Prime Minister Hun Sen on March 17 explained why the ASEAN-US summit initially scheduled for March 28-29 has been postponed, apparently in response to critics who speculated that Cambodia as ASEAN chair would not agree to meet with the US. Speaking at the inauguration of the SOS Children’s Village in Prey Veng province, Hun Sen said some critics had incorrectly assumed that the postponement was due to the ASEAN chair not wanting to go ahead with the summit. “But I want to advise them and give them more information to fill in the gaps in the knowledge of certain people…
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In a bid to end a dispute between former NagaWorld staff and the integrated resort, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training is calling on the strikers, including those just released on bail, to come to the negotiation table. The call came after eight of the 11 NagaWorld unionists were released on bail – with three others reportedly released on March 17 – to attend negotiations to end the dispute. The ministry said they intervened to seek bail, but the unionists were no shows. “On the afternoon of March 16, representatives of NagaWorld responded to the ministry’s invitation and attended…
The Ministry of Environment expects the number of Asian elephants in Cambodia to increase after park rangers in Mondulkiri province and researchers from World Wildlife Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF Cambodia) spotted a herd of the animals in Sre Pok Wildlife Sanctuary on March 16. Ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra Pheaktra told The Post on March 17 that seeing the herd provided new hope for the conservation of elephants in Cambodia, as the sanctuary is connected to the Phnom Prich, Lumphat and Keo Seima wildlife sanctuaries in Mondulkiri and neighbouring Ratanakkiri. Pheaktra said these four sanctuaries were rich habitat and suitable…
Cambodia is continuing discussions regarding the hosting of refugees from Afghanistan, and Prime Minister Hun Sen has stated that the Kingdom would also host Ukrainians should the need eventually arise for them seek refuge amid armed conflict with Russia. Prime Minister Hun Sen met with staff from the Asia Foundation on March 17 briefly to talk about their request for permission for Afghan refugees to reside in Cambodia on a temporary basis. The issue will be discussed at length between the Foundation director and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on March 18. Speaking at the inauguration of the SOS Children’s…
Dereje Wordofa, president of SOS Children’s Villages, requested that the government consider including family-style child care in its Policy on Alternative Care for Children and increase measures to protect children. The request came on March 17 at the inauguration of the SOS Children’s Village in Kampong Leav commune of Prey Veng province’s Prey Veng town on March 17 – in a ceremony presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen. The Prey Veng village was built on a site of more than 10,000sqm, which was donated by Minister of Interior Sar Kheng. Construction began in February 2018 and was completed in…
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will pay an official visit to Cambodia on March 20-21 to enhance relations and cooperation between the two countries. Kishida’s visit will coincide with ASEAN special envoy Prak Sokhonn’s planned March 20-23 visit to Myanmar in a bid to break the deadlock and pave the way for progress in the implementation of the ASEAN five-point consensus (5PC). Kishida’s visit will come three days after the departure of two Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force ships – the Uraga and Hirado – from the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port. The Japanese vessels conducted maritime demining training with their Cambodian counterparts…
The Preah Sihanouk provincial Department of Culture and Fine Arts and the Kampong Seila district authorities have plans for preserving the old royal residence in Kampong Seila district’s Chamkar Luong commune. Department director But Bopha said that on March 16 experts were working with the district administration and commune officials to examine the former royal residence located along National Road 4 in Boeung Trach village. He said that according to those inspecting the old royal residence where the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk used to stay when visiting the southern provinces during the 1950’s, there now remains only a few…
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, along with the US embassy and the World Food Programme (WFP) Cambodia, celebrated the expansion of the national school meal programme and made official the handover of 85 additional school meal programme management from the WFP to the government. The joint announcement came on March 17 as education minister Hang Chuon Naron, US ambassador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy and WFP representative in Cambodia visited Siem Reap province. In a joint press release, they said school meals provide nutritious foods that help maintain children’s good health and act as an indirect income transfer…
National Police chief Neth Savoeun instructed all police chiefs of the municipal and provincial police to assist in strengthening the capacity of village guards to improve their effectiveness as an auxiliary force in maintaining security and public order – in accordance with the safe village-commune policy. In a March 16 letter to all municipal and provincial police chiefs, Savoeun said that throughout the implementation of the policy, the police and the community have seen village guards actively involved with the administrative police at the local level. It said that further cooperation between guards, the police and commune administrations, would mobilise…
Fifty indigenous people in Mondulkiri province on March 15 stopped the clearing of forest land in Sokdom commune’s Laoka village, claiming that the site was reserved for collective land registration of the Bunong indigenous community. They said that clearing the land will result in the loss of natural resources on which they rely. Phluk Phirom, a representative of the community, said she and 50 other members stopped two bulldozers that were clearing land to form boundaries for Villa Development, a local property developer. She said the people stopped the operations because they were afraid the firm would encroach on the…