Government mulls online driver’s license registration
Less than a week after taking over the Transport Ministry, sun Chanthol has established a committee to move more services online, including the process for applying for driver’s licenses, officials said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-mulls-online-drivers-license-registration-111222/
Free health care for Cambodia’s poorest
Cambodia received a new $130 million funding package from the World Bank last month that focuses on poverty reduction and bettering the lives of poor and vulnerable Cambodians in the country cooperation strategy set out in the new Cambodia -World Bank Group Country Engagement Note ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26055/free-health-care-for-cambodia---s-poorest/
Fifth freedom to open Kingdom’s airspace
The National Assembly yesterday approved a draft law on the implementation of the fifth freedom of the air, a commercial aviation right that grants airlines the privilege of using Cambodian airports as a stop-over on scheduled flights between their home country and another country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fifth-freedom-open-kingdoms-airspace
Mass cattle deaths scar country’s Northeast
There was little rain to settle the red dust in Krolah. The wells dried up. The cattle died. The people fell sick. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aisha Down
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mass-cattle-deaths-scar-countrys-northeast-114997/
Vietnam building in no-man’s land
Provincial officials in Rattanakiri rejected a request by the Vietnamese government to allow them to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district after a meeting between both sides in Banlung City on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28709/vietnam-building-in-no-man---s-land/
PPSEZ’s rethink after sharp profit fall
Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) ‒ a liSted company on the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) ‒ reveled on Friday that by 2020, 50 percent of the company&rSquo;S revenue would be generated by SaleS of ServiceS. ThiS new target waS made after PPSEZ informed the SS='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29024/ppsez---s-rethink-after-sharp-profit-fall/
Police open fire on logger’s car
Police in Stung Treng province Seized an unSpecified amount of luxury wood after Shooting out a tire of a Toyota SUV that tried to run a checkpoint on Sunday night in SeSan diStrict. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29649/police-open-fire-on-logger---s-car/
Xi’s visit to boost farm exports
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cambodia next week will likely lead to an increase in agriculture exports to China, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday. speaking at a graduation ceremony for law and economics students in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, Mr. Hun sen said that ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30521/xi---s-visit-to-boost-farm-exports/
UXO’s found at land clearing site
An excavator driver and his supervisor had a shock when they found Unexploded Ordnance (UXOs) while marking land for clearing works in Kampot province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17291/uxo---s-found-at-land-clearing-site/
Officials dispute transparency international’s corruption index
Cambodia scored very poorly on a perceived corruption index, put out each year by Transparency International, but a government spokesman says the report doesn’t reflect the “effort” the government has put into combating the practice. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/officials-dispute-transparency-international-corruption-index/3166483.html
HRW says PM’s bodyguards beat lawmakers
In a report released last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) came to the predictable—and mostly well-supported—conclusion that Prime Minister Hun sen’s government was failing in its duty to protect its people. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hrw-says-pms-bodyguards-beat-lawmakers-106974/
Malaysia’s Zhulian to tap Cambodian market
Malaysia-listed Zhulian Corp Bhd plans to expand its diversified Multilevel Marketing (MLM) business into Cambodia and Laos to tap the strong potential of both countries, media reports said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24199/malaysia---s-zhulian-to-tap-cambodian-market/
Observers see Cambodia’s democracy in retreat
Political intimidation, the suppression of political expression and restrictions on freedom of assembly have Cambodia’s young democracy under threat, observers in the country say. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Dy Khamboly
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/observers-see-cambodia-democracy-in-retreat/3343728.html
Soldier’s home hiding luxury wood: officials
Some 100 pieceS of luxury wood believed to be from the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary area were Seized at the houSe of a military officer near the VietnameSe border on Friday, officialS Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-home-hiding-luxury-wood-officials
Kampong Speu protesters reject NGO’s help
In defiance of an order by Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Khoun Sreng, more than 100 people proteSted outSide the officeS of Equitable Cambodia (EC) yeSterday.&nbSp;They held SignS denouncing the NGO, aS community repreSentativeS inSide Submitted a letter withdrawing their conSent for the group to repreSent SS='cambodia-color'>...
Jack Davies and Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-protesters-reject-ngos-help
PM reflects on civil war’s origin
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday appeared to take a veiled swipe at the United states, insinuating that they were responsible for the decades of bloody civil war that engulfed Cambodia.speaking ahead of today’s 24th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, which paved the way for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-reflects-civil-wars-origin
Concern over decline of Cambodia’s honeybees
Honeybees have a huge role in tropical ecosystems, but illegal logging and unsustainable honey harvesting are hurting their population. Honeybees have co-evolved with flowering plants and their overall health is an indicator of an ecosystem’s wellbeing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hong Chenda
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/concerns-over-decline-of-cambodia-honeybees/3191664.html
Empowering women in Cambodia’s farming sector
Cambodian women play an important role in the agricultural sector, especially as the nation’s economic conditions continue to force many men to seek work overseas, according to experts. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/empowering-women-in-cambodia-farming-sector/3232287.html
Cambodian slots help offset EGA’s losses
European Gaming machine supplier and casino operator Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc reported consolidated revenues of $7.3 million in 4Q15, a decrease of 12 per cent compared to the same period a year earlier. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-slots-help-offset-egas-losses
PM scraps ministry’s passport control plan
Prime Minister Hun sen issued a directive on Monday instructing officials returning from work overseas to hold on to their mission passports, directly contravening two recent Foreign Ministry announcements calling on officials to hand the passports over upon return in a bid to prevent their ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-scraps-ministrys-passport-control-plan