The Phnom Penh Post

Protesters not happy with ministry’s offer

Some 200 villagers from Koh Kong province in a longstanding dispute with the Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co Ltd were prevented by the capital’s Daun Penh district authorities from protesting at the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday. On Monday, the Ministry of ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-not-happy-ministrys-offer

Siem Reap resort in works by China firm

Shanghai-based Join.In Hospitality Management (JHM) has revealed plans to expand its Tonino Lamborghini Hotel & Resort – a luxury hotel chain – by opening a hotel in Siem Reap, its first outside China. In a press release, JHM announced earlier this week that it has ...

Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-resort-works-china-firm

Airport in Sihanoukville gets a major facelift

Sihanoukville International Airport is set to see higher passenger arrivals, thanks to the refurbishment of its passenger terminal, Cambodia Airports announced. In a press release on Wednesday, the operator of the Kingdom’s three airports said the refurbishment is in preparation for an increasing number of ...

Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airport-sihanoukville-gets-major-facelift

NEC brushes off petition from LI

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Tuesday brushed off concerns over a petition written by former opposition leader Sam Rainsy and supported by UK-based Liberal International (LI). ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-brushes-petition-li

PM says people can topple him if gov’t breaks its campaign pledges

Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday that the people could rebel to overthrow him if he did not follow through on his promises. However, he said that would be unnecessary as he would voluntarily step down if such was the case. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-says-people-can-topple-him-if-govt-breaks-its-campaign-pledges

Dispute with tycoon was settled by the court, Land Ministry says

The Ministry of Land Management on Monday said it cannot help the 292 families involved in a land dispute with Oknha Sieng Chan Heng’s Heng Aphivath Company in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, because a court verdict has already found the land to be the ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dispute-tycoon-was-settled-court-land-ministry-says

Wetlands clearance stopped

Sa’ang and Kien Svay district authorities in Kandal province stopped a military official from clearing an area of wetland, creating a canal that was siphoning water from a larger canal that served farmers in the area and filling in other canals, seizing a bulldozer in ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wetlands-clearance-stopped

Kingdom becomes top bicycle supplier to EU

Cambodia became the largest bicycle supplier to the European Union (EU) last year, overtaking Taiwan, which had held the number one spot for two decades, a recent report from the website Bike-EU.com said on Monday. The report from the leading industry newsletter associated with the ...

Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-becomes-top-bicycle-supplier-eu

Government lauds NEC efforts, dismisses concerns about lack of EU participation

The National Election Committee (NEC) was hailed by the government on Tuesday for saying that there would be 45,000 observers for the July 29 national elections. Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said that the large number of registered election observers would dispel criticism and ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-lauds-nec-efforts-dismisses-concerns-about-lack-eu-participation

Hun Sen praises Japan’s lending policies while lashing out again at US

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday shot another arrow at the Kingdom’s relations with the US, calling his country’s yet-unpaid loan of $500 million borrowed by the regime of Lon Nol “a very dirty debt”. He contrasted that by praising Japan for its aid to ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-praises-japans-lending-policies-while-lashing-out-again-us

EU donates €3.5M to the KR Tribunal

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced on Monday that the European Union (EU) has pledged a total of €3.5 million ($4.1 million) to support it in 2018, according to its press officer, Neth Peaktra. ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-donates-eu35m-kr-tribunal

Kandal villagers petition ministry in HAC dispute

Thirty villagers from Kandal province, representing 292 families who are locked in a land dispute with the Heng Akphivath Company (HAC), petitioned the Ministry of Land Management on Monday, seeking to obtain land titles. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-villagers-petition-ministry-hac-dispute

UN official urges government to reduce use of plastic

A senior environment officer for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Monday urged the Ministry of Environment to prepare a waste management system for plastics and to strive for clean air in the country, particularly in Phnom Penh. Erik Solheim, the executive director of ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-official-urges-goverment-reduce-use-plastic

Sihanoukville port kicks off use of new terminal

State-owned Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) launched its multipurpose terminal on Monday, which was praised by a government official as a way for the country to export faster and more efficiently. The $74 million Japan-backed terminal will provide an additional 330 metres for ship docking and ...

Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-port-kicks-use-new-terminal

Over $1B collected in tax revenue

The Cambodian government collected more than $1 billion in tax revenue in the first five months of the year, an increase of more than 12 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a monthly report from the General Department of Taxation (GDT) ...

Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/over-1b-collected-tax-revenue

Crash kills four staffers of NGO

Sok Samnang, the Takeo provincial police chief, said 14 Save the Children employees were returning to Phnom Penh in a private minibus from a child protection workshop in Kep province when the incident happened. ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crash-kills-four-staffers-ngo

PM announces new scheme for petrol pricing

Responding to rising oil prices in the Kingdom, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday announced measures to cut petrol taxes by around $30 million per year. ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-announces-new-scheme-petrol-pricing

Ordnance found in K Chhnang

Explosives experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre have unearthed nearly 1,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) after being called to a military base in Kampong Chhnang province. CMAC discovered 894 items of explosive material after soldiers at Cholkiri district’s Tuol Chek base came across ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ordnance-found-k-chhnang

Interior minister warns NGOs not to provoke law enforcement

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Thursday reminded civil society groups of their duty to respect the integrity of the July 29 national elections, saying the government would not tolerate attempts by them to “participate in a colour revolution”. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-minister-warns-ngos-not-provoke-law-enforcement

We’re going to Wisney World!

More than 6,000 mostly Chinese attendees witnessed the inauguration ceremony of a $1 billion Sihanoukville resort project called Wisney World in the capital on Wednesday. The event on Koh Pich, attended by several senior Cambodian government officials, is a joint venture between China’s AMC International ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/were-going-wisney-world

Workers seek pay after owner shutters factory

Some 300 garment workers from Kbal Koh Garment factory in Chbar Ampov district in Phnom Penh, whose owner unexpectedly shut the factory in January last year, protested again outside the Ministry of Labour on Tuesday to seek compensation. ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-seek-pay-after-owner-shutters-factory

CPP sees voter turnout higher than 80 percent

A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) official said the process for the upcoming elections is going “smoothly” and predicted that those who had registered to cast their ballots will do so. He said as it stands, over 80 percent of those who are registered to vote ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-sees-voter-turnout-higher-80-percent

Migrants face Thai deadline

The Ministry of Labour on Monday pledged to document what it says are the remaining 10,000 illegal Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand by the end of June. All remaining undocumented Cambodian workers after the deadline passes face repatriation by Thai authorities. ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-face-thai-deadline

Ministry to crack down on fake service charges

Tourism sector businesses will be fined up to 300,000 riel ($75) if caught imposing “service charges” without first applying to the Ministry of Tourism, an announcement issued on Monday said. The ministry’s director of the tourism, accommodation and food and beverage (F&B) management, Kim Serey ...

Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-crack-down-fake-service-charges

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