Breaking: Three killed while on forestry patrol in Mondulkiri
An Environment Ministry ranger, a Military Police officer and an employee of a conservation organisation have been killed in a shootout with other Cambodian authorities near Mondulkiri’s border with Vietnam. ...
Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-three-killed-while-forestry-patrol-mondulkiri
‘Don’t come near Asia’: Hun Sen threatens to roll out rocket launchers against Rainsy and his ‘movement’
Prime Minister Hun Sen delivered a fiery speech yesterday, threatening to “attack” members of the opposition with Soviet-era rocket launchers, while also claiming he would arrest them anywhere in Asia. ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dont-come-near-asia-hun-sen-threatens-roll-out-rocket-launchers-against-rainsy-and-his
Hun Sen rejects democracy index’s ‘authoritarian’ label
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday took a swipe at a recent democracy report that labelled his regime “authoritarian”, before declaring no one is capable of “toppling Hun Sen besides Hun Sen”. ...
Mech Dara and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-rejects-democracy-indexs-authoritarian-label
Villagers push government to revoke ‘idle’ ELC
Villagers in Kampot’s Chhouk district have demanded that a private firm they accuse of failing to develop its economic land concession (ELC) have its permit to use the land revoked. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-push-government-revoke-idle-elc
River Festival nets 140,000 tourists
The government’s three-day, third annual, River Festival in Steung Treng province that ended on Sunday attracted around 140,000 local and international tourists, the Ministry of Tourism announced yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36931/river-festival-nets-140-000-tourists/
Millers push for China access
Amid concerns that the European Union could reject shipments of Cambodian rice, exporters are pushing for more access to China as an alternative market for the Kingdom’s principal agricultural commodity. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/millers-push-china-access
After 40 years, broadcaster brings cambodian story to a close
Greg Barron, an award-winning radio producer, was 32 when he reported the despair of Cambodian refugees fleeing across the Thai border to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide in late 1979. ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/after-forty-years-broadcaster-brings-cambodian-story-close/3808414.html
CNRM faces legal threat
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has warned the government could take legal action against former opposition leader Sam Rainsy and others involved in the launch of the new Cambodia National Rescue Movement. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102521/cnrm-faces-legal-threat/
Man nabbed logging near Preah Vihear
The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has sent a man suspected of illegal logging in the Preah Vihear temple forestry conservation area to pre-trial detention, according to the provincial Environment Department. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-nabbed-logging-near-preah-vihear
US mart chain Circle K launches capital stores
US-based convenience mart Circle K officially launched in Cambodia yesterday, with three outlets already operating in Phnom Penh and plans to open 40 more by the end of the year. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-mart-chain-circle-k-launches-capital-stores
Ministry scraps rice inspection fee
The government has removed the fee for inspection services on milled rice slated for export, aiming to reduce the cost of Cambodia’s rice and increase its competitiveness in international markets. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34115/ministry-scraps-rice-inspection-fee/
Fish yields rise, exports fall
The total export of fish products decreased in 2016 even though fish yields rose, causing income from the fisheries sector to drop by nearly a half compared with a year earlier. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34623/fish-yields-rise--exports-fall/
HomePro mulls investment in Cambodia
HomePro, a leading home improvement retailer in Thailand, is mulling expansion to neighboring countries – including Cambodia next year – with an investment budget of between $170 million and nearly $200 million. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36267/homepro-mulls-investment-in-cambodia/
Logging trucks seized in Ratanakkiri
Authorities intercepted four trucks carrying 81 pieces of illegal luxury timber at a checkpoint in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district last Friday, District Military Police Commader Sok Min said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-trucks-seized-ratanakkiri
It’s been a while, crocodile: Eggs discovered in Koh Kong
The Wildlife Conservation Society has made its first discovery of Siamese crocodile eggs on the Sre Ambel River in Koh Kong province in six years, it announced yesterday in a statement. ...
Touch Sokha and Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/its-been-while-crocodile-eggs-discovered-koh-kong
Timber oknha misses hearing
An oknha accused of overseeing a massive illegal logging scheme in Mondulkiri has yet to appear for a court summons issued more than a month ago, according to the investigating judge. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-oknha-misses-hearing
Apparently flouting party law, Funcinpec requests Chinese funding
Following a meeting with a Chinese delegation yesterday morning, Funcinpec President Prince Norodom Ranariddh claimed to have requested monetary assistance from China, an apparent violation of the Law on Political Parties. ...
Andrew Nachemson and Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/apparently-flouting-party-law-funcinpec-requests-chinese-funding
Takeo military police confiscate timber from district police's house
Takeo province Military Police on Tuesday confiscated more than a tonne of rosewood that was stored at an abandoned house belonging to a Koh Andet district police official, authorities said today. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/takeo-military-police-confiscate-timber-district-polices-house
Chinese patent deal to come into effect this month
The validation agreement between China’s State Intellectual Property Office (Sipo) and Cambodia will enter into force by the end Of this month, helping protect Chinese invention patents in the kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113909/chinese-patent-deal-to-come-into-effect-this-month/
Kampot visitors jump on Bokor opening
The Bokor Resort, in Kampot province, attracted 162.5 per cent more Cambodian tourists to the province in the first five months of the year compared with 2011, tourism officials said yesterday. ...