🔷 Cambodia Daily Brief – 2026-06-15
▪️ Geopolitics & Security
• National Police of Cambodia arrested 105 people in 35 nationwide drug enforcement cases on 15 June, seizing 264.32 grams of methamphetamine. The operation involved police and Gendarmerie units.
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▪️ Infrastructure & Energy
• A National Assembly delegation visited Cambodia’s Lower Sesan 2 hydropower plant to review energy infrastructure and generation capacity.
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• The Ministry of Public Works and Transport convened a kick-off meeting to implement an operations and maintenance project for Cambodia’s drainage infrastructure under the state budget.
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• The Ministry of Health launched construction of a pediatric surgical building at the National Pediatric Hospital as part of Cambodia’s health infrastructure.
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▪️ Investment & Trade
• SERC convened a Cambodian market operator and five banks to evaluate API integration for investor identification and trading account opening in Cambodia’s securities sector.
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• SERC reviewed an initial public offering by Borey Vimean Samnang in Cambodia’s securities sector and coordinated with the Credit Guarantee Corporation on a public debt offering by LOLC (Cambodia) Plc.
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▪️ Labor & Governance
• The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training signed an MoU with Zo Motors to deliver mobile electric-vehicle training and worker-transport safety programs in Cambodia.
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• Cambodia MLVT signed a TVET MoU with BYD to develop vocational training programs and NEV technical skills.
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▪️ Legal & Regulatory
• CCF Kampot branch inspected two food storage and distribution sites in Kampot for banned chemicals and product compliance as part of consumer protection and food safety checks.
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• A Cambodia delegation met Cote d’Ivoire’s environment minister in Abidjan to discuss REDD+ forest policy and carbon-credit governance. The visit focused on environmental policy cooperation and knowledge exchange under World Bank-supported programmes.
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• Cambodia CCF inspected four storage and distribution sites in Kandal Province and Ta Khmau on 12–13 June 2026 to test meat and other consumer products for banned chemicals. The operation collected 28 test-kit samples for confirmatory analysis by the CCF central laboratory.
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• Cambodia’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications convened AI specialists to review digital policy and governance planning.
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• The Ministry of Commerce convened training in Cambodia on the secured transactions law and the SETFO collateral registry for banks, legal practitioners, and entrepreneurs.
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• Cambodia’s General Department of Customs and Excise held a national workshop to brief 130 officers on Public Financial Management policy updates and the Treasury Information System under PFM Phase 4.
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• CCF inspected 31 cold storage and distribution sites in Phnom Penh and seized non-compliant frozen meat and spoiled fruit, citing food-safety violations.
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• The Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia led consultations on a Draft Prakas to establish rules for Cambodia’s futures market and related securities activity.
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• Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment met ICAT to strengthen MRV systems for the energy, transport, and waste sectors.
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• The Trust Regulator issued a prakas supplement clarifying registration fees for escrow and safe-box retention services in Cambodia.
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• National Police of Cambodia detained six suspects after WhatsApp account takeovers and bank-account impersonation that defrauded victims of USD 253,999.89. The case involved cybersecurity and banking-fraud enforcement.
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