Official charged after severing colleague’s hand
The Pursat Provincial Court on Monday charged a border police official with intentional violence for cutting off his colleague’s fingers with a cleaver at their barracks on Friday night, officials said. ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-charged-after-severing-colleagues-hand-91366/
Gunfire exchange leaves one suspect dead
Police in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet city exchanged gunfire on Monday’s night with three suspected thieves on, leaving one suspect died at the scene. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/gunfire-exchange-leaves-one-suspect-dead-8883
State of the art high school to serve former scavengers
The Education Ministry on Tuesday oversaw the groundbreaking of a $4 million high school that will be built on land that was once the municipal dump in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. ...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/state-of-the-art-high-school-to-serve-former-scavengers-92538/
Tourism operators in Cambodia urged to use renewables in business
A Cambodian official and conservationists on Wednesday called on tourism operators to use renewable energy sources like the rooftop solar in their business operations. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501151220/tourism-operators-in-cambodia-urged-to-use-renewables-in-business/
Authorities remove construction material rubbish from sidewalks
Authorities in Preah Sihanouk province on Saturday removed leftover construction materials littered on public sidewalks after more than a dozen companies failed to meet a December 20 deadline to clean up. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50562240/authorities-remove-construction-material-rubbish-from-sidewalks/
Kratie officials seize bulldozer involved in clearing state forest
Kratie’s Prek Prasap district authorities on Friday confiscated a bulldozer in connection with the clearing of 10 hectares of forestland near the protected Prey Lang forest, officials said on Sunday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-officials-seize-bulldozer-involved-clearing-state-forest
Cambodia, Thailand end cross-border rail transport talks
Cambodia and Thailand on Friday concluded negotiations on the transport of goods and people by train across their shared border, with an official agreement expected to be signed in upcoming months. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50509378/cambodia-thailand-end-cross-border-rail-transport-talks/
Timber trade sanctions sought
The UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency on Wednesday called for a rosewood trade suspension against Vietnam, accusing it of accepting fake Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species permits from Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Team
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50537566/timber-trade-sanctions-sought/
US’ ASEAN ambassador slammed for rights remarks
Cambodia’s ambassador to Asean on Friday rebuked his U.S. counterpart for comments she made on the country’s human rights situation, asking her to refrain from “criticizing Cambodia inappropriately.” ...
Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-asean-ambassador-slammed-for-rights-remarks-109242/
Police detain five following slaying of Chinese woman
Authorities have detained five Chinese nationals for questioning following the brutal slaying of a Chinese woman at her apartment in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district on Sunday evening, police said on Monday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-detain-five-following-slaying-of-chinese-woman-100506/
Appeal court to hear ‘insurrection’ case next month
Eleven opposition activists who have been jailed since 2014 for supposedly participating in an “insurrection” will have their appeal against their conviction heard on March 17, their lawyer said on Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/108429-108429/
Crackdown in works for illegal RCAF plates
Military police have issued their own warning to those illegally using military licence plates on their vehicles, doubling down on a similar directive issued by the Ministry of Interior last month. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crackdown-works-illegal-rcaf-plates
China-backed AIIB to take concrete shape
One of China’s biggest ever foreign policy successes will take cOncrete shape On MOnday when delegates from 57 countries sign an agreement On the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing. ...
Brenda Goh and Koh Gui Qing
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12682/china-backed-aiib-to-take-concrete-shape/
Try Pheap inks $300M seaport deal with Hong Kong company
Timber magnate Try Pheap signed off on a $300 million seaport project with industry heavyweight Hutchison Port Holdings on Monday, according to Kep provincial governor Ken Sotha, who attended the event. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/try-pheap-inks-300m-seaport-deal-with-hong-kong-company-113314/
Cambodia's detained opposition leader rejects new opposition movement
Cambodia’s detained opposition leader Kem Sokha has declined to join a new movement, founded by prominent exiles following a ban on the main opposition party, his lawyer said on Saturday. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-politics/cambodias-detained-opposition-leader-rejects-new-opposition-movement-idUSKBN1F906E
Four Chinese tourists arrested over fake dollar bills
Four Chinese tourists were sent to the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Tuesday after being arrested in Sihanoukville on Monday in possession of nearly $500 worth of counterfeit dollar bills, local authorities said. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-chinese-tourists-arrested-over-fake-dollar-bills-81155/
Hun Sen shutters two firms in Siem Reap tour boat trade
Two companies collecting commission from tourist-boat operators on the Tonle Sap lake in Siem Reap province have been closed down on orders from Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to the provincial governor. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-shutters-two%e2%80%88firms-in-siem-reap-tour-boat-trade-82661/
Gov’t, civil society butt heads as LANGO goes to senate
The Senate is scheduled to vote Friday on the controversial Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO), despite a boycott by the opposition party and heated opposition from civil society. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13640/gov---t--civil-society-butt-heads-as-lango-goes-t
Bailed Garment Workers Speak of Injustice Ahead of March
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday morning granted ...
Mech Dara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bailed-garment-workers-speak-of-injustice-ahead-of-march-51759/
Governor Takes to the River to Promote Flood Response
A fleet of five speedboats set off from Sisowath Quay on Tuesday afternoon carrying Phnom Penh’s governor, 19 local officials, several bodyguards and a press team, as the municipal authorities’ plan to deal with flooding in several districts of the city switched into first gear. Over ...
Ben Sokhean and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governor-takes-to-the-river-to-promote-flood-response-44147/