CNRP’s Sovannara on trial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today is scheduled to hear the trial of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party activist Meach Sovannara, who was charged with leading a violent “insurrection” after an opposition demonstration turned violent last July. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://bit.ly/1cOQ72R
Briton gets 8 years for sexually abusing girls
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday convicted a British national of purchasing child prostitution and committing indecent acts against minors, sentencing him to eight years in prison and ordering him to pay a total of $5,000 in fines and compensation. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/briton-gets-8-years-for-sexually-abusing-girls-82227/
Asylum seekers on fast track to Cambodia, group says
As many as five of the hundreds of asylum seekers Australia is holding on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru have agreed to be the first to take up an offer from Cambodia to resettle here, according to a refugee advocacy group. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/asylum-seekers-on-fast-track-to-cambodia-group-says-82208/
Customs revenues increase
The General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) collected more than $360 million in revenues for the national budget during the first quarter of 2015, a 13 per cent increase year-on-year, according to a statement from the department released last week. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-revenues-increase
“Culture of Dialogue” a major achievement, says Hun Sen on CPP’s 64th anniversary
The Cambodian People’s Party has called its “Culture of Dialog” with the Cambodia National Rescue Party a milestone, listing it out prominently in its roster of achievements as the party celebrates its 64th anniversary. ...
Chea Vannak
http://bit.ly/1C0bdXL
Belt and Road initiative to help Cambodia, says China
The China-proposed “Belt and Road” initiative will provide new opportunities for China and Cambodia to further enhance ties and cooperation in all fields, Han Qide, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) said on Friday. ...
Want China Times News Staff
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150630000113&cid=1101&MainCatID=11
Lawmakers spar over right to speak
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun and CNRP lawmaker Un Sam An got into a heated back-and-forth following a meeting at the National Assembly on Wednesday, with Mr. Vun refusing to allow Mr. Sam An to speak to a reporter while inside parliament. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmakers-spar-over-right-to-speak-87102/
CPP passes NGO law amid opposition boycott
The CPP’s 68 lawmakers pushed a controversial NGO law through the National Assembly on Monday morning without debate and without the opposition CNRP, whose 55 members boycotted the session in protest over legislation they say the government could use to stifle dissent. ...
Kuch Naren and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-passes-ngo-law-amid-opposition-boycott-2-88148/
Six arrested, released over NGO law protest
Authorities in Phnom Penh on Sunday arrested and released six people dressed in prison uniforms and chained together by their legs for protesting outside the National Assembly against a recently approved law that threatens to muzzle NGOs critical of the government ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-arrested-released-over-ngo-law-protest-89467/
Gov’t plans satellite border surveillance
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the government to launch a satellite surveillance system to monitor the country’s border areas in an effort to bolster national defense and curb illegal activities such as logging, drug trafficking and people smuggling, officials said Sunday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-plans-satellite-border-surveillance-93548/
HRW politicises human rights with a biased report attacking Cambodian dam project
Human rights are for humanity, not for Human Rights Watch (HRW). Human rights must be understood and approached based on the context and the stage of nation building and state building. ...
US mulls summit with Asean leaders in Washington in January
The United States is planning to host an in-person summit of President Joe Biden and leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Washington in January, Asean sources have said. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50978928/us-mulls-summit-with-asean-leaders-in-washington-in-january/
Government set to achieve mine-free status in three years.
Under a National Mine Action Strategy 2018-2025, the government is all set to achieve a mine-free Cambodia to the fullest extent possible in another three years. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501032089/government-set-to-achieve-mine-free-status-in-three-years/
China-aided medical building to help improve Cambodia’s healthcare quality
Situated in the capital of Cambodia, the newly-established Cambodia-China Friendship Preah Kossamak Hospital will play an important role in improving the quality of healthcare services in the southeast Asian nation. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501045402/china-aided-medical-building-to-help-improve-cambodias-healthcare-quality/
No one left behind: Cambodian Muslims get free medical examinations
Rofi Osman, Member of the National Assembly, presided over a large-scale medical mission that saw 500 people from the Khmer Muslim community get free medical examinations. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501093189/no-one-left-behind-cambodian-muslims-get-free-medical-examinations/
New Zealand’s Phil Twyford to visit Cambodia to boost trade links with South East Asia
Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth Phil Twyford will travel to Cambodia this week to attend the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Ministers’ consultations. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501150483/new-zealands-phil-twyford-to-visit-cambodia-to-boost-trade-links-with-south-east-asia/
Despite concerted efforts, Cambodian rivers are still rife with plastic
Everyday, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, according to the United Nations Environment Program. ...
Seoung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/despite-concerted-efforts-cambodian-rivers-are-still-rife-with-plastic/
Four Arrested In Attempt to Inspire ‘Rose Revolution’
Police said Sunday they have arrested four people believed to be involved in a conspiracy hatched by a dissident Khmer-American group plotting to topple the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Two men and two women were arrested on Thursday suspected of attempting to hand out ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-arrested-in-attempt-to-inspire-rose-revolution-39976/
PM Dung Urges Expanded Co-operation With Cambodia
Ha Noi–The Vietnamese Government would do its best to work with the Cambodian Government to raise bilateral ties to a more effective and fruitful level, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Ha Noi yesterday. Dung told the Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign ...
EU ambassador expresses hope for Kingdom retaining EBA status
New EU ambassador to Cambodia Carmen Moreno met with National Assembly president Heng Samrin and expressed her interest in helping Cambodia retain the “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement. Moreno paid a courtesy call on Samrin at the National Assembly on Tuesday on her first day ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/eu-ambassador-expresses-hope-kingdom-retaining-eba-status