Prey Lang group receives award
The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) has received the prestigious 2019 Energy Globe Award, a group representative said on Monday. The awards are known as “Nature’s Nobel Prize”. Ek Sovanna, a PLCN representative in Kratie province, told The Post on Monday that PLCN had won ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-lang-group-receives-award
Parliament pitches forest cooperation
Several National Assembly commissions met yesterday to discuss a draft law adopting the policies of the Asian Forest Cooperation Organisation. The meeting was led by Chheang Vun, chairman of the Commission on Foreign Affairs, InterNational Cooperation, Information and Media; Yim Savy, chairman of the Commission ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50494552/parliament-pitches-forest-cooperation/
Police detain six illegal loggers from Laos
Stung Treng provincial police have detained six illegal loggers from Laos who were caught crossing in the province on Friday. Provincial police chief Major General Mao Dara yesterday said that the six men are awaiting repatriation to Laos under an agreement between the countries on ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50534075/police-detain-six-illegal-loggers-from-laos/
Chinese group vows to educate on the law
At a bilateral meeting between Preah Sihanouk province and a delegation of China’s Ministry of Public Security on Friday, the latter committed to educate its nationals to strictly respect Cambodian laws. Provincial administration spokesman Kheang Phearum said on Monday that during the meeting, the administration ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-group-vows-educate-law
Many migrant workers don’t understand the dangers
Experts say migrant laborers lack basic information about threats to them abroad, making them vulnerable to exploitation. However, Chou Bun Eng, secretary of state for the Ministry Interior and vice chairman of the National Committee To Combat Human Trafficking, says the government does disseminate information ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/many-migrant-workers-dont-understand-the-dangers/2963306.html
Minister of interior addresses ‘gaps’ in democracy
Cambodia’s acting Prime Minister while Mr. Hun Sen is out of the country for the US-ASEAN summit, Interior Minister Sar Kheng, acknowledged that there are “gaps” in the implementation of democracy in Cambodia during a speech to the National Police Academy on Tuesday, but warned ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21549/minister-of-interior-addresses----gaps----in-democracy/
Traffic deaths rise, injuries fall over new year
Although 254 people were either killed or injured in traffic accidents across the Kingdom during this year’s Khmer New Year, and the fatality rate rose, the rate of injury over the four-day celebration decreased when compared with the same period last year, according to a ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23881/traffic-deaths-rise--injuries-fall-over-new-year/
CSOs call for an end to impunity in Cambodia on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
To mark the United Nations’ second International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, we, the undersigned civil society organizations (“CSOs”), call upon the Royal Government of Cambodia to bring an end to Cambodia’s rampant culture of impunity, and to ensure that the perpetrators ...
Joint Organizations
NEC kicks off e-voting registration test
The National Election Committee yesterday kicked off the 15-day trial of its new electronic voting registration system at 25 stations throughout the country.NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said that the registration test plans to enrol about 30,000 people, though those people will have to register again ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-kicks-e-voting-registration-test
Cambodian Premier meets Hungarian NA Speaker
Prime Minister Hun Sen held talks here yesterday at the Peace Palace with visiting Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of Hungary László Kövér, reported state news agency-AKP.The Hungarian NA speaker further underlined that his country is willing to promote the bilateral cooperation in the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-premier-meets-hungarian-na-speaker-9058
Cambodia on track to achieve "3 Zeros" HIV/AIDS target by 2020: deputy PM
Cambodia is on track to achieve the “Three Zeros” HIV/AIDS target by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An said here on Tuesday.The 3 Zeros, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in New York in June 2011, included zero new HIV infections, zero stigma ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6697035/2015/11/30/cambodia-track-achieve-3-zeros-hivaids-target-2020-deputy-pm
GMS cross-border pact on hold
Though all countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) had signed a cross-border trade agreement (CBTA) 14 years ago to enhance the sub-region’s economic connectivity, the CBTA, however, is yet to be ratified in individual Mekong nations for its full implementation. This was revealed last ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28140/gms-cross-border-pact-on-hold/
Prosecutor seeks tougher charge for german child abuse suspect
The sexual abuse case involving a 57-year-old German national and at least five underage boys continued in Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Udo Sabiniewicz, owner of FX Animation Studio in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district, could be sentenced to one to three years in prison ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21608/prosecutor-seeks-tougher-charge-for-german-child-abuse-suspect/
Contentious draft law to regulate unions approved for assembly debate
The Council of Ministers on Friday green-lighted a contentious law that labor leaders say will make it hard to form unions and collectively bargain.The draft law will now be debated in the National Assembly, where the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has a majority and will ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/contentious-draft-law-to-regulate-unions-approved-for-assembly-debate/3056778.html
Human rights: Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Cambodia
Parliament urges Cambodia to drop all charges brought against opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) members; calls on the Bangladesh authorities to restore the full independence of the media; and appeals to the government of Afghanistan to intensify cooperation with the ...
European Parliament
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20151120IPR03620/html/Human-rights-Bangladesh-Afghanistan-Cambodia
Few arrests under new traffic law
Only 600 drivers have been sent to court since the new Traffic Law technically took effect in January and legally in March.According to a National Road Safety Committee report released yesterday, out of almost 10 million vehicles that were checked, 1.5 million were found to ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33660/few-arrests-under-new-traffic-law/
PM: More roads, bridges
Prime Minister Hun Sen has highlighted his government’s achievements in building new infrastructure as part of a message to commemorate Khmer New Year.He said 15,376 kilometers of national roads and bridges have been built over the past year, including 12,100km of asphalt roads. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37520/pm--more-roads--bridges/
UN releases memos on concerns
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday published a batch of communications held with the Cambodian government since June last year, showing that the international body has voiced its concern about a range of issues from the arrest of ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-releases-memos-concerns
China to align Asean policy with Cambodia
China is considering setting up an industrial zone in Cambodia and says it will announce new areas of cooperation with Asean nations in line with Cambodia’s industrial development policy. The issues were discussed on Saturday when Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak met Xu Ningning, executive president of ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32729/china-to-align-asean-policy-with-cambodia/
Cambodia negotiates reopening of informal Vietnam border crossings
Ratankkiri provincial authorities are trying to resolve a border dispute with Vietnam, urging the Vietnamese to reopen four recently blocked border crossings, according to National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith. The conflict originated when Cambodia rejected Vietnam’s proposal to build four new, formal border checkpoints, only accepting ...