ASEAN Chair 2022 Cambodia: Special Summit to further promote ASEAN-US cooperation
The ASEAN-US Special Summit, scheduled to be held in Washington DC on May 12-13, 2022, will boost cooperation between both sides. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501066049/asean-chair-2022-cambodia-special-summit-to-further-promote-asean-us-cooperation/
Cambodian PM receives Australian Foreign Minister
Prime Minister Hun Sen received here at the Peace Palace yesterday afternoon visiting Australian Foreign Minister Ms Penny Wong. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501126274/cambodian-pm-receives-australian-foreign-minister/
COVID-19 vaccines boost Cambodia’s economic growth: PM
Covid-19 vaccines have helped boost Cambodia’s economic recovery and growth since last November, the country’s Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501135168/covid-19-vaccines-boost-cambodias-economic-growth-pm/
Military police official to be investigated for illegal logging
The national military police are investigating a deputy bureau chief for alleged involvement in illegal timber trafficking. ...
Mech Dara
https://vodenglish.news/military-police-official-to-be-investigated-for-illegal-logging/
Cambodia, Vietnam sign trade enhancement pact
Cambodia and Vietnam signed a trade enhancement agreement to increase economic cooperation between the two countries. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501301992/cambodia-vietnam-sign-trade-enhancement-pact/
A dozen Kratie farms demolished
Authorities in Kratie province yesterday demolished a dozen family farms deemed illegal in Snuol district’s Khsoem commune. A villager who requested anonymity said that the demolition was conducted by provincial and district authorities along with police and military police officers. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50538880/a-dozen-kratie-farms-demolished/
Eight arrested for crossing border
Voek Pisei, O’Khla Khmum village chief in Samrong district’s O’Smach commune, told The Post on Thursday that early last month, one villager identified as Roeun Sela was detained by Thai border guards for smuggling luxury wood from Thailand. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-arrested-crossing-border
Mondulkiri governor denies lying to prime minister
Mondulkiri provincial governor Svay Sam Eang on Monday rejected an allegation made by a prominent Supreme Council for Consultation member that he had lied to Prime Minister Hun Sen in his report about encroachment on the protected Phnom Dos Kromom mountain. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-governor-denies-lying-prime-minister
Court rejects activists’ appeal to reopen case
The Appeal Court has rejected a plea from two Boeung Kak activists to restart an investigation into a nighttime attack on lake residents, journalists and oThers in 2013 at Phnom Penh’s Wat Phnom by thugs and plaincloThes police officials. ...
Kim Sarom and Ananth Baliga
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rejects-activists-appeal-reopen-case
Families file land dispute complaint
Thirteen families who live along the road to late Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok’s house in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district filed a complaint with authorities on Tuesday after being told they would not get land titles. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50483805/families-file-land-dispute-complaint/
Local gov’t to move 2,000 families from Tonle Sap
Some 115 Vietnamese and Khmer-Muslim families residing on floating houses on the Tonle Sap River in Kampong Chhnang provinces said they were set to relocate to higher grounds after provincial authorities ordered them to move by year’s end. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-govt-move-2000-families-tonle-sap
Group worried over new provinces
Indigenous people in northeastern provinces yesterday raised concern over wildlife sanctuaries that could be affected by the government’s plan to set up new provinces carved out from Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district and Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50529911/group-worried-over-new-provinces/
Helmet checks to begin in PP
Phnom Penh authorities will deploy forces day and night at 16 points throughout the capital to identify motorcyclists not wearing helmets, while police will be stationed at two further locations at night to check truck drivers for alcohol and addictive substances. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/helmet-checks-begin-pp
Increased security may cut off Chinese minority’s escape route
Nearly a month after the deadly bombing at Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Cambodia’s military police spokesman Eng Hy said police have increased security at potential terrorist targets in Phnom Penh, such as Aeon Mall, aiming to prevent a similar tragedy in Cambodia. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15817/increased-security-may-cut-off-chinese-minority---s-escape-route/
Trio holds up gas station, shoots owner, neighbor
Police in Oddar Meanchey province are searching for three armed robbers who made off with about $30,000 in cash on Sunday after holding up a gas station and shooting the owner and her neighbor, a local official said Monday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trio-holds-up-gas-station-shoots-owner-neighbor-99771/
Students grow school gardens against hunger
Thirty schools in Siem Reap, Battambang and Kampong Thom will participate in a two-year pilot project to host vegetable gardens to improve nutrition and teach students life skills, starting in December, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Friday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-grow-school-gardens-against-hunger
Police guard Muslim school from rocks, threats, feces
Police have been deployed to guard a beleaguered Muslim school for young women in a predominantly Cham community in Tbong Khmum province, amid ongoing attacks against the facility by unknown assailants, and death threats against educators, officials said on Wednesday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-guard-muslim-school-from-rocks-threats-feces-105320/
Trilateral agreement signed to combat human trafficking
Cambodia signed an agreement with Vietnam and Laos during a meeting on Thursday to enhance efforts to fight human trafficking—with Vietnam reporting at the meeting that police discovered nearly 90 human trafficking rings along its border with Cambodia last year. ...
សាំង សុឥន្ទរិទ្ធ និង Aria Danaparamita
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/29587/
Cambodian troops bulldoze villagers' crops in bid to seize land
Troops assigned to a light infantry unit destroyed village fields in southern Cambodia’s Kampot province on Monday in a bid to expand the property used by a commune set up for retired army soldiers, sources said. ...
Yang Chandara and Samean Yun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/bulldoze-09292015162150.html
Court denies bail for opposition senator
The Appeal Court on Wednesday rejected a second request by opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour to overturn a municipal court decision to deny him bail after he was arrested in August for presenting a fake border treaty in a video posted to Facebook. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/appeal-court-denies-bail-for-opposition-senator-hong-sok-hour-99385/