Corners cut in crowded ISP war
A Google search for Cambodian Internet service providers (ISPs) turns up a dizzyIng number of results, some advertisIng monthly rates as low as $18 for 4 Mb/s. ...
Jonathan Cox and Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14734/corners-cut-in-crowded-isp-war/
One dead in Battambang lightning strike
A man was killed and his wife left unconscious after lightning struck their stilted home as they took shelter from a storm in Battambang province’s Mong Russei district on Thursday, a local official said on Friday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-dead-in-battambang-lightning-strike-92329/
Illegal timber seized in R’kiri
Authorities in Ratanakkiri’s Banlung town cracked down on a luxury timber storage facility over the weekend, confiscating two trucks and hundreds of pieces of illegal timber, a court official said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-timber-seized-rkiri
Bomb pair in Cambodia, say police
Police believe the two prime bombing suspects in the Erawan and Sathon pier explosions are hiding in Cambodia and have asked Phnom Penh authorities to hunt them down, a Crime Suppression Division (CSD) source said Monday. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/675552/bomb-pair-in-cambodia-say-police
Elephants ‘will suffer’ in Japan zoo
Hirakawa Zoo in southern Japan has confirmed it plans to send endangered white tigers to Teuk Chhou Zoo in Kampot province, despite deplorable conditions and evidence of psychological damage among the animals at the Cambodian zoo.A senior official from the Japanese zoo stated that the ...
Charles Parkinson and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elephants-will-suffer-japan-zoo
NEC chief still firmly in place
The National Election Committee has no plan to replace its secretary general, Tep Nytha, despite a pledge after the revamped body’s approval earlier this year to name someone new to the post within three months. ...
Shaun Turton and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-chief-still-firmly-place
Mass infection in pigs sparks fears
A new breakout of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has taken the lives of more than 1,200 pigs while infecting some 3,200 more in three districts across Siem Reap since mid-August, a new report by the province’s Agriculture Department says. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mass-infection-pigs-sparks-fears
Banks see growth in Q1
Loans and deposits at Cambodia’s 31 commercial banks grew 35 per cent and 25 per cent respectively during the first quarter of the year on what insiders called increased soundness in the Kingdom’s financial sector. Outstanding loans at the end of March hit US$4.6 billion, according ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061256735/Business/banks-see-growth-in-q1.html
Border crime in Interpol’s sights
An ASEAN-first Interpol database trackIng transnational crime between Cambodia and Vietnam was launched In Phnom Penh yesterday. Keo Vannthan, head of Cambodia’s Interpol Bureau at the MInistry of Interior, said the European Union had pledged almost US$800,000 to the pilot EU-ASEAN Migration Border Management Program project ...
New year ringing in myriad concessions
The government has granted private companies the right to develop about 65,000 hectares of land in wildlife sanctuaries, national parks and on public reserves since January 1, data from a human rights group reveals. Ouch Leng, land reform project coordinator for the Cambodian Center for Human ...
TNS launches new office in Cambodia
International market- research company TNS has announced the openIng of the company’s first office In Cambodia, and has joIned forces with MSD, a Cambodian market and social research firm that is a “long-standIng partner”, an official company statement said. Ralf Matthaes has been appoInted regional managIng ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062256943/Business/tns-new-office-cambodia.html
Radiation detection equipment installed at Sihanoukville Port
In the fulfillment of a 2009 pact made between the US and Cambodia to reduce the risk of terrorist activity, the US National Nuclear Security AdmInistration announced on Thursday that it had Installed radiation detection equipment at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port. With the new equipment, the port ...
IFJ seeks Press Law amendment
The International Federation of Journalists has urged the government to speedily amend the Press Law and brIng it In lIne with current global press standards to ensure the protection of journalists. The appeal came after the Information MInistry last week announced that it is open to ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50656430/ifj-seeks-press-law-amendment/
Thieves rob Takeo voter registration location
Police in Takeo province’s Prey Kabbas district are investigating the theft of equipment from a Prey Lvea commune voter registration office on Thursday. National Election Committee voter registration department head Top Rithy said the thief or thieves broke the building’s lock and swiped all but the ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thieves-rob-takeo-voter-registration-location
NEC finishes complaints; voter registration prep continues
The National Election Committee (NEC) can now turn its attention to preparations for next year’s national election, which are already underway as voter registration will start in September, said Khorn Keo Mono, director of the NEC’s communications department. Mr. Keo Mono said on Tuesday that ...
Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-finishes-complaints-voter-registration-prep-continues-131568/
Don’t intimidate, law enforcement warned
The Interior MInistry and the National Election Committee have banned all forms of law enforcement from usIng their power to Intimidate or threaten voters durIng the commune election campaign period.In a joInt announcement, the NEC and the mInistry said that it was crucial for the ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38748/don---t-intimidate--law-enforcement-warned/
Ministry says economic growth has benefitted people equitably
The strong economic growth Cambodia has experienced in the last few decades has benefitted everyone and created opportunities for all, a high-ranking government official said yesterday. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50665228/ministry-says-economic-growth-has-benefitted-people-equitably/
Gov’t unlikely to meet target to reduce road deaths
Without more efforts to punish traffic violators, the government is all but certain to miss its 2020 goal of cutting traffic deaths by 20 percent and drunk driving deaths by 50 percent, road safety experts said at a forum Tuesday. There were 1,910 deaths due to ...
Simon Henderson and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-unlikely-to-meet-target-to-reduce-road-deaths-56156/
New gas safety rules
As part of a new safety initiative, the Ministry of Mines and Energy will require all petrol station owners to present a certificate acknowledging that their businesses follow risk-prevention protocols. The directive came in response to a series of petrol fires and explosions that damaged property ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-gas-safety-rules
Koh Kong suspends visits to eco-tourist sites due to rains
The Governor of Koh Kong province, Mithona Phouthorng, called on all tourists to suspend travel to remote eco-tourism sites due to the dangers presented by sudden changes in the weather. ...
Nang Veasna
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501337912/koh-kong-suspends-visits-to-eco-tourist-sites-due-to-rains/