Poll shows increased dissatisfaction with government
An increasing number of Cambodians are dissatisfied with the direction the country is moving toward, according to results from a nationwide survey by the Asia Foundation. The foundation interviewed 1,000 people face to face in May and June of this year—prior to a political deal struck ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/poll-shows-increased-dissatisfaction-with-government/2561243.html
Seeking to cultivate young Cambodian leaders
US AmbaSSador William Todd created the AmbaSSador&rSquo;S Youth Council in Cambodia in 2012, one of 80 Such groupS of youth around the world. The goal iS to create better relationS between Cambodia and the US and to cultivate young leaderS for Cambodia, he Said. “ThoSe SS='cambodia-color'>...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/seeking-to-cultivate-young-cambodian-leaders/2564238.html
Kampot police officers sentenced to jail for graft
The Kampot Provincial Court on Thursday sentenced the former Banteay Meas district police chief and his former deputy to four years and two years in prison respectively for embezzling funds and taking bribes amounting to $64,360 over a five-year period, a court official said. In March, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-police-officers-sentenced-to-jail-for-graft-77021/
New summonses in old dispute in R’kiri
Four ethnic Jarai village representatives in Ratanakkiri province, including the wife of a rights group activist, were ordered to appear at court today or face arrest on charges of defamation against Keat Kolney, the sister of Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon. The case is part of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-summonses-old-dispute-rkiri
Putting women in the driver's seat in Cambodia
How can one push for greater political participation of women in a patriarchal state that believes government is a fraternity? The Cambodian Committee to Promote Women in Politics faced this exact problem when it first started its work to encourage women to get more politically involved ss='cambodia-color'>...
Daphne Davies
https://www.devex.com/news/putting-women-in-the-driver-s-seat-in-cambodia-85867
Persecution of Montagnards on rise, report says
An intensified campaign of religious and political persecution of Montagnards by security forces in Vietnam is responsible for more than 150 of the group fleeing to Cambodia, while authorities in both countries are working together to track down asylum seekers crossing the border, Human Rights ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/persecution-of-montagnards-on-rise-report-says-86712/
Logging baron claims tree-felling days over
Preah Vihear province Try Pheap wants to turn over a new leaf.In an exclusive interview with the Post at the opening ceremony of his vast plantation in Preah Vihear province on sunday, the media-shy tycoon spoke of a desire to cultivate a new image – ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-baron-claims-tree-felling-days-over
Land Ministry issues more than 450,000 land titles
The Land Management Ministry has issued 456,210 land titles so far this year. The ministry’s annual report, launched yesterday, said that it also resolved 105 out of 817 land disputes it received; the National Land Dispute Authority solved two out of 81 cases. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50673867/land-ministry-issues-more-than-450000-land-titles
GDT says revenues up 15% in January
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected about 956.76 billion riel ($239.19 million) in tax revenue in January, up 14.74 per cent compared to the same period last year. This is a positive step towards its target of collecting more than $2.885 billion by year’s end, ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-says-revenues-15-january
Red-tape eliminated for agro-product exporters
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced that rice exporters and agro-product exporters can now attain sanitary and phytosanitary certificates at one window service centres to streamline the process. The ministry’s decision was made after a Cambodia Rice Federation proposal last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/red-tape-eliminated-agro-product-exporters
Crimes up with 211 deaths, influx of foreigners to blame
Minister of Interior sar Kheng on Wednesday said crimes increased by eight per cent last year, resulting in 211 deaths. He revealed the figures during the ministry’s 2019 review and laid the blame for the increase on an influx of foreigners into the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crimes-211-deaths-influx-foreigners-blame
Rice farmers struggle during drought season
For more than four months, people living in some rural areas in the provinces of Pursat and Battambang have been suffering from water shortages. Canals, streams and ponds have dried due to high temperatures during this year’s dry season. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700262/rice-farmers-struggle-during-drought-season
Poor families claim land concession sold to others
A group of 160 poor families from the Bunong indigenous community in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have filed a complaint against their representative, accusing him of selling land earmarked for them as part of a social land concession. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poor-families-claim-land-concession-sold-others
Senate set to review emergency law
The Senate&rSquo;S Standing Committee iS Set to convene a meeting on Monday to review the State of emergency draft law after it waS unanimouSly paSSed by the National ASSembly (NA) on ThurSday. Senate SpokeSman Mam Bun Neang Said the committee will put the law up SS='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senate-set-review-emergency-law
NGO to sue ‘land grab’ officer
National Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organisation (NRWPO) director Chea Hean plans to sue Trapaing Chor commune council officer sorn sim for allegedly inciting some 100 people to occupy and protest on 120ha owned by 16 families in the province’s Trapaing Chor commune in Oral district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-sue-land-grab-officer
Union appeals to casinos over suspended workers’ wages
The Collective Union of Movement of Workers is appealing to casino owners to disburse last month’s wages of suspended employees amid the temporary closure of gambling venues across the Kingdom over novel coronavirus fears. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50709040/union-appeals-to-casinos-over-suspended-workers-wages/
New GDP prediction is not optimistic
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has predicted that the real economic growth of Cambodia will reach 2.3 percent this year and will be around 5.7 percent in 2021, according to the newly released report on ADB’s flagship annual economic publication titled, Asian Development Outlook 2020. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50709859/new-gdp-prediction-is-not-optimistic/
Big fall in petrol prices
Cambodia’s retail gasoline price has strongly declined for the first time because of the fall on the international market, according to the monthly oil prices set by the Ministry of Commerce revealed yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50708398/big-fall-in-petrol-prices/
UNESCO list request could help dolphins
The ministries of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Environment, as well as the World Wide Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF Cambodia), will request the Anlong Kampi Irrawaddy dolphin conservation area in Kratie province be added to UNEsCO’s World Heritage List. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unesco-list-request-could-help-dolphins
Workers waiting for a bargain
Informal workers, a class that includes beer promoters, tuk tuk drivers and farmers, are among those who stand to benefit most from the upcoming trade-union law, observers say – and workers say it can’t come soon enough. Dave Welsh, country director of the American Center for ss='cambodia-color'>...