Vietnam, Cambodia to step up search for Vietnamese soldiers’ remains in Cambodia
Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to increase cooperation in searching for the remains of Vietnamese soldiers having died in Cambodia. The Specialized Committees of Vietnamese and Cambodian Governments attended a bilateral meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday to review the search for these remains. ...
Tuoi Tre News
http://tuoitrenews.vn/politics/36177/vietnam-cambodia-to-step-up-search-for-deceased-vietnamese-soldiers-remains-in-cambodia
Primary report: More than 3,600 families affect by flood in Kampot
More than 3,600 families and 1,500 hectares of farmland have been affected by flooding in ten communes, in Kampot province. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/primary-report:-more-than-3600-families-affect-by-flood-in-kampot-8966
GDCE collects more than 1 billion state revenue in first 9 months
The General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance has collected around 4,649 billion Riel or some US$1.11 billion state revenue for the first nine months of 2015, according to the state news agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/gdce-collects-more-than-1-billion-state-revenue-in-first-9-months-9024
UN rights office voices concern at clampdown on political activism in Cambodia
The United Nations human rights office expressed concern today over a worsening climate for opposition politicians and activists in Cambodia, and stressed that the right to peaceful assembly and to freedom of expression belongs to all. ...
Big News Network Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/238122383/un-rights-office-voices-concern-at-clampdown-on-political-activism-in-cambodia
Cambodia reports outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu in northwest
Cambodia reported two outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus among backyard duck flocks in the northwestern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday. ...
Sybille de La Hamaide
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/16/us-health-birdflu-idUSKCN0T51S820151116#0ASlvkgbsAm1L69q.97
More than 100 prisoners in Cambodia receive royal pardons for Water Festival
More than 100 prisoners in Cambodia have received royal pardons and hundreds more have seen their sentences reduced under King Norodom Sihamoni’s traditional Water Festival clemency, a local English newspaper reported Wednesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/25/c_134852762.htm
ACU delegation left Cambodia this morning for SEA-PAC meeting in Brunei
Cambodia delegation led by senior Minister Om Yentieng, head of the Anti-corruption Unit left Cambodia today for the 11th meeting of the South East Asia Parties Against Corruption (SEA-PAC) that will run through 1-3 December in Badar Seri Begawan, Brunei. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/acu-delegation-left-cambodia-this-morning-for-sea-pac-meeting-in-brunei-9086
‘World’s largest’ sugarcane factory to open in Preah Vihear next month
A $300 million sugarcane processing factory will begin producing sugar in Preah Vihear province next month and it is being described as the world’s largest such factory, according to reports in local media. ...
S’ville gov’t enforcing safety regulations in wake of ferry disaster
After a boat capsized and sank off Sihanoukville last week, ferry company managers say local police have begun strictly enforcing safety regulations and rough weather warnings, in a dramatic shift from the city’s relaxed attitude toward boat safety. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21426/s---ville-gov---t-enforcing-safety-regulations-in-wake-of-ferry-disaster/
Of 2,437 homeless children in Cambodia, 964 from Phnom Penh: Report
A Social Affairs Ministry report published yesterday showed that provincial departments of social affairs, veterans and rehabilitation assisted 2,437 homeless children in 2015, 715 of whom were girls. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21637/of-2-437-homeless-children-in-cambodia--964-from-phnom-penh--report/
Int’l air arrivals up 5% in the first half of 2016
Passengers traffic at Cambodia’s three international airports increased by 5 per cent during the first half of the year, compared to the same period a year earlier, the Kingdom’s airport operator said yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/intl-air-arrivals-5-first-half-2016
Villagers, police face off in Phnom Penh over Koh Kong sugar petition
Meanchey district police and security guards yesterday clashed with about 70 Koh Kong province villagers at the capital’s Samaki Rainsy pagoda, shoving and pushing them as they tried to make their way to the Ministry of Land Management. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-police-face-phnom-penh-over-koh-kong-sugar-petition
Ethnic ninority villagers in Eastern Cambodia file court case over land grab
Indigenous villagers in eastern Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province have filed a complaint in local court against military officers and a land speculator who forcibly confiscated more than 80 hectares (198 acres) of their land, an official from a rights group said Thursday. ...
Cambodian health worker blamed in HIV spread will be tried next week
An unlicensed health worker charged in Cambodia with murder and other crimes after allegedly causing a mass HIV infection by treating patients with reused needles will be brought to trial next week, sources said. ...
Hum Chamroeum
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/tried-10152015165549.html
Cambodian Premier: In democratic countries, power cannot be transferred directly to child
Prime Minister Hun Sen said here this morning at a graduation ceremony that in the democratic countries, power cannot be transferred from a father to his child, according to the state news agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-premier:-in-democratic-countries-power-cannot-be-transferred-directly-to-child-9028
Obama calls for ‘bold steps’ to quell tensions in South China Sea
President Barack Obama said bold measures should be taken to try to ease growing strains over the South China Sea, where six governments including the Philippines have overlapping claims. ...
Simone Orendain
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/obama-calls-for-bold-steps-to-quell-tensions-in-south-china-sea/3063271.html
In Cambodia, John Kerry balances trade ties with warning on human rights
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Cambodia’s leaders Tuesday, the second in a three-country swing through Southeast Asia meant to deepen U.S. partnerships ahead of a key summit with the region’s leaders next month.Kerry met with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, now Asia’s ...
Elise Labott
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/26/asia/kerry-cambodia-human-rights/index.html
Hyundai Engineering wins $120mn order to build a mall in Cambodia
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering won a $120 million deal from a Japanese retail giant Aeon Co. to build a shopping mall in the Kingdom of Cambodia, a deal that is expected to help the Korean engineering company that has been focusing on plant construction diversify ...
Lee Han-na
http://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2016&no=407384
Ministry of Environment offically lunched the lexicon of climate change in Khmer
On 25 April 2017, Ministry of Environment officially lunched the lexicon of climate change in Khmer, in both printed and electronic version. To download the app for mobile, Please find the CCLexicon in Appstore (For iOS) and Play Store (For Android). To view through website, Please ...
National council for sustainable development and National council of Khmer language
‘No protest, no change’ for CNRP, deputy says, placing CPP in bind
The Cambodia National Rescue Party will refuse to appoint a new president following the arrest of current leader Kem Sokha on Sunday, Deputy President Mu Sochua said yesterday, a decision she acknowledged may lead to the dissolution of the party should Sokha be convicted of ...
Andrew Nachemson and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-protest-no-change-cnrp-deputy-says-placing-cpp-bind