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Cassava processing factory to open

Hong Kong-based Green Leader Holdings Group Co Ltd, which announced its first cassava processing factory earlier this year, aims to commence operations by next year, according to Green Leader (Cambodia) Co Ltd CEO Gao Hua. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-processing-factory-open

France hopes for closer ties with Kingdom

French National Assembly vice-president Sylvain Waserman wishes to strengthen and expand diplomacy and cooperation with the Cambodian National Assembly, a statement issued on Monday said. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/france-hopes-closer-ties-kingdom

Mondulkiri Bunong families seek government intervention

Fourteen indigenous families from Mondulkiri province’s Dak Dam commune have sought urgent intervention from local authorities and a human rights NGO after machinery was used to clear their farmland. ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-bunong-families-seek-government-intervention

USAID project helps trafficking victims

While human trafficking remains a serious concern in the Kingdom, a project initiated by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) helped 108 victims to receive compensation, while a further 1,482 also benefited from the project. ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/usaid-project-helps-trafficking-victims

Groups advocate employment for the disabled

Civil society organisations whose work mainly focuses on advocating the welfare of people with disabilities across Asia appealed to their governments to pay more attention to the private sectors offering job opportunities for disabled people. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-advocate-employment-disabled

PM: Electricity rates to drop ‘in 14 days’

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday pledged that electricity rates will drop across the Kingdom next year, saying his “sharing policy”, promised before the July 29 national elections, “will come true in the next 14 days”. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-electricity-rates-drop-14-days

Lower Sesan II dam opens

Situated in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district, the hydropower dam is Asia’s longest at 6.5km. It is a joint venture by Chinese company Hydrolancang International, Cambodian company Royal Group, and Vietnamese company Vietnam Electricity. The project is a 45-year Build-Operate-Transfer contract, in which five years was ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lower-sesan-ii-dam-opens

Kong Korm: ‘Arrogant’ Sam Rainsy has ‘betrayed the people’s will’

Kong Korm, the former top adviser to the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) who recently announced his return to the political stage, has blasted Sam Rainsy’s “arrogance”.​ He said the leadership of the newly nominated “acting president” of the party has “betrayed the people’s ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/kong-korm-arrogant-sam-rainsy-has-betrayed-peoples-will

PM hails ‘troubled’ Koh Kong project

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday lauded the Chinese developer behind Koh Kong province’s $3.8 billion tourism project, despite it causing a decade-long dispute with the villagers there. “The Union Development Group [UDG] transformed the quiet area in Koh Kong province into an attractive tourist ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-hails-troubled-koh-kong-project

Activists have charges dropped

Phnom Penh Municipal Court dropped the charges against three land activists on December 14, rejecting the accusations of extortion and property damage brought against the trio by the owner of a development company.​ ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-have-charges-dropped

CMAC ups cooperation with Thai counterpart

Cambodian and Thai mine authorities have agreed to step up cooperation in demining activities along the two countries’ frontier, the former’s top official said on Thursday. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-ups-cooperation-thai-counterpart

China gifts Kingdom 20 new clinics

The China International Development Cooperation Agency on Wednesday donated 20 additional mobile clinics to the Ministry of Health as part of ongoing Chinese aid to the Kingdom. ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-gifts-kingdom-20-new-clinics

Phone app to report road damage launched

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport launched a phone app on Thursday which allows the people to report problems with the country’s roads directly to the ministry in a big leap forward for road safety in the Kingdom. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phone-app-report-road-damage-launched

Assembly passes amendment to Political Party Law Article 45

The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved a proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties in a move that could pave the way for former senior opposition leaders banned for five years to return to the political stage. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/assembly-passes-amendment-political-party-law-article-45

Cambodia to host first ‘IT Camp’ in Kingdom

Cambodia’s first ever computing camp is due to be held in Siem Reap this month to promote literacy on cyber security, open-source software, social innovation and the benefits of open data, according to its organizers.The five-day ICT Camp 2018, organized by Open Development Cambodia (ODC), ...

Sok Sopheakpanha
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodia-to-host-first-it-camp-in-kingdom/4691502.html

PM open to wage demands

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday asked the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training to consider the request of six union groups who have petitioned the government to set a minimum wage for workers in the construction and service sectors. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-open-wage-demands

Gov’t: Thousands of migrant workers ‘not received rights’

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Wednesday said there are still thousands of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand who have not received the full legitimate rights that could protect them from abuses. This, he said was despite the two countries having laid out procedures and ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-thousands-migrant-workers-not-received-rights

Preah Vihear court takes legal action against three illegal loggers

Preah Vihear provincial court is taking action against three suspects for illegal forest clearing in Prey Lang and Boeung Per Wildlife Sanctuaries and death threats following a complaint from a team of park rangers and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) on Tuesday, according to ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-court-takes-legal-action-against-three-illegal-loggers

Hun Sen rejects ‘rift’ rumours spread by ‘stupid gangsters’

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday denied a “rift” among top leaders of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), and rejected claims that Senate president Say Chhum and Interior Minister Sar Kheng were set to be removed from their positions as rumours spread by “gangsters”. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-rejects-rift-rumours-spread-stupid-gangsters

General Department of Taxation collects $2B

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected more than $2 billion in revenue during the first 11 months of the year, an increase of 12.48 per cent compared to the same period last year, a Tuesday departmental report said. ...

Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/general-department-taxation-collects-2b

Siem Reap landmine museum to reopen after weapons seizure

It was announced on Sunday that the Cambodian Landmine Museum near Siem Reap will soon reopen to tourists, ending three months of closure following the arrest of its staff for alleged illegal gun procession. The museum’s international project manager Bill Morse wrote in a Facebook ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-landmine-museum-reopen-after-weapons-seizure

Local and international experts to train 1,221 environmental rangers

The training will be conducted through a cooperation between the Ministry of Environment’s General Department of Administration for Nature Conservation and Protection and the US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Office of Anti-Crime Programmes (INL/C), and US Forest Service. ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-and-international-experts-train-1221-environmental-rangers

Kratie military police question illegal loggers

Kratie provincial court granted Military Police permission to bring two suspects involved with operating an illegal charcoal kiln back to a provincial military police base on Sunday for further questioning. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-military-police-question-illegal-loggers

Loggers detained in wildlife sanctuary

Rangers and officials from the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) detained 12 loggers and confiscated seven chainsaws and three cubic meters of timber in Kampong Thom province’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-detained-wildlife-sanctuary

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