Timber confiscated, owner pays fine
Muk Kampol district police officers in Kandal province yesterday confiscated more than 70 pieces of timber being transported to Phnom Penh along National Road 6 over suspicion that it was illegally obtained. However, one officer said that the owner had already paid a fine in ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50503198/timber-confiscated-owner-pays-fine/
Latest malaria drug resistance sparks fears
A new study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has confirmed that resistance is growIng to one of the key drugs beIng used to fight malaria In Cambodia, a situation likely to worsen and which could lead to a growIng caseload In the ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/latest-malaria-drug-resistance-sparks-fears-104930/
US trade treaty to aid kingdom's TPP ambitions
As Prime Minister Hun Sen attends the US-ASEAN Summit in California today, government officials are in the midst of ongoing negotiations with their American counterparts to formulate a trade and investment agreement, which analysts say could be a stepping stone towards one day joining the ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-trade-treaty-aid-kingdoms-tpp-ambitions
Officer convicted of fraud still employed at Defense University
A military officer convicted of fraud and sentenced to one year in prison in October is still employed by the National Defense University (NDU), the school confirmed this week, despite the fact that the officer’s co-conspirator is now behind bars. ...
Buth kimsay and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officer-convicted-of-fraud-still-employed-at-defense-university-112874/
Herd of elephants rescued from muddy bomb crater
Eleven wild elephants were rescued on Saturday in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima protected area after becoming trapped in a former bomb crater without food for four days, though rangers will continue to monitor the herd to ensure it reaccepts one juvenile who was handled by humans ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/herd-elephants-rescued-muddy-bomb-crater
ACU arrests reporters and construction worker
The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday arrested two reporters and a construction worker in Kampot City for their alleged role in extorting a deputy provincial governor, officials and a colleague of one of the suspects said Sunday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-arrests-reporters-and-construction-worker-67990/
Worse off than before
In May of 2010, just four days after their family was resettled In Battambang provInce, two children, accompanied by their sister-In-law, walked to a pond. Stories differ as to why they were there. Rights groups say they went to bathe and collect water. Police claim ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/worse
Eight arrested for crossing border
Voek Pisei, O’Khla Khmum village chief in Samrong district’s O’Smach commune, told The Post on Thursday that early last month, one villager identified as Roeun Sela was detained by Thai border guards for smuggling luxury wood from Thailand. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-arrested-crossing-border
Eight Nigerians get 10 years for trafficking meth
Eight Nigerians were sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday following a sting operation last year that culminated with an undercover officer purchasing 100 grams of crystal methamphetamine from one of the eight. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eight-nigerians-get-10-years-for-trafficking-meth-94835/
Woman’s seizure prompts mass fainting at factory
Dozens of workers fainted at a garment factory in Kompong Chhnang province on Friday after seeing one of their colleagues have a seizure, which they feared was caused by an electric shock from her sewing machine, a police official said. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/womans-seizure-prompts-mass-fainting-at-factory-97082/
Police motorbike rammed by truck with state license plates
The pickup truck that intentionally rear-ended a police motorbike in Kandal province on Saturday night —killing one officer and seriously injuring another—bore state license plates and has been used by an established timber smuggling outfit, officials said on Monday. ...
France loans €30M for water plant expansion
The French Agency for Development has granted a 30 million euro, or $31.1 million, loan for the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) to expand one of its four water plants and increase its water distribution in the capital. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/france-loans-eu30m-water-plant-expansion
Protest violence as activist jailed
At least three women – one pregnant – and a man were hurt in a clash with security forces at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday after land rights activist Tep Vanny was jailed for two and a half years over a 2013 protest. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35824/protest-violence-as-activist-jailed/
KNUP leader Nhek Bun Chhay charged over 2007 drugs case
Political fixture and former Co-Defence Minister Nhek Bun Chhay was officially charged yesterday with conspiracy to produce drugs and importing drug components after being linked to a decade-old bust by one of the men convicted in the original case. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/knup-leader-nhek-bun-chhay-charged-over-2007-drugs-case
Recounts appear to change two results
With the National Election Committee (NEC) having released preliminary commune election results, parties have begun registering requests for recounts to the body, with one commune each in Svay Rieng and Battambang provinces appearing to have already flipped sides as of yesterday. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/recounts-appear-change-two-results
Svay Rieng victims called back to court
Svay Rieng Provincial Court has summonsed the three female workers wounded during a protest at Kao Ve Garment Factory in Manhattan Special Economic Zone for one more round of questioning before the case against the former Bavet city governor is sent for trial. ...
Kazantip ‘totally canceled’; police deployed
Authorities in Preah Sihanouk province have had yet another change of heart about the notoriously wild Kazantip music festival, pulling the event from Sihanoukville’s Koh Puos island for a second time, with one official citing a desire to dissuade “indecent tourism.” ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kazantip-totally-canceled-police-deployed-78161/
Cashew, poultry feed rules on the way
The Institute of Statistics Cambodia issued two new draft standards yesterday, one for cashew nuts and another for chicken- and duck-feed production. The new guidelInes aim to brIng the products In lIne with International standards and also help producers Increase their exports. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cashew-poultry-feed-rules-way
Ex-Top cop says he was forced to flee prison
Hang Vuthy, the one-time right-hand man of jailed former Phnom Penh police chief Heng Pov, told the municipal court Wednesday that he was forced to escape from Prey Sar prison in 2007, as his retrial over the jailbreak got underway. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ex-top-cop-says-he-was-forced-to-flee-prison-86494/
Officials remain calm despite flood deaths
Four people have died in flooding that has affected nine provinces over the past week, officials said Sunday. Two people died in flooding in Kratie province, one in Stung Treng province and another in Kandal province. The flooding has risen above the emergency levels in Kratie ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-remain-calm-despite-flood-deaths-65601/