PM to receive honorary doctorate from Chinese university
Prime Minister Hun Sen will be awarded an honorary doctorate in Khmer literature from a Chinese University during an official visit to China, to attend a number of forums and conferences. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16721/pm-to-receive-honorary-doctorate-from-chinese-university/
Breaking: Three killed while on forestry patrol in Mondulkiri
An Environment Ministry ranger, a Military Police officer and an employee of a conservation organisation have been killed in a shootout with other Cambodian authorities near Mondulkiri’s border with Vietnam. ...
Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-three-killed-while-forestry-patrol-mondulkiri
Hun Sen rejects democracy index’s ‘authoritarian’ label
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday took a swipe at a recent democracy report that labelled his regime “authoritarian”, before declaring no one is capable of “toppling Hun Sen besides Hun Sen”. ...
Mech Dara and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-rejects-democracy-indexs-authoritarian-label
HomePro mulls investment in Cambodia
HomePro, a leading home improvement retailer in Thailand, is mulling expansion to neighboring countries – including Cambodia next year – with an investment budget of between $170 million and nearly $200 million. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36267/homepro-mulls-investment-in-cambodia/
Logging trucks seized in Ratanakkiri
Authorities intercepted four trucks carrying 81 pieces of illegal luxury timber at a checkpoint in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district last Friday, District Military Police Commader Sok Min said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-trucks-seized-ratanakkiri
Takeo military police confiscate timber from district police's house
Takeo province Military Police on Tuesday confiscated more than a tonne of rosewood that was stored at an abandoned house belonging to a Koh Andet district police official, authorities said today. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/takeo-military-police-confiscate-timber-district-polices-house
UXO casualties highlighted on mine awareness day
In a statement released Tuesday to mark Cambodia’s 16th National Mine Awareness Day, Prime Minister Hun Sen warns all Cambodians to be vigilant of an increase in anti-tank mine casualties. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uxo-casualties-highlighted-on-mine-awareness-day-78631/
Salesman maimed by mine in B Meanchey
A traveling salesman lost his leg to a landmine on Monday after going hunting outside of a village with which he was unfamiliar in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thma Puok district, police said. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/salesman-maimed-mine-b-meanchey
Military police officer caught smuggling wood
A military police officer was arrested Monday night at a border checkpoint in Kampot province as he attempted to cross into Vietnam with almost 700 kg of illegally logged wood, police said Wednesday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-police-officer-caught-smuggling-wood-82443
Illicit wood seized despite opposition
Nearly 20 cubic metres of timber were seized by local authorities in Stung Treng’s Thala Barivat district yesterday, despite alleged interference by a military police officer from Preah Vihear province, police said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illicit-wood-seized-despite-opposition
Cambodia villager held in attack on Chinese worker over land dispute
Police in Cambodia’s Tbong Khmum province on Friday arrested a villager accused of injuring a Chinese worker and his translator in a long running land dispute. ...
Saut Sok Pratna
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-villager-06262015153727.html
Police installing CCTV cameras at major intersections
Cambodian national police have begun installing closed-circuit TV cameras at traffic lights, in hopes of better enforcing traffic laws and to assist authorities in solving crimes. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/police-installing-cctv-cameras-at-major-intersections/2866701.html
Ten B Kak activists dispersed by police
Gathering yesterday in front of Phnom Penh City Hall to demand a speedy resolution to longstanding land disputes, 10 Boeung Kak villagers were forcibly dispersed by security personnel citing traffic concerns. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ten-b-kak-activists-dispersed-police
Six arrested in Phnom Penh over bride-trafficking ring
Three Chinese men and three Cambodians were arrested in Phnom Penh on Wednesday on suspicion of running a trafficking ring in which Cambodian women are married off to Chinese men, police said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-arrested-in-phnom-penh-over-bride-trafficking-ring-93807/
Ratanakkiri minorities say land stolen
Ethnic minorities in Ratanakkiri province have accused local authorities of selling community forest land to a provincial court official and threatening to put them in jail, according to a complaint filed yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-minorities-say-land-stolen
Officials aided Vietnamese loggers, villagers say
Evidence of illegal logging perpetrated by Vietnamese lumberjacks in collusion with local authorities in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district was submitted to a local rights group by an ethnic Jarai community yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-aided-vietnamese-loggers-villagers-say
PM asks Malaysia to take more Cambodian workers
Malaysia is primed to accept an influx of Cambodian workers after Prime Minister Hun Sen entreated his Malay counterpart to receive more Cambodians during an official visit to Malaysia late last week. ...
Sen David and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-asks-malaysia-take-more-cambodian-workers
Firm to advise on offshore financial products
Tag Wealth International, a subsidiary of Australian financial services company Tag Group, will establish a permanent office in Phnom Penh to provide services for expatriates living in Cambodia, its director said yesterday. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firm-advise-offshore-financial-products
PM wants more Khmer-style art
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday urged Cambodian artists to include elements of national identity in their work to ensure they are not threatened with intellectual property rights lawsuits from international artists. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36127/pm-wants-more-khmer-style-art/
Workers’ bonus fight
More than 500 garment workers in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district on Friday protested and blocked a portion of Veng Sreng Boulevard to demand their annual bonus from 2010 to 2017. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093740/workers-bonus-fight/