Experts, Asia-Pacific ministers to discuss rural development in Cambodia
Some 200 agricultural development experts and government ministers from across Asia and the Pacific gathered here on Tuesday to discuss plans to transform rural areas in the region. The 2-day workshop on transforming rural areas in Asia and the Pacific was jointly organized by the Cambodian ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-12/02/c_133827784.htm
Tycoon Thong Sarath mastermind in Ung Meng Cheu's killing: Police
Phnom Penh police arrested Wednesday night the wife, and the parents of tycoon Thong Sarath as well as some people who work in his house for being behind the killing of Ung Meng Cheu who was shot dead in the center of Phnom Penh. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/tycoon-thong-sarath-mastermind-in-ung-meng-cheus-killing:-police-7782
Cambodia's trade volume exceeds 16 bln USD in 11 months
Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries rose by 16 percent year on year in the first eleven months of 2014, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. The country exported products in equivalent to 7.05 billion U.S. dollars, up 12 percent year-on-year ...
EastDay.com News Staff
http://english.eastday.com/auto/eastday/business/u1ai8467542.html
Two promotions in shake-up of Phnom Penh police force
In a shake-up of Phnom Penh’s police force, the chief of the city’s anti-drug trafficking office was promoted to deputy municipal police chief in charge of intervention while the deputy police chief of Chbar Ampov district was made the new Meanchey district police chief. “Mr. Born ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-promotions-in-shake-up-of-phnom-penh-police-force-74274/
Int'l conference on Cambodia-China ties held in Cambodia
The 4th International Conference on the Cambodia-China diplomatic relations during the lifetime of late Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk was held here on Wednesday, aiming to remember the achievements he had made in building Cambodia-China ties, officials said. The two-day forum, organized by the Confucius Institute at ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141217/intl-conference-cambodia-china-ties-held-cambodia
No cheating in exam finals marks sea change for Cambodia
Cambodia’s final exam results for 2014 were disastrous, with more than half of the 90,000 students failing. The reason? The authorities stamped out cheating – the first of a series of reforms designed to fix the impoverished country’s broken education sector. The new policy is ...
Big News Network News Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/229087639
Youth leader sees opportunity for ‘change-makers’ in next election
Cambodia desperately needs more youth leadership, if it is to achieve its goals in the coming future, a youth leader says. Ou Ritthy, co-founder of Politikoffee, a politically oriented youth group, told “Hello VOA” on Monday that political parties in particular will have to engage the ...
Areng mapped in hope ecotourism can save valley from dam
A group of university students from Phnom Penh opposed to a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong province entered the project’s construction site on Sunday for a 10-day study aiming to highlight the area’s alternative potential for ecotourism. ...
Hul Reaksmey and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/areng-mapped-in-hope-ecotourism-can-save-valley-from-dam-78006/
Overloaded Try Pheap Trucks Stopped in Kratie; 11 Others Escape
Authorities in Kratie province moved to stop a convoy of trucks belonging to tycoon Try Pheap overloaded with first-grade timber on Sunday, but were only able to pull over five of the vehicles, which were found to be carrying nearly double the amount of cargo ...
Siem Reap police chief named as conspirator in corruption case
Siem Reap provincial police chief Sorth Nady has been named as a conspirator in a complaint to the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) that accuses the provincial force’s personnel chief of soliciting bribes for promotions and embezzling money from salary books. ...
Stunting in children down 7 percent since 2010, survey finds
The number of children in the country who are stunted—leaving them physically smaller and mentally weaker than their properly nourished peers—dropped by 7 percent between 2010 and 2014, according to a nationwide survey released Tuesday. ...
Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stunting-in-children-down-7-percent-since-2010-survey-finds-79053/
Opposition lawmaker, lawyer, councilor given over 18 months in jail
Kandal Provincial Court sentenced an opposition lawmaker, a lawyer and district councilor to between 18 months and two years for providing assistance to prisoners to help them escape from the police custody. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1AKpZKK
Ministry attempts to explain its interference in Sen Sok dispute
Representatives of 163 families embroiled in a long-running land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district met with officials from the Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday to ask why the ministry issued a letter last week requesting that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court hold off on ...
Hun Sen puts Mines Ministry in control of sand dredging
Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a new directive last week putting the Ministry of Mines and Energy in charge of all aspects of approving sand dredging operations in a move that one official said would help clear out a backlog of license requests. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-puts-mines-ministry-in-control-of-sand-dredging-80544/
Villagers in Cambodia taught to fight back against land grabs
The barren land near Cambodian villager Ren Meas’ home used to yield cashew nut and root vegetable crops. Now the vast expanse lies bare and dry, levelled by bulldozers and set to become yet another rubber tree plantation. Australians are helping to combat the so-called land ...
Lauren Novak
http://bit.ly/1DhGhRg
Cambodia Post sees 14 pct rise in revenue last year
Cambodia Post reported a 14 percent increase in 2014 revenues, as increasing consumer confidence boosted use of the once-fledgling service, a local media reported Wednesday. Cambodia Post currently dispatches mail to 192 countries. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-post-sees-14-pct-rise-in-revenue-last-year-8382
Court official to enforce verdict in long-running land dispute
A court prosecutor and a squadron of police will today descend on a hectare of land in Phnom Penh in order to properly divide it among 163 families who claim that one woman monopolized the plot after they won it in a land dispute, an ...
Cambodian PM expresses deep sympathy over earthquake tragedy in China
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has expressed his deepest sympathy to the victims and members of the bereaved families in a massive earthquake in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province. “I feel extremely saddened to learn about the loss of hundreds of lives, many injuries and colossal damages ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-08/05
Death toll from floods rises to 8 in 4 provinces
Four more people were confirmed dead Tuesday due to rising flood waters in several provinces, bringing the total number of fatalities in this year’s rainy season flooding to eight, while some 4,000 families have now had to evacuate their homes. National Committee for Disaster Management vice ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/death-toll-from-floods-rises-to-8-in-4-provinces-65821/
ADB to support $118m rural road project in Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide nine poor rural provinces in Cambodia with year-round access to markets and social services through a 118 million U.S. dollars project to provide a safer, cost-effective rural road network, the bank said in a press statement on Monday. ...
Daily Times News Staff
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/business/12-Aug-2014/adb-to-support-118m-rural-road-project-in-cambodia