PM vows to step down if CPP loses
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday reiterated his promise to willingly hand over power to a new leader should he lose the July 29 national elections. However, he was quick to point out that he expects to maintain his position as there isn’t any other ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-vows-step-down-if-cpp-loses
Village protests halt Phan Imex land clearing in Kandal
A 20-year-old land dispute in Kandal province between residents of Por Miev village and the Phan Imex construction company hit a new snag on Wednesday when villagers discovered that workers had brought excavation equipment to a parcel of land that borders communal property at the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/village-protests-halt-phan-imex-land-clearing-kandal
Four villagers guilty of encroaching on land
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court yesterday found four villagers guilty of clearing and encroaching on land belonging to businessman Tan Tap in Stung Hav district. Each villager was sentenced to a year in prison, but after five months were suspended and with time served, each have ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539215/four-villagers-guilty-of-encroaching-on-land/
EBA withdrawal threatens Kingdom’s bicycle industry
Cambodian bicycle exports to the EU amounted to 1.52 million individual units last year valued at $331 million, according to a World Bank report released on Monday. The report – called Cambodia Economic Update – revealed that bicycles are Cambodia’s third main export to the ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eba-withdrawal-threatens-kingdoms-bicycle-industry
Banteay Meanchey villagers protest against pumping of water from drying pond
More than 20 families from Thma Puok district’s Phoum Thmey commune in Banteay Meanchey province have expressed their objection to a request made by a local drinking water company to pump water from a drying communal pond. They alleged that the firm had failed to ...
Hospital goes on defensive after ax victim’s death
Administrators at Phnom Penh’s Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital on Thursday refuted claims that hospital staff denied a brain scan, blood transfusions and surgery to a woman suffering from severe head wounds—a charge leveled by her husband shortly before she died there on Wednesday afternoon. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hospital-goes-on-defensive-after-ax-victims-death-104224/
Market for organic products on the upswing
At a public market in front of the Kampong Speu market, a stall selling organic vegetables attracts dozens of housewives and passers by. Many stop to buy the locally grown vegetables, which are here thanks to a new program established by the Cambodian Center for ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/market-for-organic-products-on-the-upswing/3216213.html
Pursat demining death caused by use of incorrect equipment
A deminer killed in Pursat province late last month was using the “wrong tool” while clearing an area of land in the infamous K-5 minefield when he detonated an anti-personnel landmine, according to a preliminary investigation by HALO Trust, the NGO for which he worked. ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pursat-demining-death-caused-by-use-of-incorrect-equipment-112460/
Organ transplant, donation draft law approved
The Council of Ministers approved a draft law last week regulating and controlling organ donations and transplants in response to a World Health Organization (WHO) report which revealed that the lives of patients with non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes could be further endangered following ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25517/organ-transplant--donation-draft-law-approved/
Booming middle class fueling mall construction
The rising incomes of Cambodians and the growing middle class as the Kingdom enters lower-middle income status is leading to a new trend in consumer spending, which in turn is fuelling a boom in the construction of malls to cater to changing lifestyles and the ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23337/booming-middle-class-fueling-mall-construction/
Bodies swap control over ELCs, preserves
Authority over economic land concessions (ELCs) currently under the purview of the Ministry of Environment will be transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture, while all protected areas and nature preserves currently under the Ministry of Agriculture will pass to the Ministry of Environment, according to ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bodies-swap-control-over-elcs-preserves
Scammers pretend to be senior officials, threaten governors
The Ministry of Interior has ordered National Police to investigate a scam in which unidentified callers claimed to be senior officials at the ministry and the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in an attempt to extort money from district governors, according to a letter issued on April ...
Chhorn Chansy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/scammers-pretend-to-be-senior-officials-threaten-governors-110794/
School director transferred after $30k scandal
Ly Sothea, the director of the National Institute of Business (NIB) at the center of a scandal involving more than $30,000 that was withheld from teachers, was transferred from his position Monday to a new job at the Labor Ministry, though an Education Ministry official ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/school-director-transferred-after-30k-scandal-98383/
NEC to accept some expert recommendations, dismiss others
In the process of drafting regulations for new voter lists to be used in the upcoming commune and national elections, the National Election Committee has accepted some suggestions from the European Union and Japanese experts while dismissing others, according to a report released by the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20720/nec-to-accept-some-expert-recommendations--dismiss-others/
Cambodia and UNICEF reinvest in country’s future
In an effort to identify and address “key barriers that impede the realization of children’s rights in Cambodia,” the Cambodian government and UNICEF Cambodia officially signed a new Country Program Action Plan yesterday, entering a three-year partnership that will cost an estimated $65 million, according ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21234/cambodia-and-unicef-reinvest-in-country---s-future/
US signs $35 million aid package with government
The U.S. pledged $35 million in development aid to Cambodia in the first part of a three-year, $137 million package announced on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon and U.S. Ambassador William Heidt, according to a U.S. Embassy statement. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-signs-35-million-aid-package-with-government-110667/
Deadline for right-hand drives delayed
As yet another deadline passed, right-hand drive vehicle owners will now have until June 12 to register their vehicles with the Ministry of Transport and Public Works or run the risk of being on the wrong side of the law, according to a ministry statement ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25023/deadline-for-right-hand-drives-delayed/
Number of building projects up in 1H
The number of construction projects approved in Cambodia during the first half of the year increased 28 percent compared with the same period last year, amounting to a total value of around $4.9 billion, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Land Management, ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/number-building-projects-1h
Germany supporting rural development in Cambodia
The German embassy in Cambodia is cooperating with the government to assist in rural development.According to a press release from the German embassy issued yesterday, more than 2,500 kilometres of roads, 88 bridges, 48 schools and 11 markets have been built across the country with ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50111151/germany-supporting-rural-development-cambodia/
Court positions shuffled
The Supreme Council of the Magistracy decided yesterday to appoint or transfer 82 court officials. According to a statement released by the council and signed by its secretary-general Sam Prachea Manith, the judicial body held a vote yesterday during its 28th session while also discussing 11 ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35925/court-positions-shuffled/