Poipet railway to be finished in 2016
A railway linking Phnom Penh with Poipet town on the Thai-Cambodian border is due to be completed by the end of 2016, local authorities announced following a visit by the minister of tourism yesterday. ...
Morn Vanntey
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-railway-be-finished-2016
NGO head apologises to NEC
The Victory Intelligent Standard Association issued an apology on Wednesday to the National Election Committee for accusing the body’s senior staffers of corruption during the transfer of its employees from independent contractors to the government’s fold. ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-head-apologises-nec
NEC-run safe zones suggested
A senior member of the Electoral Reform Alliance yesterday appealed for the National Election Committee to be given special jurisdictional powers over certain areas around the country during election campaigns so that it can ensure freedom of assembly. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-run-safe-zones-suggested
More rice exporters given access to China
Beijing has agreed to increase the number of Cambodian rice exporters allowed to sell to the Chinese mainland. The Ministry of Agriculture has been advised that eight more companies will be granted licenses, taking the total to 34. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37715/more-rice-exporters-given-access-to-china/
Trash piles will get picked up, eventually
Phnom Penh’s sole garbage hauler says it will need another week to collect thousands of tons of fetid garbage that piled up over the weekend when workers left the capital to vote in Sunday’s commune elections. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trash-piles-will-get-picked-up-eventually-131068/
Prince Ranariddh wins Funcinpec power struggle
Prince Norodom Ranariddh completed his takeover of the royalist Funcinpec party on Thursday, with a national party congress granting him absolute control of the party following a power struggle with the man who engineered his removal as leader in 2006. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prince-ranariddh-wins-funcinpec-power-struggle-79690/
‘Khmer for Khmer’ to create 25 political parties
“Khmer for Khmer” founder Kem Ley said Wednesday that his political reform group plans to create 25 political parties early next year as part of a pilot program to assess the viability of such micro-parties before the next elections. ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/khmer-for-khmer-to-create-25-political-parties-74435/
CNRP using ‘dialogue’ to trick supporters: prince Ranariddh
Funcinpec President Prince Norodom Ranariddh on Sunday warned the leaders of the CNRP to call off their “culture of dialogue” with the ruling CPP, which he said was an attempt by the opposition party’s leaders to trick their supporters. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-using-dialogue-to-trick-supporters-prince-ranariddh-84679/
Group denied bail due to ‘serious’ charges
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday denied a bail request from eight members of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), a political advocacy group that opposes the ruling CPP, due to the serious nature of the charges against them. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/group-denied-bail-due-to-serious-charges-87002/
Censured lawmaker admits poor word choice
In the wake of his 15-session suspension from parliament for “insulting” National Assembly President Heng Samrin, opposition lawmaker Um Sam An has defended criticism he posted on social media while expressing regret over his choice of words. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/censured-lawmaker-admits-poor-word-choice
No request for help investigating Thai bombing, Cambodian officials say
Cambodian authorities say they have received no request for aid in the Thai investigation of a bombing in Bangkok in August, following the detention of a second suspect near the Cambodian border on Tuesday. ...
Cambodia boasts biodiversity richness
The Ministry of Environment has announced Cambodia’s richness of biodiversity resources in its recent update. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50730192/cambodia-boasts-biodiversity-richness/
China-aided 2023 SEA Games stadium symbolises close Sino-Cambodian ties
Travelling along National Road 5 in the north of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, tourists can easily spot a mammoth sailing ship-shaped structure – the China-funded Morodok Techo National Stadium. ...
Khmer Thavrak registers with Interior Ministry, plans new approach to resolve issues
Khmer Thavrak run by a group of youths has been at the forefront of raising human rights concerns in Cambodia. ...
Sovann Sreypich
https://cambojanews.com/khmer-thavrak-registers-with-interior-ministry-plans-new-approach-to-resolve-issues/
CNRP boycott call slammed by opposition party leader
The president of the Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) on Wednesday slammed the leadership of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for handing the 125-seat National Assembly to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party with its boycott calls. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-boycott-call-slammed-opposition-party-leader
Sam Rainsy Party meets soon to pick new chief
Sam Rainsy Party deputy president Teav Vannol yesterday declined to say whether he would take leadership of the party in the wake of president Kong Korm’s retirement, though a fellow senator said it was all but a foregone conclusion. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-rainsy-party-meets-soon-pick-new-chief
CNRP lawmakers set to retake seats in NA
The CNRP yesterday announced its lawmakers will attend Wednesday’s plenary session at the National Assembly, ending the party’s almost two-month boycott that began after the brutal beating of two of its lawmakers outside parliament by pro-government protesters. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-lawmakers-set-retake-seats-na
Takeo governor says historic village is not lost to Vietnam
Takeo provincial governor Lay Vannak on Wednesday threatened to arrest anyone who claims that officials surrendered to Vietnam two of the boulders that constitute the historic “Three Rocks Village” on the eastern border of Borei Cholsar district. ...
PM dispatches sons to handle land dispute arrests
Two village representatives in Kampong Speu who were detained for protesting against the actions of their provincial authority were released yesterday by the provincial court after Prime Minister Hun Sen sent two of his sons to help deal with the situation. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22816/pm-dispatches-sons-to-handle-land-dispute-arrests/
Parasites common in kids: study
Half of children in Battambang schools were found to have intestinal parasites that could impact their health, according to a recent study. of 308 students tested, over 50 percent were found to have a parasite, with 58 having multiple parasitic infections. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parasites-common-kids-study