Hun Manet promoted after royal decree
Hun manet, the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, rose to the rank of Commander of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) – the second most powerful position in the Kingdom’s military – on Thursday after a royal decree. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-manet-promoted-after-royal-decree
Head of police slams interior ministry in customs fiasco
The National Police have sent a proposal letter to Interior Minister Sar Kheng, asking him to stop customs officials from fining or confiscating vehicles with police license plates after five police vehicles were stopped and forced to pay an import tax last year, causing an ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23069/head-of-police-slams-interior-ministry-in-customs-fiasco/
Dredging boats spotted off Koh Kong
An activist and villagers yesterday said that sand dredging boats had been spotted off the coast of Koh Kong, prompting fears that they were set to begin operations, despite a standing ban on sand exports from companies operating in coastal areas. ...
Yon Sineat and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-boats-spotted-koh-kong
Decree puts riel prices into focus
The government has issued a decree that requires all businesses to put price tags on their products and services in riel to increase transparency for consumers and boost the use of the local currency. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/decree-puts-riel-prices-focus
Hun Sen’s ‘vision’ would see him bypass National Assembly, shrink cabinet
During a cabinet meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced a “vision” to shrink the country’s cabinet by excluding secretaries and undersecretaries of state from the body, and to be given the right to bypass the National Assembly by appointing them directly, according to ...
Mech Dara and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sens-vision-would-see-him-bypass-national-assembly-shrink-cabinet
Passports for migrant workers can’t be issued any quicker due to high costs, Sar Kheng says
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Monday said the Cambodian government could not afford more passport printing machines to speed up the process of documenting the hundreds of thousands of citizens working abroad, predominantly in Thailand. ...
Phnom Penh’s sewers criticised
Interior Minister Sar Kheng bemoaned Phnom Penh’s sewage infrastructure and criticised the Ministry of Environment for allowing untreated waste water to flow into the Mekong and Bassac rivers in unscripted remarks on Monday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penhs-sewers-criticised
Koh Kong sand exports permanently banned after volume discrepancies
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has permanently banned sand exports from Koh Kong province – eight months after it imposed a temporary ban following controversy over large discrepancies found in sand export figures to Singapore. ...
Yesenia Amaro and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-sand-exports-permanently-banned-after-volume-discrepancies
Former deputy prime minister calls for protests
Former Funcinpec Deputy Prime Minister Lu Lay Sreng could be facing a new court case after calling for peaceful protests against the government in a video posted to Facebook yesterday, issuing comments similar to ones that recently saw former opposition leader Sam Rainsy slapped with ...
Niem Chheng and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/former-deputy-prime-minister-calls-protests
Cambodia joins int’l system for registry of industrial designs
Cambodia will join an international convention on the registration of industrial designs next month, furthering the scope of the county’s intellectual property protections, a government official said yesterday. ...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-joins-intl-system-registry-industrial-designs
$400 million to fight COVID-19
The Finance Ministry today reported the government has accumulated approximately $400 million in savings to be used during COVID-19 emergency cases in the Kingdom. ...
Sun Mesa
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50699477/400-million-to-fight-covid-19
Kingdom prepared for digital economy
The government plans to establish a national digital television platform and will release the 700MHz band to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to help it develop the 5G network. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-prepared-digital-economy
Draft of Siem Reap Tourism Development Master Plan to be finalised next month
The draft of Siem Reap tourism development master plan for 2020-2035 will be finalised in October this year, and submitted to the Council of Ministers for approval. ...
Chea Vannak/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50762205/draft-of-siem-reap-tourism-development-master-plan-to-be-finalised-next-month/
Ministry of Women’s Affairs and National Bank of Cambodia receive the Global Summit of Women 2024 Roundtable Ministerial Award
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the National Bank of Cambodia have received the Global Summit of Women 2024 Roundtable Ministerial Award on “projects that have a positive impact on women and girls” through the use of the payment system “Bakong” from the World Women’s ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501487559/ministry-of-womens-affairs-and-national-bank-of-cambodia-receive-the-global-summit-of-women-2024-roundtable-ministerial-award/
NBC, ministry join hands for women’s financial upliftment
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) signed a key agreement with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs on Monday in Phnom Penh for the upliftment of women in financial matters. ...
Jigmee Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501496418/nbc-ministry-join-hands-for-womens-financial-upliftment/
Ethnic Jarai villagers defend claim at court
Jarai ethnic minority villagers appeared at Ratanakkiri provincial court yesterday, demanding compensation from a Vietnamese company they say illegally cleared 30 hectares of community land in November last year. Chea Chanrith was granted a licence from the Ministry of Agriculture last year to clear land ...
Thai policy hits Cambodian cassava exports
Thailand’s restriction on agricultural imports earlier this year caused dramatic declines for Cambodia’s cassava exports during the harvest season, provincial border officials said yesterday. Cambodia’s exports of cassava reached 288,109 tonnes in the first six months of this year, a decline of 55 per cent from ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-policy-hits-cambodian-cassava-exports
PM calls CNRP a ‘terrorist network’
Prime Minister Hun Sen branded the opposition party a “terrorist network” yesterday, while vowing to “cut the arms and legs” of the alleged operation and its purported attempt at “colour revolution” after the disputed 2013 national election. ...
Ben Sokhean and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-cnrp-terrorist-network
King signs promotion for 45 new generals
The King has signed off on another round of mass military promotions, elevating 45 officers to the rank of brigadier general, contributing to the rising total of at least 607 new generals in the last 10 months. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king-signs-promotion-45-new-generals
Securities and Exchange Commission will regulate the Stock Exchange
The laws and regulations that govern Cambodia’s securities market were derived from the Objectives and Principles of the International Organization for Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the best practices in the region, according to Dr. Ming Bankosal, Director General of the SECC. the SECC which ...