Cambodia gets 18-mln-USD ADB loan for ferry terminal development
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an 18-million-U.S. dollars loan to build a ferry terminal and other infrastructure in Cambodia’s southern Kampot province to open up new opportunities for tourism, the bank said on Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141125/cambodia-gets-18-mln-usd-adb-loan-ferry-terminal-development
Minister to be questioned over HIV outbreak
Health Minister Mam Bunheng has been summoned for questioning next week by the National Assembly’s health commission over the outbreak of HIV among villagers in Battambang province’s Roka commune, the commission’s secretary-general said Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-to-be-questioned-over-hiv-outbreak-76629/
City says ‘fake cops’ nailed
Capital police yesterday revealed the identities of five men who had allegedly been posing as Flying Tigers – an elite Ministry of Interior rapid-response unit – and extorting money from victims who believed they were in danger of being jailed. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/city-says-fake-cops-nailed
NGO says Cambodian officials back on Nauru to meet refugees
Refugees on Nauru say Cambodian officials have returned to the tiny South Pacific island nation to once more try to convince some of them to resettle in Cambodia, according to an Australia-based group that advocates for refugee rights. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-says-cambodian-officials-back-on-nauru-to-meet-refugees-80738/
NGO says Cambodian officials back on Nauru to meet refugees
Refugees on Nauru say Cambodian officials have returned to the tiny South Pacific island nation to once more try to convince some of them to resettle in Cambodia, according to an Australia-based group that advocates for refugee rights. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-says-cambodian-officials-back-on-nauru-to-meet-refugees-80738/
District police chief stands trial on graft charges
The trial of disgraced former Meanchey district police chief Hy Narin, who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in October and charged with embezzlement, extortion and unlawful exploitation, began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday. ...
District police chief stands trial on graft charges
The trial of disgraced former Meanchey district police chief Hy Narin, who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in October and charged with embezzlement, extortion and unlawful exploitation, began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday. ...
Some 570 Cambodians fall ill after eating contaminated snacks
Approximately 570 Cambodian people, mostly children, in northwestern Cambodia’s Siem Reap province got sick after eating bread filled with meat and vegetables on Saturday afternoon, a provincial health chief confirmed. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Icwc7r
The Kingdom of responsible couples
Only one third of all Khmer adults 18 and older are single. Most of those are in the age group between 18 and 25. By the ages between 26 and 35 however, four out of five Cambodians are married. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/postplus/kingdom-responsible-couples
Marijuana crops burned
Military police destroyed more than 500 marijuana plants with an estimated value of $30,000 in Kampot province on Friday, an official said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/marijuana-crops-burned
Cambodia has 514,278 business establishments: survey
Cambodia currently has approximately 514,278 business establishments, up 11 percent compared with 463,363 in 2011, according to the results of the intercensal economic survey released Monday. ...
ASEAN - China News Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-09/09/c_133630329.htm
Assembly to question Phanimex director
The National Assembly’s bipartisan Anti-Corruption Commission will today question Phanimex Development director Suy Sophan, who has been at the center of a bitter land dispute with more than 150 families in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood. ...
KUCH NAREN
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-to-question-phanimex-director-70002/
City Hall asks wealthy to help fund Water Festival
Phnom Penh City Hall has launched an appeal for the country’s wealthy to help fund this year’s Water Festival in the capital, which is set to return next month after being canceled for the past three years. ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-asks-wealthy-to-help-fund-water-festival-71011/
Road could affect future tiger habitat
A recently approved road project leading to the border with Vietnam in Mondulkiri would do irreversible damage to the province’s protected forest and threaten future attempts to reintroduce tigers to the Kingdom, according to the World Wildlife Fund. ...
Sean Teehan and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-could-affect-future-tiger-habitat
Sam Rainsy asks government to let outspoken activist stay
Opposition CNRP president Sam Rainsy on Monday weighed in on behalf of environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, asking the Interior Ministry to reverse a decision to not renew the Spanish national’s visa over a traffic incident from September. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sam-rainsy-asks-government-to-let-outspoken-activist-stay-78095/
Puppet parade to spotlight endangered species
Seven giant puppets in the shapes of endangered animal species will snake their way through Siem Reap City Saturday night, carried by the 500 children who created them as part of a program that mixed art and the environment. ...
Michelle Vachon
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/puppet-parade-to-spotlight-endangered-species-78398/
New teachers for KR classes
The US Institute of Peace on Wednesday announced the completion of a program – conducted by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) – to train an additional 600 educators to teach Khmer Rouge history in the Kingdom’s secondary schools. ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-teachers-kr-classes
Green group, Cambodian youth petition government to stop sand dredging
An environmental nongovernmental organization and young Cambodians opposed to sand dredging will petition the country’s parliament and relevant ministries to stop companies from digging up sand in a southwestern province, activists said. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1JsDowV
‘Devil chief’ returns to PP court for retrial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the retrial of Hang Vuthy – former right-hand man of disgraced ex-municipal police chief Heng Pov – in the case of the 2003 attempted murder of National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/devil-chief-returns-pp-court-retrial
China, Cambodia further cement relations
Prime Minister Hun Sen met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 60th Asian-African Conference Commemoration in Bandung, Indonesia, on Thursday, announcing further cooperation between the two countries, local media reported Friday. ...
Sek Odom and Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-cambodia-further-cement-relations-82669/