Ministry institutes new permanent secretariat to prevent forest crimes
A forestry administration spokesman on Thursday said the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries had recently created a new permanent secretariat to prevent all types of forestry crimes, with a particular focus on illegal rosewood trading. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-institutes-new-permanent-secretariat-prevent-forest-crimes
What’s in the New Thailand-Cambodia Border Checkpoint?
This week, more indications surfaced that Cambodia and Thailand were moving towards opening a new international border checkpoint. Though the development was largely overlooked, it bears watching within the broader context of a longstanding effort by both sides to jointly manage their shared border despite ...
Prashanth Parameswaran
https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/whats-in-the-new-thailand-cambodia-border-checkpoint/
New partnership to build Cambodia’s biggest data centre
A new joint venture of local and international companies will result in the creation of the biggest data centre in the country, boosting the Kingdom’s capabilities to provide digital and cloud services. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504327/new-partnership-to-build-cambodias-biggest-data-centre/
City Hall breaks ground on new $22M overpass
Prime Minister Hun Sen joined City Hall officials on Thursday to break ground on what is slated to become a $22 million overpass near the capital’s Choam Chao roundabout. This will become Phnom Penh’s sixth flyover and will be undertaken, as was the five others, ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/city-hall-breaks-ground-new-22m-overpass
Hun Sen: New government will serve with ‘double work’
Cambodian People Party (CPP) president Hun Sen on Tuesday promised that his new government would serve the people by doing “double work” for Cambodia’s development. Meanwhile, Cambodia National Rescue Movement (CNRM) president Sam Rainsy hinted at accepting the caretaker prime minister’s challenge to swear on ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-new-government-will-serve-double-work
Government discusses new draft law aimed at construction safety
Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Chea Sophara on Thursday met for talks with members of the Supreme Council of Consultation and Recommendations over a draft law aimed at ensuring quality and safety in construction. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-discusses-new-draft-law-aimed-construction-safety
Most garment workers not expecting new $207 monthly wage
Most garment workers are expecting a new monthly minimum wage between $160 and $180, according to the results of a recent survey, far lower than the $207 some unions say they plan to seek in fast-approaching negotiations with the factories. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/most-garment-workers-not-expecting-new-207-monthly-wage-94698/
In New York, Hun Sen laments slurs, slams CNRP
Prime Minister Hun Sen addressed a group of Cambodian expatriates in New York on Thursday, calling for an end to politically divisive rhetoric and assuring them that he was speaking as a government leader who represented all Cambodians, not as a party politician.However, he also ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-new-york-hun-sen-laments-slurs-slams-cnrp-95549/
CPP to push ahead with new commune election law
The National Assembly will vote on an amended law governing commune elections on October 20 even if the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP do not forge a deal over the parts of the law they disagree on, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Wednesday. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-to-push-ahead-with-new-commune-election-law-96044/
Koh Kong authorities bar democracy training, citing new law
Provincial authorities in Koh Kong province have barred a group of law students from conducting a two-day training course on human rights and democracy, citing a controversial law passed earlier this year. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/koh-kong-authorities-bar-democracy-training-citing-new-law/3020066.html
No quick return on land near new bridges: realtors
The government is planning to construct two more bridges across the Mekong River, and although feasibility studies are already underway, realtors are unsure as to whether land prices in the areas they connect will rise, they told Khmer Times yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17284/no-quick-return-on-land-near-new-bridges--realtors/
Yaunta eyes new role to jump start moribund market
Yaunta Securities, a leading underwriter in the Cambodia’s slow moving stock market, is in talks with regulators and the Cambodia Securities Exchanges (CSX) to assume the role of market maker to provide more liquidity in the market, a senior executive at Yaunta told Khmer ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17404/yaunta-eyes-new-role-to-jump-start-moribund-market/
Sam Rainsy Party meets soon to pick new chief
Sam Rainsy Party deputy president Teav Vannol yesterday declined to say whether he would take leadership of the party in the wake of president Kong Korm’s retirement, though a fellow senator said it was all but a foregone conclusion. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-rainsy-party-meets-soon-pick-new-chief
Pilot for new voter registration system identifies key problems
Halfway into a pilot project testing a computerized voter registration system, the National Election Committee (NEC) has identified a lack of electricity and Internet access in the countryside along with inaccurate voter documentation as its main challenges. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pilot-for-new-voter-registration-system-identifies-key-problems-99786/
New border link expected to boost trade with Thailand
Cambodia and Thailand are set to have a new international border crossing on National Road 5, linking Banteay Meanchey province and Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21667/new-border-link-expected-to-boost-trade-with-thailand/
Siem Reap readies for Khmer new year tourist flood
Tourism authorities in Siem Reap are anticipating that more than a million tourists will descend on the temple town for the Angkor Sangkran festival, the country’s biggest cultural attraction over the Khmer New Year holiday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-readies-khmer-new-year-tourist-flood
PM Inaugurates a new international school in Phnom Penh
Prime Minister Hun Sen presided over here on Saturday the inauguration ceremony of the International School of Phnom Penh (ISPP), an international school in Cambodia, according to the State News Agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/pm-inaugurates-a-new-international-school-in-phnom-penh-8972
Cambodian PM heads for UN summit in New York
From September 25 to 27, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will attend the UN Summit for the adoption of the Post 2015 Development Agenda and the Global Leaders’s Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, where he will deliver his remarks at the two submits. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=303105
National assembly votes in two new measures; CNRP absent
Lawmakers at a CPP-only session of the National Assembly voted yesterday to approve a new law on commune elections and an updated set of internal rules for the Assembly. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-assembly-votes-in-two-new-measures-cnrp-absent-98917/
Court issues new summons for opposition leader Sam Rainsy
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued a summons for opposition leader Sam Rainsy to appear in January, to answer court questions in a new defamation case. The court actions against Sam Rainsy come despite widespread condemnation by the international community and fears that Cambodia’s upcoming ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/court-issues-new-summons-for-opposition-leader-sam-rainsy/3084587.html