National government
Ministries and other national bodies
Ministry outlines procedures for businesses hiring foreigners
The Labor Ministry released a statement Monday with a list of procedures all businesses in Cambodia that hire foreign workers must follow in order to comply with the country’s long-standing Labor Law. According to Monday’s statement, which was signed by Labor Minister Ith Sam ...
Petrol firms told to open books
Cambodia’s petrol retailers have been ordered by the government to hand over import information and financial records in what looks to be the first steps toward installing fuel-price legislation. The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) announced publicly yesterday via state-owned media Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/petrol-firms-told-open-books
Crimes alleged: Investigation into hospital ‘corruption’
Officials are investigating Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hospital after anonymous complaints were put forward against its director, accusing him of corruption and a lack of transparency. According to anonymous letters written by doctors and nurses in the hospital and widely disseminated, hospital director Seng Nong has been ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crimes-alleged-investigation-hospital-corruption
Unauthorised drugs found in Siem Reap raid
Over 470,000 units of unauthorised or expired drugs were confiscated during a crackdown on unlicensed medical facilities in Siem Reap City this week, according to provincial police. The inspections of health facilities started on Friday with city economic police working with the provincial health department to ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unauthorised-drugs-found-siem-reap-raid
Three more deputy commissioners appointed
The Interior Ministry promoted three senior police officials to the rank of deputy National Police commissioner in a ceremony Tuesday afternoon, swelling the ranks of deputy commissioners to 15 in apparent preparation for three other deputies to retire. In the absence of Interior Minister Sar Kheng, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-more-deputy-commissioners-appointed-76823/
Health Minister vows to rid Cambodia of unlicensed medical clinics
Cambodia’s Minister of Health on Tuesday vowed to eliminate the country’s unlicensed medical clinics and hire more health care providers, after an unauthorized medical worker who admitted to reusing syringes was linked to a mass HIV infection in a remote western village. ...
Prach Chiv
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/clinics-01272015134440.html
Growth in tourist arrivals slows to 5-year low
Growth in tourist arrivals slowed down last year to the lowest rate since the global financial crisis, according to preliminary figures provided by the Ministry of Tourism on Monday. The number of visitors arriving by all modes of transport reached 4.5 million last year, up just ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/growth-in-tourist-arrivals-slows-to-5-year-low-76755/
Kandal villagers burn tyres to fight dredging
Nearly a hundred villagers living along a river located in Sa’ang district’s Koh Anlong Chin commune in Kandal province recently protested against the plans of one company to dredge sand in the area. On Sunday, employees of sand-dredging company Sok Teang Import Export, which has been ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-villagers-burn-tyres-fight-dredging
Vocational skills to merge with curriculum
Seeking to amend Cambodia’s shortage of skilled labourers and equip young secondary school graduates with employable trades, the government will soon roll out a new technical training curriculum at select high schools. ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vocational-skills-merge-curriculum
Out of the woods: Forest crime often goes unpunished
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries saw at least 2,400 cases of forest- and wildlife-related crimes in 2014, of which almost 1,800 were forwarded to the courts, though fewer than 10 people were sentenced in relation to the crimes, ministry figures say. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/out-woods-forest-crime-often-goes-unpunished
Minister to be questioned over HIV outbreak
Health Minister Mam Bunheng has been summoned for questioning next week by the National Assembly’s health commission over the outbreak of HIV among villagers in Battambang province’s Roka commune, the commission’s secretary-general said Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-to-be-questioned-over-hiv-outbreak-76629/
Mining firms still working despite ban
Four mining companies digging stone in Banteay Meanchey province that are purportedly owned by a military commander and other officers have carried on mining despite a government ban. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mining-firms-still-working-despite-ban
Roads around Tonle Sap to be upgraded
The Ministry of Rural Development plans to pave 1,200 kilometres of dirt roads across nine provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap this year, in a $120 million bid to improve the lives of rural farmers and reduce migration. The roads are to connect rural areas to ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/roads-around-tonle-sap-be-upgraded
Largest teachers’ association laments dearth of textbooks
The head of the country’s largest teachers’ association sent an open letter to Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron on Wednesday contending that there is a serious shortage of textbooks and teacher manuals due to corruption and indifference on the part of ministry officials. Rong Chhun, president ...
Ouch Sony and Max Weinstein
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/largest-teachers-association-laments-dearth-of-textbooks-76517/
No licences, much dredging
Five sand-dredging operations in Ratanakkiri province – one owned by the provincial director of Public Works and Transportation – have been in business illegally for some 20 years, the rights group Adhoc said yesterday. Adhoc said that it uncovered the operations in Veun Say, Lumphat and ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-licences-much-dredging
Salary cut off for absenteeism
One month after the government announced a systemic crackdown on ghost workers, the Ministry of Education suspended a Sihanoukville administrator for alleged absenteeism, according to a copy of the disciplinary letter. Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron said the suspension was decided on following complaints ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/salary-cut-absenteeism
Ministries unclear over who needs work permits
About three weeks after the interior and labor ministries announced a crackdown on foreigners without work permits, officials this week could provide few answers on how expatriates can comply with the country’s labor regulations. According to the 1997 Labor Law, all foreigners working in Cambodia are ...
Chris Mueller and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministries-unclear-over-who-needs-work-permits-76262/
Ministry report outlines 2014 illegal logging figures
The government seized more than 7,000 cubic meters of illegally logged wood last year, according to a report released by the Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-report-outlines-2014-illegal-logging-figures-76250/
Ratanakkiri site of informal mining boom: official
Thousands of locals and migrant workers are engaged in illegal mining in Ratanakkiri province, a senior official with the Ministry of Mines and Energy said yesterday. Having returned on Tuesday from an official inspection tour of the province, Meng Saktheara, a secretary of state at the ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-site-informal-mining-boom-official
Med school stands firm on fee
Despite outcry from medical students, the government is refusing to reduce the latest in a string of proposed fee hikes, this one nearly doubling the charge for the University of Health Science’s exit exam. In a letter sent to the university’s rector on Friday, the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/med-school-stands-firm-fee
Sar Kheng agrees to questioning
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has agreed to answer questions about last year’s fatal crackdown on striking garment workers but has called on opposition and NGO leaders who “incited” the violence to do the same. Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said yesterday that Kheng was willing to ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-agrees-questioning
Commune staff get up to 60 pct pay rise
Cambodia’s local authorities will receive a pay bump of up to 60 per cent starting this month, the government revealed yesterday. A commune chief will now get 400,000 riel (about $100) per month, up from 300,000 riel ($75); first and second deputy commune chiefs will get ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/commune-staff-get-60-pct-pay-rise
Structure removed from Buddhist Institute land
A temporary structure built on the Buddhist Institute’s land by NagaCorp, which added to swirling rumors late last year that the growing casino empire was planning to develop the land and prompted hundreds of monks to march in protest, has been removed. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/structure-removed-from-buddhist-institute-land-75808/
Medical students protest price of final-year certification exam
About 50 students from the state-run University of Health Sciences protested outside the school Thursday to demand a decrease in the $125 fee they must pay to take their exit examination, which certifies them as medical doctors. The Health Ministry began making medical students sit the ...