Rocket haul unearthed in Siem Reap market
Construction crews building a container market in Siem Reap province have discovered nearly 40 105 mm rockets while excavating land in Svay Dangkum commune. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077927/rocket-haul-unearthed-siem-reap-market/
Solar power set to shine in Bavet
Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project is still in the trial testing stage, but is expected to be fully operational at the end of this month. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079197/solar-power-set-shine-bavet/
Factory owner leaves 660 worker in lurch
The Ministry of Labour has weighed into a dispute between more than 600 garment workers and their former employer, confirming that the factory owner has closed operations and disappeared. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081246/factory-owner-leaves-660-worker-lurch/
Malware vulnerability high in Kingdom, report notes
Cambodia is among the most vulnerable countries in Asia when it comes to viruses, spam, spyware and other cyberthreats, according to a recent report from Microsoft. ...
Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/malware-vulnerability-high-kingdom-report-notes
Transport firms targeted in anti-drug drive
The Transport Minister has asked all transport companies to instruct their drivers not to use drugs and to stick anti-drug stickers on their trucks as part of a ministry campaign to curb drug use in the industry. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084019/transport-firms-targeted-anti-drug-drive/
War era bomb found in Kampong Speu
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre on Saturday recovered a 500-pound bomb in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Srouch district. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084020/war-era-bomb-found-kampong-speu/
Vietnam nationals arrested in Kratie timber bust
Six Vietnamese nationals were arrested on Wednesday afternoon in a Military Police raid that saw 30 officers confiscating at least 100 illegally felled trees and 10 logging vehicles from an economic land concession in Kratie province’s Snuol district near the border with Vietnam. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-nationals-arrested-kratie-timber-bust
Private sector urged to invest in cassava
Government officials yesterday called for more private investment in cassava production, arguing it will help boost and diversify Cambodian exports. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089297/private-sector-urged-invest-cassava/
Chemical weapons team ends mission in Mondulkiri
A technical team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons finished inspecting 12 chemical bomb sites in Mondulkiri province yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chemical-weapons-team-ends-mission-mondulkiri
New hall inaugurated at airport in capital
Cambodia Airports, a company majority-owned by France’s Vinci Group, officially inaugurated its $26 million new arrivals hall and the extension of its boarding concourse yesterday at the Phnom Penh international Airport. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-hall-inaugurated-airport-capital
Kingdom sees drop in natural disaster deaths
An annual National Committee for Disaster Management report shows that natural disasters have killed at least 103 people, injured 120 people, and affected 2,000 families while also damaging thousands of houses, crops and infrastructure this year. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098124/kingdom-sees-drop-natural-disaster-deaths/
CMAC divers remove US bomb in Kandal
A team of divers from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre recovered a large bomb dropped from US planes during the war in the 1970s in Kandal province yesterday. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101018/cmac-divers-remove-us-bomb-kandal/
Apsara takes on tycoon in land row
The Apsara Authority yesterday demarcated some of its land in Siem Reap town’s Slakram commune to prevent encroachment by a development tycoon. ...
Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101348/apsara-takes-tycoon-land-row/
Chinese demand drives construction boom in Cambodia
The value of construction projects in Cambodia rose more than 22 percent to $6.4 billion in 2017 from the previous year, according to official figures released on Tuesday that showed the impact of a boom driven by Chinese investors. The high level of Chinese investment is ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://www.reuters.com/article/cambodia-construction/chinese-demand-drives-construction-boom-in-cambodia-idUSL3N1PB2YA
Families seek officials’ help in bridge dispute
Some 130 families in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday requested the intervention of provincial authorities to solve a dispute with their deputy village chief over the construction of a small bridge in their town yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-seek-officials-help-bridge-dispute
Police raid wood workshop hidden in forest
Kampong Thom provincial police raided a wood workshop hidden in the forest in Sandan district on Sunday morning. District police chief Oung Maly said the workshop was built illegally and had no licence for operation. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106692/police-raid-wood-workshop-hidden-forest/
Families dispute mine land in Preah Vihear
Officials from the Preah Vihear provincial Land Management Department and Rovieng district yesterday inspected a piece of land at the centre of a dispute between gold mining company Delcom and 56 families following a petition the families filed last month at the Ministry of Land ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-dispute-mine-land-preah-vihear
NagaWorld’s profits soar in 2017
Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld casino posted a massive increase in profits and revenue driven by strong growth in high-value guests last year, with the amount of money gambled by VIPs at the capital’s only casino exceeding Cambodia’s gross domestic product for 2016. ...
Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagaworlds-profits-soar-2017
Japan funds wastewater treatment plant in capital
The kingdom’s first wastewater treatment plant will be built in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, with $27 million in assistance from the Japan international Cooperation Agency. Sam Piseth, director of the municipal department of public works and transport, told reporters on Saturday that the treatment plant would ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108258/japan-funds-wastewater-treatment-plant-capital/
New border crossing to open in November
The governments of Cambodia and Thailand in November will launch a new border crossing in Banteay Meanchey province and Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province to facilitate entry of citizens from both countries. Cambodian officials met with their Thai counterparts on Friday to discuss the new checkpoint, which ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50111864/new-border-crossing-open-november/