Ministry agrees to creation of CNLP
The Ministry of Interior has agreed in principle to allow former Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) officials and activists to create a party after they received political rehabilitation. They are required to prepare documents under the law for the official registration of the new Cambodian lass='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/ministry-agrees-creation-cnlp
Candidates ready for new city, district council polls
Several political parties said they are ready to contest elections for the newly created five cities and district council elections in April. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501218199/candidates-ready-for-new-city-district-council-polls/
National road 76 Mondulkiri – Phnom Penh collapsed after heavy rain
National Road 76 Mondulkiri – Phnom Penh has been temporarily closed since Tuesday after heavy rains and flash floods caused the road to collapse. All vehicles traveling from Mondulkiri to Phnom Penh must now go through Kratie, Stung Treng and Ratanakiri, according to the Mondulkiri lass='cambodia-color'>...
Seoung Nimol and Phon Sothyroth
https://cambojanews.com/national-road-76-mondulkiri-phnom-penh-collapsed-after-heavy-rain/
MoE liaise with media on climate change dissemination
The Ministry of Environment has established a liaison between media professionals and journalists to promote the dissemination of knowledge on climate change to local people so that they are prepared. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501354564/moe-liaise-with-media-on-climate-change-dissemination/
Nearly one quarter of ruling CPP’s 125 candidates are related
Out of the ruling CPP’s 125 candidates for the national elections, at least 28 people — 22.4% — are related to someone else on the ballot, a review of the candidate list reveals. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Phon Sothyroth
https://cambojanews.com/nearly-one-quarter-of-ruling-cpps-125-candidates-are-related/
NSSF targets broader membership
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is set to continue enhancing the promotion of voluntary contributions to healthcare in 2024, aimed at bolstering the effectiveness of efforts geared towards safeguarding the welfare of the Cambodian people. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Bor Pich Zelin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nssf-targets-broader-membership
Sokha seeks more German and Swiss input on decentralisation
Sar Sokha, Interior Minister and Chairman of the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD), has left for an eight-day working visit to Switzerland and Germany, accompanied by a high-level delegation. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501475862/sokha-seeks-more-german-and-swiss-input-on-decentralisation/
UN Envoy to Gauge Progress of Rights, Reforms in Cambodia
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya Subedi, will visit the country next week to assess the government’s progress in improving human rights and democratic and land reforms, his office said Wednesday. During the 10-day fact-finding mission, beginning June lass='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/envoy-06112014173419.html
Thai company shelves Kampot cement project
Thailand’s second-largest cement company has suspended a cement-plant project valued at about $200 million in Kampot province because of political uncertainty and better investment opportunities in Myanmar, according to a senior executive. Philippe Arto, the managing director of Siam City Cement Public Company limited (SCCC), said lass='cambodia-color'>...
Rann Reuy and May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-company-shelves-kampot-cement-project
Environment plan passes unopposed
In a sitting of parliament yesterday that was rather more subdued than the vicious session that led to an opposition walkout a day earlier, a law to support an environmental program passed with bipartisan support. All but two of the 93 legislat-ors present voted in favour lass='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia’s armed forces ‘belong’ to the ruling party: four-star general
Cambodia’s armed forces belong to the country’s ruling party and must prevent a “color revolution” from overtaking the Southeast Asian nation, a four-star general said Wednesday, drawing criticism from an opposition official who called his understanding of the military’s role “limited.” lass='cambodia-color'>...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/military-07292015145855.html
10 Cambodians mourned on UN Peacekeepers Day
The National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC) on May 26 commemorated the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, in recognition of their service and sacrifice and to honour the memory of those who had lost their lives in the course of peacekeeping. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/10-cambodians-mourned-un-peacekeepers-day
Hedging China risks, Japan firms turn to booming SE Asia
Hiroshi Uematsu had a tough start in Cambodia, where he heads an economic zone that aims to attract business from his native Japan. He arrived just before the global financial crisis sent the Asian Economic Minnow’s exports into a tailspin and dried up investment interest. Now, lass='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnamese swept up for deportation
Nearly 100 Vietnamese laborers were detained for deportation Tuesday after they were found to be working in the country illegally during a sweep of construction sites on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island as part of the Interior Ministry’s seemingly arbitrary enforcement of the immigration law. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnamese-swept-up-for-deportation-on-koh-pich-86315/
US willing to further strengthen relations with Cambodia
Scot Marciel, visiting Principal Deputy Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs met with Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cambodia yesterday with an aim to further strengthen relations between the two countries, Koy Kuong, lass='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MDkxYjZjMmJiMjh
Toyota to Open Second Phnom Penh Outlet
Japanese automobile giant Toyota is set to increase its presence in Cambodia with a second sales showroom, according to a company manager. The move follows fellow Japanese automaker Mazda, which opened a new showroom in May. According to a report from newswire Bloomberg, Toyota executive vice president lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/toyota-to-open-second-phnom-penh-outlet-33328/
Packaged MSG imports plummet
Cambodian imports of packaged monosodium glutamate (MSG) totalled just 2,086 tonnes last year, the lowest amount since 2002, according to import figures from the customs department of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The import figures showed that from 2002 to 2010, Cambodia had imported a lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052165729/Business/packaged-msg-imports-plummet.html
City Defends Boeng Kak Project, Attacks Critics
The filling of Boeng Kak lake and the eviction of thousands of residents was necessary to root out the “prostitutes and terrorists” that were drawn to the area’s once-popular tourist zone, the Phnom Penh Municipality said in a statement yesterday. In a statement posted to its lass='cambodia-color'>...
With protest, families win drainage donation
A group of Phnom Penh families from a flood-prone community living along the city’s abandoned railroad tracks managed to secure the last $2,250 they need to build their own drainage system after protesting outside the Russei Keo district governor’s office Wednesday. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-protest-families-win-drainage-donation-90920/