Breakaway party becomes country’s 10th in past year
A breakaway faction from the Cambodian National Justice Party—itself a recent breakaway from the Beehive Social Democratic Party—has formed a new political party, its founder announced on Friday. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/breakaway-party-becomes-countrys-10th-in-past-year-107666/
Forestry crimes decrease by 9 percent in 2015, report says
Forestry crimes fell by around 9 percent last year compared to 2014, according to an annual report released by the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/forestry-crimes-decrease-by-9-percent-in-2015-report-says-109231/
Kantha Bopha nets $6.5M in royal villa sale
The Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals have sold a royal residence in Koh Kong province to the government for about $6.5 million after it was donated to them in October by the king and queen mother. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kantha-bopha-nets-millions-111015/
CAIF hopes to put a dent in used auto market
The independent industry body representing Cambodia’s authorised automobile distributors launched a consumer awareness campaign yesterday aimed at informing the public of the risks of purchasing second-hand cars on the local grey market, which it said reduces government tax revenue while flooding the streets with predominately ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/caif-hopes-put-dent-used-auto-market
Cambodia declares protected area in hotly contested Prey Lang forest
A landmark decision by Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen could see almost a million hectares of forest reclassified as protected areas in a country with one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. But the order, circulated on Friday, to transfer control of the sites ...
Daniel Pye
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/cambodia-protected-areas/
At least two killed in storm; hundreds of houses destroyed
At least two people were killed in a violent tempest that battered the country on Thursday evening, tearing roofs off buildings and damaging hundreds of homes. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-least-two-killed-in-storm-hundreds-of-houses-destroyed-112291/
Driver error leading cause of road traffic accidents in Cambodia
Human error is the leading cause of road traffic accidents in Cambodia and young people on motorcycles make up the largest number of deaths on the nation’s roads, where 1,108 fatalities were recorded in the first six months of 2016. ...
Dy Khamboly
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/driver-error-leading-cause-of-road-traffic-accidents-in-cambodia/3395621.html
Japan to donate 140 new buses in $10 million deal
Phnom Penh’s fledgling public transportation system received a welcome boost on Thursday as Japan agreed to donate 140 new buses to the city over the next four years, according to City Hall. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japan-to-donate-140-new-buses-in-10-million-deal-115756/
Nike aims for traction in Cambodia with first retail store
American sporting goods giant Nike has opened its first dedicated retail store in Cambodia in what observers have described as another sign the Kingdom’s strong economy and rising incomes had not gone unnoticed by international retail giants. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nike-aims-traction-cambodia-first-retail-store
As garment minimum wage talks begin, other sectors want in
As unions, employers and government officials met for the first time in the run-up to the annual battle over the garment industry’s minimum wage yesterday, another group of labour and advocacy groups were asking when they would be part of those discussions. ...
Sen David and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-minimum-wage-talks-begin-other-sectors-want
Cabinet approves MoU with Cambodia for cooperation in tourism
The Union Cabinet today approved an agreement signed between India and Cambodia for bilateral cooperation in the tourism sector that aims at enhancing investment and promoting exchange of experience in marketing, destination development and management in this field. ...
The Economic Times News Staff
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/travel/cabinet-approves-mou-with-cambodia-for-cooperation-in-tourism/articleshow/49059030.cms
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
Central bank takes breather as it reins in rural lenders
Cambodia’s central bank will temporarily suspend its eight-month campaign to bring informal moneylenders into its fold as it lacks the resources to review the mountain of registration applications it has received and needs time to tweak the licensing requirements, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) ...
Sor Chandara and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-takes-breather-it-reins-rural-lenders
Medic in HIV outbreak case to be tried next week
The trial of an unlicensed medic who was charged with murder after allegedly infecting more than 270 people with HIV will begin on Tuesday, a court official said on Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/medic-in-hiv-outbreak-case-to-be-tried-next-week-97461/
In bid to increase helmet use, campaign focuses on fines
With a new traffic law set to come into force next year, officials and NGOs Thursday announced an aggressive campaign to tell people that failing to wear a helmet while riding a motorbike will threaten their lives and their wallets. ...
Meghan Tribe and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-bid-to-increase-helmet-use-campaign-focuses-on-fines-98073/
First families get land titles in criticized world bank project
The government has handed out the first 250 land titles to the more than 3,000 families in a World Bank-funded project for poor Cambodians that has been criticized by a local rights group for sticking many of those families with unusable land. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/first-families-get-land-titles-in-criticized-world-bank-project-99698/
Professor puts Khmer Rouge in context of the Cold War
Benny Widyono, a former UN official in Cambodia during its transition period in the 1990s, says the country’s mass killings were in part a result of the Cold War. ...
North Korea-funded museum set to open in Siem Reap
An Angkor-themed museum funded and operated by North Korea, but located in Siem Reap, is finally set to open after years of delays.The vast Grand Panorama museum, set on a 4-hectare site just 3 kilometres from the temple complex, is due to open on December ...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/north-korea-funded-museum-set-open-siem-reap
Ly Yong Phat in talks to supply power to Thailand
Tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s L.Y.P. Group is talking with the Thai government’s Energy Policy and Planning Office (Eppo) to supply Thailand with 2,000 megawatts from his planned Koh Kong coal-fired power plant, and hopes to sign a deal early next year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18243/ly-yong-phat-in-talks-to-supply-power-to-thailand/
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