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TRC gives up revenue collection to ministry
The Kingdom’s telecom regulator announced this week that it would transfer telco operator revenues it traditionally receives to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications as part of government reforms on revenue collection. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trc-gives-revenue-collection-ministry
Ministry stamps out butts
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday cancelled an import permit for a Cambodian company after it came to light that “natural fertilizer” it had ordered from Ukraine was composed largely of cigarette butts, a ministry statement said. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/ministry-stamps-out-butts
First Singapore patent recognised in Cambodia: IPOS
The first Singapore patent has been granted protection and recognised in Cambodia, less than two months after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH). ...
Channel News Asia News Staff
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/first-singapore-patent/1706144.html
Police arrest four smuggling crystal meth from Laos
Police arrested four men in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district on Sunday on suspicion of smuggling drugs from Laos, confiscating more than half a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine in the bust, officials said Monday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-four-smuggling-crystal-meth-from-laos-79356/
Hun Sen slaps freeze on new gov’t positions, departments
Prime Minister Hun Sen last week issued a directive ordering all government bodies to hold off on new hires for the rest of the year except to fill existing positions being vacated, in an apparent bid to keep spending in line with the current state ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-slaps-freeze-on-new-govt-positions-departments-79340/
Environment officials to monitor conditions
The Ministry of Environment is set to join the Ministry of Labour in the monitoring of garment factory workplaces, after creating a working group that will probe the environmental safety of all plants in Cambodia. At a press conference at the ministry yesterday, Minister of Environment ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/environment-officials-monitor-conditions
NA commission calls ministers over Bokor
The National Assembly’s Seventh Commission, which oversees tourism and culture, summoned four government ministers to answer questions yesterday regarding the development and future of Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/na-commission-calls-ministers-over-bokor
Massive crack in ‘White Building’ widens
A four-story crack in the south-facing side of Phnom Penh’s aging “White Building”—which first appeared in early February as a pile driver broke up earth inside an adjacent construction site—widened over the weekend, shortly after a meeting between worried tenants and the firms behind a ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/massive-crack-in-white-building-widens-79358/
Plantations lose land for encroaching on farms
Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Monday said that more than 9,000 hectares granted to companies as economic land concessions (ELCs) were recently taken back from the owners because local villagers had been farming the land first, and announced that 14 companies had been put ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/plantations-lose-land-for-encroaching-on-farms-79364/
Gov’t to examine Vietnamese grave site on Bokor mountain
In the coming weeks, a task force composed of officials from the ministries of tourism, religion, culture and education will lead an expedition to a remote patch of forest on Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain where Vietnamese tourists pray, the education minister said Monday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-examine-vietnamese-grave-site-on-bokor-mountain-79352/
Inspection guide for SMEs waits for funding
Due to a lack of funding, the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts has delayed publishing guidelines that are meant to increase clarity on inspection procedures for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/inspection-guide-smes-waits-funding
New bus links plan between far South, Malaysia
The Transport Ministry is speeding up work on a joint plan for bus services that would link the far South and Malaysia to meet the needs of commuters between the two countries. Thailand also plans to hold talks with Cambodian authorities this month over increasing ...
Amornrat Mahitthirook
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/491558/bus-scheme-seeks-more-malaysia-links
Government: over 14,000 hectares of land cut off to hand over to people in Koh Kong, Preah Vihear provinces
Environment Minister, Say Sam Al, said on Monday that the Royal Government of Cambodia has cut off over 14,000 hectares of land and handed over to citizens, and military forces. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1AZj6oE
Cambodia's construction sector receives 2.5 bln USD investment last year
Cambodia’s construction sector attracted a total investment of 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, down 10 percent from 2.77 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, according to official data on Monday. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=271483
Acid attacker among 22 released from prison
At the behest of Prime Minister Hun Sen, prisons across the country Sunday marked International Women’s Day by releasing a total of 22 female inmates who are either pregnant or had young children with them in jail, including a woman convicted of attempted murder over ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acid-attacker-among-22-released-from-prison-79294/
Convicted dissident gets green light to register party
The Interior Ministry has given Cambodian dissident Sourn Serey Ratha permission to proceed with the registration of a political party despite the self-exiled government critic’s recent conviction in absentia for plotting an attack on the state. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/convicted-dissident-gets-green-light-to-register-party-79308/
Gov’t to discuss Bokor mountain management
Two government ministers will meet with a National Assembly commission on Monday to discuss a tourism management plan for Bokor Mountain, according to CNRP lawmaker Yem Ponhearith, who last month visited the mountain to inspect burial sites popular with Vietnamese tourists. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-discuss-bokor-mountain-management-79257/
Hun Sen forms group to oversee bodyguards
Prime Minister Hun Sen last week appointed 14 high-ranking officials to a working group that is now responsible for overseeing his bodyguard unit during all events that he and his wife attend, the unit’s commander said Thursday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-forms-group-to-oversee-bodyguards-79209/
Police close orphanage over child sex claims
Police shut down the Our Home orphanage and school in Phnom Penh on Thursday, two days after child sex abuse allegations led to the arrest of its director—a former head of the anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), which carried out the investigation. ...
Ben Sokhean and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-close-orphanage-over-child-sex-claims-79194/
High number of migrant workers create political, economic challenges
There are now more than 1 million estimated Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand. This could be a threat to Cambodia’s economy and politics in the future, an analyst says. ...
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/high-number-of-migrant-workers-create-political-economic-challenges/2667562.html
Military police to join in mining crackdown
More than 600 military police will be sent as reinforcements all over Cambodia today to aid the National Police, Ministry of Mines and Energy authorities and court officials as they inspect and crack down on illegal mining in the Kingdom. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/military-police-join-mining-crackdown
On Tonle Sap lake, another attack over fishing
The body of a fisherman was discovered floating in the Tonle Sap lake in Kompong Chhnang province’s Boribor district on Tuesday after a vicious boating attack, police said Wednesday, in what is the fourth such incident on the lake this year. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-tonle-sap-lake-another-attack-over-fishing-79139/
Sihanoukville governor removed
Chin Sarin has been removed as Sihanoukville’s governor, according to the Interior Ministry, less than four months after the city’s police chief was sacked amid criticism that he was sleeping on the job as a violent crime wave swept through the seaside tourist hub. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sihanoukville-governor-removed-90379/
Russia eyes Polonsky with extradition treaty
Russia and Cambodia are in the final stages of drafting an extradition treaty that would clear the way for Moscow to have fugitive developer Sergei Polonsky sent home to face multimillion-dollar embezzlement charges, Russian media reported Wednesday. ...
Ben Woods
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/russia-eyes-polonsky-with-extradition-treaty-79135/