405 get an A in high school exams
The ministry of Education announced the results of the grade 12 high school exams on Saturday afternoon, noting that 405 of the 89,661 students who enrolled to take the exam received an A grade, a marked improvement on the previous year and a “surprise” for ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29612/405-get-an-a-in-high-school-exams/
Hometown of Samrin not in swap: gov’t
Minister in Charge of Border Affairs Var Kimhong yesterday moved to quash the latest outbreak of rumours that National Assembly President Heng Samrin’s native village of Thlok Trach would be given to Vietnam in a land swap. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hometown-samrin-not-swap-govt
Back home, hostages tell of time in captivity
Four Cambodian fishermen released by Somali pirates last month recounted their ordeal at a press conference hosted by NGO Caritas yesterday. Khorn Vanthy, 26, from Kampong Cham; Kin Kemhen, 33, of Kratie; and Em Phoum Many, 33, and Nhem Soksan, 33, both from Kampong Chhnang, spent ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/back-home-hostages-tell-time-captivity
Pressure on hearings in Vietnam voter link complaints
The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday changed its procedure for resolving complaints that allege some registered voters are Vietnamese by holding brief, private hearings to speed up the process. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34548/pressure-on-hearings-in-vietnam-voter-link-complaints/
Villagers seek NGOs’, UN’s help in dispute
More than 400 families in Preah Vihear province submitted a petition to a group of NGOs and the UN yesterday, seeking assistance in their battle with the government over 3,555 hectares of protected land that sits within the Kulen Prom-Tep Wildlife Sanctuary. According to Sokha, ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-seek-ngos-uns-help-dispute
Kingdom sees major increase in United States investment
US investments in Cambodia increased 15-fold last year, due mainly to the construction of a new Coca-Cola plant in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, according to a statement from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35808/kingdom-sees-major-increase-in-united-states-investment/
Three big US wartime bombs found in Kandal
Police in Kandal province and officials from the Cambodian Mine Action Center have found three live bombs beneath a resident’s rice field in Kandal Stung district. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36071/three-big-us-wartime--bombs-found-in-kandal/
KDIC digs in to recover local Korean assets
South Korea’s state-run deposit insurer opened its first overseas branch in Phnom Penh yesterday in a move to sell off the bank and property assets of Korean banks that went belly up in 2011. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kdic-digs-recover-local-korean-assets
CMAC deminers, dogs going to work in Israel
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) will send demining experts and dogs to Israel today, as part of an apparent bid to improve relations between the two countries. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-deminers-dogs-going-work-israel
Push to stop farmers using chemicals in rice
Experts in the rice sector have expressed their fears over the ban in exporting milled rice containing the chemical Tricyclazole to the European Union (EU), while the government is trying to educate and spread word of the ban to farmers. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37271/push-to-stop-farmers-using-chemicals-in-rice/
Near-zero unemployment in Cambodia, claims Labor Minister
The Labor Ministry proclaimed yesterday that unemployment was nearly eradicated in Cambodia after a recent study showed that less than one percent of citizens remained without jobs. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37336/near-zero-unemployment-in-cambodia--claims-labor-minister/
More than 50 dead in holiday traffic accidents
More than 50 people died and 200 were injured in 121 traffic accidents during the five days of Khmer New Year. According to an interior Ministry report, 55 people were killed and 226 were injured, 126 of which were seriously hurt. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37567/more-than-50-dead-in-holiday-traffic-accidents/
Khmer New Year festival brings in more income
Angkor Sangkranta, Siem Reap’s largest cultural festival held over Khmer New Year, raked in a total income of $95 million on the back of 1.6 million domestic and international visitors, a 23 percent year-on-year increase, state news agency AKP said yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/khmer-new-year-festival-brings-more-income
Tax Department collects $760M in first quarter
The Cambodian government collected more than $760 million dollars in tax revenue during the first quarter of this year, an increase of more than 90 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a report released yesterday by General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...
The Phnom Penh Post staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-department-collects-760m-first-quarter
Cambodian farmers cash in on high cashew prices
International commodity prices for cashew nuts are rapidly IncreasIng due to lower supply from Cambodia and Vietnam which is drivIng up profits for the KIngdom’s farmers, accordIng to Industry stakeholders. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-farmers-cash-high-cashew-prices
Complaint to be filed in suspicious prison death
A Banteay Meanchey woman is planning to file a complaint against the provincial prison director for his alleged role in the suspicious death of her stepdaughter on Saturday. Khon Thy said her stepdaughter, Sok Chanthan, 27, had suffered from chronic asthma since she was 7 years ...
Niem Chheng and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-be-filed-suspicious-prison-death
Workers unite in devotion to making vote count
Union leaders have admitted they were surprised at the high number of factory workers who returned to the provinces from Phnom Penh to cast their vote in the commune elections. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39042/workers-unite-in-devotion-to-making-vote-count/
CPP lead in popular vote slim, say NGOs
Preliminary returns from Sunday’s commune elections appear to show a tighter popular vote than the breakdown of communes won would seem to suggest, with the CNRP raking in an estimated 45 percent of votes to the CPP’s 48 percent, according to a coalition of NGOs. ...
Andrew Nachemson, Soth Koemsoeun and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-lead-popular-vote-slim-say-ngos
More than $1bn invested in local infrastructure
Cambodia has invested more than $1 billion on infrastructure, especially on transport, a senior official at the Ministry of Economy and Finance says. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40155/more-than--1bn-invested-in-local-infrastructure/
Suspected sand exports to VN stopped in Mondulkiri
The Mondulkiri Provincial Court and mines and energy officials said they are investigating illegal sand exports to Vietnam following the questioning of four people who were intercepted yesterday by authorities driving truckloads of sand toward the eastern border. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/suspected-sand-exports-vietnam-stopped-mondulkiri