New minister cleans up Cambodia’s education system
Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-education-system-cleanup/2599977.html
New minister cleans up Cambodia’s education system
Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-education-system-cleanup/2599977.html
Fertilizer stored at Chinese man’s home seized
Local authorities investigating a house in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district confiscated more than 260 containers of fertilizer and insecticide Wednesday morning after neighbors of a Chinese man complained of a noxious smell emanating from his house, which they feared might have been a dangerous ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fertilizer-stored-at-chinese-mans-home-seized-77849/
Fund intended to improve country’s urban sanitation
The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh ss='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fund-intended-improve-countrys-urban-sanitation
Arrest warrant issued for Takhmao governor’s wife
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Thoy Kimsean, the wife of Takhmao town Governor Eam samay, over allegations she issued a fake cheque worth $185,000 in 2013. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/arrest-warrant-issued-takhmao-governors-wife
Doroshenko jailed on fraud charges in S’ville
Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was imprisoned Wednesday evening after being arrested at his family’s snake House restaurant in sihanoukville for failing to appear in court to be questioned over fraud charges related to a dispute with his rival, fugitive developer sergei Polonsky. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Ben Woods
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/doroshenko-jailed-on-fraud-charges-in-sville-80724/
Court delays trial of fugitive tycoon’s parents
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday delayed the trial of fugitive Defense Ministry official Thong sarath’s parents, who are facing charges of possessing illegal firearms. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-delays-trial-of-fugitive-tycoons-parents-81399/
NGO blasts roundup of Phnom Penh’s beggars
An NGO partnered with Phnom Penh’s municipal government in a scheme to help poor children get off the street Wednesday blasted the city’s ongoing catch-and-release strategy. In June, City Hall partnered up with two NGOs in a campaign to remove beggars from Phnom Penh’s streets. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-blasts-roundup-of-phnom-penhs-beggars-65912/
Key post to PM’s son-in-law
Dy Vichea – son of the late National Police chief Hok Lundy and son-in-law to Prime Minister Hun sen – has been appointed director of the Central security Department at the Ministry of Interior, the National Police said yesterday. National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said that ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-post-pm%E2%80%99s-son-law
Sam Rainsy Assures Supporters of Opposition’s Dedication
Opposition leader sam Rainsy told supporters Friday that the goal of his party remains the same: to change the current regime. The president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party has worked to assure his supporters that the party is working for change, following a political deal ss='cambodia-color'>...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/sam-rainsy-assures-supporters-of-opposition-dedication/2414505.html
A solution to the capital’s transit woes?
Some Say City Hall&rSquo;S Scheme to improve public tranSport with a buS line iS failing. One architect haS a new plan, tried and teSted throughout the developing world With the capital growing and incomeS on the riSe, ruSh hour in Phnom Penh iS only getting worSe SS='cambodia-color'>...
Bennett Murray and Vandy Muong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/solution-capital%E2%80%99s-transit-woes
Call to cap CP’s export of swine
A livestock industry representative has called on the government to cap Cambodia’s only live pig export company’s trade with Laos, citing shortages in the local market. CP Cambodia, a subsidiary of the Thai conglomerate CP Global, exported some 25,000 head of live swine – boars, sows ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/call-cap-cp%E2%80%99s-export-swine
Union leader re-elected despite deputy’s protest
Vorn Pao was re-elected president on Thursday of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), a labor group comprised mostly of tuk-tuk drivers and moto-dops, in an uncontested ballot after his vice president withdrew from the race over allegations of irregularities. sok Chhun Oeung, who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-leader-re-elected-despite-deputys-protest-68223/
End impunity for PM’s cousin, lawyer insists
The lawyer of a 70-year-old widow whose land was stolen by a cousin of Prime Minister Hun sen, Dy Proem, has filed a letter to the National Assembly’s human rights committee asking the body to help speed up the long-stalled case. Dy Proem was sentenced ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/end-impunity-pm%E2%80%99s-cousin-lawyer-insists
Trio charged with journalist’s murder in Kratie
The Kratie Provincial Court on Tuesday brought murder charges against three men arrested for the killing on sunday morning of 49-year-old journalist Taing Try in snuol district and sent them to the provincial prison to await trial, a court official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trio-charged-with-journalists-murder-in-kratie-69861/
Fortified rice improves children’s health, study finds
Cambodian children are less prone to diarrhea and fever and perform better on cognitive tests after regularly eating nutrient-fortified rice, according to a new study, the results of which were announced Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chris Mueller
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fortified-rice-improves-childrens-health-study-finds-69872/
Journalists allege cover-up in associate’s murder
A consortium of journalists on Wednesday sent a report to the governor of Kompong Chhnang province claiming that a man arrested last week for murdering one of their associates was framed in an attempt to cover up an illegal fishing syndicate with close connections to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-allege-cover-up-in-associates-murder-70655/
Massive satellite city’s major boulevard nearing completion
A key component of the enormous ING City satellite city south of Phnom Penh – samdech Techo Hun sen Boulevard – is nearing completion. It will also provide access to ING City – previously known as AZ City – which is being constructed on land ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian, U.S. forces jointly conduct naval exercise
Cambodian and U.S. naval perSonnel on Monday began a five-day exerciSe here at the Ream Naval BaSe, aiming to enhance maritime Security SkillS and cooperation, officialS Said. SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-us-forces-jointly-conduct-naval-exercise-7560
S Korea asked to better conditions for workers
Cambodia made a rare show of defending its migrant workforce in south Korea on Friday, calling attention to a labour scheme that has come under fire for perpetuating exploitation and abuse. During meetings with the outgoing south Korean ambassador, president of the National Assembly Heng samrin ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/s-korea-asked-better-conditions-workers