Remaining 5 Montagnard asylum seekers leave Cambodian jungle to meet UN team
Remaining five hill tribe Montagnards emerged from northeast Cambodia’s jungle on Saturday night after hiding for more than seven weeks since illegally entering Cambodia from Vietnam, a senior human rights activist said Sunday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2014-12/21/c_133869193.htm
What lies beneath: The fight to save Phnom Kulen
Illegal logging and destructive farming practices have archaeologists racing to rescue an ecologically crucial mountain and its hidden temples. Some 80 per cent of the forest on Phnom Kulen – one of Cambodia’s National Parks – has disappeared due to a combination of illegal logging, ...
Poppy McPherson and Vandy Muong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/what-lies-beneath-fight-save-phnom-kulen
NEC to test automated voter registration
The National Election Committee (NEC) of Cambodia will test a computerized voter registration system in August or September of this year, according to a statement from the NEC. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11921/nec-to-test-automated-voter-registration/
Vietnam tops auction to supply rice to NFA
Vietnam offered Friday the lower price for the additional rice supply that the Philippines will import to increase its buffer stock for the lean season, the National Food Authority said. NFA earlier invited Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to supply an additional 250,000 metric tons of rice ...
Anna Leah E. Gonzales
http://bit.ly/1QgImol
Philippines re-invites bids for 100,000 tons of rice import
The National Food Authority (NFA) of the Philippines has re-invited bids for the remaining 100,000 tons from the June 5 tender, BusinessworldOnline quoted Reuters. The NFA has reportedly invited governments of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, with which the Philippines has bilateral agreements, to send their bids ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/22917/philippines-re-invites-bids-100000-tons-rice-import
Campaign begins for improved child health
Unicef and the Cambodian government have launched a campaign to promote better health for children and newborns. Cambodia has made some progress improving the health of women and children, but a high rate of death for children remains a major concern. It saw its newborn mortality ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/campaign-begins-for-improved-child-health/2841753.html
Health advertisements encourage better care for children with pneumonia
Unicef and the Ministry of Health have prepared four spots to raise awareness in the care of newborns and young children with illnesses. The ads, for radio and television, aim at improving the country’s high child mortality rate. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/health-ads-encourage-better-care-for-children-with-pneumonia/2845123.html
CNRP activists arrested over Siem Reap protest
Two opposition activists in Siem Reap’s Bakong district were arrested yesterday on accusations of inciting villagers to protest a new committee to support boating tourism. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-activists-arrested-over-siem-reap-protest
Asia’s orphanage industry worth millions
Private donations to orphanages in Cambodia means the government is struggling to cope with their reform, with lack of transparency and lack of safety checks. Most of Cambodia’s orphanages are financed by private donations from abroad, but no one knows exactly how much money flows ...
Asian Pacific Post News Staff
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/article/7013-asia%E2%80%99s-orphanage-industry-worth-millions.html
Anti-drug units require more officers, cops say
Citing an uptick in drug cases and a lack of manpower in some provinces, the National Police yesterday announced they will be transferring scores of officers to positions in anti-drug units. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-drug-units-require-more-officers-cops-say
NEC forms group to issue IDs
The National Election Committee (NEC) has set up a working group to assist the Interior Ministry in distributing microchipped National ID cards, which will be used in the new electronic voting system being introduced next year. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-forms-group-issue-ids
CNRP to send border maps
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will send digital maps of the Kingdom to the Royal Academy today to compare with copies provided by the United Nations, United States and France of the original French-Indochina maps known as the “Bonne maps”. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-send-border-maps
Opposition eyeing plot of land for TV station
The Cambodian National Rescue Party has started negotiations to buy land in Kandal’s Kien Svay district for its television station Sun TV. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-eyeing-plot-land-tv-station
CNRP hands in French map
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday handed over digital copies of a Cambodia-Vietnam border map bought in France to the Royal Academy.The academy’s border committee now has maps from the UN, US and France, and says it will begin studying them in a bid ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-hands-french-map
Cambodia needs 2,400 computers to start computerized voter registration next year
The National Election Committee (NEC)’s spokesperson Hang Putea said Cambodia will start computerized-voter registration in March next year, but needs 2,400 computers. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-needs-2400-computers-to-start-computerized-voter-registration-next-year-8823
CNRP tells donors to retrieve their funds
A district official with the Cambodia National Rescue Party has offered a group of disgruntled donors in Kandal their money back after they lodged a complaint with local police over the opposition’s fundraising efforts for its Sun TV station. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-tells-donors-retrieve-their-funds
NEC chief still firmly in place
The National Election Committee has no plan to replace its secretary general, Tep Nytha, despite a pledge after the revamped body’s approval earlier this year to name someone new to the post within three months. ...
Shaun Turton and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-chief-still-firmly-place
Thousands of Chinese leave Kingdom after ban on online gambling
The General Department of Immigration yesterday reported that tens of thousands of Chinese nationals left the Kingdom before the end of last year since the ban on online and arcade gambling was announced by Prime Minister Hun Sen in August. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50685775/thousands-of-chinese-leave-kingdom-after-ban-on-online-gambling
Construction of Samlot-Koh Kong road to begin in March
Construction work on the new National Road No.10 connecting Battambang to Koh Kong is scheduled to begin in March, with the ground-breaking ceremony to be presided over by Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50691532/construction-of-samlot-koh-kong-road-to-begin-in-march
Education Ministry postpones exams over coronavirus
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has decided to postpone secondary and high school exams in response to the pandemic. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50711143/education-ministry-postpones-exams-over-coronavirus/