Court to check on origins of senator’s fake border treaty
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court decided Wednesday to reinvestigate the origins of the doctored treaty that provided the impetus for the arrest of opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, after the senator’s lawyer told the court that his client did not forge it. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-to-check-on-origins-of%E2%80%88senators-fake-border-treaty-96846/
Gov't touts internet record despite telecom bill concerns
Government officials defended the Kingdom’s record on internet freedom yesterday, despite concerns that recent and proposed legislation could curtail the rights of those speaking out online. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-touts-internet-record-despite-telecom-bill-concerns
Japan’s top airline to add Phnom Penh route in September
All Nippon Airways (ANA) – Japan’s largest carrier – will begin flying between Tokyo and Phnom Penh on September 1, the spokesman for the Secretariat of State of Civil Aviation told Khmer Times yesterday, adding that the first direct flight from Japan to Cambodia will ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20134//
New campaign will fight plastic bag blight
UNESCO and the ministries of Tourism and Environment this weekend will launch a campaign aimed at ridding the capital of the plastic waste currently choking its waterways and piling up in its landfills.The campaign, starting on Friday, will seek to educate Cambodians about how to ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-campaign-will-fight-plastic-bag-blight
Gov’t decides on New Year prisoner pardons
The government has finalised plans for next month’s annual Khmer New Year clemency, with more than 800 prisoners across the country expected to receive pardons and sentence reductions, according to an Interior Ministry official. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-decides-new-year-prisoner-pardons
Stop issuing docs to ‘illegals’, officials told
The director of immigration at the Interior Ministry has warned local authorities to immediately cease distributing identity documents to illegal immigrants after recent census data revealed that allegedly crooked officials have been handing out papers. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stop-issuing-docs-illegals-officials-told
Passes set to replace passports for migrants
In an effort to curb illegal migration, the Ministry of Interior issued a letter on Tuesday announcing that all migrant workers who want to gain employment abroad will be able to obtain so-called migrant passes instead of having to wait for a regular passport. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/passes-set-replace-passports-migrants
Union helps resolve complaints brought against journalists
The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia (UJFC) intervened to resolve 33 cases last year where complaints were brought against Cambodian journalists, according to a report issued on January 11. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/union-helps-resolve-complaints-brought-against-journalists
Environment ministry warns public to beware of fraudulent brokers selling protected land
The Ministry of Environment has warned the public about scammers who were deceiving people by claiming they legally owned land in protected areas and providing them with fake ownership deeds in bogus land sales when it isn’t possible for anyone to privately own protected land. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-warns-public-beware-fraudulent-brokers-selling-protected-land
Takeo garment workers protest at Ministry of Labour
More than 300 garment workers from Takeo province protested in front of the Ministry of Labour yesterday, following two weeks of strikes over working conditions.Workers requested intervention from the ministry over the dismissal of 1,000 striking workers as well as 13 demands including lunch money, ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/takeo-garment-workers-protest-ministry-labour
Commerce Minister calls on checkpoint officials to crackdown on expired goods
Commerce Minister asked officials at all border checkpoints to prevent and crackdown on expired products. Thong Thira, Banteay Meanchey’s head of Department of Commerce, said that about 71 percent of 700,000 people living in Banteay Meanchey are farmers. He said the province has big 20 ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OWFjOTZkZjI0OTh
Kingdom’s list of certifications grows to 868
The Institute of Standards of Cambodia developed 63 new standards last year, bringing the total number of certifications available from the government to 868, though one industry representative said the system still needed improvement in order to facilitate exports. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-list-certifications-grows-868
Civil society groups appeal for international intervention for the release of 23 protesters
181 national and international non-governmental organizations handed over their petitions to foreign embassies on Thursday to seek the release of 23 people who were arrested in protest crackdowns. A group of some 50 representatives marched along the streets and submitted the petitions to the German, Sweden ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MzYwOTcwZDY5ZjV
IMF Report Cites Key Economic Reforms
Despite an economic forecast of 6.5 percent growth for Cambodia this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned in a report released Monday that the government must continue to develop infrastructure, increase public revenues and practice fiscal safeguarding in order to sustain growth in the ...
Cambodian PM invited to summit of heads of state and government of group of 77+China in Cuba next month
President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez has invited Kitti Tesaphibal Pundit Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, to participate in the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Group of 77+China in Havana, Cuba in mid-September. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501349040/cambodian-pm-invited-to-summit-of-heads-of-state-and-government-of-group-of-77china-in-cuba-next-month/
Med students won’t boycott test
Medical students who vowed on Sunday to boycott the first government-ordered national exams under claims of discrimination backtracked on their threats yesterday. Da Nhel, 27, a representative of the student doctors, said that just hours after threatening to boycott the exams, which were approved by the ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/med-students-won%E2%80%99t-boycott-test
Illegal workers arrested, face Thai court
Thai authorities have arrested and are preparing to try 13 Cambodian migrant workers who were allegedly caught with fake stamps on their work papers as they tried to return home, Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong confirmed on Friday. The government also announced a plan to subsidize ...
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-workers-arrested-face-trial-in-thailand-62059/
Move to end domestic violence
A coalition of government ministries, the United Nations and international non-governmental organizations launched a new campaign yesterday to combat violence against women. ...
Srey Kumneth and James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17151/move-to-end-domestic-violence/
Hun Many’s youth group nominated for award
A youth group headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s youngest son has been chosen as the local winner of the Asean People’s Award, which will be given to one recipient from each Asean nation at the regional bloc’s annual summit in Kuala Lumpur later this ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manys-youth-group-nominated-for-award-99101/
Delegates ‘concerned’ about climate treaty
Cambodia’s government and civil society yesterday expressed worry over the lack of progress on finalising the draft text for an international climate change treaty set to be adopted at UN climate talks in Paris (COP 21) after the final round of negotiations concluded in Bonn, ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delegates-concerned-about-climate-treaty