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The Ministry of Justice has instructed the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, Court of Appeal and all provincial courts and prosecutor’s offices to expedite proceedings on money laundering cases.

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Cambodia's reforms and stepped-up enforcement activities to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was given a positive assessment recently after the Kingdom took steps to freeze assets totalling $24 million while seizing assets worth $11 million as part of its efforts, according to Minister of Justice Koeut Rith.

Officials and researchers on June 29 threw their full support behind a master plan to transform the coastal Preah Sihanouk province into a Model Multi-Purpose Special Economic Zone (SEZ) after a new study found that the positives outweighed the negatives in terms of the impact of Sihanoukville’s urban development and socio-economic changes on national economic development.

A senior education official said the capital and 15 provinces would be targeted for a project that would provide eyeglasses to school students. It is estimated that about 130,000 students would benefit from the project, established by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport in collaboration with Ministry of Health and the Fred Hollows Foundation in Cambodia.

The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration has ordered owners of all businesses set up on the town’s beaches without permission to cease and desist in their activities and remove all of their property including tables, chairs and kitchen set-ups by July 7.

Officials of the Fisheries Administration’s (FiA) Preah Sihanouk provincial cantonment plan to replant at least 10,000 mangrove trees by the end of the year. The saplings will be used to replenish degraded an​d deforested areas of fishery communities.

Tourism minister Thong Khon has asked Indonesia to push for the resumption of direct flights to Cambodia as soon as possible to build up bilateral tourism flows, the tourism ministry said, after Indonesian arrivals to the Kingdom ballooned by nearly 600 per cent year-on-year in the January-April period.

The operation to crack down on illegal weapons in Preah Sihanouk province that began on June 15 has so far resulted in the arrest of six suspects and the seizure of 42 weapons, according to provincial police chief Major General Chuon Narin.

Plan International Cambodia and the Prince Foundation (PF) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) held a handover ceremony for 198 pedal-operated handwashing stations to schools in Sihanoukville. The handover ceremon