Forestry Administration Official Behind Arrests at Biofuel Firm
A court official said yesterday that the complaint that led to the imprisonment of a British man and two Cambodian staff at a troubled biofuel firm was filed last year by a senior Forestry Administration official. Gregg Fryett, 45, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit ...
Passport Posts A Go
Cambodia is making plans to open passport offices along its border with Thailand in a bid to cut down on illegal migration, Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced yesterday. Speaking at the close of a migration workshop, Kheng said that officials are already preparing to open a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032964787/National/passport-posts-a-go.html
Tax revenues increase by 22.9 per cent
The Kingdom’s tax revenues increased by more than 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year. Officials said the rise reflects an influx of new buinesses and investments. Opposition lawmakers, however, claim that the numbers are still far ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013041265054/Business/tax-revenues-increase-by-22-9-per-cent.html
Families Foresee Rocky Road Ahead
Fourteen Phnom Penh families claimed yesterday that government maps showing their houses in the path of a road-widening project were inaccurate and would condemn them to eviction without adequate compensation. Ek Malin, 57, a representative of the community on Street 347 in Tuol Kork district’s Boeung ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042665262/National/families-foresee-rocky-road-ahead.html
Cambodia's insurance revenues rise by 30 pct in Q1
Cambodia’s insurance industry earned a total premium of 12 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of 2013, up 30 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the industry’s report released Wednesday. The main sources of the premium were from fire insurance ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-05/22/c_132401041.htm
Six-year-old Cambodian girl dies from bird flu: WHO
A six-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, bringing the country’s toll from the deadly virus to nine so far this year, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. The girl, from the southern province of Kampot, died in a children’s hospital in the capital Phnom ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=N2EzN2ZiZjA3ZTA
Cambodia kicks off national election
Since early morning Cambodian voters go to the polling stations to cast their ballots in the fifth parliamentary election. 9.67 million people were registered for this election, which is seen a tough completion between the ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodia ...
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=YzNiODU2N2I0Njk
King makes appeal for resolution
n a rare public statement, King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday weighed in on the disputed election, calling for the parties to reach a “peaceful” resolution. “For the interest of the nation and our people, and for peace and national stability, I would like to appeal to the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king-makes-appeal-resolution
Prakas Set to Control Tax Agents
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) last month signed a prakas, a ministerial decision, to ensure tax agents’ professionalism, an insider told the Post yesterday. After the full implementation of Prakas 455, signed on April 12, agents have to pay one million riel to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050265367/Business/prakas-set-to-control-tax-agents.html
Ethnic villagers, firm battle over Ratanakkiri plot
A local official and four ethnic minority Tompuon villagers appeared in a Ratanakkiri court on Friday to face accusations of land-grabbing and protesting against a private company that purchased their land in 2007, authorities said yesterday. Rocham Pheun, an assistant to the chief of Keh Chung ...
New Boeng Kak Group Petitions World Bank
About 30 former residents of the Boeng Kak community submitted a petition on Friday morning to the World Bank office and several embassies in Phnom Penh, calling for a halt to all funding for longtime anti-eviction protesters from the Boeng Kak area. The Boeng Kak counter-protesters ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-boeng-kak-group-petitions-world-bank-33746/
Buffalo holders seek owner’s restitution
Jarai ethnic minority villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district are demanding compensation from a villager they claim illegally cleared a sizeable portion of their community forest this year. The villagers seized two carts transporting rosewood – and the four buffaloes pulling them – out of the forest ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buffalo-holders-seek-owner%E2%80%99s-restitution
Cambodia reports 1.41 bln USD trade deficit in first eight months
Cambodia has witnessed a trade deficit of 1.41 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of the year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce on Monday. The country’s total import and export volume was valued at 10.45 billion U.S. dollars during the January-August ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/16/c_132725537.htm
U.S. pledges 20 mln USD to WFP for school feeding in Cambodia
The United States has pledged 20 million U.S. dollars over the next three years to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to carry out school feeding program in Cambodia, said a WFP press release on Tuesday. The statement said the donation, made by the U.S. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/08/c_132780183.htm
China provides 33 mln USD in free-interest loan to Cambodia for development projects
The Chinese government on Thursday signed up to provide a free-interest loan of 200 million Renminbi (33 million U.S. dollars) to Cambodia for social and economic development projects. The agreement was inked between Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo and Cambodian Finance Minister Aun Porn Moniroth ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/14/c_132888622.htm
China provides agricultural engines to Cambodia for post-flood rehabilitation
China’s Yunnan province on Monday provided 200 agricultural engines to Cambodia’s northwestern Banteay Meanchey province for post-flood rehabilitation. A handover ceremony was held here between Yu Dingcheng, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People ‘s Congress, and Oung Oeun, chief of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/02/c_132935757.htm
NGO alleges bribery over titles
An environmental protection NGO is preparing to file a lawsuit with the Kampong Speu provincial court and a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit against an Agriculture Department official who was allegedly paid by a development firm to issue land titles to villagers squatting on state ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-alleges-bribery-over-titles
Lao consultants give dam the thumbs up
The controversial Don Sahong hydropower dam, which Laos says it will soon build just a kilometre from the Cambodian border, will not have significant effects on the Mekong River, according to an environmental impact assessment paid for by the dam’s builder. Obtained yesterday, the report – ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lao-consultants-give-dam-thumbs
Gov’t to push rural sanitation
With the vast majority of rural Cambodians still lacking access to a toilet, and suffering the incumbent health risks, Ministry of Rural Development officials on Monday renewed long-standing intentions to improve the country’s sanitation infrastructure. Just days after World Toilet Day, the officials surveyed villages ...
Sen David and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-push-rural-sanitation
Declare assets, ACU tells former officials
The Anti-Corruption Unit has sent a letter of warning to three recently dismissed Senate advisers to declare their assets and debt as required by law. In a notification signed by ACU chairman Om Yentieng on Monday, the trio – identified as Vong Sopheap, Kouch Cheahuot and ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/declare-assets-acu-tells-former-officials