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Cargo ship with flag of Cambodia detained
Russian authorities have temporarily detained a cargo ship flying the Cambodian flag near Crimea in the Black Sea on January 3, a spokesman for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said yesterday. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cargo-ship-flag-cambodia-detained
Vietnam donates to police station in Mondolkiri
The Vietnamese province of Dak Lak is donating cash and materials to build a new police station across the border in Mondolkiri’s Koh Nhek district, according to a police official. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-donates-to-police-station-in-mondolkiri-104515/
Youth justice law ‘due this year’
Cambodia’s first juvenile justice law, in the works for nearly a decade, will be passed by the end of this year, according to the Ministry of Social of Affairs. ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-justice-law-due-year
Patent tax can now be paid at banks, department says
The General Department of Taxation notified patent owners that they have three months to pay taxes owed on their patents, but they can do so at banks this year for the first time, its director general said yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19467/patent-tax-can-now-be-paid-at-banks--department-says/
Another arrest warrant issued for Sam Rainsy
Another arrest warrant has been issued for opposition leader Sam Rainsy—who is living in France to avoid two years in jail for a defamation conviction—after he failed to turn up for questioning about a separate forgery and incitement case last month. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/104504-104504/
Ministry of environment opens new building
The Ministry of Environment on Monday inaugurated its palatial new headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, the result of a state-private land swap. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-of-environment-opens-new-building-104401/
Rice warehouses are put back on the table in talks with China
The Ministry of Commerce announced last week a $400 million proposal by three Chinese firms to build state-run rice warehousing facilities to increase the Kingdom’s storage capacity. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-warehouses-are-put-back-table-talks-china
Government takes over reins of Angkor ticket sales
The Cambodian government officially took charge of the ticket sales at the Angkor Archeological Park on January 1, after Prime Minster Hun Sen announced in November an end to the Sok Kong-owned Sokimex’s control of the service. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-takes-over-reins-angkor-ticket-sales
Police gun crackdown
Stricter controls on guns – including those carried by police – will be put in place following a spate of violent crimes involving firearms in recent weeks. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-gun-crackdown
ACU chief Yentieng ‘sorry’ for jab at cops
The head of Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), Om Yentieng, has apologised for suggesting that the Kingdom’s traffic police might be corrupt.Yentieng’s about-face came yesterday at a public meeting about the new Traffic Law – which goes into effect today – attended by Deputy Prime Minister ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-chief-yentieng-sorry-jab-cops
Hun Many says goal is to be prime minister
Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen and a CPP lawmaker, revealed during a radio show on Wednesday his ambition to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the future prime minister. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-many-says-goal-is-to-be-prime-minister-104231/
Hospital goes on defensive after ax victim’s death
Administrators at Phnom Penh’s Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital on Thursday refuted claims that hospital staff denied a brain scan, blood transfusions and surgery to a woman suffering from severe head wounds—a charge leveled by her husband shortly before she died there on Wednesday afternoon. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hospital-goes-on-defensive-after-ax-victims-death-104224/
Border cards close to vest, says Hun Manet
Hun Manet, eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen and a senior military official, took to Facebook yesterday to defend his father’s handling of the demarcation of the Cambodia-Vietnam border. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-cards-close-vest-says-hun-manet
Stung Treng governor replaced, sent to Phnom Penh
Stung Treng provincial governor Kol Sam Ol said on Tuesday that he had been replaced by his deputy, Mom Saroeun, and sent to work at the Interior Ministry in Phnom Penh. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stung-treng-governor-replaced-sent-to-phnom-penh-104130/
Assaulted lawmaker looks to US
Nhay Chamroeun, one of the two Cambodian National Rescue Party lawmakers savagelybeaten in front of the National Assembly in late October, may be seeking legal recourse through the US justice system. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/assaulted-lawmaker-looks-us
Registration of Cambodian workers in Thailand speeds up
Nearly 70,000 Cambodian migrant workers have been registered this year as legal workers in Thailand, according to a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released yesterday. ...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19217/registration-of-cambodian-workers-in-thailand-speeds-up/
‘Anarchic’ Poipet fees decried
New reports of border officials at Poipet International Checkpoint demanding extra from travellers crossing the border between Cambodia and Thailand have again thrown the spotlight on the oft-maligned western gateway to the Kingdom, with an opposition lawmaker pledging action to stop the “anarchy”. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anarchic-poipet-fees-decried
PM’s pledge: ‘no pardon’ for Rainsy
Prime Minister Hun Sen has vowed to create a new law barring political party leaders from holding dual nationalities, an apparent move to further incapacitate beleaguered CNRP president Sam Rainsy.In his latest tirade against his long-time political rival, the premier also vowed to never again ...
Vong Sokheng, Meas Sokchea and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-pledge-no-pardon-rainsy
Government to take over Veng Sreng, stop collecting tolls
Less than a month after Phnom Penh Tollway began collecting money from commuters using the factory-lined Veng Sreng Boulevard in outer Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday that the government would buy out the private firm and, as a New Year’s gift ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-to-take-over-veng-sreng-stop-collecting-tolls-104074/
CEDAC president steps down to focus on political party
Yang Sang Koma has announced that he will step down as president of the Cambodia Center for Study and Development of Agriculture (CEDAC) after his term finishes this year to focus his attention on the Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP). ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19220/cedac-president-steps-down-to-focus-on-political-party/
Cambodian PM vows dual nationality ban for politicians
Cambodia’s strongman premier Hun Sen vowed on Monday (Dec 28) to create a new law banning political party leaders from holding dual nationality, a move targeting his arch-rival who has fled overseas. ...
AFP News Staff
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/cambodian-pm-vows-dual/2381762.html
Slight decline in rice production in 2015
Rice production declined slightly in 2015 due to drought in some areas, according to estimates from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, but officials say this will not affect domestic supply or exports. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19182/slight-decline-in-rice-production-in-2015/
Cambodia, Vietnam celebrate new border posts
Nearing the end of a year that has seen tension over Cambodia’s border with Vietnam often dominate domestic political discourse, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday appeared alongside Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to inaugurate two new border posts in Ratanakkiri and Takeo provinces. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-vietnam-celebrate-new-border-posts-104005/
CPP, CNRP set meeting on draft union law
Lawmakers from the CPP and CNRP will convene on Tuesday for the first meeting of a new, ad hoc committee formed to hash out their differences over a controversial draft union law. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-cnrp-set-meeting-on-draft-union-law-104013/