Government
Accused British fraudster thrown out of court
A British businessman jailed for more than 2 1/2 years without conviction was removed from the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the first day of his trial Wednesday after accusing the court of gross malpractice and threatening to walk out himself. ...
Matt Blomberg and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/accused-british-fraudster-thrown-out-of-court-95282/
US continues program for young leaders in Southeast Asia
The US has steadily been increasing its engagement with Southeast Asia, launching in recent years a wide range of programs. Among them is the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative, which launched under President Barack Obama in 2013 and aims to develop leaders in the region ...
Sun Sokhen
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/us-continues-program-for--young-leaders-in-southeast-asia/2975503.html
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
Cambodian official urges provincial government to shutter illegal gold mine
A top mining official on Wednesday urged the government of northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province to crack down on a group of Vietnamese running an illegal gold mining operation villagers and rights groups say is being protected by local authorities. ...
Ratha Visal, Hang Savyouth and Sort Sokphrana
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/mine-09232015163105.html
Phnom Penh mulling new highway to airport
Phnom Penh is studying the prospect of a toll highway to run from the capital to Phnom Penh International Airport, a dangerous stretch of road that kills many people each year. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/phnompenh-penh-mulling-new-highway-to-airport/2975473.html
Plan to expand museum short on details
The National Museum will undergo a massive expansion, but this will not include removing the Royal University of Fine Arts which sits behind it, officials at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts told a public forum yesterday. ...
Chea Takihiro and Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16046/plan-to-expand-museum-short-on-details/
Gov’t tells Unions to pick a minimum wage or lose their say
The Labor Ministry on Tuesday warned unions that if they failed to reach a consensus on a new minimum wage for the garment sector ahead of Friday’s Labor Advisory Committee meeting on the issue, the committee would not consider any proposal from the unions at ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-tells-unions-to-pick-a-minimum-wage-or-lose-their-say-95155/
PM calls for gasoline price cuts
Prime Minister Hun Sen called for all gasoline local companies to cut their prices in line with falling world prices for oil. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16041/pm-calls-for-gasoline-price-cuts/
PM says CNRP’s land plans will stoke war
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday warned that a CNRP victory in the 2018 national election would inevitably lead to war when the opposition party starts redistributing land from the rich to the poor, something that opposition leader Sam Rainsy said would only be done ...
Kang Sothear and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-says-cnrps-land-plans-will-stoke-war-95150/
NEC seeks to help monks vote
The National Election Committee (NEC) submitted a letter to the Ministry of Interior on Monday recommending that bureaucratic obstacles preventing the Kingdom’s 60,000 monks from registering to vote be resolved. ...
Alessandro Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-seeks-help-monks-vote
US-based opposition group to protest Hun Sen in New York
The leader of a U.S.-based group that helped finance the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s 2013 election campaign said Tuesday that it would protest against Prime Minister Hun Sen during his weekend trip to the U.N. in New York by rekindling the opposition party’s “Hun Sen ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-based-opposition-group-to-protest-hun-sen-in-new-york-95153/
Plan for 10 km expressway unveiled
Construction of a 10-kilometer elevated highway connecting Phnom Penh and the airport is slated to begin next year, Minister of Public Works and Transport Tram Iv Tek said yesterday. ...
Ban Sokrith and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16043/plan-for-10-km-expressway-unveiled/
Prime Minister Hun Sen will leave Cambodia tomorrow UN’s submit at New York
Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a high delegation to attend the “United Nations Summit for the adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda that will be held in New York from 25-27 September. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-will-leave-cambodia-tomorrow-un%E2%80%99s-submit-at-new-york-8981
Cabinet approves MoU with Cambodia for cooperation in tourism
The Union Cabinet today approved an agreement signed between India and Cambodia for bilateral cooperation in the tourism sector that aims at enhancing investment and promoting exchange of experience in marketing, destination development and management in this field. ...
The Economic Times News Staff
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/travel/cabinet-approves-mou-with-cambodia-for-cooperation-in-tourism/articleshow/49059030.cms
With 1M ‘likes,’ PM says Facebook page is his
After more than two years of denials from Prime Minister Hun Sen that a Facebook fan page bearing his name really belongs to him, the premier’s cabinet has acknowledged that it does—shortly after the page garnered its one-millionth “like.” ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-1m-likes-pm-says-facebook-page-is-his-95006/
Three more ‘terrorists’ pardoned
The government has pardoned and released three men convicted alongside self-exiled dissident Sourn Serey Ratha in January on terrorism charges that were characterized by rights groups as baseless and politically motivated. ...
Zsombor Peter and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-more-terrorists-pardoned-95004/
Tourism ministry to build vocational schools
The government plans to build two vocational training centers in Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville in an effort to strengthen the competitiveness of the tourism sector in Cambodia, the minister of tourism said Monday. ...
Peter Ford and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tourism-ministry-to-build-vocational-schools-95017/
Hun Sen talks ‘forgiveness’
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday used the occasion of the UN’s 13th International Peace Day to once again extol the virtues of the “culture of dialogue” his ruling Cambodian People’s Party ostensibly enjoys with the opposition, along with the power of “forgiveness”, though made no ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-talks-forgiveness
On peace day, Hun Sen promises crackdown
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday released a three-page open letter on the occasion of the U.N.’s International Day of Peace, praising his own achievements in ending the country’s civil war while vowing to “crack down” on people who commit “tricks” in the name of ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-peace-day-hun-sen-promises-crackdown-95019/
Ministry of Education receives more than 100 complaints
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has received so far more than 100 complaints from students and students’ parents requesting the ministry to review the exam scores after they failed this year’s exam. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ministry-of-education-receives-more-than-100-complaints-8976
Health authorities remain on alert for MERS
Cambodian health officials say they remain on alert for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS. Cambodia has trained hundreds of health workers to respond to the disease, though no infections have yet been reported in Cambodia, Ly Sovann, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/health-authorities-remain-on-alert-for-mers/2972400.html
After scramble, campaign on Nauru ramps up
Less than two weeks after Australia’s immigration minister met with Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh following media reports that a controversial refugee deal had collapsed, a spokesman for an organization that monitors refugees on Nauru said that asylum seekers there are again being ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-scramble-campaign-on-nauru-ramps-up-94837/
15th anniversary of Cambodia-China Friendship Association marked in Cambodia
The 15th anniversary of the Cambodia-China Friendship Association was celebrated here Saturday evening under the auspices of Cambodian National Assembly President Heng Samrin. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6652776/2015/09/19/15th-anniversary-cambodia-china-friendship-association-marked-cambodia
New strategy lures skittish villagers to solar
The greatest barrier to bringing solar power to Cambodia’s villages is not the cost, the lack of trained engineers, or the lack of equipment, analysts say. The SNV is only funded for the next three years. Mr. Barbian said he hopes the government will be ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15862/new-strategy-lures-skittish-villagers-to-solar/