Ang: why I killed Kem Ley
Eurth Ang stood in court yesterday and calmly described how he shot Kem Ley, insisting that it was over an unpaid debt. “I regret and apologize to the victims’ family, but he cheated me which made me angry,” Mr. Ang said. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36028/ang--why-i-killed-kem-ley/
Stung Treng cattle killed by foot-and-mouth
More than 60 cows and buffalo in Stung Treng’s Siem Pang district have died over the past two weeks following a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, while 200 cattle have been vaccinated to prevent further spread, officials said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-treng-cattle-killed-foot-and-mouth
SL factory owners deny agreement
Just as a solution to a two-week-long dispute at two SL Garment factories seemed over on Saturday, the company’s owner issued a statement refusing to recognise an agreement that had lured more than 5,000 employees back to work. ...
HRH Premier receives Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister
His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa said that Bahrain is looking forward to consolidating ties with Cambodia through bolstering bilateral cooperation at all levels and intensifying exchanged visits between the public and private sectors for their joint interests. ...
Bahrain News Agency Staff
http://www.bna.bh/portal/en/news/622912
Three charged over fake military checkpoint
The Kompong Speu Provincial Court on Saturday charged three men with illegally establishing an armed force, illegally using weapons and wearing fake military uniforms after They were arrested for operating a fake roadside checkpoint to extort money from loggers, officials said on Sunday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-charged-over-fake-military-checkpoint-78018/
Police chief berates Kompong Speu force over Mercedes shooter
National Police chief Neth Savoeun on Tuesday rebuked police in Kompong Speu province for allowing a man in a Mercedes-Benz SUV to escape after he fired a handgun 33 times in the air in apparent protest at a $3 speeding fine. ...
Woman gravely injured in suspected ‘love triangle’ acid attack
A 20-year-old woman suffered serious burns to her face and body after being doused with acid in Phnom Penh on Friday in an attack allegedly carried out by a jealous wife who suspected the victim was sleeping with her husband. ...
Police arrest another Russian over casino brawl in Sihanoukville
A Russian man wanted for his involvement in a violent brawl at Sihanoukville’s Queenco casino in February was arrested and jailed Tuesday evening after leading more than 20 police on an hour-long motorbike chase through the coastal town, officials said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-another-russian-over-casino-brawl-in-sihanoukville-81138/
Appeal court delays decision on Doroshenko’s bail request
Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko, who was jailed in March on fraud charges relating to a dispute with his former investment partner, Sergei Polonsky, will on Monday receive a decision from the Appeal Court about his latest request to be freed on bail. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/appeal-court-delays-decision-on-doroshenkos-bail-request-82552/
New air route aims to cut travel times, fuel costs
Cambodia will use a new air route for flights to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam that will reduce fuel costs and provide a more direct route to these countries reducing air time for these flights, according to the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation. ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-air-route-aims-cut-travel-times-fuel-costs
In Cambodia, English classes more popular than Chinese
In a small courtyard in downtown Phnom Penh sits the city’s oldest public school. Founded more than 100 years ago, Tuan Hoa features a Chinese temple and Mandarin language instruction for its 2,000 students. ...
Neou Vannarin and Colin Lovett
http://bit.ly/1GxFgI7
Advisers to Say Chhum include disgraced malaria center chief
Thirty-eight people, including a former Health Ministry official under investigation by the Anti-Corruption Unit for accepting more than $350,000 in bribes, were this week appointed as advisers to new Senate President Say Chhum, according to a royal decree obtained Wednesday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/advisers-to-say-chhum-include-disgraced-malaria-center-chief-86478/
Lawmakers spar over right to speak
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun and CNRP lawmaker Un Sam An got into a heated back-and-forth following a meeting at the National Assembly on Wednesday, with Mr. Vun refusing to allow Mr. Sam An to speak to a reporter while inside parliament. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmakers-spar-over-right-to-speak-87102/
Mekong industrial belt taking shape
Backed by their government, Japanese firms are pressing ahead with plans to link the burgeoning industrial complexes that line a 1,700-kilometer economic corridor that runs from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to a massive new port being constructed in Dawei, Myanmar. ...
Cam McGrath and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13018/mekong-industrial-belt-taking-shape/
Lawmaker’s immunity threatened
Ruling party lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday said opposition parliamentarian Um Sam An’s legal immunity could be suspended for criticising National Assembly President Heng Samrin, but refused to specify what law, if any, the Cambodia National Rescue Party member had broken. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawmakers-immunity-threatened
Vendors meet with city over construction fears
About 500 vendors from Phnom Penh’s Phsar Doeum Kor market on Wednesday gathered at City Hall to protest plans to demolish and rebuild the wholesale hub, worried that they will lose their stalls and be forced to purchase new ones. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vendors-meet-with-city-over-construction-fears-89276/
Pheap’s pledge sought
A forest peoples’ network has appealed to tycoon Try Pheap to issue a written commitment to put a halt to his companies’ deforestation activities after he told the Post last week that his logging days are over. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pheaps-pledge-sought
Cambodian authorities assist 14 montagnards who requested return to Vietnam
Officials in northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province on Friday assisted 14 ethnic Montagnards who asked to be repatriated across the border to Vietnam after they left Thailand, citing financial hardship because they were unable to find work. ...
Ratha Visal
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/montagnards-07312015145739.html
Police raid drug dens, arrest 88
More than 100 police officers descended on a notorious slum in Sen Sok district’s Toek Thla commune on Friday in a coordinated effort to flush out drug-related crime from the ghetto, ultimately arresting 88 people for using or selling crystal methamphetamine. ...
Sek Odom and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-raid-drug-dens-arrest-88-92312/
Cambodia commits over 200 to peacekeeping missions in Mali
Cambodia has dispatched 218 Blue Helmets to join the United Nation’s peacekeeping mission in Mali. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50763440/cambodia-commits-over-200-to-peacekeeping-missions-in-mali/