Land grab in cambodia's Pailin province stokes villagers' ire
Villagers in Cambodia’s Pailin province are accusing authorities of allowing a powerful local police officer to grab nearly two hectares of mountainous public land for his own use. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hour Hum
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodain-land-grab-02022016132516.html
Exports to US rise over 9 percent last year
With the American economy expanding, Cambodia’s total export to the country increased slightly more than 9 per cent last year over 2014, the latest Us trade data shows. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21104/exports-to-us-rise-over-9-percent-last-year/
Mangoes exported to Europe in a first for kingdom
Mong Reththy, known as the king of agriculture in Cambodia for his role running the large Mong Reththy Group, aims to expand the Kingdom’s mango market to Europe. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23468/mangoes-exported-to-europe-in-a-first-for-kingdom/
Battambang man dies in old gold-mining pit
Conflicting versions of events emerged yesterday after a Battambang man was found dead in a disused gold-mining pit in the province’s Phnom Proek district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-man-dies-old-gold-mining-pit
Workers at abandoned factory seek back wages
More than 400 workers at the south Korean-owned Dae Kwang Garment factory protested at the Canadia Industrial Park yesterday demanding unpaid salaries after the factory’s owner disappeared. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-abandoned-factory-seek-back-wages
Rubber exports stable
While international rubber prices rebounded late last year, Cambodia’s exports in 2016, however, remained relatively unchanged compared with 2015, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34466/rubber-exports-stable/
PM: new road could be a runway
Prime Minister Hun sen has asked Defense Minister General Tea Banh to study whether Phnom Penh’s biggest boulevard could be used for emergency plane landings. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37189/pm--new-road-could-be-a-runway/
Minor hiccups at elections
While yesterday’s commune elections went more smoothly than past iterations, they were not free from claims of irregularities, with opposition activists bearing the brunt of the legal punishments. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-hiccups-elections
Dam resettlement site gets electricity
According to the Stung Treng Provincial Electricity Authority&rSquo;S announcement yeSterday, an electrical line waS connected from the dam to a tranSmiSSion network at the new Site in Srekor. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-resettlement-site-gets-electricity
BigPhone now in Cambodia
Mobile World Investment (MWG), one of the largest mobile phone and electronics distribution chains in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, has opened its first overseas store in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39837/pigphone-now-in-cambodia/
Pork fears grip the capital
The meat section in Phnom Penh’s O’Russei Market on most mornings is crowded with housewives selecting the best pork cuts – from shoulders, loins and fillets – for dinner. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39838/pork-fears-grip-the-capital/
King calls for forest protection
King Norodom Sihamoni yeSterday overSaw a tree planting ceremony in Kandal province to mark the 27th Arbor Day, pleading for all citizenS to protect the country&rSquo;S foreStS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40129/king-calls-for-forest-protection/
Push on for farm insurance
Insurance industry insiders are urging the government and development partners to set up and support a policy of subsidising insurance in the agricultural sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079418/push-farm-insurance/
Officials find logs hidden on riverbed
Some 124 logS of luxury timber were diScovered on a riverbed on Sunday within Mondulkiri&rSquo;S Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary Some 500 metreS from a military baSe, officialS Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-find-logs-hidden-riverbed
CMAC divers remove US bomb in Kandal
A team of divers from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre recovered a large bomb dropped from Us planes during the war in the 1970s in Kandal province yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101018/cmac-divers-remove-us-bomb-kandal/
Japan donates $1.1 million to tribunal
Japan, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s largest donor to date, has contributed a further $1.12 million to its international component, the tribunal said on Tuesday in a statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32642/japan-donates--1-1-million-to-tribunal/
In further shift, military cancels drill with Australia
Breaking further from traditional partners, Cambodia has aborted a planned military exercise with Australia, a defense official said on Tuesday, tilting the country’s allegiances once again toward China. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Michael Dickison
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-further-shift-military-cancels-drill-with-australia-125943/
At capital coffee shops, political conversations tainted by fear
Many of the news media’s favorite political analysts aren’t picking up their telephones. They say they are busy with work, traveling abroad or focusing on their studies. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/126704-126704/
Lancang-Mekong expo kicks off in Phnom Penh
The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation’s economic and technology exhibition 2017 kicked off yesterday in Phnom Penh to enhance trade and investment between China and Cambodia, plus other Mekong countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40332/lancang-mekong-expo-kicks-off-in-phnom-penh/
Eight timber trucks seized
A team of Pursat provincial and national military police seized eight trucks loaded with timber on National Road 55 in Kravanh district’s samraong commune on Monday and yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099637/eight-timber-trucks-seized/