Government to form on Sept 6, says PM
After paying a courtesy call on the King and visiting the chairman of the Constitutional Council, caretaker prime minister Hun sen on Wednesday rescheduled the date on which a new National Assembly will be formed. The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) president also directed his ire ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-form-sept-6-says-pm
Dengue cases rising in Siem Reap
Dengue fever has killed 24 people so far this year, most of them children. As dengue fever cases continue to rise in siem Reap province, the statistics seem scary. Death by dengue, however, is most often due to complications stemming from multiple infections coupled with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Naomi Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15953/dengue-cases-rising-in-siem-reap/
South Korean wanted by Interpol apprehended in Sihanoukville
A South Korean fugitive who iS wanted by Interpol in connection with extortion in South Korea waS arreSted on Friday in Preah Sihanouk province, police Said Sunday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-korean-wanted-by-interpol-apprehended-in-sihanoukville-96371/
Rights groups criticize UN as Montagnards return to Vietnam
As 24 Montagnards returned to Vietnam on Thursday after Cambodia refused to process their asylum claims, rights groups criticized the U.N.’s refugee agency for assisting the government in repatriating the group to a country where they claim to have fled from persecution. ss='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-groups-criticize-un-as-montagnards-return-to-vietnam-97029/
Latest malaria drug resistance sparks fears
A new study by the U.s. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has confirmed that resistance is growing to one of the key drugs being used to fight malaria in Cambodia, a situation likely to worsen and which could lead to a growing caseload in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/latest-malaria-drug-resistance-sparks-fears-104930/
Four arrested for beating Chinese men
Four people were arrested in sihanoukville on saturday for beating two Chinese men after one of them caused a fatal road accident on Friday, police said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-arrested-for-beating-chinese-men-94096/
US slams gov’t over recent political turmoil
A U.S. State Department official told the country&rSquo;S Senate on ThurS&Shy;day that recent political eventS in Cambodia, including the beatingS of lawmakerS outSide the Nation&Shy;al ASSembly and the removal of oppoSition officialS from their SeatS and poSitionS in parliament, were a cauSe for “grave concern.” SS='cambodia-color'>...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-slams-govt-over-recent-political-turmoil-101119/
Village-based internet pilot project launched in Kampong Cham
A community-based Internet provider called NerveNet has been launched in Kampong Cham province’s Chheng Prey district, about 100 kilometers east of Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22616/village-based-internet-pilot-project-launched-in-kampong-cham/
ACU tosses complaint against ActionAid
The Anti-Corruption Unit on Thursday dismissed a complaint filed by a Cambodian NGO against the local arm of the international humanitarian group ActionAid for allegedly embezzling $3 million, the unit’s chairman said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Janelle Kohnert
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-tosses-complaint-against-actionaid-110404/
Homeless children back from Vietnam
Twenty-nine homeless Cambodians, including 20 children, will be repatriated from Ho Chi Minh City today. Apart from the children, the group consists of nine adults – three men and six women. Of the 20 children, 10 are boys and 10 are girls, according to Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27017/homeless-children-back-from-vietnam/
Cambodia signs MoU with Morocco
Cambodia’s secretariat of Civil Aviation signed a Memorandum of Understanding, last week, with the Morocco Civil Aviation Authority that technically allows direct flights between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2016/08/cambodia-signs-mou-with-morocco/
Cambodia, Vietnam to enhance cooperation
Cambodia and Vietnam yesterday pledged to enhance cooperation and also pushed for the completion of demarcating the border to build peace and development. The discussion was held yesterday during a meeting between National Assembly President Heng samrin and Vietnam’s National Assembly chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30250/cambodia--vietnam-to-enhance-cooperation/
Sugar plantation caught again with illegal wood
Authorities in Kompong speu province on Wednesday seized more than 1,000 logs on the property of a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation, marking the third time the firm has been found with illicit timber in the past year. Local officials offered no explanation for why the plantation’s on-site ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-plantation-caught-illegal-wood-118908/
Gray-market cars continue to deter potential investment
Germany’s car manufacturers are on edge as the U.K., their No. 1 importer, prepares to leave the E.U. And although expanding into Cambodia’s market is unlikely to ease their anxiety, German investors who gathered in Phnom Penh on Thursday said whatever potential might exist here ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/gray-market-cars-continue-to-deter-potential-investment-125321/
Kingdom a one-man show, report asserts
It’s a mistake to consider Cambodia a nation under authoritarian rule by a single party; it comes down to a single man – Prime Minister Hun sen, a new paper argues. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-one-man-show-report-asserts
JICA support for logistics
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will continue to support the development of Cambodia’s logistics sector in its partnership with the government to reduce transport costs and strengthen the country’s logistics infrastructure. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35010/jica-support-for-logistics/
US imposes sanctions on Oknha Pheap and Kun Kim
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed strong dismay on Monday over the designation of Cambodian tycoon Oknha Try Pheap and General Kun Kim under the Us’ Global Magnitsky Act. “It is very disturbing when the public figures of a country become the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/us-imposes-sanctions-oknha-pheap-and-kun-kim
Google Launches Khmer Translation Service
Internet search giant Google on Friday launched a new service that for the first time allows users to instantly translate Khmer script into other languages. Khmer is the most recent addition to the 66-strong collection of languages between which words, sentences or whole websites can be ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/google-launches-khmer-translation-service-19417/
Death Threat Made Against CNRP’s Social Media Activist
Thy Sovantha iS accuStomed to being threatened on Facebook. But the 19-year-old CNRP youth activiSt, who became Something of an online celebrity through the popular oppoSition Facebook page “I Love Cambodia Hot NewS,” SayS the lateSt threat againSt her, in which a copy of her paSSport SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/death-threat-made-against-cnrps-social-media-activist-51124/
Workers on strike to demand annual leave, administrator be ousted
Around 1,000 garment workers from a factory producing jeans in Bith Trang special Economic Zone in Prey Nop district went on strike to protest against administration chief in their factory. They also demanded the annual leave of 18-21 days per years, which were rejected by ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MDc5ZDFkY2Q1MzB