Amid drought, diarrhea poses severe threat
Teachers at Toul Mead Primary School in Siem Reap province tell students to bring drinking water from home to keep them hydrated in the scorching heat. But water is increasingly hard to come by as the worst drought in decades drags on. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-drought-diarrhea-poses-severe-threat-112822/
Making villages see the light
More than 60 percent of rural homes in the Kingdom will have electricity by the end of this month and all villages in the country will no longer be engulfed in pitch darkness at night when they are connected to the national grid by 2020. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26423/making-villages-see-the-light/
Prime minister sends out rice wine warning
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday called for people to be more careful with what they ingest, as the death toll from rice wine poisoning in the past week rose to 20 with another death in Kratie province and two others reported dead in remote ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-sends-out-rice-wine-warning-103025/
Gov’t takes back Phnom Kulen from CPP lawmaker
The Environment Ministry has revoked the rights of a company owned by government lawmaker and tycoon Sieng Nam to manage the Kulen Mountain Resort in the Preah Bat Jayavarman-Nordom National Park in Siem Reap province, saying the move was in the national interest. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19006/gov---t-takes-back-phnom-kulen-from-cpp-lawmaker/
Two security guards shot outside Phnom Penh nightclub
Two nightclub security guards have been hospitalized with bullet wounds after a drunken reveler shot them with an AR-15 rifle in front of the Manhattan Cafe club in central Phnom Penh in the early hours of on Monday morning, military police officials said. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-security-guards-shot-outside-phnom-penh-nightclub-105052/
Manet returns from US, dismisses lawsuit
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, arrived back in Phnom Penh on Monday after two weeks in the U.S. and Canada, deriding a lawsuit filed against him in Los Angeles for wrongful imprisonment that includes a count of “international terrorism.” ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/manet-returns-from-us-dismisses-lawsuit-111744/
Donaco’s Poipet gamble pays off
Casino operator Donaco International Ltd posted a seven-fold increase in revenue in its first full-year financial filing since acquiring the Star Vegas Resort and Club in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet commune, according to the company’s audited annual report, released yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/donacos-poipet-gamble-pays
ANZ to offer online tax payment system
ANZ Royal customers will be able to make tax payments in local currency and in US dollars at all bank branches and online starting in April following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Economy and Finance Ministry on Friday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35105/anz-to-offer-online-tax-payment-system/
Protecting a rare species
In recent years, there has been a declining trend in the number of sarus cranes observed throughout Cambodia. The seasonally flooded grasslands of the Northern Plains, one of the few locations in Cambodia where the birds breed, are threatened by agricultural conversion to rice paddies. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099251/protecting-rare-species/
Two new ports for Cambodia
The Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) will officially open two new ports in January in response to a rise in imports and exports of cargo. The PPAP is also one of the state-owned enterprises due to be listed on the Cambodian stock exchange by 2014. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122660476/Business/two-new-ports-for-cambodia.html
Trend of using phone and internet
In 2012, the number of phone users in Cambodia would stand at about 17.56 million and by 2015, about 21.31 million. And internet users in 2012 will reach to 1,739,618 by 2015, an increase of 1.89 million, His Excellency, Sarak Khansaid. ...
Anglers ‘invading’: Villagers say rivals taking over fish lot
More than 200 residents from seven villages in Ratanakkiri province’s Taveng district have filed a complaint to the local Administrative Fisheries Department and two right groups over claims that rival anglers in the area are collecting fish in their protected lot by poisoning the catch. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anglers-%E2%80%98invading%E2%80%99-villagers-say-rivals-taking-over-fish-lot
Vietnam exports fall as Thai trust rises
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam fell marginally by 6 per cent in the first half of this year largely due to a slump in Vietnamese exports, according to data from the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam-exports-fall-thai-trust-rises
City stalls as Chroy Changva families demand intervention
About 50 people with claims to land being developed in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula protested in front of City Hall on Monday and delivered a petition on behalf of more than 100 families demanding intervention in their dispute with the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation ...
Land dispute: Corruption accusation by villagers
More than 200 families embroiled in a land dispute in Battambang province have filed a complaint to the National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission, accusing a commune chief in Bavel district of colluding with the provincial director of land management to solicit bribes for land titles. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/land-dispute-corruption-accusation-villagers
Vaccination fears eased: gov’t
An education campaign launched by Cambodia’s National Immunization Program (NIP) in the aftermath of last year’s HIV outbreak in Battambang has been effective in dispelling the concerns of parents hesitant to get their children vaccinated, government health bodies and the World Health Organization have said. ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vaccination-fears-eased-govt
Memorial project educates youth on Khmer Rouge
More than 20 memorials have been built in Cambodian high schools since 2010, in an effort to educate young people about the Khmer Rouge. The aim of the project is to teach about genocide in order to prevent its return. ...
Sou Pisen
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/memorial-project-educates-youth-on-khmer-rouge/2871837.html
Prey Lang campaign kicks off
As deforestation in Cambodia’s forests has grown in recent years, more and more citizens have come together to fight against it. Now, a group of 300 people are going to campaign for awareness about the destruction of Prey Lang, the largest evergreen forest in the ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14222/prey-lang-campaign-kicks-off/
Sweden to continue its work within development cooperation with Cambodia
In a recent update, the Embassy of Sweden in Phnom Penh stated that Sweden will continue to be present in Cambodia after the closing of the Embassy later this year and will continue its work within development cooperation. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/928572/sweden-to-continue-its-work-within-development-cooperation-with-cambodia/
PM meets with US business giants
Prime Minister Hun Sen has met with a number of major US companies who have expressed interest in investing in Cambodia, in a meeting convened by the US-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC). ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-meets-us-business-giants