National government
Ministries and other national bodies
Government to improve water treatment facility
The Office of the Council of Ministers (OCM) has approved plans to improve and add capacity to water treatment facilities in coastal and construction areas, sewage systems and mud drying facilities in Sihanoukville after they were inspected and assessed by government institutions. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-improve-water-treatment-facility
Forest is ‘Model Tourism Community’
The Ministry of Tourism last month recognised the Tmat Boey Thoeun Krasang community forest in Choam Ksan district’s Pring Thom commune, in Preah Vihear province, as a “Model Tourism Community” for its management’s efforts to conserve the rare white-shouldered ibis. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-model-tourism-community
Cambodia, ADB discuss $30m loan
The Ministry of Tourism has begun discussions with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) over a $30-million loan to fund infrastructure in coastal provinces that would support tourism development. The government has announced plans to use the money to build two seaports in Preah Sihanouk province – ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50555099/cambodia-adb-discuss-30m-loan/
Ministry urges greater youth participation in forest protection
The Environment Ministry is urging people, especially youth, to take part in the protection of forests and natural resources as the government is lacking manpower and equipment. Kong Siek Ly, director of the community living department at the ministry, said on Saturday that a total ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50555320/ministry-urges-greater-youth-participation-in-forest-protection/
Kratie authorities ban homes on riverbank after collapse
Authorities in Kratie province’s Chhloung district yesterday ordered villagers not to build houses and to remove those already built along the riverbank after five houses collapsed into the river on Tuesday. District governor Heng Sitha yesterday said that the authorities have banned the construction of ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50553933/kratie-authorities-ban-homes-on-riverbank-after-collapse/
Surrogacy law progresses
Interior Minister Sar Kheng is monitoring the progress of a draft law aimed at addressing the problem of surrogacy in the Kingdom, which is now being debated at the inter-ministerial level. Mr Kheng on Tuesday evening briefed Donica Pottie, Canada’s Ambassador to the Kingdom, on the ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50553934/surrogacy-law-progresses/
Dengue outbreak sees 1,691 kids hospitalised in a month
A total of 1,691 children were hospitalised at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital between October 21 and November 21 after an outbreak of haemorrhagic dengue fever. Another 1,626 children were hospitalised at other Kantha Bopha hospitals during the same period, according to a report from the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-outbreak-sees-1691-kids-hospitalised-month
Concerns raised over toxic chemicals in Ratanakkiri
An indigenous minority group living in the eastern province of Ratanakkiri is expressing concerns regarding the use of an illegal chemical in fertilisers by some companies who were granted Economic Land Concessions by the government. The Cambodian Centre for Independent Media conducted a field survey ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50553688/concerns-raised-over-toxic-chemicals-in-ratanakkiri/
Government to address prison issues
Prime Minister Hun Sen will allow the ministries of Interior and Justice, and relevant institutions to convene with the aim of solving the problem of prison overcrowding. Interior Minister Sar Kheng requested the meeting due to the rapid increase in convicted felons, according to Chin ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-address-prison-issues
‘NGOs may operate without restriction’
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Tuesday instructed municipal and provincial authorities to facilitate the activities of civil society organisations and local communities without restriction and prior notice as previously required. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-may-operate-without-restriction
Environmental law changes get go-ahead
The ministries of Interior, Environment, and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Monday agreed on the amendment to the laws concerning forestry, fisheries and natural resource protection. They are set to send the draft to the Council of Ministers for revision before it can be passed ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environmental-law-changes-get-go-ahead
Cambodia has no reason to host foreign military bases
There is no security need for Cambodia to have a foreign military base. Although sovereignty disputes and border tensions between Cambodia and its neighbors remain unresolved and sometimes violence occurs, Cambodia will never seek to use force or threaten to use force against its neighbours, ...
Chheang Vannarith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50552864/cambodia-has-no-reason-to-host-foreign-military-bases/
Son of PM appointed as CMAC’s board member
Hun Manith, the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has been “promoted” as a board member and adviser of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) – a position equal to a cabinet minister. A royal decree, signed by the King on November 2 and obtained ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/son-pm-appointed-cmacs-board-member
Calls for mangrove protection
Mangroves and wetland areas in four coastal provinces are being illegally cleared and filled in order to grab land and build homes for private ownership, said a letter from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries dated November 19. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/calls-mangrove-protection
River relocation request rejected
A request from the Khmer Vietnamese Association for the Interior Ministry to delay the relocation of Vietnamese familes living on the Tonle Sap river in Kampong Chhnang province has been rejected. The KVA’s letter, submitted last week, asked the ministry to intervene in the relocation of ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50551914/river-relocation-request-rejected-2/
Sar Kheng chastises border authorities over illegal logging
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has blamed local officials posted along the Cambodian-Thai border for failing to curb the flow of illegal loggers sneaking across the border to cut down trees in Thailand. Mr Kheng said on Saturday in Oddar Meanchey province that up to 100 Cambodian ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50551911/sar-kheng-chastises-border-authorities-over-illegal-logging/
‘No more Khmer Rouge leaders left to stand trial’
Friday’s verdict in the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan has been hailed as “historic” for “Cambodia and all humanity”, while Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said no further cases of its kind would be brought to court. “There are ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-more-khmer-rouge-leaders-left-stand-trial
Government denies Koh Kong Chinese naval base ‘rumour’
Two ministries have denied plans for a Chinese naval base in Cambodia and that the Kingdom is caught in the middle of US-China “cold war”. In a press release on Saturday, a Ministry of National Defence spokesperson called the spread of information about a naval ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-denies-koh-kong-chinese-naval-base-rumour
NGO urges Cambodia’s Interior Ministry to intervene in eviction of Vietnamese from Tonle Sap Lake
A nongovernmental organization in Cambodia called on the country’s Interior Ministry to intervene in the eviction of more than 2,000 ethnic Vietnamese living on the Tonle Sap Lake, saying land demarcated for their relocation lacks the infrastructure necessary to support them. ...
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/vietnamese-11142018160710.html
Government leads joint programme with EU, strengthening an education sector
The EU on Wednesday launched the new phase of a multi-agency supported programme aimed at strengthening the Kingdom’s education sector. The Capacity Development Partnership Fund (CDPF), which was started in 2011, has entered its third and final phase which will cost $27 million over four ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-leads-joint-programme-eu-strengthening-education-sector
Government urged to tackle waste
With rapid growth in its economy and population, the Cambodian government was urged on Wednesday to recycle and reduce as it faces a growing volume of municipal and industrial waste. The call came from the country director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Nick ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-urged-tackle-waste
Register now or miss out on tax breaks, ministry says
Government officials and private sector leaders on Friday reiterated their calls for all small and medium-sized enterprises to join the regulatory fold. Public officials and representatives of employers’ organisations assured business owners that the recently announced tax incentives are not a “trap” and that registering ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50549752/register-now-or-miss-out-on-tax-breaks-ministry-says/
Bank loan portfolios set to be at least 10% in local currency
Cambodian commercial banks are showing a stronger preference to provide riel loans to microfinance institutions (MFI) as they rush to increase the share of local currency in their loan portfolio to at least 10 per cent by the end of next year. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bank-loan-portfolios-set-be-least-10-local-currency
Sugarcane a ‘huge potential for farmers’
Cambodia’s three major sugar companies produced 120,126 tonnes of raw sugar in the first nine months of this year, said a Ministry of Industry and Handicraft report. It said Rui Feng (Cambodia) International Co Ltd produced 56,664 tonnes, Yellow Field (Cambodia) International Ltd (51,420 tonnes) ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sugarcane-huge-potential-farmers