Corruption charges upheld against cop
Former Meachey district police chief Hy Narin has had corruption charges against him upheld by Phnom Penh Municipal Court after he allegedly misappropriated almost $700,000 from the state budget over eight years. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-charges-upheld-against-cop
Electricity company says weather to blame for exhorbitant bills
State power provider Electricite du Cambodge released a Statement Tuesday claiming that soaring electricity bills were due to hot weather, and not because of any changes in the rates being charged to customers. ...
Buth Kimsay and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/electricity-company-says-weather-to-blame-for-exhorbitant-bills-87651/
Corporate social responsibility in Cambodia
Frontier and emerging economies such as Cambodia present companies with a specific set of challenges and risk, both real and perceived, beyond those found in more developed markets. A risk category getting ever- increasing attention is that of “social risk”, roughly defined as the risk of ...
Cambodia records 973 critically endangered white-shoulder ibis: survey
Cambodia has recorded some 973 white-shoulder ibis in its wild, making the country the stronghold for this critically endangered species, the conservationists group said Thursday. BirdLife International and its partners including Cambodian Forestry Administration, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society and Worldwide Fund for ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-11/07/c_132868146.htm
Study charts AIDS progress
Cambodia’s decline in HIV/AIDS mortalities has made it a regional anomaly, according to a new study published today by a global health research centre at the University of Washington. While HIV/AIDS remains a leading cause of disease burden in Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and mortality ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-charts-aids-progress
Investigation Into Man Shot Dead During Protest Yields Nothing
A week after one man was shot dead and several others injured during a standoff between the armed forces and protesters, an investigation into who was responsible is no closer to conclusion, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday. Security experts last week said the armed ...
Kuch Naren and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/investigation-into-man-shot-dead-during-protest-yields-nothing-42911/
Twenty-Two Years On, Paris Peace Agreement Far From Realized
More than two decades after the Paris Peace Agreement, which was meant to open the way for peace and multiparty democracy in Cambodia, legal experts and human rights advocates said Tuesday the government has largely abandoned the vision of the accord. Speaking at a conference on ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/twenty-two-years-on-paris-peace-agreement-far-from-realized-45702/
World Toilet Day Highlights Sanitation Solutions
Tuesday marked World Toilet Day, the annual attempt to push the issue of open defecation back into the spotlight and highlight the preventable illnesses that are caused by what is still a very common practice in Cambodia, which has the lowest toilet coverage in Southeast ...
Simon Henderson and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-toilet-day-highlights-sanitation-solutions-47393/
Angkor hosts 2.6M visitors
The Angkor Archaeological Park welcomed nearly 2.6 million international visitors last year, generating more than $100 million in revenue, a statement from the state-run Angkor Enterprise released on Tuesday said. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-hosts-26m-visitors
Cambodia and China to cooperate on security
Cambodia has endorsed China’s appeals for greater ASEAN security cooperation in fighting terrorism following Friday’s ministerial dialogue on regional law enforcement and security in Beijing, according to Chinese state media. ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-and-china-cooperate-security
Gov’t urges business to invest in power
The government is calling for more private investment in the energy sector to meet rising demand from households and industry, a senior official from state-owned Electricite Du Cambodge (EDC) said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21856//
Trio accused of clearing Mondulkiri land released on bail
The Mondulkiri Provincial Court yesterday released on bail three ethnic Phnong villagers charged with illegally clearing state land on the condition that they agree not to return to their homes and farms. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trio-accused-clearing-mondulkiri-land-released-bail
Sihanoukville port operator still on course for IPO
The state operator of Cambodia’s only deep-water port remains on course to float shares on the stock exchange and is seeking ways to speed up the listing. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-port-operator-still-course-ipo
Cambodian Premier reconfirms the next election dates
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen reconfirmed here yesterday afternoon the dates for the next commune/Sangkat council election and national election, the State News Agency-AKP report. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-premier-reconfirms-the-next-election-dates-9071
US, Cambodia navies launch joint military exercise
On November 16, the United States and Cambodia launched an annual military exercise with an opening ceremony held at the Royal Cambodian Ream Navy Base in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. ...
Prashanth Parameswaran
http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/us-cambodia-navies-launch-joint-military-exercise/
Capital’s airport starts adding more space next week
An extension of the terminal at Phnom Penh International Airport will be officially opened late next week, a senior official from the State Secretary of Civil Aviation (SSCA) told Khmer Times yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22474/capital---s-airport-starts-adding-more-space-next-week/
Four maids rescued from Malaysia
Four Cambodian maids have been rescued from Malaysia after being detained by Malaysian authorities in Balantik camp in Kedah state for crossing the border illegally, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22077/four-maids-rescued-from-malaysia/
More power outages in store for pp locales
Parts of Phnom Penh experienced scheduled power outages yesterday, as a result of state power company Electricite du Cambodge moving power poles to make way for road widening, the EDC said yesterday. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-power-outages-store-pp-locales
Cambodian exports to US down
Cambodia’s total exports to the United States declined last year compared with 2015, due to uncertainties in the US presidential race and rising exports from Vietnam and new market player Myanmar. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35260/cambodian-exports-to-us-down/
Metfone operator plans for big foreign revenue
Viettel Group, the Vietnamese military-owned operator of Cambodian mobile operator Metfone, expects to pull in $1.4 billion in revenue this year from overseas investments, Vietnamese state-owned media reported yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/metfone-operator-plans-big-foreign-revenue