinery was used to clear their farmland. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-bunong-families-seek-government-intervention
Residents rally over OCIC land dispute
Hundreds of residents locked in a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district yesterday submitted a petition to the Land Management Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50497921/residents-rally-over-ocic-land-dispute/
Conservation alliance to include local communities
The Environment Ministry is planning to create an alliance of civil and governmental bodies to step up the country’s management of natural resources and encourage conservation in local communities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50500686/conservation-alliance-to-include-local-communities/
Second industrial lab centre on the way
A new laboratory for testing local products and issue quality certificates will open in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district by the end of 2019, the Ministry of Handicraft recently announced. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50509878/second-industrial-lab-centre-on-the-way/
Improving construction sector safety
Labour Ministry officials met with members of Japan’s parliament and the International Labour Organisation to discuss a project aimed at improving safety standards in the construction sector on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50538061/improving-construction-sector-safety-2/
Mondulkiri communities worried over forest clearing
Indigenous people in Mondulkiri province’s Keo seima district yesterday expressed concern over logging activities in the Phnom Prich Wildlife sanctuary, which they claim is allowed by some commune authorities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540804/mondulkiri-communities-worried-over-forest-clearing/
Former CNRP lawmaker predicts Sam Rainsy role may ‘split’ the part
Former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker Ou Chanrath predicted on Tuesday that sam Rainsy’s contentious new position as acting president may cause an inevitable “split” in the party. ss='cambodia-color'>...
‘Free market’ no excuse for price gouging: CNRP
Despite Prime Minister Hun sen’s request for bus owners and cab drivers to not hike prices over the Pchum Ben holiday, passengers were subjected to a familiar price bump this week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Takihiro and Srey Kunmeth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16770/---free-market----no-excuse-for-price-gouging--cnrp/
Officials firm on deadline for sim card registration
The deadline for the country’s five mobile operators to ensure all their subscribers are registered by National ID cards or other legal documents is December 22, officials said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17633/officials-firm-on-deadline-for-sim-card-registration/
Vacated bodyguard HQ signals end of an era
The former headquarters of late CPP President Chea sim’s personal bodyguard unit, which was disbanded following his death in June, is now the office of a private security firm. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vacated-bodyguard-hq-signals-end-of-an-era-107984/
Government targets foreign retirees with new policy
The government is planning to boost Cambodia’s attractiveness as a second-home tourist destination for foreign retirees, according to a draft policy obtained from the Ministry of Tourism Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear and Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-targets-foreign-retirees-with-new-policy-108126/
Impunity, rights abuses unchecked in Cambodia: Amnesty
Cambodia has been taken to task in Amnesty International’s latest global report, which said the southeast Asian country continued to abuse human rights while allowing impunity to continue unchecked. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.newsfultoncounty.com/politics/news/2428368-impunity-rights-abuses-unchecked-in-cambodia-amnesty
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/analysts-suggest-now-is-the-time-to-replace-aging-ineffective-officials/3209638.html
Nepotism complaint at institute
Sixteen former Staff memberS at the Sihanoukville provincial Multi-Technical Training InStitute filed a Sweeping complaint againSt the School&rSquo;S married directorS with the MiniStry of Labor over the weekend. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27480/nepotism-complaint-at-institute/
Boat racing not banned during water festival: PM
Prime Minister Hun sen said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that boat racing will be allowed during next week’s water festival, but that the races would not be officially overseen. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boat-racing-not-banned-during-water-festival-pm-100804/
Oodles of bad noodles poison three in Siem Reap
Three cousins between the ages of one and eight years old were hospitalized on sunday after eating expired packaged noodles in siem Reap’s Chi Kreng district, according to police. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23580/oodles-of-bad-noodles-poison-three-in-siem-reap/
Battle over mangrove sees SEZ trump NGO
A special economic zone developer will be allowed to continue bulldozing a mangrove forest in Preah sihanouk province’s Teuk Thla commune, the provincial governor said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battle-over-mangrove-sees-sez-trump-ngo
UXO Stockpile found in KR bunker
More than 200 mines, rockets and rounds of ammunition were found in Preah Vihear’s sangkom Thmei district on Wednesday about 150 meters from the Prasat Damrei temple, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27826/uxo-stockpile-found-in-kr-bunker/
32 Vietnamese arrested in Phnom Penh immigration raids
Thirty-two Vietnamese nationals were arrested during raids by immigration police in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district yesterday morning, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Keo Vanthorn. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/32-vietnamese-arrested-phnom-penh-immigration-raids