NGO files suit over ‘seizures’ in Phnom Oral
A Kampong Speu-based NGO has accused a police officer and several rangers working for the provincial Environment Department of seizing more than 100 hectares of Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, demanding a court order to restore the land and hold the parties to account. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-files-suit-over-seizures-phnom-oral
Indian vice president begins official visit in Cambodia
A high-level Indian delegation led by its vice president Mohammad Hamid Ansari and his spouse arrived here yesterday evenIng In Phnom Penh for a three-day official visit In Cambodia, accordIng to the state news agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/indian-vice-president-begins-official-visit-in-cambodia-8958
Ministry forecasts surge in jobs at Sihanoukville SEZ
The number of workers at the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) is expected to increase from 30,000 now to 200,000 in the next few years as the port city becomes a manufacturing hub for the Kingdom, a senior official with the Commerce Ministry said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17282/ministry-forecasts-surge-in-jobs-at-sihanoukville-sez/
Measles not back in Cambodia, health minister says
Three weeks after the Health Ministry announced that measles had reappeared in Cambodia, a ministry official said Thursday that the highly contagious disease had in fact not been found. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/measles-not-back-in-cambodia-health-minister-says-98798/
JCBI expands reach in deal with campu bank
Japan-based JCB International (JCBI), a global payment brand and a leadIng credit card issuer and acquirer, has reached an agreement with Cambodia Public (Campu) Bank to expand the reach of its JCB cards In Cambodia. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17496/jcbi-expands-reach-in-deal-with-campu-bank/
Japanese FDI leads to surge in exports: analysts
Cambodia’s total exports to Japan increased sharply over the first nine months of the year compared to last year due to flows of investment from Japan to Cambodia over the last few years, analysts said. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17864/japanese-fdi-leads-to-surge-in-exports--analysts/
Annual US-Cambodian naval exercises begin in Sihanoukville
A U.S. naval fleet docked in Sihanoukville on Monday for the sixth annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) exercises with the Royal Cambodian Navy. ...
Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/annual-us-cambodian-naval-exercises-begin-in-sihanoukville-100510/
Petanque star promoted in military, given $40k
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday promoted Ke Leng, who recently won her second world championship in petanque, from the rank of captain to major in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and promised her $40,000 for her victory. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/petanque-star-promoted-in-military-given-40k-100662/
Prime Minister in Malaysia for series of summits
Prime Minister Hun Sen jetted off to Kuala Lumpur on Friday morning to attend the 27th Asean Summit and hold one-on-one meetings with several heads of state. ...
The Cambodia Daily team
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-in-malaysia-for-series-of-summits-101130/
CNRP lawmaker enters exile in solidarity with Rainsy
Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An, who was at the fore of the CNRP’s efforts earlier this year to reveal Vietnamese encroachments into Cambodia, said on Monday that he had entered self-imposed exile along with opposition leader Sam Rainsy. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-enters-exile-in-solidarity-with-sam-rainsy-101564/
Prime minister inaugurates olympic pool in Kompong Cham
Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated Cambodia’s newest Olympic-size swimming pool in Kompong Cham province on Wednesday, a $1.5 million facility named after himself and marked as a venue for the 2023 South East Asian (SEA) Games. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-inaugurates-olympic-pool-in-kompong-cham-101837/
Experts divided on sentencing in HIV outbreak case
Following the 25-year sentence for an unlicensed doctor who caused an outbreak of HIV, rights, development and legal experts consider whether justice was served.The questions revolve around how many years imprisonment should be meted out by the court in a case that may have been ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/experts-divided-on-sentencing-in-hiv-outbreak-case/3087794.html
Canada to open diplomatic office in Phnom Penh
After closing down its tiny Phnom Penh embassy in 2009, Canada has opened a new diplomatic office inside the British Embassy staffed by a single Canadian official, according to a statement released Friday. ...
The Cambodia Daily team
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/canada-to-open-diplomatic-office-in-phnom-penh-102886/
A country in love with injections and drips
In Cambodia almost anyone who sees a doctor or goes to hospital, is given an Injection or put on an Intravenous drip. This is what patients want, and what medical staff give them – it has become part of the healthcare routIne. But it has ...
John Murphy
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35111566
China gives $2.5 million in military equipment
China on has handed over medical equipment worth $2.5 million to Cambodia’s Preah Ket Melea military hospital, underpinning China’s growing role as the country’s major military donor and defense partner. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18906/china-gives--2-5-million-in-military-equipment/
Tax revenue from casinos rises sharply in 2015
Thanks to improved collection efforts, a total of $34.7 million in taxes was taken in from Cambodia’s casinos in 2015, a 33 percent increase on the previous year, the Finance Ministry said on Monday. Ros Phearun, deputy director-general of the ministry’s finance industry department, said ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tax-revenue-from-casinos-rises-sharply-in-2015-105069/
Kerry presses for reform in talks with PM
US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday pushed Prime Minister Hun Sen and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on the need for greater political freedom in Cambodia during meetings in Phnom Penh but also praised the Kingdom’s “extraordinary” development since his first visit as a senator ...
Mech Dara, Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kerry-presses-reform-talks-pm
Cambodia and UNICEF reinvest in country’s future
In an effort to identify and address “key barriers that impede the realization of children’s rights In Cambodia,” the Cambodian government and UNICEF Cambodia officially signed a new Country Program Action Plan yesterday, enterIng a three-year partnership that will cost an estimated $65 million, accordIng ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21234/cambodia-and-unicef-reinvest-in-country---s-future/
US weighs in on anti-Hun Sen protest
Amid fears of a potential reprise of anti-opposition violence that flared in October, a US Embassy spokesman yesterday called on the government “to ensure that no one is threatened, punished, or harmed in Cambodia” if a planned anti-Hun Sen rally takes place as scheduled next ...
Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-weighs-anti-hun-sen-protest
Two Cambodian merchants denied bail in Thai court
The two Cambodian merchants arrested at Rong Kluea Market during a Thai Department of Special investigation (DSI) raid that turned violent earlier this month were denied bail on Friday by the Thai Court of Appeals, according to a statement released by the Cambodian Foreign Affairs ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21374/two-cambodian-merchants-denied-bail-in-thai-court/