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First marine national park is established for Koh Rong
Cambodia’s first marine national park was established yesterday, seemingly replacing and expanding upon a marine protection area established for the Koh Rong archipelago in 2016. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-marine-national-park-established-koh-rong
New cement factory opens in Kampot
Chip Mong Insee Cement Corporation (CMIC) launched a new factory in Kampot province yesterday, with a total production capacity of 5,000 tonnes of cement per day.The official opening of the $262-million factory was presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen in the Banteay Meas district ...
Hor Kimsay and Hin Pisei
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-cement-factory-opens-kampot
Sokha’s witness request denied
An investigating judge has rejected Kem Sokha’s request that he interview a representative from the US government in connection with the former opposition leader’s “treason” case, despite the fact that Sokha stands accused of plotting a US-backed overthrow of the Cambodian government. ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokhas-witness-request-denied
NagaWorld’s profits soar in 2017
Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld casino posted a massive increase in profits and revenue driven by strong growth in high-value guests last year, with the amount of money gambled by VIPs at the capital’s only casino exceeding Cambodia’s gross domestic product for 2016. ...
Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagaworlds-profits-soar-2017
Sar Kheng says CNRP stole ‘national rescue’
Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday lamented the phrase “national rescue” had been co-opted by the opposition party and their new movement – which he claimed could “become ISIS” – because the concept of “national salvation” belonged to the ruling party. ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-says-cnrp-stole-national-rescue
Australia debates motion to condemn Cambodia’s political crackdown
The Australian Parliament is considering a motion to condemn Cambodia’s political crackdown, with lawmaker Mark Butler declaring Australia has “a solemn duty” to take action to defend Cambodia’s “fledgling democracy”. ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/australia-debates-motion-condemn-cambodias-political-crackdown
Hun Sen says no need for labour courts, proposes solution to mass faintings
Prime Minister Hun Sen today said there is in fact no need to set up labour courts to solve workplace disputes – despite the Labour Law stipulating their creation – and expressed hope that existing mechanisms, including the government, unions and employers could act in ...
Ben Sokhean and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-says-no-need-labour-courts-proposes-solution-mass-faintings
Ministry calls for ease in vote preparation
The Ministry of Interior yesterday instructed provincial authorities to “make it easy” for parties preparing for the upcoming national elections, including facilitating the building of party banners and the holding of meetings – after a year in which the government systematically removed CNRP banners and ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-calls-ease-vote-preparation
Tep Vanny's sentence upheld at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 30-month sentence for land activist Tep Vanny on charges relating to a 2013 protest outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house that turned violent, leaving the Boeung Kak resident to serve out more than a year of her remaining ...
Ananth Baliga and Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tep-vannys-sentence-upheld-supreme-court
Thai firm to help bolster agarwood quality
A Cambodian company is teaming up with a Thai investment partner to spend $100 million improving the quality of Cambodia’s agarwood trees, according to a memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay and Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-firm-help-bolster-agarwood-quality
Payments lagging as deadline for telecom fees approaches
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has collected less than one-third of a set of annual fees owed to it by telecommunications companies by the end of this month, with more than 80 percent of the fees so far coming from a single provider. ...
Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/payments-lagging-deadline-telecom-fees-approaches
CPP spokesman and former Kem Sokha colleague questioned
Cambodian People’s Party spokesman Chhim Phal Virun was questioned Tuesday morning as a witness in the “treason” charges brought against former opposition leader Kem Sokha, his former colleague at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-spokesman-and-former-kem-sokha-colleague-questioned
CDC opens tax desk to advise foreign firms
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) established a tax desk at their offices that will be staffed by employees from the General Department of Taxation, in hopes of easing the burden of registration for foreign companies. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-opens-tax-desk-advise-foreign-firms
More set to leave Borei Keila
Two more families have accepted compensation to leave the Borei Keila area to make room for development, as the long-running land dispute creeps ever closer to an end. ...
Kuoch Masy and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-set-leave-borei-keila
Police and Phnom Penh City Hall pat selves on back for political crackdown
The National Police and Phnom Penh City Hall released their year-end reports yesterday, with both congratulating themselves for helping to carry out a political crackdown widely condemned by international observers. ...
Mech Dara, Ben Sokhean and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-and-phnom-penh-city-hall-pat-selves-back-political-crackdown
UN help sought in land dispute
Human rights representatives from NGO Adhoc and the United Nations have been asked to intervene in a land dispute between villagers and an army lieutenant they say was granted a land title illegally inside a protected community forest in Oddar Meanchey province. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-help-sought-land-dispute
New Mekong guidelines lacking, government official says
A Cambodian representative to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) said yesterday that new guidelines for hydropower development agreed to late last month don’t fully address threats to the health of the imperiled waterway. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-mekong-guidelines-lacking-government-official-says
Cambodia-Vietnam trade up 30 percent in 2017
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam last year increased nearly 30 percent to about $3.8 billion according to Vietnamese state-run media, while Cambodia has yet to report trade statistics for most of 2017. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-vietnam-trade-30-percent-2017
Vietnamese fishing boat escapes chase
Authorities yesterday chased a Vietnamese fishing boat suspected of conducting illegal fishing off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province. Police reported that a Vietnamese trawler was damaged during the operation conducted by Cambodian coastal guards. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106696/vietnamese-fishing-boat-escapes-chase/
Government critic fired from Education Ministry
Former unionist and election official Rong Chhun, who resigned from the National Election Committee (NEC) following the forced dissolution of the opposition, has been fired from the Education Ministry for being absent without permission. ...
Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-critic-fired-education-ministry
CBC says growth of credit charging ahead
Credit Bureau Cambodia (CBC) yesterday released its report for the fourth quarter of 2017, which showed significant growth in applications for credit, particularly in the credit card and mortgage sectors. ...
Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cbc-says-growth-credit-charging-ahead
Deal for yuan trade with China in works
Officials in Cambodia and China’s Guangdong province are cooperating to establish trade using yuan instead of US dollars, part of the two countries’ increasingly close economic relationship. The suggestion to use yuan directly, instead of using US dollars as an intermediary currency, was made by ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deal-yuan-trade-china-works
More sanctions being drafted to hit Cambodian government over political crackdown, says senator’s aide
US Senator Patrick Leahy’s office confirmed yesterday that bipartisan legislation is being drafted to introduce new sanctions against the Cambodian government. ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-sanctions-being-drafted-hit-cambodian-government-over-political-crackdown-says
Villagers file complaint against Union Development Group for razing crops, property
Fourteen families in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district filed a court complaint today against 60 security guards employed by Union Development Group (UDG) for allegedly destroying their crops and small huts on land belonging to the development conglomerate. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-file-complaint-against-union-development-group-razing-crops-property