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EBA fact-finding team to arrive in upcoming weeks: EU Ambassador
A fact-finding mission sent by the European Union will arrive in Cambodia late this month or early April, European Union Ambassador George Edgar announced this week. During a meeting Tuesday, the EU Ambassador told Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak that an EU delegation is scheduled ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50584565/eba-fact-finding-team-to-arrive-in-upcoming-weeks-eu-ambassador/
NEC to start party, candidate registrations for elections
The National Election Committee (NEC) is to start accepting regist-rations for political parties and candidates from March 7-11 in preparation for the upcoming municipal, provincial, town, district and commune council elections on Sunday, May 26. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea told The Post on Wednesday that ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-start-party-candidate-registrations-elections
$1M for women in politics project
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided more than $1 million to a Collective Action to Support Women’s Rights (CASWR) project to promote the leadership and engagement of women in politics. The CASWR initiative is a 32-month project designed to advance meaningful representation ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/1m-women-politics-project
Cambodian army backs business group in land dispute, defying government order
Cambodia’s military is backing a powerful company in its seizure of land in Preah Vihear province, guarding bulldozers sent to destroy villagers’ crops and defying government orders not to get involved in land disputes, Cambodian sources say. Speaking to RFA’s Khmer Service on Wednesday, one village ...
Richard Finney
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/army-03062019164901.html
Agriculture issues ‘unresolved’
At the capital’s Peace Palace on Monday, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sokhon led a delegation at a meeting with the Supreme Consultation Forum to discuss all issues under the ministry’s remit. Following the meeting, some council members expressed dismay that several of ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/agriculture-issues-unresolved
Countdown to expressway groundbreaking begins
The groundbreaking of the nearly $2-billion expressway connecting the capital and Sihanoukville has been confirmed for March 22. The expressway will start at Tomnop Kobsrov Street, between Cham Chao and Krang Thnong communes, northwest of Phnom Penh International Airport, said Kong Vimean, spokesman for the ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583762/countdown-to-expressway-groundbreaking-begins/
Officials note rise in number of female civil servants
Women’s Affairs Minister Ing Kantha Phavi and National Assembly president Heng Samrin yesterday highlighted an increase in the number of women who are working in the public sector during a celebration to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day on Friday. Ms Kantha Phavi said females accounted ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583890/officials-note-rise-in-number-of-female-civil-servants/
NGOs draft petition to improve women’s rights
As International Women’s Day approaches, 12 organisations have finished drafting a petition calling on the government to continue to address challenges women are facing, including violence, inequality and poverty. The 12 organisations include the Centre for Alliance of Labour and Human Rights, Coalition of Cambodian ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583888/ngos-draft-petition-to-improve-womens-rights/
CPP members urged to prepare for election
With a sub-national election approaching, the ruling CPP has called on its members to work hand-in-hand to promote its platforms. In a letter dated Friday and released to the public yesterday, CPP vice president and Senate president Say Chhum asked the party committee to have ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583503/cpp-members-urged-to-prepare-for-election/
KRP president slammed over land dispute criticism
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall on Saturday issued a letter defending provincial Governor Yun Min against criticism from the Khmer Rise Party, which accused him mismanaging a land dispute in Prey Nop district. On Wednesday, Mr Min issued an instruction letter allowing lawyer Than Thavrak to ...
Ben Sokhean and Mom Kunthea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583465/krp-president-slammed-over-land-dispute-criticism/
Census to run until March 13
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on Cambodians to take part in the national census by providing accurate information to officers in order to obtain correct national statistics for the Kingdom’s development. And as if to prove his point, the prime minister also gave an ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/census-run-until-march-13
PP gov’t to clean capital’s canal
The municipal Department of Public Works and Transport said on Thursday that it planned to remove tonnes of waste disorderly disposed of in the capital’s sewage canal next week. The move followed widespread criticism of mass floating rubbish and the municipal authority’s alleged inaction. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pp-govt-clean-capitals-canal
‘Fake news’ fuels smog fears
The Ministry of Environment has said concerns over Phnom Penh’s air quality are being fuelled by “fake news” on social media sites by companies aiming to promote the sale of air quality testing kits. “There has been a lot of fake news claiming that air ...
Husain Haider
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fake-news-fuels-smog-fears
Minister of Education meets with Microsoft
Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron met with representatives of Microsoft on Wednesday at the National Sport Training Center in Phnom Penh to support the multinational firm’s assistance with the development and expansion of the New Generation Schools (NGS) programme. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-education-meets-microsoft
Two US Congressmen seek review of Cambodia’s duty-free exports status
Two US congressmen on Tuesday introduced the Cambodia Trade Act bill to ask US President Donald Trump’s administration to review the preferential trade treatment under the General System of Preferences that Cambodia receives from the United States. The CTA bill will require the administration to ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50582341/two-us-congressmen-seek-review-of-cambodias-duty-free-exports-status/
Water Resources Ministry seeks more research funds
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has called on the National Assembly to provide more research funds in order to address increasing temperatures in the Kingdom. According to the National Assembly website, the call was made during a meeting with the parliamentary body yesterday ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50582340/water-resources-ministry-seeks-more-research-funds/
Mobile job centre inaugurated
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training on Tuesday unveiled a mobile job centre to take employment services to jobseekers across the country, especially those in rural areas, thanks to the completion of the project in collaboration with Swedish organisations. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mobile-job-centre-inaugurated
Businesses asked to relocate
The Phnom Penh Municipal Hall has requested owners of factories, enterprises, warehouses and garages to relocate to the outskirts along the capital’s third ring road, which is still under construction and expected to be completed by 2021. It said the facilities’ locations in the city ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/businesses-asked-relocate
Drought a ‘grave concern’
Local communities in rural areas across the Kingdom have expressed grave concerns over the severe lack of water for their daily consumption amid a prolonged drought that has caused streams, creeks, lakes and ponds to gradually dry up. Due to high demand for water to ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-grave-concern
Germany donates €5M to boost local services
The German government has committed €5 million (about $5.68 million) to a joint government and civil society programme to boost cooperation between local authorities, local service providers and the public to improve performance. The German Embassy announced the funding of the Implementation of Social Accountability ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/germany-donates-eu5m-boost-local-services
NGOs want environmental impact report access
Civil society organisations dealing with environmental issues yesterday urged the Environment Ministry to disclose environmental impact assessment reports due to a lack of public information on whether or not companies comply with their reports after development projects have been approved. In a workshop on “Promoting Environmental ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50581980/ngos-want-environmental-impact-report-access/
Families stuck in Oddar Meanchey land row seek solution from PM, ministry
Fourteen families in Oddar Meanchey province’s O’Smach commune on Friday sent a letter to Chea Sophara, Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, asking him to intervene in their land dispute with military officials. The families accused border military commander Pok Sophal and three ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-stuck-oddar-meanchey-land-row-seek-solution-pm-ministry
PM: Do not overload clinics trying to get rabies vaccine
Prime Minister Hun Sen advised people on Monday not to be irrationally afraid of rabies to the extent of flocking to get vaccinated against the disease, and rendering institutions unable to provide timely services. The prime minister’s call came during the 7th National Clean City ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-do-not-overload-clinics-trying-get-rabies-vaccine
Koh Kong agriculture head denies selling state property
Meng Leang, the director of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ Koh Kong department, has rejected allegations by local media that he sold state land, as the ministry investigates the matter. Meng Leang told The Post that the media reports are completely false. He ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-agriculture-head-denies-selling-state-property