Health ministry confirms first case of measles in four years
Three months after the Health Ministry proclaimed Cambodia measles-free—after tests on a child suspected to be carrying the disease came back negative—it announced on Wednesday that a 7-month-old in Kompong Speu province has contracted the highly contagious virus. It is the first confirmed case in ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/health-ministry-confirms-first-case-of-measles-in-four-years-106654/
Gov’t pushes census to 2019
The 2018 national population census will be pushed back a year in order to focus on the 2018 national elections, the government announced on Friday. According to article 6 of the Statistics Law, the census must be conducted at least once every 10 years, with the ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30167/gov---t-pushes-census-to-2019/
National Election Committee voter registration passes halfway mark
More than half of Cambodia’s 9.6 million eligible voters had been registered as of Saturday, despite the National Election Committee reporting that heavy rains had dampened the pace of registrations recently. Updated figures released on the weekend show that 4.9 million voters had registered in the ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-election-committee-voter-registration-passes-halfway-mark
The Fatal nature of garbage dumps
On the outskirts of Phnom Penh Once stood a smoldering testament to mankind’s assault On the Earth. Stung Meanchey was the largest waste disposal site in Cambodia, the size of 76 football fields. Scavengers sifted through 900 tOns of new waste delivered each day, amid ...
Mikaela Lefrak
https://newrepublic.com/article/123304/fatal-nature-garbage-dumps
Border dispute flares in Pailin
A resident of Boyakha commune in Pailin said about 20 Thai soldiers stopped her and other farmers from planting crops on their land earlier this month, telling them it was part of a so-called “white zone,” or demilitarized area, considered to be neither on Cambodian ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21223/border-dispute-flares-in-pailin/
Human rights: Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Cambodia
Parliament urges Cambodia to drop all charges brought against opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) members; calls on the Bangladesh authorities to restore the full independence of the media; and appeals to the government of Afghanistan to intensify cooperation with the ...
European Parliament
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20151120IPR03620/html/Human-rights-Bangladesh-Afghanistan-Cambodia
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 ...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/gray-market-cars-continue-to-deter-potential-investment-125321/
Open Development Cambodia published new topic page of Maternal and child health
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Maternal and child health in both Khmer and English. Together with the detail on Maternal mortality and health and Child mortality.=>Please click here to get in to Maternal and child health page. ...
Complaint to be filed in suspicious prison death
A Banteay Meanchey woman is planning to file a complaint against the provincial prison director for his alleged role in the suspicious death of her stepdaughter on Saturday. Khon Thy said her stepdaughter, Sok Chanthan, 27, had suffered from chronic asthma since she was 7 years ...
Niem Chheng and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-be-filed-suspicious-prison-death
Olympic-size walkway
Construction crews will break ground this weekend on a new walkway overpass alongside Olympic Stadium as part of the Olympia City development project. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) and a municipal crew will begin work on the walkway, which will be at a five-way ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/olympic-size-walkway
Cambodia Daily brings out online-only platform
The shuttered Cambodia Daily announced late on Tuesday night that it has “relaunched” as a noncommercial publication. on its Facebook page, the Daily announced the re-opening as “a digital only, non-commercial publication based off shore”. Several items – including an aggregated news round-up and a “Timeline ...
Leonie Kijewski and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-daily-brings-out-online-only-platform
Villagers asked to vacate national park
Koh Kong provincial authorities on Monday ordered 40 families living in Botum Sakor district to vacate their land and homes after it was determined they were illegally occupying a national park. on Friday, authorities went to inspect Botum Sakor National Park and found 40 families ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101013/villagers-asked-vacate-national-park/
New terminal planned at poipet border gate
A new customs and immigration terminal is planned at the Poipet International Border Gate in Banteay Meanchey province, on the Cambodian side of the common border with Thailand, to cater to an expected increase of foreign tourists when the railway linking both countries is completed ...
Chea vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31657/new-terminal-planned-at-poipet-border-gate/
Kampot officials order families to leave Bokor
Kampot provincial authorities have warned some 100 families who have settled on land within Bokor National Park to leave or face eviction. In a letter, the authorities say the families are living illegally on state land in Chhouk district’s Decho Aphivat commune that is part of ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-officials-order-families-leave-bokor
Dredging plans raise concerns in K Cham
Kampong Cham authorities met with concerned villagers on Friday over a proposed sand-dredging project that some fear could lead to the collapse of their riverbank. More than 220 families living on the riverbank in Tamieng village thumbprinted a petition delivered to provincial authorities requesting that ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-plans-raise-concerns-k-cham
Ministry of foreign affairs to build first diplomatic institute
The Foreign Affairs Ministry expects to complete construction on its first training institute for local diplomats in the next 18 months, officials said Monday. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokes-man Chum Sounry said work on the National Institute for Diplomatic and Relations of International Study began in December. ...
Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/ministry-foreign-affairs-build-first-diplomatic-institute-126811/
CMAC to get pensions in framework of RCAF
The Cambodian Mine Action Center has been incorporated into the “framework” of the Cambodian military, ostensibly to allow CMAC employees to receive government pensions. “Officials and staff of [CMAC] would like to deeply thank [Hun Sen] for offering officials and staff of CMAC official framework ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-get-pensions-framework-rcaf
Cambodia, Iran to Strengthen Economic Cooperation
Cambodia and Iran had agreed to enhance bilateral relations and cooperation in economics, trade, investment and culture, a Cambodian senior official said. The verbal agreement was made between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Aug. 30 when Hun Sen ...
http://tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/101255-cambodia-iran-to-strengthen-economic-cooperation
Two Die While Illegally Digging for Gold
Two men died in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district on Sunday after a gold mining pit they were digging collapsed in on top of them, police said yesterday. Provincial police chief Nhem Vanny said that the victims, Sao Leng, 20, and Tharn Kim, 19, had been ...
Thailand, Cambodia launch direct bus services linking Bangkok, Phnom Penh
Poipet – Thailand and Cambodia on Thursday launched direct bus services linking Bangkok and Phnom Penh via the Aranyaprathet-Poipet border crossing, aiming to cut transportation costs, MOCT reported on June 15. Transport Minister Jarupong Ruangsuwan and Cambodian Public Works and Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek and representatives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) co-presided at the ...