Ministries and other national bodies
Ministry of Information
Pair convicted for defamatory Facebook posts
The wife of an army general and an Information Ministry official were convicted of defamation by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday over Facebook posts accusing the general of having an affair with CPP Senator Keo Maly, a claim the lawmaker has denied. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pair-convicted-for-defamatory-facebook-posts-98381/
Ministry to postpone TV broadcast regulations
The Information Ministry announced Monday that it would push back by two months a deadline for all 17 local television stations to broadcast only Cambodian-produced content during prime time. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-to-postpone-tv-broadcast-regulations-98398/
Ministry of Information to establish E-archive next year
Cambodia’s Ministry of Information is planning to create an e-archive in early 2016 with an estimated cost of some US$5 million, according to the State News Agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ministry-of-information-to-establish-e-archive-next-year-9046
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith announces to get retirement next mandate
Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith today announced that he will retire from ministerial position in next mandate to give chance for young generation to occupy the position. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/information-minister-khieu-kanharith-announces-to-get-retirement-next-mandate-9012
Cambodia limits broadcasts of foreign films to promote national culture
The Cambodian government moved on Friday to sharply restrict the airing of foreign movies on television, calling the move a necessary step to encourage the work of local filmmakers and promote national culture. ...
Oum Raingsy and Samean Yun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/films-09252015155002.html
NBTC signs MoU with Cambodia regulator
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia. The deal involves information exchange and collaboration in many aspects. The move also aims to further strengthen ties between the telecom regulators. ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/NBTC-SIGNS-MOU-WITH-CAMBODIA-REGULATOR-30267325.html
Minister of Information: the draft Law on Access to Information is for all
Information minister Khieu Kanharith said the law on Access to Information has been drafted to serve not only the journalists, but it’s for all Cambodians as well as foreigners working and doing business in Cambodia. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/minister-of-information:-the-draft-law-on-access-to-information-is-for-all-8856
Officials’ affairs may be secret under law
Any information that is damaging to Cambodia’s national security or public order, affects its relationship with other countries or threatens the Kingdom’s economy or finances could be withheld from the public under a draft law on access to information. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-affairs-may-be-secret-under-law
Vietnamese, Cambodian state-run news agencies vow to boost ties
Leaders of Vietnam’s state-run news agency VNA and Cambodia’s state-run news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse AKP vowed here on Wednesday to boost ties. The announcement was made at a meeting in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on Wednesday between VNA director Nguyen Duc Loi and AKP director Sok ...
Global Post News Staff
http://bit.ly/1IuRpx4
Red cross replaces rotten rice donated to HIV-hit commune
Thousands of kilograms of rice donated by the Cambodian Red Cross to impoverished families in Battambang province, including residents of HIV-hit Roka commune, had to be replaced Monday after villagers complained it was rotten, officials said. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/red-cross-replaces-rotten-rice-donated-to-hiv-hit-commune-78931/
Campaign aims to boost Adult Literacy
UNESCO and the Ministry of Education on Monday launched a two-month joint campaign to raise the adult literacy rate to 84.4 percent by the end of the year by airing television and radio spots to encourage enrollment in after-school literacy classes. ...
Hul Reaksmey and Ben Woods
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/campaign-aims-to-boost-adult-literacy-78943/
Grassroots info urged
A senior official yesterday urged local leaders to share information on available community services and government changes to residents as the Ministry of Information yesterday laid out its social accountability strategic action plan for the coming year and eyed last year’s results. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/grassroots-info-urged
Grassroots info urged
A senior official yesterday urged local leaders to share information on available community services and government changes to residents as the Ministry of Information yesterday laid out its social accountability strategic action plan for the coming year and eyed last year’s results. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/grassroots-info-urged
Ministry, TV stations agree on locally made programming block
In an effort to boost Cambodia’s entertainment industry, local television broadcasters will soon dedicate an hour of prime time programming to airing Cambodian-produced shows and films. During a meeting with the Ministry of Information on Monday, TV station representatives agreed to broadcast locally produced films and ...
Sarah Taguiam and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-tv-stations-agree-locally-made-programming-block
Info law to be open to input
The Ministry of Information yesterday announced a three-year public consultation period on a new access to information draft law that has been in the works since 2007. But freedom of information advocates greeted the news with scepticism, citing a lack of representation from civil society on ...
Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/info-law-be-open-input
The ministry of information call for an end to media plagiarism
Mr. Chea Chanboribo, secretary of state of the Information Ministry appealed an end to media plagarism which increasingly widespread. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/the-ministry-of-information-call-for-an-end-to-media-plagiarism-7552
CNRP begins registration for first opposition TV station
CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said Monday that a group of people close to the opposition party has applied to register a firm with the government that will operate the television license promised to the CNRP by Prime Minister Hun Sen during the political deadlock. ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-begins-registration-for-first-opposition-tv-station-70396/
Cambodian minister hails fruitful cooperation with China on media, broadcasting
Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday admired excellent cooperation between Cambodia and China on media and broadcasting, saying that the cooperation would promote closer relations between the peoples of the two countries. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141009/cambodian-minister-hails-fruitful-cooperation-china-media-br
Cambodia, China's Yunnan province ink deal on information cooperation
Cambodia and China’s Yunnan province signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here on Monday on media cooperation and exchanges. The deal was inked by Buth Bovuth, chief of the Cambodian Information Ministry’s General Department of Information and Broadcasting, and Wu Jingbo, deputy chief of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China’s Yunnan Provincial Committee, with the presence of Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith and Ge Guangzhi, deputy director of Department No. 6 of the Information Office of China’s State Council. ...
People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0922/c90883-8786134.html
Gov’t bans alcohol ads to reduce traffic deaths
Television and radio stations will be barred from broadcasting advertisements for alcohol during the primetime 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. slot beginning next month, as part of the government’s effort to reduce the number of fatalities resulting from drunk driving, officials at the Ministry of ...
Government plans to regulate online content
The Ministry of Information is planning to begin regulating the Internet in the country to prevent offensive content from being posted online, ostensibly to prevent defamation and provocations to violence, according to a ministry official. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-plans-to-regulate-online-content-67524/
Draft law puts high price on drunk driving
Drunk drivers could be fined $1000 under a new draft traffic law approved yesterday by The Council of Ministers. The legislation includes a raft of measures aimed at reducing the number of deaths and injuries on the roads. Among the draft law’s 92 articles are new ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/draft-law-puts-high-price-drunk-driving
Troops to join UN’s CAR effort
Cambodia will send a detachment of 216 peacekeepers to the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), the Information Ministry has said. The Kingdom already sent a delivery of tanks, trucks and other materiel there on Friday. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/troops-join-un%E2%80%99s-car-effort
Media agencies warned about gambling ads
The Ministry of Information last week warned media organizations not to publish or broadcast advertisements from gambling outlets unless they have permission from the government to do so, according to a ministry notice obtained Tuesday. “The ministry previously advised [media outlets] to stop all types ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-agencies-warned-about-gambling-ads-65808/