Another Prey Veng market fire causes $3 million in damage
A market fire in Prey Veng province’s Kompong Trabek district destroyed more than 200 stalls early Wednesday morning, spreading to more than 20 adjacent houses and causing almost $3 million in damage, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-prey-veng-market-fire-causes-3-million-in-damage-73206/
Sokimex closes down hotel on Norodom Boulevard
The Sokha Hotel on Norodom Boul&Shy;evard in Phnom Penh haS cloSed down and will be converted into office Space for the hotel&rSquo;S parent company, local conglomerate Sokimex, Sokimex CEO Sok Kong Said Friday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sokimex-closes-down-hotel-on-norodom-boulevard-76347/
‘No proof’ in Koh Kong land fight: judge
Villagers in Koh Kong province were sent back to the drawing board yesterday, when the Court of Appeal upheld the provincial court’s decision that about 62 hectares of land belongs to Heng Huy Co. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-proof-koh-kong-land-fight-judge
Four Vietnamese charged over taking logs from Mondolkiri
Four Vietnamese nationals were charged on Tuesday with illegally collecting first-grade logs from the forest after they were arrested while transporting the wood from Mondolkiri province’s border-hugging Koh Nhek district to Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-vietnamese-charged-over-taking-logs-from-mondolkiri-77737/
Labour Ministry vows to investigate recruiter
Responding to parliament’s order to investigate allegations against a recruitment agency with a record of mistreating its workers, the Ministry of Labour dispatched a team today to meet with a group of defrauded labourers. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/labour-ministry-vows-investigate-recruiter
Villagers blocked from stopping construction
Security guardS hired by the ChineSe-owned Union Development Group (UDG) thwarted an attempt Friday by 10 villagerS to bring a halt to the company&rSquo;S clearing of land in Koh Kong province, localS Said. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-blocked-from-stopping-construction-71588/
CNRP lawmakers visit prisoners on hunger strike
Opposition lawmaker Mu sochua said a group of 10 convicted anti-eviction activists on hunger strike at Phnom Penh’s Prey sar prison were in a weak state during her visit to the facility Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmakers-visit-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-74732/
Battambang families told to make way for new park
Battambang town authorities have notified 600 families living in the provincial capital’s Prek Preah sdech commune that they need to relocate due to the construction of a large public garden to beautify the city. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-families-told-make-way-new-park
South Korea to double Cambodian migrant worker permits
The South Korean government will double the number of Cambodian migrant workerS who are granted permitS to take up employment in the country&rSquo;S manufacturing, conStruction and agriculture SectorS each year, officialS Said on Monday. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-korea-to-double-cambodian-migrant-worker-permits-78099/
Central Bank seeks to give Riel a boost
Cambodia’s central bank will use its upcoming second Macroeconomic Conference to discuss how best to promote the use of the riel and hasten de-dollarisation in the economy, according to an official release yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/central-bank-seeks-give-riel-boost
Police arrest four smuggling crystal meth from Laos
Police arrested four men in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district on sunday on suspicion of smuggling drugs from Laos, confiscating more than half a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine in the bust, officials said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-four-smuggling-crystal-meth-from-laos-79356/
Land sales forced, say families
Thirty-two families in Kampong Chhnang’s Teuk Phos district filed a complaint to rights group Adhoc yesterday, reporting they had been pressured by local authorities to sell their land for just $150 per hectare. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/land-sales-forced-say-families
One-time NEC fave weighs call
The head of a local rights group who was once touted as the consensus choice for the revamped National Election Committee’s key ninth member will soon announce whether she will officially withdraw her candidacy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/one-time-nec-fave-weighs-call
Gov’t decides on New Year prisoner pardons
The government has finalised plans for next month’s annual Khmer New Year clemency, with more than 800 prisoners across the country expected to receive pardons and sentence reductions, according to an Interior Ministry official. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/govt-decides-new-year-prisoner-pardons
Cambodia's tax revenues from casinos up 12 pct last year
Cambodia earned tax revenue of over 25 million U.S. dollarS from caSino induStry in 2014, up 12 percent year-on-year, a local Cambodian TeleviSion Network (CTN) reported Monday, citing a Senior finance official. SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodias-tax-revenues-from-casinos-up-12-pct-last-year-8349
Rong Chhun ready to scrap
Newly appointed election monitor Rong Chhun has come out swinging ahead of today’s official swearing in of the nine new National Election Committee members, saying he is “sharpening his spurs” for a potential showdown. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rong-chhun-ready-scrap
Funcinpec leaders visit china communist party benefactors
Funcinpec leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh and second vice president Nhiek Bun Chhay left for China on sunday to meet with officials from the Chinese Communist Party, the Cambodian royalist party’s longtime benefactor and supporter. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/funcinpec-leaders-visit-china-communist-party-benefactors-82142/
Cambodia protests Indian Angkor Wat replica
The Foreign Affairs Ministry on saturday sent a diplomatic note to India’s Ministry of External Affairs expressing its concern over a planned temple that resembles Angkor Wat and insisting that its construction be halted. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Consiglio and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-protests-indian-angkor-wat-replica-85131/
Mourning for senate president to last 10 days
Mourning for Chea Sim, the late PreSident of the Senate and the ruling Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party, iS to laSt 10 dayS to allow foreign diplomatS, national leaderS and ordinary CambodianS to pay their reSpectS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12096/mourning-for-senate-president-to-last-10-days/
Exports to Japan bucking the trend
Cambodia’s exports to Japan dramatically increased during in the first quarter of 2015, bucking the trend of fellow AsEAN member states who all saw a decline in shipments to Japan over the same period. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-japan-bucking-trend