New year fires cause nearly $1 million in damage
Twelve man-made fires flared up over the Khmer New Year holiday, burning down 63 houses and causing nearly $900,000 in damage, according to a Fire Department report released on Monday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23930/new-year-fires-cause-nearly--1-million-in-damage/
Unrest over fishing clash continues in Kampot
Police say they have asked Vietnam to identify the Vietnamese trawler involved in a fatal clash last week with Cambodian fishermen, reversing their position that the death of a local man was an accident. ...
Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unrest-over-fishing-clash-continues-in-kampot-90739/
Telecom staff in graft inquiry
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has appointed a six-man team to investigate corruption allegations involving two Telecom Cambodia employees and some $230,000 missing from the state-owned company’s accounts. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecom-staff-graft-inquiry
Hun Sen calls for ASEAN cooperation in times of disaster
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday called on Asean member states to work together on cross-border rescues of citizens in the wake of natural or man-made disasters. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-calls-for-asean-cooperation-in-times-of-disaster/3105429.html
Border police official arrested over fatal shooting in Vietnam
A police official from Takeo province was arrested in Vietnam on Saturday night after fatally shooting one man and injuring a second at a restaurant just across the border, officials said on Sunday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/border-police-official-arrested-over-fatal-shooting-in-vietnam-115562/
Russian arrested over erratic behavior, knives
Police in Sihanoukville on Thursday arrested a 61-year-old Russian man they deemed a danger to the public after hearing of his erratic behavior and discovering his collection of knives, a police official said. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/russian-arrested-over-erratic-behavior-knives-90213/
China brides rescued; alleged brokers busted
Anti-human trafficking police arrested a man and a woman at Phnom Penh International Airport on Tuesday night, as they attempted to send two Cambodian women to be sold as brides in China. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-brides-rescued-alleged-brokers-busted
Announcement on the death of COVID-19 on two Cambodian men
On 18 April 2021, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the death of COVID-19 on two Cambodian men, a 55-year-old Cambodian man who died at Luang Mey Hospital, and a 49-year-old Cambodian man who died at Chak Angre Health Center. Notably, these are ...
Ministry of Health
Fake birth certificate posted to Facebook prompts investigation
The Interior Ministry is searching for a man who posted a doctored birth certificate to Facebook that lists his birthplace as Takeo province, Vietnam—reasoning that the suspect had “poisoned the environment,” officials said on Thursday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fake-birth-certificate-posted-to-facebook-prompts-investigation-100973/
Oil tanker crashes into jetty off Sihanoukville
One man is missing and presumed dead, and there are concerns about an oil slick of unknown size after a Kampuchea Tela oil tanker crashed into a jetty belonging to the company at Sihanoukville. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oil-tanker-crashes-jetty-sihanoukville
Leaks detail Cambodian ties to clandestine world of offshore banking
In 2001, a man with the same name and address as Tuol Kork-based computer salesman Thai Tino established the first of several shell companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/leaks-detail-cambodian-ties-clandestine-world-offshore-banking
Customs official’s son quizzed on night club shooting
The son of a high-ranking customs official suspected in a nightclub shooting that left one man injured was questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday but has yet to be charged, officials said. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/customs-officials-son-quizzed-on-nightclub%E2%80%88shooting-79863/
Customs official’s son involved in club shooting
The son of a high-ranking customs official was involved in a shooting incident at the Rock nightclub in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district early Sunday morning that left one man injured, according to police. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/customs-officials-son-involved-in-club-shooting-79842/
Military police officers arrested for blocking forestry officials
Forestry Administration officials detained two military police officers and a third man on Tuesday for attempting to stop them from transporting a haul of illegally logged wood to their headquarters in Kratie City, officials said Sunday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-police-officers-arrested-for-blocking-forestry-officials-92360/
Chaotic Scene as Gun Seized During Teachers’ Rally
A small gathering to mark World Teachers’ Day at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park briefly descended into chaos Sunday when a crowd of rally-goers wrested a concealed gun from a man working for the Ministry of Information after he forced his way to the front of ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chaotic-scene-as-gun%E2%80%88seized-during-teachers-rally-44997/
Quarantined man found dead in an isolation room in Tboung Khmum
A 21-year-old man who was placed in quarantine at an isolation room in Tboung Khmum province’s Krouch Chhmar district was found dead yesterday and the cause has yet to be determined. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50747972/quarantined-man-found-dead-in-an-isolation-room-in-tboung-khmum/
Disabled graduate lands civil service job
A 26-year-old disabled man who was struggling to find work and was featured in Khmer Times in July has passed an exam to become an official at the Information Department in Battambang province. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084880/disabled-graduate-lands-civil-service-job/
Teddy Bear drug smuggler denies charges during trial
A year after a Vietnamese man was caught trying to mail teddy bears stuffed with the drug precursor chemical pseudoephedrine to Australia from Phnom Penh, he appeared in court on Tuesday over another alleged drug smuggling scheme. ...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teddy-bear-drug-smuggler-denies-charges-during-trial-78173/
Police have no leads in fatal armed robbery at Wing Kiosk
Police in Svay Rieng province said Wednesday that they had yet to identify any suspects in the armed robbery of a mobile-payment kiosk and currency exchange business in Romeas Hek district that left one man dead. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-have-no-leads-in-fatal-armed-robbery-at-wing-kiosk-82435/
One dead in Battambang lightning strike
A man was killed and his wife left unconscious after lightning struck their stilted home as they took shelter from a storm in Battambang province’s Mong Russei district on Thursday, a local official said on Friday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-dead-in-battambang-lightning-strike-92329/