The Phnom Penh Post
Tax revenue exceeds expectations following reforms
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected $1.93 billion in tax revenue last year, a 30 percent increase over 2016 and well above the government’s own projections, according to the department’s director, Kong Vibol. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-revenue-exceeds-expectations-following-reforms
CNRP’s predecessor parties reject GDP call to run in July election
The fledgling Grassroots Democracy Party appealed yesterday to the predecessors of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party to contest this year’s upcoming elections in a bid to dilute the ruling party’s vote share – an offer they quickly turned down. ...
Ben Sokhean and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cnrps-predecessor-parties-reject-gdp-call-run-july-election
‘Lack of proof’ in Mother Nature activists’ hearing
Two activists from the conservation group Mother Nature were tried yesterday in Koh Kong for photographing a vessel at sea, with their lawyer asking the court to dismiss the charges due to a lack of evidence that they had committed any crime. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lack-proof-mother-nature-activists-hearing
Former deputy PM Lu Lay Sreng convicted of 'defamation'
Former Funcinpec official and ex-Deputy Prime Minister Lu Lay Sreng was found guilty in absentia of defaming Prime Minister Hun Sen today for comments made in a private phone conversation that was secretly recorded and disseminated without his knowledge. ...
Niem Chheng and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-deputy-pm-lu-lay-sreng-convicted-defamation
Thy Sovantha threatens new suit
Social media celebrity and card-carrying CPP member Thy Sovantha yesterday said she will file a lawsuit against wildlife NGO head Suwanna Gauntlett alleging discrimination after the latter allegedly denied her access to an ecotourism program the group is launching today in Koh Kong province. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thy-sovantha-threatens-new-suit
UN’s IFAD examines farming programs
A UN agricultural development body presented a report evaluating their commitment of over 20 years and $189.5 million to Cambodia’s rural farmers yesterday, finding both positives and negatives in their partnership with the government. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/uns-ifad-examines-farming-programs
Report shows little sign of improvement at factories
A Better Factories Cambodia report shows little improvement in the continued use of short-term contracts and safety and health conditions for workers at surveyed factories, with total compliance of all exporting factories still stuck at less than 50 percent. The International Labour Organisation’s compliance program conducts ...
Yon Sineat and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-shows-little-sign-improvement-factories
Tbong Khmum to crack down on illegal Vietnam border checkpoints
Tbong Khmum provincial officials have announced a crackdown on illegal checkpoints along the Vietnamese border, possibly in response to a purported warning issued by Prime Minister Hun Sen to provincial Governor Ly Leng to monitor the transport of timber in the province. Local media reports contend ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tbong-khmum-crack-down-illegal-vietnam-border-checkpoints
Sean Pengse, former minister and fierce critic of Cambodia’s border disputes with Vietnam, dies at 82
Sean Pengse, a former government minister under the Lon Nol regime and an outspoken critic on Cambodia’s border issues with Vietnam, has died in France at 82. Pengse passed away after a long illness in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to a statement issued ...
Hun Sen seeks to bolster trade at India-Asean meet
Indian government data show that annual trade between the Cambodia and India has lagged of late, decreasing by nearly 30 percent to $141 million during the last Indian fiscal year, which ran from April 2016 to May 2017. That’s the lowest level since the 2012-2013 ...
Hor Kimsay and Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hun-sen-seeks-bolster-trade-india-asean-meet
Passports for migrant workers can’t be issued any quicker due to high costs, Sar Kheng says
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Monday said the Cambodian government could not afford more passport printing machines to speed up the process of documenting the hundreds of thousands of citizens working abroad, predominantly in Thailand. ...
Cambodia may be pressed by new EU palm oil regulations
New proposed rules from the European Union restricting the import of palm oil would likely affect Cambodia’s nascent palm oil sector, but the country’s main exporter is hoping that demand from India and China will cushion the blow. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-may-be-pressed-new-eu-palm-oil-regulations
Phnom Penh’s sewers criticised
Interior Minister Sar Kheng bemoaned Phnom Penh’s sewage infrastructure and criticised the Ministry of Environment for allowing untreated waste water to flow into the Mekong and Bassac rivers in unscripted remarks on Monday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penhs-sewers-criticised
Fishermen still abused in Thailand
Forced labour remains rampant on Thai fishing boats more than three years after an international outcry, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released yesterday, with Cambodian fishermen reporting that Thai reforms designed to safeguard them from abuse are being used as tools to ...
Erin Handley and Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fishermen-still-abused-thailand
Ministry rebuts reports of Chinese money laundering through property market
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hit back at news reports about Chinese investors laundering their money through Cambodia’s real estate market on Monday, calling them “baseless”. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-rebuts-reports-chinese-money-laundering-through-property-market
Villagers scammed by land broker
Dozens of villagers in Kandal province are accusing a local land dealer of cheating them out of thousands of dollars by promising them jobs in Japan that never materialised. ...
Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-scammed-land-broker
Unifying brand name unveiled as Rice Federation addresses its flaws
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) today announced a new “Malys Angkor” brand to be used as the official moniker for four species of Cambodian fragrant rice. The first day of the two-day Cambodia Rice Forum also featured the release of a remarkably frank report on the ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/unifying-brand-name-unveiled-rice-federation-addresses-its-flaws-0
Illegal gold mine shafts in Kratie province filled in
Eleven illegal gold mine shafts in Kratie province – including two in which several deaths occurred – are being filled in by authorities after villagers repeatedly ignored orders to cease operations there, officials said today. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-gold-mine-shafts-kratie-province-filled
Invasive fruit flies detrimental to Kingdom’s mango exports
Cambodia’s mango shipments have been routinely blocked before making it to the international market, with the Ministry of Agriculture claiming the mangoes are not of a high enough quality to meet the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements necessary to ship outside of the Kingdom. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/invasive-fruit-flies-detrimental-kingdoms-mango-exports
Hun Sen chides Cambodia Daily, lauds Trump
Prime Minister Hun Sen met with members of the press yesterday, not shying away from classifying some journalists and media outlets as extortionists and tax evaders, while applauding United States President Donald Trump’s efforts to go after so-called fake news. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sen-chides-cambodia-daily-lauds-trump
Ministry eyes school discipline
The Ministry of Education late last week instructed provincial education departments to tighten their management of schools and to discipline teachers who are failing to live up to their responsibilities. ...
Kong Meta and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-eyes-school-discipline
Timber found inside tanker
Nearly seven months after a gas tanker truck was involved in a deadly crash in Banteay Meanchey province, authorities finally searched it on Saturday, finding it loaded with rosewood. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-found-inside-tanker
CPP inner circle expands, now dwarfing China’s and Vietnam’s
The Cambodian People’s Party Central Committee yesterday added more than 300 members to its ranks, the largest-ever class of inductees from government, civil society and law enforcement. The new members, which bring the committee’s ranks to more than 800, were sworn in to conclude a three-day ...
Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cpp-inner-circle-expands-now-dwarfing-chinas-and-vietnams
New UK envoy incoming
Cambodia will have a new British ambassador in June. Tina Redshaw, most recently the British consul general to the Chinese city of Chongqing from 2013 until 2016, will take over the role from Bill Longhurst, according to an announcement from British Foreign & Commonwealth Office ...
Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-uk-envoy-incoming