Thais detain two Cambodian loggers
Two Cambodians and a Thai national were arrested by Thai soldiers on Tuesday night for illegal logging and transporting rosewood over the border to Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108947/thais-detain-two-cambodian-loggers/
Power to the provinces
People in Svay Rieng, Prey Veng and Kandal provinces are to benefit from stable electricity supplies after a $75 million project to expand the national grid went online yesterday. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37612/power-to-the-provinces/
New voters to get ID cards
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng met with European Union Ambassador to Cambodia George Edgar on Tuesday to discuss issuing identity cards for the coming national election. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079497/new-voters-get-id-cards/
Municipal court concludes trial of six Vietnamese brothel staff
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday concluded the trial of six Vietnamese nationals accused of selling 20 girls and women for sex out of two establishments in the city center. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/municipal-court-concludes-trial-of-six-vietnamese-brothel-staff-7026
PM Prayut heads to Cambodia on October 30-31
The Thai prime minister would be holding talks with his Cambodian counterpart today to strengthen bilateral relations between both nations in order to be prepared for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). lass='cambodia-color'>...
National News Bureau of Thailand News Staff
http://thainews.prd.go.th/centerweb/newsen/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNPOL5710300010005
Antibiotic resistance sparks new health policy
Pharmacists in Cambodia have a particular affinity for prescribing antibiotics, so much so that resistance to the drugs has become a public health problem worthy of a national response. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/antibiotic-resistance-sparks-new-health-policy-77730/
Senior Vietnamese officials pay respects to Chea Sim
A Vietnamese Communist Party delegation that included Vietnam’s National Assembly president Wednesday paid their respects to the late CPP President Chea Sim, who died Monday at the age of 82. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senior-vietnamese-officials-pay-respects-to-chea-sim-85354/
French police to revisit botched murder cases
French police will arrive in Cambodia in October to reinvestigate two separate murders of French nationals that have yet to be solved by Cambodian police, an Interior Ministry official said Tuesday. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/french-police-to-revisit-botched-murder-cases-85687/
Parliament ‘not a fish market,’ CPP assembly spokesman says
National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun on Tuesday defended the prohibition of a press conference on border issues planned by opposition CNRP lawmakers by saying the parliament is “not a fish market.” lass='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parliament-not-a-fish-market-cpp-assembly-spokesman-says-86329/
Gov claims NGOs are recruiting protesters
Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong yesterday accused civil society organisations of paying land rights demonstrators to protest against a controversial NGO law that recently passed the National Assembly. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov-claims-ngos-are-recruiting-protesters
SRP calls to suspend Prey Long rubber firm
Opposition party lawmaker Son Chhay has sent a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Sok An asking for the immediate suspension of a Vietnamese rubber plantation in the endangered Prey long forest, accusing the firm of illegal deforestation. In the letter dated Wednesday, Mr Chhay also asked lass='cambodia-color'>...
Policy lost on some campaigners
WHEN the Cambodia National Rescue Party geared up for this election campaign, it was determined its priority would be policy, but the exploits of both major parties in recent weeks have seen public focus shift far from the finer details of governance. “Change or not change?” lass='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/policy-lost-some-campaigners
Opposition Will Go Forward With Mass Demonstration, Leader Says
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday reaffirmed his party’s commitment to three days of mass demonstrations starting on Wednesday, in response to the government’s failure to address widespread irregularities in July’s national elections. Returning from a trip abroad, where he had urged Western states not to lass='cambodia-color'>...
VOA Khmer Staff
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-will-go-forward-with-mass-demonstration-leader-says/1774467.html
Civil servants’ expense stipends cut
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday issued a sub-decree on steps to reduce government spending for domestic and foreign missions for national and sub-national administrations due to COVID-19. It set the rules and procedures for implementation of the expense budget for civil servant missions to lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khann Chan Virak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50803609/civil-servants-expense-stipends-cut/
Five people held for illegally-cut timber
A joint task-force consisting of the national police and Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district police on Saturday arrested five people found transporting illegally-felled timber in Santre commune. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524318/five-people-held-for-illegally-cut-timber/
Habitat Day sees call to end evictions
Several hundred demonstrators yesterday marked World Habitat Day by gathering at the National Assembly to submit a petition calling on the government to halt forced evictions and guarantee housing rights. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/habitat-day-sees-call-end-evictions
PM, Sokha spar over road toll
Political leaders from both parties have once again taken their grievances to Facebook as they fight to take credit for the decision to remove the tolls on National Road 4. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Ros Chanveasna and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21731/pm--sokha-spar-over-road-toll/
Promnea looks set for constitutional council membership
The National Assembly’s permanent committee yesterday put forward Sam Promnea, a former Tourism Ministry secretary of state, as a new member of Cambodia’s Constitutional Council. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/promnea-looks-set-constitutional-council-membership
32 Vietnamese arrested in Phnom Penh immigration raids
Thirty-two Vietnamese nationals were arrested during raids by immigration police in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district yesterday morning, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Keo Vanthorn. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/32-vietnamese-arrested-phnom-penh-immigration-raids
Checkpoint chief leased house to illegal Vietnamese miners
Five Vietnamese nationals who were renting a home from the local immigration department chief were arrested on Friday for conducting illegal mining operations in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district. lass='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/checkpoint-chief-leased-house-illegal-vietnamese-miners