Sangkran set to break records in tourism and line-dancing
Preparations for this year’s Angkor Sangkran, Siem Reap’s largest cultural event, are almost complete, with half a million tourists expected to join in the celebration during Khmer New Year, according to provincial officials. Of the anticipated 500,000 visitors this year, the majority are expected to be ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sangkran-set-break-records-tourism-and-line-dancing
Body in Ratanakkiri found to be that of local boy
The body of what villagers had suspected was a Montagnard asylum seeker, found partially buried in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district earlier this week, was determined to be the remains of a local teenager who had drowned in a river, a villager said Thursday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/group-contests-police-report-of-gateway-arrests-81784/
Peter Dutton denies claims refugees are snubbing resettlement in Cambodia
Logistical issues could take a few days to sort out but some on Nauru want to start new lives in a new country, immigration minister says. Peter Dutton has insisted plans to send the first batch of refugees from Nauru to Cambodia are on track and ...
The Guardian News Staff
http://bit.ly/1cOCaCb
Doroshenko’s son hits out in defence of jailed father
Ostap Doroshenko, the son of jailed Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko, has spoken out on his father’s recent detainment, blaming it on a plot orchestrated by a predictable family foe. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/doroshenkos-son-hits-out-defence-jailed-father
ASEAN disaster control officials meet in Cambodia to enhance cooperaiton
Disaster management officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathered here Tuesday to discuss ways to promote regional cooperation in response to disasters, a senior Cambodian official said. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://bit.ly/1OdcoIo
Cambodian officials rescue family accused of sorcery in northeastern province
Officials in a northeast Cambodian province on Wednesday rescued a family accused of being sorcerers by villagers who sought to take revenge on the father they blamed killing 10 people, local authorities said. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KbT48L
In coverage of land dispute, a publisher’s interests served
In this sparsely populated area along the eastern fringe of Bokor National Park in Chhuk district, villagers are scrambling to claim sandy, arid land as an international company surges ahead with its palm oil plantation. As in many of the hundreds of unresolved land disputes playing ...
Matt Blomberg and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-coverage-of-land-dispute-a-publishers-interests-served-82523/
Polonsky could be allowed to return in five years: official
Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky, who was deported to Moscow last month to face trial on serious fraud charges, could be allowed to return to Cambodia in five years’ time, an immigration official said Sunday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/polonsky-could-be-allowed-to-return-in-five-years-official-84685/
Sen Sok land dispute families butt heads in Municipal court
A representative of 163 families who were awarded a hectare of land four years ago after a lengthy legal battle accused one of the awardees in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday of inventing a different group of 163 families with claims to the ...
Japan provides $25 million to upgrade city water in Kampot
The Japanese government will extend $25 million in aid to rehabilitate the dilapidated water system in Kampot, an old French colonial river port which is attracting more and more tourists. ...
Donald Lee and Nov Sivutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11925/japan-provides--25-million-to-upgrade-city-water-in-kampot/
Police free garment workers locked in at night by factory
Police in Phnom Penh were called up Friday night to order a Chinese-owned garment factory to release a group of employees it had locked inside in a failed attempt to make them work late into the night, officials said Sunday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-free-garment-workers-locked-in-at-night-by-factory-85157/
Cambodian activists square off with Vietnamese soldiers in border row
Around 200 activists from northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province led by opposition lawmakers confronted dozens of soldiers and villagers from Vietnam Monday in a standoff over the digging of irrigation ponds in a non-demarcated area along the border shared by the two nations. ...
Ratha Visal
http://bit.ly/1drRRzd
Court date postponed for seven suspects in Ponzi scheme case
Police in Siem Reap province delayed sending seven suspects accused of running a ponzi scheme to court Monday on the order of a prosecutor, who said the director of the company behind the scheme would be appearing today to “guarantee them.” ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-date-postponed-for-seven-suspects-in-ponzi-scheme-case-85220/
‘School of Good Governance’ aims to foster integrity in officials
The Interior Ministry is developing the curriculum for a “School of Good Governance,” which from 2016 will bring officials from the provinces to Phnom Penh for a crash course in acting with integrity, a ministry official and an NGO partner said Monday. ...
Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/school-of-good-governance-aims-to-foster-integrity-in-officials-85226/
Firm says it may turn taps off in Poipet homes
Residents of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City have been warned to brace themselves for a major water shortage over the next two weeks as the company contracted to supply the border town’s clean water scrambles to build a new reservoir amid a localized drought. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-says-it-may-turn-taps-off-in-poipet-homes-85285/
Police make seven more arrests in ponzi ‘empire’ scheme case
Seven more people believed to be involved in a large-scale Ponzi scheme have been arrested and were questioned by a prosecutor in Takeo province Sunday, bringing to 14 the total number of suspects apprehended in connection with the racket. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-make-seven-more-arrests-in-ponzi-empire-scheme-case-85540/
Vietnamese river dwellers in Cambodia ask for hold on eviction
Dozens of Vietnamese families illegally residing in floating homes on the Mekong River in southeastern Cambodia’s Kandal province have urged local authorities to postpone their eviction by eight months so they can sell the fish they are raising and avoid financial ruin. ...
Sirey Muny
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/eviction-06152015175601.html
Thai companies vow to address human trafficking in fishing industry
The Board of Trade of Thailand and the Thai Chamber of Commerce, along with four fishing-industry associations and leading players in the sector, vowed Tuesday to continue strenuous efforts to solve the problem of human trafficking and other labour issues, in compliance with the government’s ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1etqiGJ
RCAF soldier detained in thailand over deadly hit-and run
A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier was arrested by Thai authorities Wednesday on suspicion of a hit-and-run that killed a man across the border and was being detained Friday at a courthouse in Thailand’s Chonburi province, officials said. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-soldier-detained-in-thailand-over-deadly-hit-and-run-86045/
Indian warships in Cambodia, Thailand on South China Sea deployment
Indian warships today entered Cambodia and Thailand as part of a two-month-long operational deployment in South China Sea in pursuant of India’s ‘Act East’ Policy. On departure from Sihanoukville, INS Ranvir and INS Kamorta will exercise with the Cambodian Navy for enhancing inter-operability in maritime ...
The Economic Times News Staff
http://bit.ly/1SIxcXh