Ambassador charged, jailed for vast corruption
Suth Dina, who roSe through the rankS of the Foreign MiniStry to become Cambodia&rSquo;S top diplomat in South Korea in 2014, continued hiS fall from grace on ThurSday aS he waS impriSoned on chargeS of corruption and abuSe of power, according to hiS lawyer and SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ambassador-charged-jailed-for-vast-corruption-111000/
Endangered animals freed by police
Five endangered polecats were rescued yesterday morning after provincial military police in collaboration with Wildlife Alliance staff stopped a man on a motorbike who was attempting to sell them at the Veal Ring market in Preah sihanouk’s Real Rinh commune, according to Prey Nob district ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24611/endangered-animals-freed-by-police/
Community ravaged by drought steps up to save monkeys
Touch Tren used to fish the Tonle sap Lake’s flooded Ek Phnom district for a living, but after finding the bodies of 30 black monkeys, dead from thirst in the nearby Veal Don Om forest earlier this year, he had a change of heart and ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24763/community-ravaged-by-drought-steps-up-to-save-monkeys/
Dam firm hasn’t made good on pledge: locals
Some 100 people from five villageS in Oddar Meanchey&rSquo;S Chongkal diStrict proteSted over the weekend againSt a hydropower dam project built by ChineSe firm Sinohydro, claiming they have yet to be compenSated for their eventual diSplacement when the flood gateS cloSe in the next few SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-firm-hasnt-made-good-pledge-locals
Land measured for villagers
A land dispute working group in Preah sihanouk province yesterday started measuring land for three communities in smach Daeng village in Prey Nob district’s Ream commune, who had a long-running land dispute with the Yi Yea Group Company who had received an economic land concession ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29087/land-measured-for-villagers/
New slaughterhouse regulations aim to curb disease
Ahead of the opening of Cambodia’s first modern abattoir, which is slated to begin operations in the near future, a new draft law to regulate animal produce and slaughterhouses was announced on Friday, along with the establishment of a “National Butchers’ Day” to be recognised ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-slaughterhouse-regulations-aim-curb-disease
Thailand-Cambodia rail link complete by December
Construction of a restored rail link with Cambodia to improve transport in the Mekong sub-region will be completed by the end of 2016, Khmer officials say. The railway connection between Aranyaprathet and sisophon stopped in the 1970s due to internal conflicts in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/815452/thailand-cambodia-rail-link-complete-by-december
Ministries announce new regulations for foreign business owners
The Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Labor have imposed new regulations and legal conditions on foreign investment and businesses in Cambodia, with the ministries requiring foreign-owned companies to file correct legal papers and to strictly follow Cambodia’s immigration and labor laws, including foreign ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23349/ministries-announce-new-regulations-for-foreign-business-owners/
Constitutional Council sees in new members
Three newcomers officially took up their positions at the Constitutional Council yesterday, the body announced. Im Chhun Lim, former minister of land management, officially began his tenure as head of the council after being appointed by the supreme Council of Magistracy and voted chief by ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/constitutional-council-sees-new-members
Archeological dig starts at Angkor Thom
An archaeological dig at the ancient capital of Angkor Thom started on Monday in search of metal tools from the Kingdom’s Angkorian era. The École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), a French institute dedicated to the study of Asian societies, started the dig in cooperation with the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27210/archeological-dig-starts-at-angkor-thom/
Drop in US exports seen as a wake-up call
The industry body for the nation’s garment and footwear manufacturers said new trade data showing a decline in Cambodian exports to the Us during the first half of the year was a sign that the Kingdom was losing its competitive advantage, threatening the future of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/drop-us-exports-seen-wake-call
Chinese firm begins construction at Boeng Kak
Eight years after CPP senator Lao Meng Khin signed off on a 99-year lease of Boeng Kak lake in one of the most controversial real estate deals in Phnom Penh’s recent history, a Chinese firm has begun construction on the first major development project on ss='cambodia-color'>...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinese-firm-begins-construction-at-boeng-kak-96025/
Big ambitions for model school program in Cambodia
On a leafy campus near Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, a group of 50 schoolchildren are benefiting from a bold educational experiment with a dual aim: to turn out youngsters who can improve the country, and to develop a model program that can be replicated internationally. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/big-ambitions-for-model-school-program-in-cambodia/2991893.html
Festival traffic death toll holds steady
The number of traffic fatalities during the 2015 Pchum Ben festival was nearly the same as last year’s, dropping just three percent.34 people were killed in road crashes between October 10 and 12, one fewer than the 35 killed during the three-day holiday in 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/festival-traffic-death-toll-holds-steady
Timber burned at Mondulkiri ELC
Hundreds of logs of timber, including luxury wood, as well as sawmill camps were torched at a controversial Vietnamese-owned economic land concession in Mondulkiri province’s Keo seima district in an apparent bid to destroy evidence of illegal logging ahead of a raid by a new ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-burned-mondulkiri-elc
Researcher says border posts misplaced in Eastern Cambodia
Presenting the initial findings of months of research trips along Cambodia’s eastern border, academic sok Touch said on Thursday that a stretch of land in Tbong Khmum province had been occupied by Vietnam due to border posts being misplaced during the French colonial era. ss='cambodia-color'>...
MFI joins effort to push a Riel economy
Prince Finance Plc is moving to support the efforts of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) to promote the use of the riel by using the domestic currency in all transactions, fees, loans and staff salaries, the microfinance institution’s managing director, Hon sorachana, told a ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22971/mfi-joins-effort-to-push-a-riel-economy/
Provincial authority denies homes to displaced residents
More than 100 residents from svay Chrum village in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district continued their second day of protests yesterday, attempting to claim back their land before being stopped again by provincial authorities despite a letter from the Ministry of Interior ordering authorities to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23136/provincial-authority-denies-homes-to-displaced-residents/
Cambodia and World Bank expand development engagement to reduce poverty and share prosperity
The government of Cambodia and the World Bank today signed agreements for four projects to improve road surfaces, manage fisheries, improve livelihoods from agriculture in targeted rural communities, and increase access to health care, with funding from the International Development Association, or IDA, the World ss='cambodia-color'>...
Bou Saroeun
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2016/06/09/cambodia-and-world-bank-expand-development-engagement
Fire destroys 33 recycling collectors’ houses
The cause of a fire that destroyed more than 30 houses on Tuesday in a small slum inhabited by recycling collectors, in an area surrounded by new housing developments in southern Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, will likely be determined today, according to officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Kimsay and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fire-destroys-33-recycling-collectors-houses-114770/