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  • Anti-drug officer arrested in meth trafficking case

    The Ministry of Interior’s Anti-Drug Department will send a Military Police officer and his lover to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday after they were detained on June 4 for trafficking 2kg of methamphetamines and 8kg of marijuana.

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  • Authorities unaware of alleged abduction of Thai activist

    Cambodian Authorities said yesterday they were unaware about an alleged abduction of a Thai activist in Phnom Penh last week as claimed by Human Rights Watch.

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  • New committee created to protect Koh Kong Krao

    Prime Minister Hun Sen has created a committee tasked with monitoring Koh Kong SEZ Co Ltd’s development of Koh Kong Krao island in Koh Kong province’s Koh Kapi commune.

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  • Four arrested for manufacturing drugs

    Police from the Interior Ministry’s Anti-Drug Department on Friday arrested two Taiwanese, two Chinese nationals and seized more than seven kilogrammes of ketamine from them in the capital.

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  • PM’s diplomatic message welcomes cooperation over criticism

    Prime Minister Hun Sen aired his diplomatic message loud and clear as he commented upon the construction of a new pier and maritime security facilities centre in Preah Sihanouk province.

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  • Thais sending migrant workers back to Cambodia despite border closure

    National Police chief General Neth Savoeun today urged all officers to monitor social media platforms such as Facebook for posts by ill-intentioned groups who attack the government.

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  • Gov’t refutes rights repression claim

    A senior official said on Thursday that the government has not clamped down on freedom of speech despite accusations by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.

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  • Rural impoverished families to receive aid

    The Ministry of Planning recently completed its survey of impoverished families living in the countryside and concluded that 56,000 families are eligible to receive government assistance during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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  • Flushing out ‘dirty’ money

    The National Assembly yesterday approved the draft Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism, which is aimed at preventing and combating such activities in the Kingdom.

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  • Thai market stall owners told to waive rent for Cambodian vendors

    Thai authorities have told owners of stalls in Sa Kaeo province’s Ban Khlong Luk village to waive rentals of Cambodian vendors in Rong Kluea market who are unable to resume operations following the closure of the border due to COVID-19 fears.

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  • God-brothers in court over $173,325 import dispute

    Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday began the trial of the owner of a local import and export company accused of cheating more than $170,000 from his god-brother between 2018 and 2019 in the capital.

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  • Police officers told to monitor all social media posts

    National Police chief General Neth Savoeun today urged all officers to monitor social media platforms such as Facebook for posts by ill-intentioned groups who attack the government.’’

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  • Fines await late tax filing

    Accountants, auditors, enterprises and NGOs that delay the submission of their tax return forms or commit accounting fraud are liable to a fine of more than 30 million riel ($7,300), according to a new sub-decree on Transactional Penalties for Violations in Accounting and Auditing Laws.

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  • Kingdom’s healthcare revamped

    More than 20,000 medical staff and some $166 million will be transferred to each capital and provincial administrations to implement healthcare services for residents, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said on Wednesday.

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  • More than 2,000 forestry crimes uncovered from January till April

    The Ministry of Environment said today that a total of 2,333 cases of natural resource offences were cracked down by rangers in the first four months of this year and nearly 200 people have been sent to court.

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  • Youth cyclists blocked in Koh Kong province

    Koh Kong provincial police confiscated more than 10 bicycles from a group of Mother Nature Organisation youths who were riding from Koh Kong province to Phnom Penh to submit a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen proposing that Koh Kong Krao Island be certified a protected area.

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  • CSOs express concerns on Lao’s Mekong hydro project

    Five civil society organisations (CSOs) in Cambodia working on the Luang Prabang hydropower project in Laos said in a press statement on Tuesday that it should be delayed because Lao authorities have insufficient details concerning the transboundary impact assessment and don’t have concrete measures to mitigate its impact on lower Mekong countries.

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  • Kandal protests staged over unpaid out-of-work allowances

    The Ministry of Labour yesterday announced the transfer of the third round of out-of-work allowances to a further 165 enterprises in the garment and hospitality sectors.

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  • Drilling firm condemned after death of two workers

    The Building and Wood Workers’ Trade Union Federation of Cambodia (BWTUC) and the Centre for Alliance of Labour and Human Rights (Central) on Tuesday urged the government to suspend the operations of a company conducting drilling operations at a mountain in Kampot after two employees were killed by falling rocks on Friday.

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  • Vietnam says ‘border-some’ tents are on its territory

    The Vietnamese government has said that the tents set up by its soldiers in undemarcated border areas in Kandal province are located “completely within” Vietnamese territory, a claim which was rejected yesterday by Cambodia Border Affairs Committee.

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