National government
Ministries and other national bodies
Garment exports still ‘solid’ amid raises: ILO
Cambodia’s garment industry continued to perform “solidly” through the first half of the year, allaying fears that recent minimum wage increases would cripple one of the country’s main economic engines, according to the latest figures released by the International Labor Organization (ILO). ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-exports-still-solid-amid-raises-ilo-99270/
Gov’t says only one refugee from Nauru coming
Immigration department director Sok Phal said Tuesday that Cambodia will be taking in only one of the two refugees who volunteered to resettle here during a delegation’s visit to Australia’s refugee center on the South Pacific island of Nauru in late September, but did not ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-only-one-refugee-from-nauru-coming-99248/
Commission to investigate ‘shrinking’ beaches
The chairman of the National Assembly’s culture and tourism commission said Tuesday that he will summon Tourism Minister Thong Khon for questioning over claims that public beaches are being taken over for private use. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commission-to-investigate-shrinking-beaches-99257/
No arrests yet in National Assembly attacks
Pressure is growing on investigators probing the savage beating of two opposition lawmakers outside parliament last week, as an official yesterday claimed police needed more time to make arrests.Cambodia National Rescue Party parliamentarians Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Sakphea are recovering in a Bangkok hospital after ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-arrests-yet-national-assembly-attacks
Hun Many’s youth group nominated for award
A youth group headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s youngest son has been chosen as the local winner of the Asean People’s Award, which will be given to one recipient from each Asean nation at the regional bloc’s annual summit in Kuala Lumpur later this ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manys-youth-group-nominated-for-award-99101/
Hun Sen pledges $250 civil servant salary by 2018
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Sunday that civil servants and members of the armed forces will receive a minimum monthly salary of about $250 by 2018, the next year a national election is scheduled to be held. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-pledges-250-civil-servant-salary-by-2018-98954/
Sports, fitness curriculum planned for junior high
The government this week agreed to partner with an NGO to create a new national physical education curriculum for junior high schools, the education minister said on Friday. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sports-fitness-curriculum-planned-for-junior-high-98923/
Cops offer reward – to themselves
Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has offered $10,000 to government officials investigating the brutal bashing of two opposition lawmakers as an incentive to solve the crime quickly, a ministry spokesman said yesterday. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-offer-reward-themselves
Vietnam agrees to hasten border demarcation
Cambodia and Vietnam agreed to hasten the demarcation of their shared border and not allow “hostile forces” and “extremists” to threaten security during a two-day meeting in Ho Chi Minh City that wrapped up Wednesday, according to Vietnamese and Cambodian newspapers. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-agrees-to-hasten-border-demarcation-98802/
Government signs first public housing MOU
A Cambodian and Singaporean firm signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Land Management Wednesday for the study and construction of public housing for low- and middle-income households around Phnom Penh, a first for the city if it comes off. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-signs-first-public-housing-mou-98657/
Work permit applications surge amid crackdown
Since the government began its crackdown nearly one year and a half ago on foreigners without work permits, it has seen applications for work permits skyrocket alongside revenues from fines. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17213/work-permit-applications-surge-amid-crackdown/
With little support, farmers at the mercy of the weather
Most years the rice fields outside Battambang are an unbroken sea of electric green, but this year they look more like a patchwork quilt. Some paddies are a healthy green, but others are a sickly yellow, while others are little more than empty, muddy fields ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17211/with-little-support--farmers-at-the-mercy-of-the-weather/
No fake license plates found at military police headquarters
The first two days of a new crackdown on the improper use of military license plates have focused on vehicles parked at the National Military Police Headquarters in Phnom Penh, a spokesman said Tuesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-fake-license-plates-found-at-military-police-headquarters-98521/
Grade 5 testing aims to cut learning gaps
Cambodia will join three other regional countries in carrying out standardized testing for grade five students as part of a pilot program that aims to improve primary school education in Asean, officials said this week. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/grade-5-testing-aims-to-cut-learning-gaps-98543/
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/
Minister details online business registration plans to parliament
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol told parliament Monday of plans to overhaul the current system of registering a business in Cambodia, an often slow and corrupt process, by moving the entire system online, where registration will open on December 7. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-details-online-business-registration-plans-to-parliament-98389/
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/
Health Ministry calls for end to on-duty carousing
The Ministry of Health has issued a warning to provincial bosses, telling them to guarantee that staff members are not drinking and gambling on the job because it can “affect” the provision of care and emergency services for patients. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-calls-end-duty-carousing
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
Immigration police raid Cambodia beer site
Immigration police rounded up nearly 80 Vietnamese migrant workers along with six European engineers at the construction site of a new Cambodia Beer factory in Phnom Penh on Monday afternoon because they did not possess work permits, according to an immigration official. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/immigration-police-raid-cambodia-beer-site-97743/
Hanoi briefed on quashed CNRP border efforts
During a closed-door meeting on Monday, Defense Minister Tea Banh told a Vietnamese counterpart of the CPP’s success in suppressing an opposition campaign to highlight border incursions by Vietnam and urged Hanoi to help ensure that the issue does not re-emerge. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hanoi-briefed-on-quashed-cnrp-border-efforts-97739/
Budget for a rising economy
Government spending on social welfare and economic development could both see double-digit growth next year, according to a document summarizing expenditures in next year’s budget that will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Hun Sen today. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16970/budget-for-a-rising-economy/
Gov’t warns on renting of border land
The Interior Ministry has ordered all governors of border provinces to watch land that is being rented to people from neighboring countries for farming, amid ongoing border disputes. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16969/gov---t-warns-on-renting-of-border-land/
Minister promises further drops in poverty, hunger rates
Cambodia will continue to see reductions in poverty, hunger and malnutrition as it continues to prioritize development of the agricultural industry, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ouk Rabun said on Friday at an event to mark World Food Day in Kandal Province. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16886/minister-promises-further-drops-in-poverty--hunger-rates/