Government
Forestry revenue rises
The Agriculture Ministry collected more than $2 million in forestry revenue during the first three months of this year. A ministry report issued on April 22, and obtained yesterday, said it collected about $2.3 million in riel and also $69,281 in licensing and export revenue. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50601324/ministry-collects-more-than-2-million-in-forestry-revenue/
Smith learns of Cambodia’s anti-corruption mechanism
Rhona Smith, the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Special Rapporteur for Cambodia, met with a senior Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) official to learn about the agency’s methods and progress, and urged the government to step up its fight against corruption. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smith-learns-cambodias-anti-corruption-mechanism
Villagers file suit against wildlife chief over logging
The director of Mondulkiri province’s Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuary, Han Sokhon, is set to face legal action from an indigenous community. The villagers allege he colluded to exploit the very forest he was meant to safeguard after villagers discovered illegal logging in the protected area. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-file-suit-against-wildlife-chief-over-logging
Villagers appeal for road access to disputed land
More than 100 families in Preah Sihanouk province’s Tracheak Chet and Bat Khteah communities gathered on Monday to submit a petition asking the Prey Nop district administration to order the Thansuor Chamkat company to open an access road for them to transport their crops through ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-appeal-road-access-disputed-land
Gov’t to amend Press Law to be ‘in line with current reality’
The Ministry of Information is preparing with relevant ministries’ and institutions’ amendments to the Press Law to bring it in line with current reality, while UN human rights monitor for Cambodia Rhona Smith has expressed concerns over press freedom in Cambodia. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-amend-press-law-be-line-current-reality
Ministry accounts for five million registered plots of land
The Land Management Ministry says it has fully registered five out of seven million distributed plots of land in the Kingdom. The announcement was made in a press release dated Thursday. In it, the ministry said in order to improve living conditions, reduce poverty and ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600948/ministry-accounts-for-five-million-registered-plots-of-land/
Hun Manet leads thousands in first military exercise as commander
The Royal Cambodian Army on Saturday kicked off its first live-fire exercise, the Golden Hanuman 2019, in Kampot province with more than 2,000 soldiers ascending upon a 10,000-hectare training ground for the annual training. Lieutenant General Hun Manet, army commander, inspected troops and heavy armour, ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600946/hun-manet-leads-thousands-in-first-military-exercise-as-commander/
Midwives celebrated on national day
The contribution of midwives to Cambodia’s maternal and infant health was praised by the government as the Kingdom celebrated the National Day of Midwife on Sunday. Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a sub-decree in 2008, designating May 5 as the National Day of Midwife – ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/midwives-celebrated-national-day
Food safety draft law under study
The draft Law on Food Safety is now being studied by the Council of Ministers and is expected to be approved before the end of the year, government officials said. Tech Seak Ngon, general department of customs and excise deputy director, yesterday told a press ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600367/food-safety-draft-law-under-study/
Port cargo traffic at Sihanoukville sees 16% first quarter rise
In the first quarter of this year, cargo traffic through the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port rose 16 per cent year-on-year, according to Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol. Chanthol, speaking at the 133rd International Labour Day anniversary in Preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday, said ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/port-cargo-traffic-sihanoukville-sees-16-first-quarter-rise
Three more BEEP centres open in Phnom Penh
The Labour and Education ministries, in collaboration with Unesco, yesterday jointly launched three more Basic Education Equivalency Programme centres in Phnom Penh for school dropouts to continue their education online. The new centres are at the National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, JVC Technical College ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50600369/three-more-beep-centres-open-in-phnom-penh/
Groups call for end to snares
Wildlife and biodiversity conservation groups have called for an end to the use of snares to kill wild animals. They say it is the most destructive and inhumane method to hunt and denounced all killing of rare and endangered species – such as tigers, leopards, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-call-end-snares
Ministry campaign tackles plastic
The Ministry of Environment has chosen Battambang as the first province to launch its plastic reduction campaign, to be followed by Siem Reap and Preah Sihanouk. Ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra told The Post on Wednesday that the ministry has seen improvements in waste management and ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-campaign-tackles-plastic
Mondulkiri official ‘behind land clearing’
Dak Dam commune forestry community activists in Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district on Sunday claimed that a deputy district governor was behind the recent clearing of their land. Toeuy Chren, head of the forest community based in Pou Treng village, told The Post on Sunday that ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-official-behind-land-clearing
Construction workers call for safety measures from ministry
An estimated 200 members of construction sector unions gathered in front of the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training on the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on Sunday to deliver petitions asking for issues facing construction workers to be addressed. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/construction-workers-call-safety-measures-ministry
Fewer school hours to beat the heat
With temperatures reaching more than 40 degrees Celsius, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport announced on Thursday that it was amending school study hours to lessen the risk of illness for teachers and students, particularly those at kindergarten. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fewer-school-hours-beat-heat
Ministry approves protected area status for Yeak Laom Lake in Ratanakkiri
The Ministry of Environment on Friday approved the registration of the Yeak Laom Lake community natural protected area in Ratanakkiri province to support the preservation of natural resources, culture and eco-tourism. The indigenous community hailed the decision, but said it had come too late to ...
Hun Sen: Cambodia will not fall into Belt and Road debt trap
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Friday that Cambodia would not fall into a so-called debt trap as it embraces China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as the Kingdom only accepted projects beneficial to the country. Hun Sen was speaking in China on the first ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-cambodia-will-not-fall-belt-and-road-debt-trap
Increased Chinese rice exports MoU to be signed at 2nd BRF
Prime Minister Hun Sen is set to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on increased rice quotas with China at the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, according to a statement on Wednesday from the Ministry of Commerce. Minister of Commerce ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/increased-chinese-rice-exports-mou-be-signed-2nd-brf
Hun Sen leaves Kingdom for Belt and Road Forum in Beijing
Prime Minister Hun Sen and his delegation left the Kingdom yesterday to attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing where a number of assistance agreements are expected to be signed. Sry Thamrong, minister attached to the Prime Minister, said at Phnom Penh International Airport that ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50598349/hun-sen-leaves-kingdom-for-belt-and-road-forum-in-beijing/
Expert warns of ‘debt-trap’ ahead of Cambodian PM visit to China Belt and Road Forum
Overdependence, coupled with loans and the cost of maintaining infrastructure, could leave Cambodia in a “debt trap” to China, an expert said Tuesday, as Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen prepares to attend a summit in Beijing on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sweeping Belt and Road ...
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/trap-04232019163513.html
Villagers warned to be wary of ill-intentioned land agents
Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra on Tuesday warned villagers not to believe ill-intentioned land agents and called on people to stop all illegal grabbing of state-owned land or face punishment in accordance with the law. He said that because land prices had increased dramatically, ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-warned-be-wary-ill-intentioned-land-agents
NBC releases Financial Stability Review to the public for the first time
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) released its Financial Stability Review for the first time on Wednesday, outlining the work needed to monitor economic security and develop macro-prudential measures to cope with systemic risks. The Financial Stability Review has been produced by NBC since 2001 ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-releases-financial-stability-review-public-first-time
New name for Real Camerin’s political party gets approval
The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday gave its approval to Real Camerin to name his new political party the Khmer Conservative Party, after his first proposal, the Khmer Empire Party, was denied last month. Camerin, a former lawmaker of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-name-real-camerins-political-party-gets-approval