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Land petitioners return to capital

Three groups made up of nearly 100 people in land disputes from Siem Reap, Koh Kong and Kandal provinces gathered yesterday in front of the Ministry of Land Management and the Prime Minister’s cabinet office asking the institutions to resolve their problems. ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504866/land-petitioners-return-to-capital/

Yeak Loam Lake given protected status

The government yesterday announced a sub-decree by the office of the Prime Minister to designate Yeak Loam Lake in Ban Lung city in the northeastern province of Ratanakkiri as a new wildlife and ecological protected area. ...

Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50503203/yeak-loam-lake-given-protected-status/

Prime Minister to reveal new oil policy next week

With the price of oil in the international market on the rise, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced he will unveil a new policy to deal with the impact of more expensive crude on the 28th of this month. ...

May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50502734/prime-minister-to-reveal-new-oil-policy-next-week/

Gov’t continues China tilt as ties with the US slide on ‘interference’ in Kingdom’s internal affairs

China has granted some $131 million in aid to the Cambodian military. It comes as yet another sign that the Kingdom is strengthening strategic ties with its Asian neighbour to counter increasingly cold relations with the United States. The aid was announced as part of ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-continues-china-tilt-ties-us-slide-interference-kingdoms-internal-affairs

New terminal to allow Sihanoukville port to process bigger loads

The Kingdom’s only deep-sea port, operated by state-owned Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), will launch a new multipurpose terminal on June 25, to accommodate larger vessels with heavy loads, it said on Wednesday. PAS Chairman and CEO Lou Kim Chhun said the inauguration of the multipurpose ...

Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-terminal-allow-sihanoukville-port-process-bigger-loads

Preah Vihear families seek land dispute solution

Almost 150 people representing some 253 families from Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district travelled to Phnom Penh on Tuesday to seek help from the authorities to resolve an ongoing land dispute. The families, who have been evicted from their villages, had also petitioned the ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-families-seek-land-dispute-solution

Prime Minister unveils plan for new road along Thai border

The government yesterday announced its intention to pitch a new project to China that would consist of a road along the border with Thailand connecting the provinces of Pailin and Koh Kong. ...

Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50499726/prime-minister-unveils-plan-for-new-road-along-thai-border/

National Road 6 officially in service

Following the completion in July of the section stretching from Siem Reap to Kampong Cham province, National Road 6 was officially inaugurated yesterday in a ceremony presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...

Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50499590/national-road-6-officially-in-service/

Hun Sen blames forest loss on population rise

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday blamed the Kingdom’s rising population as a factor contributing to deforestation. He also told government critics who lived on deforested land to return it to the authorities for replanting. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-blames-forest-loss-population-rise

Rainsy: PM will lose legitimacy after polls

The former president of the now dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Sam Rainsy, believes the political situation in the Kingdom is ripe for change. He said regardless of the results of the election, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s position will become untenable after he loses ...

Meas Sokchea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-pm-will-lose-legitimacy-after-polls

Boost child rights: Hun Sen

As International Children’s Day and the World Day Against Child Labour draw near, Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on ministries, institutions and local authorities to prevent violations of children’s rights and to take action to protect children from all forms of violence while promoting ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50494033/boost-child-rights-hun-sen/

Cambodia's Hun Sen Calls Parties on Ballot Real Opposition

Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen denied on Tuesday that 20 small and little-known political parties registered to compete in July 29 national elections were created by his ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) to provide an illusion of political opposition in the coming polls. ...

Richard Finney
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/parties-05222018161010.html

Are Cambodia and Laos really any closer to resolving their border dispute?

Cambodia and Los have again agreed to work together to resolve the issue of their disputed border area. This time, two countries decided to set up a coordination mechanism at the departmental level to facilitate the work, while seeking more frequent meetings between the board committees of ...

Tae-jun Kang
https://thediplomat.com/2018/05/are-cambodia-and-laos-really-any-closer-to-resolving-their-border-dispute/

Mine of information

Prime Minister Hun Sen chastised the head of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), Cambodia’s leading demining organisation, on Thursday during a speech to close out the National Strategic Plan of Mine Action Conference . ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mine-information

Agricultural mapping project to be expanded nationwide

With agricultural mapping still in its infancy in the Kingdom, authorities have announced that their programme to boost yields through the use of spatial information technology will be extended to the whole country, an endeavour that will take at least three years to complete. ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50489460/agricultural-mapping-project-to-be-expanded-nationwide/

Sar Kheng warns officials, security forces against complacency

Interior Minister Sar Kheng told provincial security forces in Kratie on Thursday to remain vigilant for any opposition activity in the run-up to July’s national elections, while also warning that a popular opposition movement would only come about from the government’s failure to cater to ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-warns-officials-security-forces-against-complacency

Youths encouraged to become engineers

Senior government officials said yesterday that Cambodia needs about 35,000 engineers between 2018 and 2020 to serve in several sectors. Pich Sophorn, secretary of state at the Labour Ministry and also vice chairman of the Board of Engineers Cambodia, said yesterday at the board’s annual ...

Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50484406/youths-encouraged-to-become-engineers/

Public lot on riverside eyed for major project

Plans appear to be in the works to develop a central stretch of prime riverfront real estate currently owned by a state-run enterprise into a sprawling commercial development, according to sources involved with the landowner, though key government officials professed to be in the dark ...

Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/public-lot-riverside-eyed-major-project

Hun Sen comes to China's defence, praises investment and development aid

Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech inaugurating a Chinese-funded university in Kratie on Wednesday to defend Chinese investment in Cambodia, which has come under fire in recent months both for its adverse economic side effects and its perceived potential for political influence. ...

Ben Sokhean and Andrew Nachemson
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-comes-chinas-defence-praises-investment-and-development-aid

Land on capital’s riverfront is opened up for investment

The government has signed off on a proposal to designate more than 9 hectares of land along Phnom Penh’s riverfront as state-private land, opening it up for private investment or long-term leasing. The 9.25-hectare stretch of riverfront from the capital’s Night Market to the Chroy ...

Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/land-capitals-riverfront-opened-investment

PM orders minister to end land dispute

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the Minister of Land Management to check on and handle more than 580 land plots for citizens properly to end a land dispute on Koh Rong in Preah Sihanouk province. ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50480079/pm-orders-minister-to-end-land-dispute/

Prime Minister: Take back islands from inactive developers

The government will “take back” land on roughly 30 islands from private companies that have not made progress on planned developments, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech on Monday that also targeted land-grabbing villagers and idle provincial governors. ...

Phak Seangly and Daphne Chen
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prime-minister-take-back-islands-inactive-developers

Free buses for Pchum Ben

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced that about 200 public buses will be provided for people to use for free during Pchum Ben in October. Mr Hun Sen made the announcement during a meeting with reps from trade unions and education associations, along with CPP ...

Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50303638/free-buses-for-pchum-ben/

PM warns unions ahead of poll

In a closed-door meeting with garment industry union leaders on Sunday, Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered his audience to ensure that factory workers don’t organise political protests or associate with the remnants of the now-dissolved opposition party. While no audio from the speech was released ...

Yon Sineat, Ben Sokhean and Andrew Nachemson
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-warns-unions-ahead-poll

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