Cambodia, Australia to strengthen military cooperation
Cambodia and Australia have been committed to further strengthen their cooperation in the military sector. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501163638/cambodia-australia-to-strengthen-military-cooperation/
Mine clearance project in Thbong Khmum province 70 percent complete
The mine clearance project in Thbong Khmum province have so far been about 70 percent complete. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501164408/mine-clearance-project-in-thbong-khmum-province-70-percent-complete/
CNCW received 6,200 reports from poor last year
The Cambodian National Council for Women (CNCW) received 6,256 complaints, including violence and abuse against women and minors, from poor families last year. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501243750/cncw-received-6200-reports-from-poor-last-year/
Sar Kheng orders Prey Lang forest protection
Interior Minister Sar Kheng urged authorities on Thursday to protect Prey Lang forest, saying it is the largest remaining woodland in mainland Southeast Asia, and that amendments to laws that protect natural resources would soon be finalised. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-orders-prey-lang-forest-protection
Boeung Kak vows one-month protest
Villagers from the former Boeung Kak lake, Borei Keila and Thma Kul communities are to hold a month-long protest in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park to pressure City Hall to resolve a long running land dispute. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kak-vows-one-month-protest
Emerald to absorb Renaissance in merger
Australian mining firms Emerald Resources and Renaissance Minerals have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal that aims at creating synergies to develop gold projects in northeastern Cambodia, the companies said in a joint announcement yesterday. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/emerald-absorb-renaissance-merger
Truck drivers block major roads in protest
More than 400 right-hand-drive cargo truck owners—who are requesting they be allowed to keep the illegal vehicles unmodified after paying import and road taxes—blocked busy Phnom Penh roads in protest on Wednesday morning. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/truck-drivers-block-major-roads-in-protest-103736/
Judiciary allowances to see major increase
The top judge and prosecutor in Cambodia’s judiciary will see Their allowances rise 300 per cent to $2,500, while those in lower courts are also in for significant hikes, according to a decree released yesterday. ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judiciary-allowances-see-major-increase
On dengue, act locally, urges new report
Efforts to catch and fight dengue outbreaks in Cambodia are more likely to be effective if they are conducted at the provincial level, according to a study published last week in online science journal BioMed Central. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-act-locally-urges-new-report
Gen Banh says sea not on agenda with Vietnam
Following a meeting with Vietnam’s new defense minister, Ngo Xuan Lich, Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh told reporters that rising tensions in the South China Sea were not even mentioned during their discussion. “. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gen-banh-says-sea-not-on-agenda-with-vietnam-113384/
Ratanakkiri clinic blamed in outdoor birth
A pregnant woman was forced to give birth on an outdoor bench with only neighbours to help because staff at a government health centre in Ratanakkiri province had left the facility unmanned, according to friends and family. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-clinic-blamed-outdoor-birth
Chinese new year fire destroys 97 houses in Phnom Penh
A fire destroyed 97 houses in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district early Monday morning, with authorities blaming an unattended candle from a resident’s Lunar New Year celebration for sparking the blaze. ...
Ben Sokhean and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinese-new-year-fire-destroys-97-houses-in-phnom-penh-107837/
Deportees from Thailand expected to rise: NGO
As many as 60,000 Cambodian deportees from Thailand are expected to cross back into Cambodia this year, according to Samaritan’s Purse, an international NGO that works with deportees and migrants along the border with Thailand. ...
Maddy Crowell
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21679/deportees-from-thailand-expected-to-rise--ngo/
Senator gets seven years for Facebook border post
Opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour was sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for forgery and incitement after presenting a border treaty on Facebook that the CNRP says merely contained a mistranslation. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-senator-sentenced-seven-years-prison-fake-vietnam-treaty-120293/
Mental health center under construction for Prey Speu detainees
Officials broke ground on Saturday on a new mental health center in Kandal province that will house detainees from the notorious Prey Speu detention center in Phnom Penh, among others, government and city Officials said on Sunday. ...
Migrant worker protections ‘lacking’, reports find
Cambodia lacks effective mechanisms to protect its citizens working both as legal and undocumented migrants abroad, where such workers also face insufficient protection from the countries that receive them, according to two new reports published last week. ...
Leonie Kijewski and Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrant-worker-protections-lacking-reports-find
Space tech to aid park preservation
The Apsara Authority has extended an agreement with China’s International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage to continue using its remote sensing technology to discover and preserve ancient temples in Siem Reap province. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083666/space-tech-aid-park-preservation/
Rainsy says China aid to blame for rights abuses
Days after signing a statement welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Cambodia, opposition leader Sam Rainsy took to Radio Free Asia to slam China for enabling human rights abuses in the Kingdom with no-strings-attached loans. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-says-china-aid-blame-rights-abuses
New dam on Mekong looms
Representatives from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam gathered in Vientiane on Thursday to launch a six-month consultation process on what would be the third mainstream hydropower dam in Laos’s Lower Mekong River. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-dam-mekong-looms
Competition, economic status leave garment sector at risk
Cambodia’s upgrade to lower-middle income status and looming competition from an E.U.-Vietnam trade deal pose major risks to the country’s garment and footwear export industry, a European business representative said on Thursday. ...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/competition-economic-status-leave-garment-sector-risk-130460/