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Government establishes new districts, town for better management
While the government claims that the recent sub-decree to establish a new town and new districts will improve administrative management and provide public services closer to villages, civil society groups say the changes are a waste of the national budget. Affiliated Network for Social Accountability ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-establishes-new-districts-town-better-management
Mondulkiri authorities hunt poachers
Mondulkiri provincial authorities are hunting poachers who shot at environmental rangers with an AK-47 assault rifle at the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary, injuring one. Provincial environment department director Keo Sopheak said the incident happened at around 3:30am on Tuesday when six rangers equipped with two AK-47s ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-authorities-hunt-poachers
Kingdom last in Asean graft, critics claim ‘bias’
Released on Tuesday, Transparency International’s 2018 global Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Cambodia 161 out of 180 countries – the same ranking it held in 2017. But Cambodian government officials responded to the news by saying they cared little about the ranking, with some other observers ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/kingdom-last-asean-graft-critics-claim-bias
Government calls on NGOs to avoid activities linked to crime
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on Tuesday called on all foreign NGOs to avoid at all costs activities which could be associated or linked to money laundering, financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. He said ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-calls-ngos-avoid-activities-linked-crime
Ministry to conduct CSO census
The Ministry of Interior and the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC) are to conduct a census aimed at ascertaining the exact number of registered civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Kingdom, the ministry’s General Department of Administration director-general Prak Sam Oeun told The Post on ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-conduct-cso-census
Government, UN, NGOs meet to discuss Climate Change
More than 100 representatives from NGOs, local communities, the UN and the government gathered at Himawari Hotel in the capital on Monday to discuss and exchange ideas on climate change adaptation and funding at a sub-national level. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-un-ngos-meet-discuss-climate-change
Fish farmers resist as lake is drained
Some 60 per cent of 302 families living at Boeung Samrong lake in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district agreed to accept compensation as authorities began draining the lake in preparation for increasing its depth, said Prek Pnov administration chief Sim Sophorng. However, the remaining residents ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fish-farmers-resist-lake-drained
Vehicles, money given to wildlife activist Ben Devis
The Cambodian Red Cross has donated a car, two scooters and cash to activist Ben Devis and the Tabos community as an incentive for participating in the protection of the natural resources in Preah Vihear province’s Phnom Thnout-Phnom Pok Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50573203/vehicles-money-given-to-wildlife-activist-ben-devis/
NGO launches $1.5 million nutrition project
Plan International Cambodia yesterday launched its 1,000 Days Nutrition project in Stung Treng province for which it will spend $1.5 million for five years to provide better nutrition to children and women. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50573204/ngo-launches-1-5-million-nutrition-project/
Trade deficit grows once more
Cambodia’s trade deficit with the rest of the world continued to widen last year to $5.2 billion, as the Kingdom’s imports outstripped its exports once again, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) report released on Saturday said. The NBC figures revealed that the Kingdom imported $18.8 ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-deficit-grows-once-more
New KWP president named
The former senior adviser to the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Kong Korm, has been named the honorary president of the Khmer Will Party (KWP). The appointment came after Korm and his son Kong Bora became the first of 118 banned senior CNRP ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/new-kwp-president-named
Final day for EU to get EBA withdrawal views
Today (Tuesday) marks the final day for the EU Commission for Trade to receive the opinions of the EU bloc’s 28 member-states before deciding whether to suspend the Everything But Arms (EBA) tariff preferences for Cambodia. However a unanimous decision will be required to withdraw ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/final-day-eu-get-eba-withdrawal-views
Cambodian workers ‘vulnerable’ in Thailand
The Office of the UN Resident Coordinator expressed concern on Thursday that some migrants working in Thailand are not enrolled in public health insurance schemes and that their children are unable to attend school. The Thailand Migration Report 2019 estimates that the country currently hosts ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-workers-vulnerable-thailand
Ministry approves computer budget for schools
The Finance Ministry has approved a budget for the Education, Youth and Sport Ministry to spend on computers and printers for public schools. Finance Minister Aun Pornoniroth in a letter on Friday said the budget is to facilitate a part of the Education Ministry’s reform ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50572826/ministry-approves-computer-budget-for-schools/
Protesters arrested over clash freed
Preah Sihanouk provincial police have released all six people involved in Thursday’s clash with police during a protest to stop authorities from measuring land in Prey Nob district. Four of them had been taken into custody immediately after the clash, while two others who were ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50572825/protesters-arrested-over-clash-freed/
Sub-decrees approve creation of new districts
Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued two sub-decrees reclassifying two communes in Phnom Penh as districts, as per a request made by Interior Minister Sar Kheng last week. In the separate sub-decrees, obtained by Khmer Times yesterday, Boeng Keng Kang I, Boeng Keng Kang II, Boeng Keng Kang ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50572812/sub-decrees-approve-creation-of-new-districts/
An anti-tank mine kills one, wounds one in Banteay Meanchey
A man was killed and another seriously injured when an anti-tank mine exploded in Banteay Meanchey province’s Malai district on Friday. The incident took place in Tuol Pongro commune’s Sralao Chrum village. Commune police chief Suos Vorith identified the deceased as Chham Chhorng, 32, from ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-tank-mine-kills-one-wounds-one-banteay-meanchey
Government calls for PM ‘fake news’ correction
The Cambodian government on Friday strongly urged Singaporean outlet Channel News Asia (CNA) to issue a correction to an article it published on Thursday, claiming Prime Minister Hun Sen had called on the military to destroy the country’s political opponents. The statement, issued by the ...
Mech Dara and Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-calls-pm-fake-news-correction
Joint forces confiscate illegally logged timber
The Pursat provincial Military Police, in cooperation with provincial environmental officers, on Saturday confiscated a total of 150 Reach Kol timber logs, which had been hidden near the Cardamom Mountains in Rovieng village in Phnom Kravanh district’s Samrong commune. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/joint-forces-confiscate-illegally-logged-timber
Rights committee in UPR review
The Cambodia Human Rights Committee (CHRC) led a delegation to participate in the 32nd Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, for the third time, it said in a press release issued on Friday. It said Cambodia had already submitted documents last ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-committee-upr-review
Ministry of Health issues series of precautions for the holidays
The Ministry of Health has issued a statement advising the public to take precautions against rice wine and food poisoning, as well as H5N1 “bird flu” virus, during the upcoming Chinese and Khmer New Years. Released on Thursday and obtained by The Post on Sunday, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-health-issues-series-precautions-holidays
‘All media outlets must pay tax’
Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith on Friday said Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) would be allowed to reopen their offices only after fulfilling their tax obligations. In a letter dated January 25 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/all-media-outlets-must-pay-tax
Number of municipal and provincial council members up in 3rd mandate
The number of district, town, provincial and municipal council members will increase to 819 when elections are called for their third mandate on May 26, said a sub-decree issued on January 25 and received by The Post on Sunday. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/number-municipal-and-provincial-council-members-3rd-mandate
Kamsab removed from ports as Kingdom braces for loss of preferential trade access
The Cambodian government has begun a series of reforms intended to strengthen economic independence and promote business in the Kingdom, as they prepare for the possible loss of preferential trade access to the EU and US in the coming months. Prime Minister Hun Sen on ...