Customs official’s son involved in club shooting
The son of a high-ranking customs official was involved in a shooting incident at the Rock nightclub in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district early sunday morning that left one man injured, according to police. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/customs-officials-son-involved-in-club-shooting-79842/
Sokha ‘not interested’ in Hun Sen’s threats
Deputy opposition leader Kem sokha marked his arrival back in the Kingdom from a trip to the Us on Wednesday by saying he was not afraid of Prime Minister Hun sen’s threats to have him prosecuted for allegedly attempting to lead a revolution. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/sokha-not-interested-hun-sens-threats
Police burn down Mondolkiri minority community’s shelters
Police in Mondolkiri province on Tuesday burned down more than 130 shelters belonging to a community of ethnic Bunong families in Keo seima district that authorities accuse of squatting on a Vietnam­ese rubber plantation, a local official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-burn-down-mondolkiri-minority-communitys-shelters-81153/
Cambodia’s Hun Sen slams ASEAN-splitting TPP
On April 19, the 24th World Economic Forum on East Asia kicked off in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. One of the main events was a conversation on “East Asia in the New Global Context,” which featured two heads of state – Cambodian prime minister ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prashanth Parameswaran
http://bit.ly/1J4FSoA
Developer’s son sent to maximum-security prison
The son of a wealthy developer who was charged last week with assaulting the son of timber magnate Try Pheap in Phnom Penh was transferred on Tuesday from the minimum-security PJ prison to the maximum-security Prey sar, officials said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/developers-son-sent-to-maximum-security-prison-82439/
Children’s faeces just as toxic, report says
A recently released study on hygiene in Cambodia has found that a lack of understanding of the dangers of handling child faeces is causing serious health problems. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/childrens-faeces-just-toxic-report-says
Ten Indonesians return home after ambassador’s intervention
Following the intervention of Indonesia’s ambassador to Cambodia last week, 10 Indonesian nationals left the country sunday after being released by police in Kandal province, where they were being held over a $161,000 theft at a local casino, an embassy official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chris Mueller and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ten-indonesians-return-home-after-ambassadors-intervention-84673/
S'pore investors trickling into Cambodia real estate
Singapore property inveStorS are dipping their toeS into homeS in the largely unteSted market of Cambodia, though in relatively Small numberS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Asia One News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KLNEV8
Cambodia’s ruling party president Chea Sim dies
Chea Sim, preSident of Cambodia&rSquo;S ruling party and preSident of the Senate, died at hiS home in Phnom Penh on Monday after yearS of deteriorating health, an official Said. He waS 82. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Yeang Socheameta
http://bit.ly/1G8CzJC
Sweden’s “feminist foreign policy” stirs up Cambodia
In the last three months, three Cambodian ministers have visited stockholm. Dozens of mid-career Cambodians travel yearly to sweden for short term training programs. And sweden doles out $25 million in foreign aid annually, earning this nation of 10 million people a seat at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
James Brooke
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12130/sweden---s----feminist-foreign-policy----stirs-up-cambodia/
Chea Sim’s bodyguards to return to brigades
Late CPP President Chea sim’s personal bodyguard unit will be disbanded following the cremation of his body on Friday and its members returned to their former police departments and military brigades, officials said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chea-sims-bodyguards-to-return-to-brigades-85629/
CNRP’s Sokha calls for NGO legislation delay
Deputy opposition leader Kem sokha yesterday weighed in on debates over the controversial draft NGO law, calling for its adoption to be postponed. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrps-sokha-calls-ngo-legislation-delay
CNRP demands new border committee, treaty’s cancellation
Following weeks of trips to disputed sites along the country’s border with Vietnam, the opposition CNRP issued an official statement on Thursday demanding that the government overhaul its border commission, cancel a 2005 border treaty and bring a case against Vietnam to international court. Long a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-demands-new-border-committee-treatys-cancellation-86724/
Weak institutions hurting Cambodia’s growth, analyst says
Cambodia has undergone some reform to improve its institutions, but analysts say a lack of leadership is preventing deeper change. strong political institutions are required for continued economic growth, but the capacity of Cambodia’s state institutions remains weak. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/weak-institutions-hurting-cambodia-growth-analyst-says/2843134.html
Prey Speu faces MP’s probe over ‘violations’
The Por Sen Chey Social AffairS Centre, better known aS Prey Speu, iS facing a probe over alleged human rightS violationS, an oppoSition party lawmaker Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-speu-faces-mps-probe-over-violations
Japan becomes China’s business rival in Cambodia
Prime Minister Hun sen returned Monday from a weekend in Japan that included a day-trip 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo to Yamaguchi Prefecture, home base of Prime Minister shinzo Abe. ss='cambodia-color'>...
James Brooke
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12948/japan-becomes-china---s-business-rival-in-cambodia/
Union chief’s new calling: factory land broker
As Free Trade Union officials were putting together a list of demands for striking workers at a factory in Kompong speu province on Tuesday, the union’s president, Chea Mony, was in Kampot province inspecting a plot of land for a Chinese firm looking to set ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-chiefs-new-calling-factory-land-broker-87638/
UN responds to Hun Sen’s map request
The UN has responded to a request from Prime Minister Hun sen for a pre-Khmer Rouge era map that he hopes will help resolve border disputes with Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/un-responds-to-hun-sen-map-request/2866459.html
PM calls constitution’s border map clause ‘mistake’
Prime Minister Hun sen said Thursday the framers of the 1993 Constitution made a mistake by specifying that the map developed by the French colonial authorities would be the only one legally valid for border demarcation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-calls-constitutions-border-map-clause%E2%80%88mistake-88697/
China’s woes a mixed bag for Cambodia
China’s tumbling stock market may impact tourism to Cambodia, but it is not likely to reduce Chinese investment in the Kingdom, analysts and executives say. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13787/china---s-woes-a-mixed-bag-for-cambodia/