Peacekeeper dies from malaria in Mali
A Cambodian soldier serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in the West African nation of Mali died on Monday after contracting malaria, an official said Tuesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/peacekeeper-dies-from-malaria-in-mali-94335/
More than 60 busted in raid
Police detained and questioned 62 suspects, including a minor, following a drug raid in the capital’s Trapaing Chhuk village in Sen Sok district on Saturday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-60-busted-raid
Rohingya refugee likely back in Burma
A Rohingya refugee who landed in Phnom Penh in June as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia is likely back in Burma after requesting to return home, according to the Interior Ministry. ...
Zsombor Peter and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rohingya-refugee-likely-back-in-burma-97166/
Opposition supporters in Banteay Meanchey defect
Almost 100 opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) supporters and several dozen members of the Royalist Funcinpec Party in Svay Chek district, Banteay Meanchey province, defected yesterday to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. Among them were provincial and village-level leaders. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16929/opposition-supporters-in-banteay-meanchey-defect/
Summons issued in Ratanakkiri rubber feud
A Tumpoun ethnic villager has received a summons to appear before the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court tomorrow over allegedly grabbing land from a local rubber plantation firm in Bakeo district. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/summons-issued-ratanakkiri-rubber-feud
Turkish brands seek expansion in Cambodia
Turkish cosmetics brands looking to push further into the Southeast Asian market have met in the Cambodian capital, an embassy official said Wednesday. A joint economic commission was also set up that month by Cambodian Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol and Turkey’s Minister for Science, Industry ...
Lauren Crothers
http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkish-brands-seek-expansion-in-cambodia/484526
New fisheries office inaugurated in Kep
The Fisheries Administration (FA) plans to strengthen its presence in Kep province with the opening of a new cantonment there, officials announced in an official ceremony yesterday morning.The move comes after what conservationists say has been a steady increase in illegal trawling in Kep Bay, ...
Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-fisheries-office-inaugurated-kep
Drug busts, arrests spike in 2015
The number of drug cases and people arrested for drug crimes in 2015 more than doubled year-on-year, while the volume of drugs seized shot up 18-fold, according to police. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-busts-arrests-spike-in-2015-104776/
Water birds make comeback in Battambang
Water bird numbers are making a big comeback in the Prek Toal conservation area on the Tonle Sap lake in Battambang province, the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a report released on Saturday. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-birds-make-comeback-battambang
Families in Ratanakkiri file ELC complaint
More than 220 ethnic Tompuon families in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district yesterday filed a complaint to rights group Adhoc over a 2,000-hectare land dispute against an economic land concession. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-ratanakkiri-file-elc-complaint
Company denies responsibility in chicken deaths
The cause of death of more than 11,000 diseased broiler chickens found dumped in a canal in Kompong Thom province last month has been identified as an infectious virus transmittable to humans, according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s animal health department. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/company-denies-responsibility-in-chicken-deaths-107679/
Not enough women in NA: report
Election watchdog Comfrel criticised National Assembly President Heng Samrin for a lack of commitment to creating a quota for female parliamentarians in a report presented yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/not-enough-women-na-report
Protests greet Hun Manet in US
Dozens of Cambodian-American Long Beach residents protested in front of a restaurant over the weekend against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, on the first day of his trip to North America. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23819/protests-greet-hun-manet-in-us/
Hornbill rescued in Seima protected forest
A patrol in Seima Protected Forest in Mondulkiri last weekend found a young great hornbill near an illegal logging site. Hornbill sightings have become rarer as the bird’s population drops. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23925/hornbill-rescued-in-seima-protected-forest/
Rare ‘costumed ape’ sighted in forest
Robin Loveridge had rolled out of his hammock at dawn to go on a walk along the Sekong River in Siem Pang forest when he saw three bright gold faces peering down at him from the tree canopy. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24674/rare----costumed-ape----sighted-in-forest/
Avian flu outbreak in Kampot confirmed
The first outbreak of H5N1 this year was confirmed in Kampot province on May 10, health officials said yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/avian-flu-outbreak-kampot-confirmed
Elephant herds spotted in Wildlife Sanctuary
Researchers have released new photos offering a rare glimpse of endangered elephant herds seen traveling with calves through the Tonle Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province earlier this month. The photos are part of a conservation supervisory project undertaken by Winrock International and the World Wildlife ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26631/elephant-herds-spotted--in-wildlife-sanctuary
Children in need of free healthcare
A majority of the more than 2,500 children hospitalized by illnesses in the Kantha Bopha hospital network between Sunday and yesterday were critically poor and could not survive without free treatment, Kantha Bopha hospital founder and head Dr. Beat Richner said. ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27424/children-in-need-of-free-healthcare/
Mesco closes in on gold licence
After an unexpectedly lengthy review, the Ministry of Environment has approved the environmental and social impact study of Indian mining firm Mesco Gold, clearing the last major hurdle for the company to receive a licence to operate the Kingdom’s first royalty-generating mine. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mesco-closes-gold-licence
