Siem Reap landmine museum to reopen after weapons seizure
It was announced on Sunday that the Cambodian Landmine Museum near Siem Reap will soon reopen to tourists, ending three months of closure following the arrest of its staff for alleged illegal gun procession. The museum’s international project manager Bill Morse wrote in a Facebook ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-landmine-museum-reopen-after-weapons-seizure
Court summons Sok Touch over KRP complaint
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued a summons for Royal Academy of Cambodia president Sok Touch to appear before it on Friday over alleged incitement and abuse of power. The lawsuit was brought by the Khmer Rise Party after Mr Touch said its thumbprint movement, ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50601841/court-summons-sok-touch-over-krp-complaint/
Unlicensed doctors to face legal action
Some 393 unlicensed doctors who dispensed medical treatment in Svay Rieng province will face legal action, the head of the provincial Health Department Ke Rotha said on Sunday. He said he had sent their names to the provincial court last week for illegally providing health ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unlicensed-doctors-face-legal-action
Mekong river countries urged to reconsider hydropower dams
Activists representing Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam yesterday urged their respective governments to consider the lives of people living around the Mekong River when building infrastructure projects. Some of the activists urged governments to increase impact assessment initiatives, while others called for the suspension of all ongoing ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50628833/mekong-river-countries-urged-to-reconsider-hydropower-dams/
Chinese group vows to educate on the law
At a bilateral meeting between Preah Sihanouk province and a delegation of China’s Ministry of Public Security on Friday, the latter committed to educate its nationals to strictly respect Cambodian laws. Provincial administration spokesman Kheang Phearum said on Monday that during the meeting, the administration ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-group-vows-educate-law
NEC seeks Japan’s help on election education
The National Election Committee has requested the Japanese government to send experts to teach Cambodian officials on ways to educate the public on the importance of participating in democratic elections both at the national and subnational levels. Sik Bun Hok, NEC president, made the request to ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50648902/nec-seeks-japans-help-on-election-education/
Experts from Asean gather to discuss upcoming Competition Law
The Competition Law, a piece of legislation deemed crucial in the digital economy, will be completed early next year, Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50659995/experts-from-asean-gather-to-discuss-upcoming-competition-law/
Opposition denies claims it is trying to destabilize the government
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has denied accusations made by the ruling party that it is seeking an overthrow of the government.Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, a member of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, made the accusation in a public speech last weekend, saying the ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-denies-claims-it-is-trying-to-destabilize-the-government/3005552.html
Burden of debt eats into incomes
While Cambodian households saw their debt increase just 2 per cent last year, rural household borrowings to service existing loans nearly doubled, new government research shows.Both total and disposable incomes across the 3.3 million Cambodian households rose 16 per cent year-on-year in 2014, with total ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/burden-debt-eats-incomes
Cambodia: peaceful direct action has saved one of our most beautiful forests
An environmental activist explains how a grassroots campaign has stalled the building of a dam in Cambodia. We started making more videos and putting them on Facebook. Even locals who didn’t have internet at home were somehow finding the videos and interest started picking up ...
Alejandro Gonzalez Davidson
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/oct/27/cambodia-peaceful-direct-action-has-saved-one-of-our-most-beautiful-forests
After shock of HIV outbreak, facing the future
Som Saron has not worked since testing positive for HIV late last year. Taking care of her young niece at her parents’ home in Roka commune last week, the 37-year-old said that a fear of being stigmatized kept her from walking the community’s gravel roads selling ...
Khy Sovuthy and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-shock-of-hiv-outbreak-facing-the-future-99077/
VN-Laos-Cambodia join hands to fight drug trafficking
Kou Chansina, chairman of the National Committee for Drug Control of Laos, and Kao Khondara, vice chairman of Cambodia’s National Committee for Drug Control, attended the conference. Today, senior officials from the three countries will sign a joint statement on anti-crime, which will focus on ...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/148581/vn-laos-cambodia-join-hands-to-fight-drug-trafficking.html
Rice sector facing collapse, millers warn
About half of the country’s rice millers and exporters went out of business last year and those clinging on are likely to follow suit within two years unless the government injects capital into the sector and takes measures to curb the flood of imported rice ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22030/rice-sector-facing-collapse--millers-warn/
Traffic deaths rise, injuries fall over new year
Although 254 people were either killed or injured in traffic accidents across the Kingdom during this year’s Khmer New Year, and the fatality rate rose, the rate of injury over the four-day celebration decreased when compared with the same period last year, according to a ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23881/traffic-deaths-rise--injuries-fall-over-new-year/
Nuclear power plant planned
The Cambodian and Russian governments have signed several Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) to help build a nuclear power plant in the Kingdom, despite previous statements saying the opposite and with no timeline as to when such a plant would be built, according to the Ministry ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25333/nuclear-power-plant-planned/
Small pig farmers edged out
Cambodia’s small family-run pig farming businesses seem to be roughing it out in an unpredictable market with fluctuating pork prices while facing stiff competition from the illegal flood of cheap imported live pigs from neighboring countries. To add salt to their wounds, the high price ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28905/small-pig-farmers-edged-out/
Gov’t pushes census to 2019
The 2018 national population census will be pushed back a year in order to focus on the 2018 national elections, the government announced on Friday. According to article 6 of the Statistics Law, the census must be conducted at least once every 10 years, with the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30167/gov---t-pushes-census-to-2019/
National Election Committee voter registration passes halfway mark
More than half of Cambodia’s 9.6 million eligible voters had been registered as of Saturday, despite the National Election Committee reporting that heavy rains had dampened the pace of registrations recently. Updated figures released on the weekend show that 4.9 million voters had registered in the ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-election-committee-voter-registration-passes-halfway-mark
NEC kicks off e-voting registration test
The National Election Committee yesterday kicked off the 15-day trial of its new electronic voting registration system at 25 stations throughout the country.NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said that the registration test plans to enrol about 30,000 people, though those people will have to register again ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-kicks-e-voting-registration-test
Cambodian Premier meets Hungarian NA Speaker
Prime Minister Hun Sen held talks here yesterday at the Peace Palace with visiting Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of Hungary László Kövér, reported state news agency-AKP.The Hungarian NA speaker further underlined that his country is willing to promote the bilateral cooperation in the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-premier-meets-hungarian-na-speaker-9058