The Phnom Penh Post

PM hails ‘troubled’ Koh Kong project

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday lauded the Chinese developer behind Koh Kong province’s $3.8 billion tourism project, despite it causing a decade-long dispute with the villagers there. “The Union Development Group [UDG] transformed the quiet area in Koh Kong province into an attractive tourist ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-hails-troubled-koh-kong-project

Activists have charges dropped

Phnom Penh Municipal Court dropped the charges against three land activists on December 14, rejecting the accusations of extortion and property damage brought against the trio by the owner of a development company.​ ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-have-charges-dropped

CMAC ups cooperation with Thai counterpart

Cambodian and Thai mine authorities have agreed to step up cooperation in demining activities along the two countries’ frontier, the former’s top official said on Thursday. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-ups-cooperation-thai-counterpart

China gifts Kingdom 20 new clinics

The China International Development Cooperation Agency on Wednesday donated 20 additional mobile clinics to the Ministry of Health as part of ongoing Chinese aid to the Kingdom. ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-gifts-kingdom-20-new-clinics

Phone app to report road damage launched

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport launched a phone app on Thursday which allows the people to report problems with the country’s roads directly to the ministry in a big leap forward for road safety in the Kingdom. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phone-app-report-road-damage-launched

Assembly passes amendment to Political Party Law Article 45

The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved a proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties in a move that could pave the way for former senior opposition leaders banned for five years to return to the political stage. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/assembly-passes-amendment-political-party-law-article-45

PM open to wage demands

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday asked the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training to consider the request of six union groups who have petitioned the government to set a minimum wage for workers in the construction and service sectors. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-open-wage-demands

Gov’t: Thousands of migrant workers ‘not received rights’

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Wednesday said there are still thousands of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand who have not received the full legitimate rights that could protect them from abuses. This, he said was despite the two countries having laid out procedures and ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-thousands-migrant-workers-not-received-rights

Preah Vihear court takes legal action against three illegal loggers

Preah Vihear provincial court is taking action against three suspects for illegal forest clearing in Prey Lang and Boeung Per Wildlife Sanctuaries and death threats following a complaint from a team of park rangers and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) on Tuesday, according to ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-court-takes-legal-action-against-three-illegal-loggers

Hun Sen rejects ‘rift’ rumours spread by ‘stupid gangsters’

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday denied a “rift” among top leaders of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), and rejected claims that Senate president Say Chhum and Interior Minister Sar Kheng were set to be removed from their positions as rumours spread by “gangsters”. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-rejects-rift-rumours-spread-stupid-gangsters

General Department of Taxation collects $2B

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected more than $2 billion in revenue during the first 11 months of the year, an increase of 12.48 per cent compared to the same period last year, a Tuesday departmental report said. ...

Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/general-department-taxation-collects-2b

Siem Reap landmine museum to reopen after weapons seizure

It was announced on Sunday that the Cambodian Landmine Museum near Siem Reap will soon reopen to tourists, ending three months of closure following the arrest of its staff for alleged illegal gun procession. The museum’s international project manager Bill Morse wrote in a Facebook ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-landmine-museum-reopen-after-weapons-seizure

Local and international experts to train 1,221 environmental rangers

The training will be conducted through a cooperation between the Ministry of Environment’s General Department of Administration for Nature Conservation and Protection and the US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Office of Anti-Crime Programmes (INL/C), and US Forest Service. ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-and-international-experts-train-1221-environmental-rangers

Kratie military police question illegal loggers

Kratie provincial court granted Military Police permission to bring two suspects involved with operating an illegal charcoal kiln back to a provincial military police base on Sunday for further questioning. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-military-police-question-illegal-loggers

Loggers detained in wildlife sanctuary

Rangers and officials from the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) detained 12 loggers and confiscated seven chainsaws and three cubic meters of timber in Kampong Thom province’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-detained-wildlife-sanctuary

PMs ‘committed’ to settling border row

Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith have called on the French government to supply maps and other related documents to settle a border dispute, as they expressed their commitment to ending the spat. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-committed-settling-border-row

Education Ministry urges the Kingdom’s youth to volunteer

The value of volunteering work is underestimated by Cambodia’s youth, according to Sean Borat, secretary of state at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS). More than 33 per cent of Cambodians are aged between 15 and 30 years old. However, only a small ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-ministry-urges-kingdoms-youth-volunteer

Trade logistics centre west of Phnom Penh is in planning

An assessement of plans to build a groundbreaking trade logistics centre west of Phnom Penh will begin soon, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation said. An early stage feasibility analysis of the Phnom Penh Logistics Complex is set to begin early next year, supported ...

Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-logistics-centre-west-phnom-penh-planning

Chaom Chao project is underway

Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is developing the Chaom Chao roundabout overpass and subway, said the company began clearing the site on Tuesday after it met with authorities and other stakeholders to push completion by the end of 2020. ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chaom-chao-project-underway

‘Slow process causes overcrowding’

On Tuesday, Minister of the Interior Sar Kheng said slow judicial procedures and an ongoing crackdown on drugs are causing an increase in inmates in Cambodian prisons, resulting in serious concerns over prisoner welfare. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/slow-process-causes-overcrowding

Stung Treng authority agrees to Bunong request

Stung Treng provincial authorities have unanimously agreed to the request and conditions of the ethnic Bunong community members from Kbal Romeas village who have been impacted by the Lower Sesan II dam in the province. However, the authorities are still considering requests and conditions laid down ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-treng-authority-agrees-bunong-request

Government to improve water treatment facility

The Office of the Council of Ministers (OCM) has approved plans to improve and add capacity to water treatment facilities in coastal and construction areas, sewage systems and mud drying facilities in Sihanoukville after they were inspected and assessed by government institutions. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-improve-water-treatment-facility

Forest is ‘Model Tourism Community’

The Ministry of Tourism last month recognised the Tmat Boey Thoeun Krasang community forest in Choam Ksan district’s Pring Thom commune, in Preah Vihear province, as a “Model Tourism Community” for its management’s efforts to conserve the rare white-shouldered ibis. ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-model-tourism-community

CMAC cleared over 30,000 land mines in first 10 months

The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) cleared more than 30,000 land mines from 75sq km in the first 10 months of this year, the organisation’s director-general said on Monday. Heng Ratana, speaking at a CMAC meeting, said the organisation aims to clear a further 116sq ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-cleared-over-30000-land-mines-first-10-months

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