Government
Phone subscriptions exceed 21 million mark
The total number of telephone subscriptions in Cambodia surpassed the 21-million mark earlier this year ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/phone-subscriptions-exceed-21-million-mark
Group demands Don Sahong investigation
An environmental youth group has asked the National Assembly’s head of the Environment and Water Resource Commission, Pol Hom, to visit and investigate the pollution that will be caused by construction of Laos’ Don Sahong hydropower dam. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24811/group-demands-don-sahong-investigation/
ACU to send officials to S. Korea to investigate ambassador case
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will send officials to South Korea next month to further investigate the case of former ambassador Suth Dina, who was arrested and detained at Prey Sar prison early last month on corruption charges. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24813/acu-to-send-officials-to-s--korea-to-investigate-ambassador-case/
Panama papers link Justice minister to fraudsters
Two convicted Cambodian-American fraudsters were named among five shareholders, including Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana, in a shadowy offshore company based in the British Virgin Islands in the latest trove of “Panama Papers,” which were released on Tuesday. ...
Taylor O'Connell and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/panama-papers-link-justice-minister-to-fraudsters-112429/
PM to meet Russian president next week
Prime Minister Hun Sen will pay an official visit to the Russia Federation next week, where he will have a bilateral meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24806/pm-to-meet-russian-president-next-week/
Seized timber to be auctioned
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday confirmed official announcements made on Monday that about 70,000 cubic meters of timber confiscated by the National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) would be put up for auction, reneging on his previous statement that the timber would go to the Education Ministry ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24814/seized-timber-to-be-auctioned/
Canberra embassy probed for 'duty-free abuse': report
Cambodia’s ambassador to Australia yesterday swiftly denied allegations of corruption amid reports the embassy is under investigation for links to an alleged alcohol and tobacco black market that took in roughly $200,000. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/canberra-embassy-probed-duty-free-abuse-report
Registration of voters bumped back again
National Election Committee spokesman Hang Puthea yesterday maintained that the country remains on track to hold commune elections in June 2017 despite the body again postponing the registration of voters in a new digital system because necessary equipment had not yet been acquired. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/registration-voters-bumped-back-again
Cambodia urged to join TPP
The Cambodian government needs to take stock of its economic place within ASEAN, and globally, to continue its growth trajectory given the anticipated ratification of a major international trade pact expected to erode the competitiveness of the Kingdom’s biggest industrial sector, US Ambassador to Cambodia ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-urged-join-tpp
Ministry calls for better workplace safety
The Labor Ministry has called for improvements to workplace safety in response to an International Labor Organization (ILO) report stating that 181 workers died in more than 30,000 workplace accidents across the Kingdom last year, according to officials. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24766/ministry-calls-for-better-workplace-safety/
Border friendship exchange programme held in Hanoi
The event was attended by President Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Defense Ngo Xuan Lich, Minister of Public Security To Lam, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army Luong Cuong as well as Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hong Xiaoyong, Lao ...
Vietname Net Bridge
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/156136/border-friendship-exchange-programme-held-in-hanoi.html
Factories create 12,000 new first-quarter jobs
Forty factories were registered during the first three months of the year, creating over 12,000 jobs, according to new data by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-create-12000-new-first-quarter-jobs
Development council officer charged over bribery claim
An official at the Council for the Development of Cambodia was charged with bribery over the weekend after being arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), just weeks after the graft-fighting body arrested a Foreign Affairs Ministry official and the ambassador to South Korea. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/development-council-officer-charged-over-bribery-claim-112324/
Preah Vihear replica commander transferred
The Thai commander who was the mastermind behind the scale replica of the Preah Vihear temple complex on Pha Mor E-Daeng cliff has been transferred following concerns aired by the Thai Foreign Ministry about the structure’s effect on relations with Cambodia. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24722/preah-vihear-replica-commander-transferred/
Government calls rally against ACU an act of ‘rebellion’
The government on Sunday warned of a crackdown on activists and advocacy groups set to protest today against the recent arrests of four rights workers and an election official, calling the planned demonstration an act of “urban rebellion.” ...
Zsombor Peter and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-calls-rally-against-acu-an-act-of-rebellion-112316/
Thai authorities arrest 29 Cambodians for logging
Twenty-nine Cambodian men were arrested while logging rosewood in the mountains of Thailand’s Prachinburi province on Wednesday, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement on Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-authorities-arrest-29-cambodians-for-logging-112301/
New head of human rights committee
Keo Remy, a Council of Ministers secretary of state and former member of the opposition, will replace Mak Sambath as the head of the Cambodia Human Rights Committee (CHRC), according to a Royal Decree issued last Wednesday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24718/new-head-of-human-rights-committee/
Gov’t headed to Nauru soon over potential resettlements
Cambodian refugee officials are expected to arrive on the shores of chaotic Nauru this month to interview two Iranian refugees about resettling in the Kingdom under a controversial deal with Australia. ...
Erin Handley and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-headed-nauru-soon-over-potential-resettlements
Prime minister's website hacked
Prime Minister Hun Sen has threatened to use the full force of the law against the hackers who attacked his website early on Saturday morning. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24690/prime-minister-s-website-hacked/
Sweden names new envoy to Cambodia
The Swedish Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that their current ambassador to Cambodia, Anna Maj Hultgard, will be moving on in September. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sweden-names-new-envoy-cambodia
JICA to fund renovation of ‘Friendship’ bridge
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to provide $30 million in grants for renovation of Chroy Changvar Bridge ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jica-fund-renovation-friendship-bridge
Philippines and Cambodia to protect migrant rights
In order to promote and protect the rights of migrants and migrant workers, Cambodia and the Philippines held their first bilateral roundtable meeting over migration earlier this week. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24678/philippines-and-cambodia-to-protect-migrant-rights/
Cambodia hosting valuers congress
Cambodia is hosting the two-day 19th ASEAN Valuers Association (AVA) Congress, the first time it has been held in the Kingdom. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24665/cambodia-hosting-valuers-congress/
EU calls for release of officials
The European Union (EU) has called on the government to release the Adhoc, National Election Committee and United Nations officials who have been charged and imprisoned over the sex scandal involving acting opposition party president Kem Sokha. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24681/eu-calls-for-release-of-officials/