Cambodia News: Cambodia Government

Cambodia adventure and 'Bumper Feast'
Bude & Stratton Post
Nicky Olde travelled to Cambodia on a government voluntary service scheme to offer career advice to local youth groups. THE Morwenstow Methodist Chapel's annual Bumper Feast, a big barbeque, was held on July 7, with approximately 90 people attending ...

Critic of Cambodian leader defiant in defamation trial
Washington Post
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A political analyst in Cambodia who faces up to two years in prison and a penalty of half a million dollars in a defamation case brought by Prime Minister Hun Sen has taken a defiant stance in court, demanding that the leader ...

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City Hall to Measure Land of Lake Families Fearing Eviction
The Cambodia Daily
Phnom Penh will begin measuring the homes of hundreds of families seeking land titles to stave off potential eviction by a massive real-estate project filling in a pair of lakes, a municipal government spokesman said on Tuesday. ... Villagers gather ...

Project Aims to Send Children in Orphanages Home
The Cambodia Daily
BATTAMBANG CITY – Though they live in orphanages, an estimated 13,000 children in facilities across Cambodia have at least one living parent. As part of a sea change in government policy in a country with a checkered history with orphanages, officials ...

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Ministry, Embassies Talk Surrogacy Exit Plans
The Cambodia Daily
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Tuesday met with representatives from 19 embassies—including those of Australia, the U.S., U.K. and E.U.—and relevant government officials to discuss regulations of commercial surrogacy, according to Chou Bun Eng ...
Surrogacy exit rules released, with parents required to provide yearly updatesThe Phnom Penh Post
Parents win surrogacy amnestyKhmer Times

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NIPTICT and Viettel (Cambodia) sign MOU for e-government development
Khmer Times
Phnom Penh July 20 – Viettel (Cambodia) Pte, Ltd, which uses the brand name Metfone, and The National Institute of Posts, Telecoms & ICT of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cambodia (NIPTICT), have signed a memorandum of understanding ...

Prime Minister Vows to Keep Children's Hospitals Running
The Cambodia Daily
Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the government to draw up a plan to fund the country's popular Kantha Bopha children's hospitals on Monday, four months after the long-serving director of the foundation that runs them resigned. ... On Monday, during a ...
PM to support Kantha BophaKhmer Times

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Cambodia Announces Plan to Increase Number of Women in Local Government
VOA Khmer (English)
The Cambodian government has announced plans to increase the number of women involved in local politics to hold between a fifth and a quarter of all positions by next year. Currently women account for just 12 percent of local government officials, ...
Suspended sentence in official's graft case raises doubtsThe Phnom Penh Post

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Nhek Bun Chhay Loyalists Stripped of Government Roles
The Cambodia Daily
All three are former members of Funcinpec, a royalist party that was the CPP's biggest rival during the first decade of Cambodia's current democratic regime, which held its first election in 1993. Mr. Bun Chhay broke away from Funcinpec to create his ...
More KNUP members lose adviser rolesThe Phnom Penh Post

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Government to Continue Drug Crackdown With Nearly $1M Budget
The Cambodia Daily
Ke Kimyan, head of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, speaks at a meeting formally announcing the government's new anti-drug campaign last year in Phnom Penh. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily). General Vyrith said he didn't have details about ...