Critics: Cambodia's new Korea envoy has ‘no experience’
A direct phone call from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen alerted Phnom Penh city hall deputy Long Dimanche to his new role as the country’s envoy to south Korea. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pin Silvan
http://www.voanews.com/content/critics-cambodia-new-korea-envoy-has-no-experience/3294172.html
Social media users in a flap as hundreds of bats die
Hundreds of dead bats were found inside siem Reap’s Phnom Bouk temple in Banteay srey district after district police and environmental officers were notified by local residents on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24097/social-media-users-in-a-flap-as-hundreds-of-bats-die/
Prisons granted more funds to develop libraries
Cambodian’s prison libraries are set to receive an extra $600,000 in funding from the French Agency for Development and literacy NGO sipar, according to a statement released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24670/prisons-granted-more-funds-to-develop-libraries/
ADB praises economy
The Asian Development Bank on Monday named Cambodia as the fastest growing economy in Asia in its latest new analysis article titled Here Comes Cambodia: Asia’s New Tiger Economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24857/adb-praises-economy/
Gov’t health workers underpaid: study
Cambodia’s public health workers are underpaid and poorly trained, with a whopping 98 per cent relying on a second job to supplement their income, according to a recent report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-health-workers-underpaid-study
Ministry to be grilled on sand exports
The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission will summon Minister of Mines and Energy suy sem to answer questions about an apparent $700 million discrepancy in sand exports to singapore. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-be-grilled-sand-exports
Three big US wartime bombs found in Kandal
Police in Kandal province and officials from the Cambodian Mine Action Center have found three live bombs beneath a resident’s rice field in Kandal stung district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36071/three-big-us-wartime--bombs-found-in-kandal/
NGO criticizes rights report
A civil society group yesterday rebuked a recent report by the Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), claiming the scathing report on the country’s legislative practices violated Asean principles. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36947/ngo-criticizes-rights-report/
Holidays see record tourists
Cambodia’s top tourist destinations recorded a record number of visitors this Khmer New Year, with 2.5 million locals and foreigners traveling to celebrate the festival around the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37547/holidays-see-record-tourists/
National election body to start vote recount today
The national election body will today start recounting votes for communes across the country where the winners in June 4’s commune elections were decided by the narrowest of margins. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-election-body-to-start-vote-recount-today-131232/
White Building demolition begins as holdouts move out
Two excavators turned bricks to rubble with ease on Monday as walls jutting out from the ground floor of Phnom Penh’s dilapidated White Building slowly tumbled to the ground. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Janelle Retka and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/white-building-demolition-begins-as-holdouts-move-out-132612/
Law blocks migrant workers from voting
The National Election Committee has said current laws forbid out-of-country registration and voting, following a meeting yesterday to discuss involving migrant workers in next year’s national election. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5076540/law-blocks-migrant-workers-voting/
Authorities seize hundreds of animals
A raid on Monday of a woman’s house in Prey Veng province turned up hundreds of animals, dead and alive, set to be sold in the illegal wildlife trade. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079229/authorities-seize-hundreds-animals/
Environment ministry targets set
The Environment Minister instructed his staff to cooperate with relevant ministries and institutions to improve management in the sector at the closing of the ministry’s annual meeting on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095895/environment-ministry-targets-set/
PM urges new parties to form
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday suggested that members of dissolved political parties could band together to create a new political party in the wake of the opposition CNRP’s dissolution. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096511/pm-urges-new-parties-form/
Hundreds of papers face closure
Nearly 300 local newspapers are facing closure next year due to inactivity in publishing, an official from the Ministry of Information’s general department of information and broadcasting has said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096456/hundreds-papers-face-closure/
India loan signed to fund dam in Kampong Speu
India’s state-owned Export-Import Bank agreed to loan $36.92 million to the Cambodian government to fund the development of a dam and reservoir in Kampong speu province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india-loan-signed-fund-dam-kampong-speu
US chemical bombs found in Svay Rieng
The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) found two unexploded bombs containing dangerous chemical substances at a primary school and a pagoda in svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34710/us-chemical-bombs-found-in-svay-rieng/
Thai university to set up tourism school
Thailand’s Rajamangala University of Technology plans to set up a tourism and hospitality institute in siem Reap province to build the capacity of Cambodians working in the tourism sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36200/thai-university-to-set-up-tourism-school/
Logging investigation finished
Members of the prime minister’s anti-logging task force who had been looking into officials’alleged collusion with Vietnamese timber smugglers in Mondulkiri has ended its 10-day investigation. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-investigation-finished