City aims to address market's trash problem
City Hall yesterday held a meeting with trash-collection companies and district authorities to address the longstanding garbage problem at the capital’s Phsar Doeum Kor Market in Tuol Kork district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-aims-address-markets-trash-problem
Business briefs
The country’s two largest ports saw traffic jump in the first eight months of this year, compared to the same period last year, according to figures released by the port authorities Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15712/business-briefs/
Death toll on roads at more than 1,800 so far
More than 1,800 people have died on Cambodia’s roads so far this year, representing an almost 4 per cent increase in casualties compared to the same period in 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/death-toll-roads-more-1800-so-far
Groups urge 'free and fair' election pledge
A coalition of election monitoring NGOs yesterday urged the government to endorse an international commitment to free and fair elections, and to evaluate the Kingdom’s elections according to its standards. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-urge-free-and-fair-election-pledge
Net loss: fish stocks dwindle in Cambodia's Tonlé Sap lake
Despite the creation of a 200-hectare conservation area, fishing communities on south-east Asia’s largest freshwater lake fear their way of life is slipping away. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vietnam donates to police station in Mondolkiri
The Vietnamese province of Dak Lak is donating cash and materials to build a new police station across the border in Mondolkiri’s Koh Nhek district, according to a police official. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-donates-to-police-station-in-mondolkiri-104515/
Ministries announce lower licensing costs
Driver’s licence and vehicle inspection fees have been cut nearly in half, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation announced late last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministries-announce-lower-licensing-costs
Giant sugar mill set to open in Preah Vihear
A Chinese-owned agricultural company will inaugurate a $360 million sugar mill in northern Cambodia next month, in what is being billed as one of Asia’s largest sugar processing facilities. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/giant-sugar-mill-set-open-preah-vihear
New youth party signed into being
The Cambodia Youth Party (CYP), a new coalition targeting the vote of Cambodia’s burgeoning under-30 population, became official this week after receiving its licence from the Ministry of Interior. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-youth-party-signed-being
Hong kong airlines launches direct flight to Cambodia
A passenger aircraft of China’s Hong Kong Airlines touched down at Phnom Penh international airport on saturday afternoon, marking its start of thrice-weekly flight service to the Cambodian capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Macau Daily Times's team
http://macaudailytimes.com.mo/hong-kong-airlines-launches-direct-flight-cambodia.html
Healthcare revolution ‘not the answer’
While the Kingdom’s frequently criticized hospitals and doctors need to upgrade their services and skills, it is incorrect to label most Cambodian doctors “bad,” Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22024/healthcare-revolution----not-the-answer---/
Hornbill rescued in Seima protected forest
A patrol in Seima Protected ForeSt in Mondulkiri laSt weekend found a young great hornbill near an illegal logging Site. Hornbill SightingS have become rarer aS the bird&rSquo;S population dropS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23925/hornbill-rescued-in-seima-protected-forest/
Big tobacco shaped smoking laws, policies
In 2008, British American Tobacco (BAT) was awarded its third straight “Gold Medal” from Prime Minister Hun sen in recognition of good corporate stewardship, according to the company’s July newsletter. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/big-tobacco-shaped-smoking-laws-policies-111556/
New fire trucks head to provinces
More than 100 new fire engines were provided to provincial police stations across the Kingdom in an effort to bolster the country’s firefighting capacity, Interior Minister sar Kheng announced yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25475/new-fire-trucks-head-to-provinces/
Ukraine eyes Cambodia
Ukraine aims to promote more bilateral cooperation and boost trade with Cambodia. At the same time, Kiev is urging Ukrainian businesses to consider investing in the Kingdom’s high performing sectors. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28247/ukraine-eyes-cambodia/
Deadline for railway residents
Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities have warned they will take legal action against those who continue to interfere in railway construction between Phsar Kandal commune and Poipet City by today’s deadline. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28475/deadline-for-railway-residents/
North park condominiums unveiled
The curtain was pulled back sunday on Royal Group’s latest development – North Park Condominium. The real estate project comprises three nine-story condominium buildings spread over 13 hectares in sen sok district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17985/north-park-condominiums-unveiled/
Crime down in 2015, armed robberies up: report
Though the Kingdom’s total number of reported crimes was down in 2015, instances of robbery and armed robbery in some provinces noticeably increased, according to an annual National Police report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22877/crime-down-in-2015--armed-robberies-up--report/
PM threatens to remove official because of poor roads
Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday threatened to remove sam Piseth, Phnom Penh’s Public Works and Transport Department Director, saying he was not satisfied with inefficient road maintenance in the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23642/pm-threatens-to-remove-official-because-of-poor-roads/
Ex-military police officer arrested in Mondulkiri
Notorious former military police officer and purported illegal-timber trader sou Marith was apprehended yesterday morning along with three other men while allegedly transporting timber in Mondulkiri’s Keo seima district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-military-police-officer-arrested-mondulkiri