Over 30 Chinese nationals arrested in latest VoIP scam crackdown
Thirty-one Chinese nationals were arrested in three districts of Phnom Penh on Monday in the latest police crackdown on alleged fraudsters accused of operating a scam using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), according to a police report supplied by an immigration official. ...
Rachna Thim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/30-chinese-nationals-arrested-latest-voip-scam-crackdown-132629/
Cambodia's famed Angkor earns nearly 76 mln USD in 9 months
Revenue from ticket sales to foreigners visiting Cambodia’s Angkor archaeological park hit 75.7 million U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2017, up 70 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a press release on Sunday. ...
Yurou
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/01/c_136653210.htm
Government order to display prices in riel currency fails to stick
A government prakas that requires all businesses to post prices of their goods and services in the local riel currency has had little impact on pricing practices, with the vast majority of businesses in Cambodia continuing to quote prices in US dollars and authorities showing ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-order-display-prices-riel-currency-fails-stick
US says more sanctions on table in response to political crackdown
Visiting US State Department official W Patrick Murphy yesterday warned that further punitive action could be forthcoming in response to the government’s recent crackdown on the main opposition, while repeatedly pointing to the US’s warm relationship with the people of Cambodia – if not their ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/us-says-more-sanctions-table-response-political-crackdown
Cambodia's Hun Sen appoints son-in-law to senior police post
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has appointed his son-in-law as deputy national police chief, in a move apparently aimed at consolidating his power ahead of an election this year. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-politics/cambodias-hun-sen-appoints-son-in-law-to-senior-police-post-idUSKBN1F70RE
Chinese investment in Cambodian province pushes up crime rate, says governor
China’s growing presence and investment in a fast-developing Cambodian port and province have pushed up the crime rate and brought instability, its governor said in a letter to the government. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-china/chinese-investment-in-cambodian-province-pushes-up-crime-rate-says-governor-idUSKBN1FF0XP
Railway families deliver petition to PM seeking reduction in land takeover
The protesters represent a community of over 1,000 families living along a railway in the capital’s Russey Keo district. Plans to replace the track with a new, broader road will displace people in three communes. The new road and accompanying sidewalks would be 60 metres ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-families-deliver-petition-pm-seeking-reduction-land-takeover
Ministry blames ‘ineffective practices’ for over $400m in missing sand
Cambodia is overcoming “ineffective practices” and should not be held to the standards of developed countries, a Commerce Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday amid renewed calls for the government to investigate over $400 million in unrecorded sand exports to Singapore. ...
Ben Paviour and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-blames-ineffective-practices-400m-missing-sand-120025/
Government sounds off on critics in report, claiming detractors twist facts
The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday issued a scathing and wide-ranging rebuttal to longstanding accusations of human rights violations and political persecution, calling these allegations a campaign of misinformation led by foreign governments and institutions, particularly the United States, bent on regime change. ...
Ananth Baliga and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-sounds-critics-report-claiming-detractors-twist-facts
Lack of iodized salt causes ‘serious public health problem’ in Cambodia
Laillou was stunned to find that 90 percent of coarse salt and 40-50 percent of fine salt was now not iodized. And all of it was labeled as iodized. Online journal Nutrients said iodine deficiency in Cambodia had become “a serious public health problem” just ...
Robert Carmichael and Sokummono Khan
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/salt-iodization-cambodia-public-health/3802313.html
‘Adhoc 5’ released on bail in case widely seen as political
In a surprise move, four human rights workers and an election official, collectively known as the “Adhoc 5”, were released from pretrial detention yesterday evening, 427 days after they were taken into custody on bribery charges relating to an opposition sex scandal. ...
Yon Sineat, Ananth Baliga and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adhoc-5-released-bail-case-widely-seen-political
New commune chiefs sworn in, with CNRP unconcerned about CPP interference
The process of swearing in commune councillors across the country began yesterday, marking the start of their five-year terms in local administration, with opposition commune chiefs saying they were undeterred by Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s comments last week. ...
Touch Sokha and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-commune-chiefs-sworn-cnrp-unconcerned-about-cpp-interference
Riversgold to use IPO proceeds in its search for Mondulkiri gold
Riversgold, an Australian gold exploration startup, will use the proceeds of its upcoming initial public offering (IPO) to acquire and develop mineral exploration projects in Australia, the US and Cambodia, according to a company prospectus. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/riversgold-use-ipo-proceeds-its-search-mondulkiri-gold
New firm takes over for Cintri to tackle trash in Sihanoukville
Move over, Cintri – there’s a new garbage collector in town. For the first time in a dozen years, Sihanoukville has a new waste management company, and it has already started collecting trash ahead of the Pchum Ben holiday. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-firm-takes-over-cintri-tackle-trash-sihanoukville
Ex-deputy PM Lay Sreng called in to court for defamation
Former Deputy Prime Minister Lu Lay Sreng, who has been abroad since October, has been summonsed to appear in Phnom Penh Municipal Court for a defamation hearing on January 25. Lay Sreng, 77, was sued for defamation by his former party, Funcinpec, and Prime Minister ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-deputy-pm-lay-sreng-called-court-defamation
Plots given to some in land dispute with gold mining firm
Officials with the Preah Vihear Land Management Department last week measured plots of land for 16 of the 56 families who last month filed a petition seeking intervention in a land dispute with gold mining firm Delcom. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plots-given-some-land-dispute-gold-mining-firm
Hundreds of poultry culled in Svay Rieng after bird flu outbreak
Hundreds of chickens and ducks infected with H5N1 bird flu have been culled in Svay Reing province after an outbreak of the virus last week, the first reported cases since November 2015. ...
Disabilities group urges politicians to consider their needs in local elections
The needs of disabled Cambodians have not been taken into account in the forthcoming local elections, a disabilities group has said. Ngin Saoroth, executive director of the Cambodian Disabled People’s Organization (CDPO), told reporters this week that politicians were not putting “the issue of the disabled ...
Hean Socheata
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/disabilities-group-urges-politicians-to-consider-their-needs-in-local-elections/3869502.html
CNRP to push $500k per commune plan in national assembly
In what one observer said was simply an act of politicking, the opposition CNRP on Thursday said it would push its campaign pledge of giving $500,000 to every commune in the National Assembly. ...
Ben Sokhean and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/131182-131182/
It’s been a while, crocodile: Eggs discovered in Koh Kong
The Wildlife Conservation Society has made its first discovery of Siamese crocodile eggs on the Sre Ambel River in Koh Kong province in six years, it announced yesterday in a statement. ...
Touch Sokha and Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/its-been-while-crocodile-eggs-discovered-koh-kong