
Fired Minister Appointed to New ‘Delegate’ Position
Hun Sen has appointed fired Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon as minister delegate attached to the prime minister three days after his removal.
Hun Sen has appointed fired Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon as minister delegate attached to the prime minister three days after his removal.
The Indonesian navy has seized an oil tanker that allegedly stole 290,000 barrels of crude oil from Cambodia and KrisEnergy, AFP reported on Wednesday.
Fifteen individuals are being questioned by prosecutors following their arrests for the alleged illegal mining of marble in Stung Treng province.
A military officer’s development company has been fined about $200,000 for extracting red dirt in Kampot province without a licence, in what a Mines and Energy Ministry spokesperson said was the only major fine imposed by the ministry this year.
A new sand dredging operation has commenced on the Tonle Bassac river in Phnom Penh within the past month, a local official said, with more than 90 companies now dredging rivers and streams in the country, according to the Mines and Energy Ministry.
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