Tuesday, 30 March 2010

The Phnom Penh Post News in Brief


via CAAI News Media

Trash Notice: City calls for vendors to sort rubbish

Monday, 29 March 2010 15:04 Vong Sokheng

Trash Notice

City Hall has issued a notice calling on market vendors to begin separating dry rubbish from wet refuse in an attempt to better manage the waste that is transported to the dump site near the Choeung Ek killing fields. “At a time when the population of Phnom Penh is increasing and the rubbish is also increasing, we need to have proper management of the rubbish,” Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema wrote in the notice, dated March 25. Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Mann Chhoeun said officials would not fine vendors who did not comply with the notice. “Our main target is to keep the city clean. It’s a public-awareness campaign,” he said.

New posts at VN border

Monday, 29 March 2010 15:04 Kim Yuthana

GROUND was broken for eight new posts on the border of Kampong Cham province’s Memot district and Tay Ninh province in Vietnam on Friday, officials said, as part of a plan to demarcate the area’s entire border by the end of the year.

Kampong Cham police Chief Noun Samin said Sunday that officials from both countries attended the groundbreaking ceremony at border post No 80, located in Memot district’s Choam Kravien commune. He said the borders had been demarcated “without difficulty” following discussions with the Border Committee of Cambodia and local villagers. Officials have said that Cambodia and Vietnam plan to finish demarcating their 1,270-kilometre shared border by 2012.

Yim Sovann, spokesman for the opposition Sam Rainsy Party, reiterated his party’s concerns that the border-demarcation process was resulting in the loss of land to Vietnam.

“The setting up of border posts in the past and recently has caused Cambodia to lose land,” he said.

Govt Secrecy: PM to limit attendance at meetings

Monday, 29 March 2010 15:05 Cheang Sokha

Govt Secrecy

Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that unnecessary government officials will be barred from joining the Council of Ministers’ weekly plenary sessions in order to prevent the leaking of confidential government information. Phay Siphan, spokesman for the Council, said the premier warned during Friday’s session that public leaks of sensitive government information could damage the effectiveness of policy implementation. Phay Siphan said that some government officials were speaking out “without understanding what is public information, private information or confidential information”. Nady Tann, the government secretary general who arranges the weekly council meetings, said officials’ names are usually listed and submitted to Hun Sen, who then decides who should be invited and what issues should be on the agenda. “There might be some internal information leaked out, which is why the premier ordered us to do so,” he said Sunday. “I will wait to see the decision from Samdech [Hun Sen] about who will be allowed to attend the next meeting.”

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