EDC plans power line linking lake provinces
Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) will spend $167 million to install a 350-km-long high-voltage transmission line connecting four provinces around the Tonle Sap lake, the state-owned utility announced in a press release Monday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/edc-plans-power-line-linking-lake-provinces-79879/
Assembly passes new election laws
The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved the country’s two new election laws, paving the way for the new bipartisan National Election Committee (NEC) to be established before the Khmer New Year in mid-April. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-passes-controversial-election-laws-80215/
U.S. General Electric to provide electricity grid maintenance services to EDC
US-based multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) will sign a contract with Cambodia’s state-owned Electricité du Cambodge (EdC) on Thursday, according to a press release issued Monday by the US embassy in Phnom Penh. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/us-general-electric-to-provide-electricity-grid-maintenance-services-to-edc-7862
Military police arrest general with links to ousted judge
Military police in Takeo province last night arrested a military general and close aide of ousted Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei, who was officially removed from his position Wednesday amid allegations of vast corruption. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-police-arrest-general-with-links-to-ousted-judge-78373/
Fifty faint after machine catches fire at shoe factory
About 50 female workers fainted at a shoe factory in Kompong Chhnang province Saturday when an embossing machine burst into flames, causing smoke and fumes to fill part of the plant, a union official said Sunday. ...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fifty-faint-after-machine-catches-fire-at-shoe-factory-78510/
Risk of hearing loss increasing: experts
Increasing exposure to damaging sound levels in recreational areas and the unsafe use of personal audio devices are putting Cambodians, especially teenagers and young adults, at a high risk of hearing loss, health experts said yesterday. ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/risk-hearing-loss-increasing-experts
‘Abandoned’ workers seek factory’s sale
After the sudden, unannounced disappearance of their factory’s owner last Friday, more than 400 garment workers at DF Fashion Apparel (Cambodia) in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district gathered at the factory yesterday, demanding back wages. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/abandoned-workers-seek-factorys-sale
Principal accused of budget theft
Teachers at Koki Som secondary school in Svay Rieng’s Svay Tiep district yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate the school’s principal, who, they claim, embezzled thousands of dollars from the school budget. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/principal-accused-budget-theft
Campaign launch: New ‘River Guard’ busts dredgers
Inspectors from the Energy Ministry busted two unlicensed sand dredgers operating on a stretch of river close to Phnom Penh’s Royal Palace, in the first action of a new campaign to protect Cambodia’s rivers. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/campaign-launch-new-river-guard-busts-dredgers
A million tourists gather for Angkor Sangkran
The number of tourists travelling during the three-day Khmer New Year festivities saw a dramatic increase this year, with the largest attraction – Angkor Sangkran in Siem Reap – hosting more than a million visitors last week. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/million-tourists-gather-angkor-sangkran
ASEAN set to become Asia’s next low-cost manufacturing powerhouse
ASEAN is poised to become Asia’s next low-cost manufacturing powerhouse as wages in China’s Pearl River Delta (PRD) factory belt continue to creep up, said an economist. ...
Malaymail Online News Staff
http://bit.ly/1dKKOCm
Minister called over SR statues
The National Assembly’s Seventh Commission is to summon the minister of cult and religion for questioning regarding “illegal” religious statues erected last week and subsequently destroyed by authorities in Siem Reap’s Svay Leu district. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-called-over-sr-statues/
Vietnam troops hinder CNRP-led trip to border
Armed Vietnamese soldiers on Monday tried to prevent more than 300 people led by CNRP lawmakers from visiting a disputed border area in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, a lawmaker and a rights worker said. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-troops-hinder-cnrp-led-trip-to-border-85212/
Cops try to dismantle B Chhouk residences
Local authorities armed with axes and hammers on Saturday attempted to dismantle homes in the capital’s Russey Keo district to make way for a new road that they hope will ease traffic, according to villagers. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-try-dismantle-b-chhouk-residences
Border dash for asylum seekers
A total of 23 Montagnard asylum seekers, including one female, were transported to Phnom Penh between late April and mid June after hiding out in the forests of Ratanakkiri for months, an anonymous source said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-dash-asylum-seekers
Land case dropped as elusive accuser fails to show
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday dropped a three-year-old case against a group of villagers in Russei Keo district after their mysterious accuser failed for the fourth time to appear before the court. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-case-dropped-as-elusive-accuser-fails-to-show-86347/
“Culture of Dialog” a major achievement, says Hun Sen on CPP's 64th anniversary
The Cambodian People’s Party has called its “Culture of Dialog” with the Cambodia National Rescue Party a milestone, listing it out prominently in its roster of achievements as the party celebrates its 64th anniversary. ...
Cambodia taps national park travel
A Japanese company, A2A Town (Cambodia), has submitted a request to the Cambodian Ministry of Environment to establish helicopter flights from Phnom Penh to Preah Soramrit Kossamak Kirirom National Park in Kampong Speu province. ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2015/07/cambodia-taps-national-park-travel/
Release of French Pedophile sparks outrage
This month’s early release of convicted French pedophile Philipe Broaly – despite ongoing court appeals – is an insult to victims and a huge step backwards for child protection in Cambodia, multiple NGOs have warned. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13589/release-of-french-pedophile-sparks-outrage/
Police arrest seven on suspicion of hauling TNT
Police in Mondolkiri province arrested seven men Thursday for transporting what was originally suspected to be more than 6.5 tons of TNT, but later determined to be a powder used for purifying gold, officials said. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-seven-on-suspicion-of-hauling-tnt-90209/