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Employees sit out and block road
Around 700 garment workers blocked National Road 4 in Por Sen Chey district on Monday in a protest to demand severance packages they claimed their factory owed them after it shut down. The workers said Chim Li Cambodia Pte Ltd, which has since taken over ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/employees-sit-out-and-block-road
Government leads forum on tourism investment
The Ministry of Tourism led a forum on investment in the Kingdom’s tourism sector for the first time on Monday in Siem Reap. A panel of national and international experts from 11 countries led discussions about the development of the industry. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-leads-forum-tourism-investment
Gender equality programme rolled out in Kingdom’s north
The first phase of a project aimed at empowering girls and boys aged between 12 and 17 to “learn, share, create and lead efforts to promote social development and gender equality in Cambodia” has been rolled out in Siem Reap, Stung Treng and Ratanakiri provinces. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gender-equality-programme-rolled-out-kingdoms-north
Government to probe Preah Sihanouk coastal development
The Ministry of Tourism has formed a special committee to investigate a private company’s involvement in a condominium construction on coastal land at Prek Treng beach in Preah Sihanouk province. This follows a strong backlash from the public against land reclamation involving the project. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-probe-preah-sihanouk-coastal-development
Preah Sihanouk protest over land dispute
Some 400 people in Preah Sihanouk province’s Stung Hav district on Friday protested in front of the provincial court demanding the release of four protesters who have been detained over a land dispute with a tycoon. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-protest-over-land-dispute
Cambodia, Vietnam to boost border trade
Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed to boost their bilateral trade figures to $5 billion with the acceleration of a border trade agreement following an increase in trade volume between both countries. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533723/cambodia-vietnam-to-boost-border-trade/
Government blasts European Parliament’s resolution
The government has lashed out at a European Parliament resolution passed last week that calls for former opposition leader Kem Sokha’s treason charges to be dropped and human rights to be restored, arguing the resolution was biased. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533677/government-blasts-european-parliaments-resolution/
No bribes for promotions: Sar Kheng
In a bid to rid the country of corruption, Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday urged CPP officials to eliminate the practice of paying bribes for promotions. At a CPP meeting in Prey Veng province yesterday, Mr Kheng said that the practice of paying for promotions ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533709/no-bribes-for-promotions-sar-kheng/
Ministry issues apology for exam errors
The Education Ministry on Saturday apologised for a system error that affected the mathematics results of hundreds of students who sat for the national exam last month. Last week, hundreds of complaints were filed by high school students who were dissatisfied with their mathematics results. ...
Or Sreypich
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533696/ministry-issues-apology-for-exam-errors/
Sar Kheng: Sokha requested security
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Sunday revealed the story behind the transfer of former opposition party leader Kem Sokha from Trapaing Phlong prison in Tbong Khmum province to his house in the capital. Speaking at the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) headquarters in Prey Veng ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-sokha-requested-security
Kingdom to participate in World Cleanup Day
September 15 is World Cleanup Day and Cambodia will be participating with 20 million people from 150 countries across the globe, said Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra. He said that this year, working under the theme “Together for a Clean World”, participants in the ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-participate-world-cleanup-day
Mekong region leaders envision interference-free future
Leaders of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand agreed on a common vision to push for the region’s true potential while at the Asean World Economic Forum in Vietnam this week. Prime Minister Hun Sen said during his closing remarks that each country in the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533271/mekong-region-leaders-envision-interference-free-future/
Laos to reduce border tensions
Cambodia and Laos agreed to de-escalate tensions along the border in Stung Treng province during a meeting at the World Economic Forum, a government official attached to Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533297/laos-to-reduce-border-tensions/
Tougher action needed against criminal foreigners, official says
A senior Interior Ministry official has urged police to take tough action against Chinese nationals committing crimes in the Kingdom. Speaking during a meeting with police officials yesterday, General Sok Phal, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Interior, said that immigration police had ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533289/tougher-action-needed-against-criminal-foreigners-official-says/
Siem Reap families protest over lack of land deeds
Fifty-nine families living in Siem Reap’s Slor Kram commune protested to urge the authorities to speed up the process of giving them land deeds, saying they have been waiting three years already. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-families-protest-over-lack-land-deeds
The Ministry of Environment calls out encroaching
The Ministry of Environment issued a warning on Wednesday against encroachment on protected natural areas following some instances of intruders clearing forest land for personal gain. It cited examples of encroachment in the Ream, Bokor and Kirirom national parks and the multi-purpose Kbal Chay freshwater ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-environment-calls-out-encroaching
Exam score blunder solved
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport on Thursday said its computerised score calculation process had experienced technical problems that affected the mathematics examination scores of 740 classes. This was found when its committee, established to address dissatisfaction over the results of the high school, ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exam-score-blunder-solved
Gibbons facing threat
While hunting in the Kingdom’s wildlife sanctuaries has abated, the use of traps have become widespread. That, coupled with deforestation, has caused grave concerns among conservationists who fear the extinction of the endangered yellow-cheeked crested gibbons. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gibbons-facing-threat
Taskforce to fight Sihanoukville crimes
With the spike in crimes following a huge influx of Chinese nationals, Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday assigned four main units under the ministry to set up a support team to restore security in Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533013/taskforce-to-fight-sihanoukville-crimes/
Sar Kheng slams fake news
Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday rebuked reports that the new Phnom Penh police chief Lieutenant General Sar Thet is his brother. Lieutenant General Sar Thet officially took over as Phnom Penh police chief on Tuesday, filling a void left by General Chuon Sovann, who took ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533027/sar-kheng-slams-fake-news/
UN ambassador addresses rights criticism
Ney Sam Ol, Cambodian Ambassador to the United Nations, expressed disappointment on Tuesday in Geneva over a call made by the newly-appointed UNHCR head to release all political prisoners in the country. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533020/un-ambassador-addresses-rights-criticism/
Flooded forest illegally cleared in Kampong Chhnang
The Kampong Chhnang provincial department of agriculture, forestry and fishery is working to identify suspects who had mobilised tractors to illegally clear flooded forest in Toek Phos district’s O’krabey Ngob and O’Klong in Chieb communes. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooded-forest-illegally-cleared-kampong-chhnang
Ministry rejects Prince Chakravuth’s position
The Interior Ministry has rejected the decision of the royalist Funcinpec Party to appoint Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s son as acting president while the Prince continues his recovery from a car crash in Thailand. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533006/ministry-rejects-prince-chakravuths-position/
Interior Minister says Preah Sihanouk boom could hit sea’s health
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday claimed the recent influx of Chinese visitors to Preah Sihanouk province was raising concerns over the condition of ecosystems on the Kingdom’s coast. Speaking during a ceremony to appoint leaders to posts at both the National Authority for Combating ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-minister-says-preah-sihanouk-boom-could-hit-seas-health