Here is Prime Minister Hun Manet's new Council of Ministers. Kamnotra has collated information and short biographies for the new ministers and, more importantly, the familial connections that tie them together. #Succession
Succession 2023: https://t.co/dnRttth1MD
The Interior Ministry registered nearly 70 associations across a nine-month span during 2022, according to Royal Gazette documents released six months later. https://t.co/b0LlFjVVHu
@kamnotra has launched a new database of casino licenses, the companies behind them and their directors/owners. The database will be updated as an when new licenses are issued or if there is any suspicious activity at these locations.
Explore: https://t.co/LZlPcUWnIP
87 factories were given new permits in the first three months of the 2023 Royal Gazette, mostly in garments but also for furniture, plastics, electronics, rice, cigarettes and other manufacturing. Eight representatives were Cambodian and 79 foreign. https://t.co/4cwrUhO1Bo
Around 951,213 hectares of state land was reclassified in six months of Royal Gazette documents last year, with the bulk going to unexplained “community zones” and the remainder parceled out mostly to politically connected businesses and individuals.
https://t.co/yjf2Hx9qut
The government transferred a plot of state forest in Preah Sihanouk to minister delegate Sry Thamarong and his wife for personal ownership.
https://t.co/0rNSvlzg1W
Meanwhile nearly 200 people of 20 different nationalities were granted Cambodian citizenship in the Royal Gazette for the second semester of 2022. https://t.co/TA27Os6mS0
Some 70 foreign nationals received Cambodian citizenship in the first quarter of the 2023 Royal Gazette, apparently including a Singaporean “timber scion” who heads a Cambodian microfinance firm and has tried his hand at K-pop. https://t.co/CBoSiqxB3X
Foreign patent officers and auditors received state honors, while the government issued a directive on halal products and created committees to track real estate data and draft a law on hazardous goods. #Kamnotra#Gazetteer https://t.co/WAX5uj79Tb
Honorary medals were given to Leang Khun, head of the Chip Mong Group, former South Korea ambassador Park Heung-kyeong and recent Japanese ambassador Mikami Masahiro. Newly-minted oknha include Ung Song Leap, general manager at Hang Meas productions.
https://t.co/9mvr5lX0fX
Seven experts and administrators associated with an Angkor Wat oversight body and the current French ambassador were given honorary medals following a request from former Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to Book 4 of the Royal Gazette. https://t.co/q4qcJLUYuV
Prominent opposition officials joined the government, overseas businesspersons were given medals and a new ambassador was appointed in documents published in the third royal gazette of 2023.
https://t.co/ukSsIskYwy
Hun Manet added another minister delegate to his staff — the son-in-law of former National Assembly president Heng Samrin, continuing a trend of senior appointments through familial relationships or being part of the ruling elite.
https://t.co/KAX17dWjJB
Book two of the Royal Gazette for this year, now indexed in English, contains appointments of Grassroots Democracy Party officials to government positions, OCIC tycoon Pung Kheav Se to PM adviser, and board members for the troubled HOPE hospital center.
https://t.co/ELPV6X89dZ
Hundreds of families in Preah Vihear, Kratie and Siem Reap confronted environmental officials and soldiers in August amid land disputes, including changes to protected area boundaries that are uprooting them from their farmland.
https://t.co/7M9opQJ4A4
Former Supreme Court president Dith Munty and former Foreign Minister Hor Namhong joined Hun Sen and others on the Supreme Privy Council to be advisers to the king.
https://t.co/D7Wk9JcSQn
Prime Minister Hun Manet has been granted a “samdech” title in a royal decree signed by the king, joining several other ruling party elites and royal family members in receiving one of the country’s highest honors.
https://t.co/XH9PvSevxB
The state handed out 24,094 medals in just half a year of decrees in 2022, thousands of them to “donors” whose gifts remain mostly under wraps but add up to at least tens of millions of dollars.
https://t.co/X45Kzs7viz
#kamnotra#gazetteer
Backgrounds of the new PM's minister delegates include Transparency International Cambodia director, Radio France International Khmer director, government spokesperson and ambassador to Thailand.
https://t.co/lSXIg2Hjim
Praing Chulsa, son of a Mines and Energy secretary of state, heads Electricite du Cambodge. Sok Veasna is head of immigration, a job his father used to hold. Kong Sanya, son of the royal palace liaison, is the director of the state-run Calmette Hospital. https://t.co/vCAP07Rd0a
A quarter of Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers who were sworn in just this week are now leaving the National Assembly, according to the National Election Committee.
https://t.co/SXPY6mI16b