US bomb uncovered
A 250-kilogram piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left behind from the US&rSquo;S extenSive bombing campaign here waS found on Saturday by conStruction workerS digging in Kandal province&rSquo;S KSach Kandal diStrict, and waS Safely removed yeSterday, Cambodian Mine Action Centre authoritieS Said. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-bomb-uncovered
Cambodia summons Thai Ambassador over deaths of loggers
Thailand’s ambassador to Cambodia was formally summoned on Friday to the Foreign Affairs Ministry over the shooting death last week of a Cambodian man who was among nine allegedly caught by soldiers cutting down forest across the country’s northwestern border with Thailand. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-summons-thai-ambassador-over-deaths-of-loggers-54766/
Phnom Penh City Hall hoping to turn garbage into electricity
The Phnom Penh Municipal Government on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Inter Far East Engineering Public Company Limited of Thailand to study the feasibility of turning the city’s waste into energy, according to a notice posted on the municipality’s website. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-city-hall-hoping-to-turn-garbage-into-electricity-60724/
Boeng Kak evictees protest at Singapore Embassy
A small group of evictees from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood protested in front of the singapore Embassy Monday morning against a singaporean company’s plan to buy a plot of land inside the neighborhood, from which they say they were pushed out illegally. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boeng-kak-evictees-protest-at-singapore-embassy-65708/
Third Transparency Report demonstrates improvements in working conditions
The International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme today releases its 3rd online Transparency Report covering the period from July to september 2014. The report presents working conditions for 248 of Cambodia’s garment factories. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Better Factories Cambodia
Local unions join Right-to-Strike campaign
Three of the country’s largest unions on Wednesday added their voices to a global campaign urging member states of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Governing Body, which Cambodia recently joined, to not revoke the option to go on strike as a fundamental right. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/local-unions-join-right-to-strike-campaign-78278/
City Hall follows through on drone ban, arrests two foreigners
Two foreign filmmakers were arrested Tuesday morning after their drone was seen filming in the skies near Prime Minister Hun sen’s house in Phnom Penh—a flight that provided a litmus test for February’s ban on unauthorized drone operation in the city. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-follows-through-on-drone-ban-arrests-two-foreigners-86333/
Hundreds of students leave class to protest
One thousand students and more than 100 teachers demonstrated outside their high school in Ban­teay Me­an­chey province’s serei saoph­oan City on Friday against a private construction firm that recommenced work on disputed land, according to the school’s director. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-of-students-leave-class-to-protest-86722/
Gov’t to stop march against NGO law by ‘any means’
NGOs on Monday vowed to press ahead with a protest march through Phnom Penh on Tuesday against a draft law that threatens to rein in the country’s non-government groups and associations despite City Hall’s threat to stop them by “any means.” ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-stop-march-against-ngo-law-by-any-means-86867/
Gov’t silent after first day of border meeting
Var Kimhong, the CPP government’s minister in charge of border affairs, declined to speak with reporters Tuesday after hosting Vietnam’s deputy foreign minister for the first Joint Border Committee meeting since the opposition CNRP began a campaign to uncover Vietnamese territorial encroachments. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-silent-after-first-day-of-border-meeting-87520/
Hun Sen asks France, UK, US for border maps
Prime Minister Hun sen has written to French President Francois Hollande, U.s. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron to ask them to provide maps of Cambodia’s borders and experts to confirm that the government has demarcated the border legally. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-asks-france-uk-us-for-border-maps-88554/
Capitol bus drivers strike over fired colleagues
More than 40 drivers for the Capitol Tours bus company went on strike Wednesday, protesting outside the company’s headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district to demand the reinstatement of five employees they claim were fired for trying to unionize. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/capitol-bus-drivers-strike-over-fired-colleagues-89268/
PM hosts mass meeting of armed forces
Some 5,000 Security perSonnel were called to the headquarterS of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S bodyguard unit in Kandal province on ThurSday, where the premier Said they muSt protect Cambodia&rSquo;S territorial integrity, according to a number of officialS in attendance. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-hosts-mass-meeting-of-armed-forces-89310/
Deadly Battambang crash claims 4 lives
A traffic accident in Battambang’s sampov Loun district involving a Lexus and a Hyundai truck on Wednesday evening left four people dead, including two children, and seven injured, as police continue to search for the truck’s driver, who fled the scene. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deadly-battambang-crash-claims-4-lives
With protest, families win drainage donation
A group of Phnom Penh families from a flood-prone community living along the city’s abandoned railroad tracks managed to secure the last $2,250 they need to build their own drainage system after protesting outside the Russei Keo district governor’s office Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-protest-families-win-drainage-donation-90920/
In congested capital, gov’t looks to rail transit
As Phnom Penh’s population expands in the coming decades—with expectations of 2.6 million people by 2035 and 5 million by 2050—Japan’s development agency on Thursday hosted a conference to review its plan to curb traffic congestion in the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-congested-capital-govt-looks-to-rail-transit-91089/
Startups discuss reduction in registration fees
Local tech startups discussed a possible reduction in the Ministry of Commerce’s business registration fees at a meeting on saturday, to ease the initial financial burden on their businesses, given the difficulty in raising funds in Cambodia’s nascent tech market. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Sokunthea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/startups-discuss-reduction-registration-fees
Cambodia dispatches 7 armed personnel to joint China's military parade
While China to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on sept. 3, Cambodia dispatched 7 armed personnel to joint the China’s military parade, according to the Chinese News Agency- Xinhua’s report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-dispatches-7-armed-personnel-to-joint-chinas-military-parade-8903
More than 5,400 swamp forests in Banteay Meanchey encroached by criminals
Banteay Meanchey’s authorities reported that 5,470 hectares of flooded forest land in two of the zones of the province’s borders were encroached and deforested by crooks. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50981118/more-than-5400-swamp-forests-in-banteay-meanchey-encroached-by-criminals/
Cambodian children experience extensive “learning loss” during pandemic
Cambodia’s Ministry of Education and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday jointly revealed alarming new findings about learning loss experienced by Cambodian students during the COVID-19 pandemic. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501053580/cambodian-children-experience-extensive-learning-loss-during-pandemic/