Trucks rerouted from flooded Nat’l Road 4
Kampong Speu provincial authoritieS yeSterday iSSued an order banning heavy truckS from uSing National Road 4 in Phnom Sruoch diStrict&rSquo;S Maha Saing commune in reSponSe to heavy flooding in the area. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trucks-rerouted-flooded-natl-road-4
Cambodian exports to US down
Cambodia’s total exports to the United states declined last year compared with 2015, due to uncertainties in the Us presidential race and rising exports from Vietnam and new market player Myanmar. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35260/cambodian-exports-to-us-down/
PM warns of media anarchy
Prime Minister Hun sen warned the media yesterday that he was determined to maintain social order, citing Us President Donald Trump’s exclusion of some news outlets from a White House briefing. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35929/pm-warns-of-media-anarchy/
Plans for floating market in the works
The local entrepreneur who brought the capital its first container night market is seeking government support to realise his vision for the country’s first custom-built floating market and entertainment complex. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plans-floating-market-works
South Korean firm to share tech expertise
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts and the south Korea-based firm Gwangju TechoPark will soon reach a deal on improving technology in Cambodia’s special economic zones. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39921/south-korean-firm-to-share-tech-expertise/
Newly elected commune chiefs, councilors taking office
Cambodia’s newly elected commune councilors and chiefs began taking office on Monday with vows to make good on election promises by improving local services and keeping in closer contact with constituents. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/newly-elected-commune-chiefs-councilors-taking-office-132106/
Party law changes clear Senate
The Senate, aS predicted, paSSed contentiouS changeS to the Law on Political PartieS yeSterday in a bid to eraSe &ndaSh; in Some caSeS literally &ndaSh; oppoSition figure Sam RainSy from Cambodia&rSquo;S political Scene. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/party-law-changes-clear-senate
Government passes waste disposal plans to local authorities
Responsibility for cleaning garbage from neighborhoods will be put in the hands of district officials under new guidelines released on Tuesday as part of the government’s plan to decentralize waste disposal. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia to soon establish juvenile prison: Social Affairs
A sub-decree establishing Cambodia’s first juvenile prison will be issued by the start of september, Minister of social Affairs Vong soth told United Nations special Rapporteur Rhona smith on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-soon-establish-juvenile-prison-social-affairs
Milestones for fisheries project
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), together with the Ministry of Commerce and the Agriculture Ministry’s fisheries administration, yesterday launched a booklet titled “Fostering Fisheries Value Chain Growth and Competitiveness”. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082630/milestones-fisheries-project/
Three CNRP-nominated elections officials resign from NEC after party dissolution
Three National Election Committee (NEC) members, all Cambodia National Rescue Party nominees, have quit the electoral body, intensifying the fallout from the supreme Court’s dissolution of the opposition party on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-cnrp-nominated-elections-officials-resign-nec-after-party-dissolution
Sok An passes away in Beijing
Deputy Prime Minister sok An, one of the most senior officials in the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and who recently received a royal title from King Norodom sihamoni, died last night. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36533/sok-an-passes-away-in-beijing/
Cambodia improves human development Index
Cambodia’s improvements on human development are the biggest in the region, but standards of living still lag behind neighboring nations, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) figures have shown. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36740/cambodia-improves-human-development-index/
Teen dead and child injured in B-40 explosion
One boy died and another was severely injured after an unexploded B-40 rocket they were playing with detonated in Boeng Daeng village, in Kampong Cham’s stung Trang district, on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teen-dead-and-child-injured-b-40-explosion
Affordable Amazonian paradise for the masses
The resort and housing complex, which has only recently started construction, is located in Dangkao district’s Kong Noy commune, making it an 18-kilometre journey from Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vandy Muong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/affordable-amazonian-paradise-masses
PM sues Lay Sreng for ‘defamation’ over phone call comments
Prime Minister Hun sen’s lawyer yesterday filed a lawsuit against former Deputy Prime Minister Lu Lay sreng for defamation over comments made during a private phone conversation leaked to social media. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-sues-lay-sreng-defamation-over-phone-call-comments
Loaded with lizards
Military Police officials apprehended two suspects in Takeo province’s Angkor Borei district on Monday for attempting to transport around 1 tonne of wildlife, including turtles, birds and rare snakes, to Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loaded-lizards
Crackdown on logging has been a ‘success’: Bin Chhin
Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin oversaw a meeting on illegal logging in the northeast region of Cambodia, reportedly branding the Kingdom’s anti-logging crackdown a “success” despite evidence to the contrary. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crackdown-logging-has-been-success-bin-chhin
Labour union sued by factory
The owner of Gawon Apparel factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao city has sued the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union for continuing its protest and has requested Labour Ministry intervention. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103467/labour-union-sued-by-factory/
Cambodian PM opens 60 mln USD brewery plant, urges production for exports
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday inaugurated a 60 million U.s. dollar Khmer Brewery plant on the outskirts of Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, urging the country’s beer manufacturers to produce for exports. ss='cambodia-color'>...