Thailand repatriates more than 1,000
A surge in the number of Cambodian migrant workers sent back from Thailand through the Daung International Checkpoint in Battambang province has puzzled authorities. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36129/thailand-repatriates-more-than-1-000/
Cabinet approves power projects
The Cabinet of ministers approved on Friday two electricity development projects in a bid to address the increasing demand for electricity in the kingdom. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35605/cabinet-approves-power-projects/
Japan builds bridges
Cambodia will today receive about $35 million in aid from the Japanese government to fund the reconstruction of seven bridges in flood-prone areas. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5084255/japan-builds-bridges/
Road safety campaign seeks to cut fatalities
More than 1,350 people died in traffic accidents in the first nine months of the year, a senior Transport Ministry official said yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5087605/road-safety-campaign-seeks-cut-fatalities/
Thailand says border trade rising between Surin and Oddar Meanchey
Border trade between Surin province in Thailand and Oddar Meanchey province in Cambodia is rising following military measures, the National News Bureau of Thailand said Sunday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MDY1YTgxYjYzOTh
Evictees lobby bank for payment
More than 200 villagers from Kampong Speu protested in front of ANZ Royal Bank’s headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding the bank pay them compensation. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/evictees-lobby-bank-payment
Appeal aired: EU hears out groups from Battambang
The European Union will speak to Cambodia’s government on behalf of two communities in Battambang involved in land disputes, according to the rights group Adhoc. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/appeal-aired-eu-hears-out-groups-battambang
British ambassador urges Cambodians to use public buses to reduce congestion
The British ambassador to Cambodia, Bill Longhurst, urged the Cambodian people in Phnom Penh to use public buses to help reduce traffic congestion in the city. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/british-ambassador-urges-cambodians-to-use-public-buses-to-reduce-congestion-8135
Hefty sentence: Ketamine bust lands duo 25 years
Two Vietnamese nationals were each sentenced to 25 years in prison for concealing nearly 40 kilograms of powdered ketamine in a Phnom Penh condo last year. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hefty-sentence-ketamine-bust-lands-duo-25-years
Smugglers busted on Laos border
Three Cambodians were among 11 people captured in Laos for allegedly smuggling methamphetamine in a joint operation carried out by Cambodian and Laotian anti-drugs police. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/smugglers-busted-laos-border
Turk gets nine years for buying girls’ virginity
A Turkish man was sentenced to nine years in jail Friday for purchasing the virginity of two 14-year-old girls in Phnom Penh last year. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/turk-gets-nine-years-for-buying-girls-virginity-80922/
Beach property prices soar
Land prices behind Ocheateal and Otres beaches have – in some areas – doubled over the last year, surpassing their previous peak in 2008, according to realtors there. ...
Vincent MacIsaac
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12198/beach-property-prices-soar/
Kratie families feel effects of NGO law
Officials in Kratie province are insisting that a small group of families involved in a local land dispute register with the Interior Ministry or be “punished.” ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-families-in-land-dispute-feel-effects-of-ngo-law-91796/
Trading Floor Silent Two Years After CSX Launch
It is almost two years to the day since Cambodia’s stock market launched in Phnom Penh in front of proud government officials, senior financiers and eager investors from across the region. Initial expectations were that a total of three state-owned firms would be listed within six ...
Hul Reaksmey and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/trading-floor-silent-two-years-after-csx-launch-35211/
Fresh Faces on CPP’s Shortened List of Lawmakers
When the ruling CPP takes its seats in the new National Assembly, its members of Parliament will include a few new faces, and significantly less old ones, according to ratified election results announced by the National Election Committee (NEC) on Sunday. The CPP’s poor showing in ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/fresh-faces-on-cpps-shortened-list-of-lawmakers-41902/
Rainsy’s reasoning questioned
While the opposition party steps up its efforts to persuade the international community to cut ties with a government it says was formed by a “constitutional coup”, lawyers and analysts yesterday questioned whether the party’s reasoning has any legal basis. In a letter sent to the ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy%E2%80%99s-reasoning-questioned
Hun Sen Mute After Initial Election Remarks
Over the past three weeks, a standoff between the long-ruling CPP and newly strengthened opposition CNRP has made for an increasingly tense political environment. But almost entirely missing from the equation has been Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose last public appearance was 18 days ago when ...
Colin Meyn and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/hun-sen-mute-after-initial%E2%80%88election-remarks-40372/
VN Rubber Company Says It Improves Forest
The Vietnamese Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) company, the majority shareholder of several economic land concessions in Ratanakkiri province, on Friday rebuffed accusations that it had logged forests and forced evictions, claiming that its activities improved the environment and the livelihoods of locals. Through several companies, ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vn-rubber-company-says-it-improves-forest-47771/
Union leader rejects video, photo evidence
During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their ...
Eang Mengleng and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-leader-rejects-video-photo-evidence-59326/
Mass Faintings Continue at Two Factories
Workers at two different factories in Phnom Penh suffered mass fainting spells yesterday according to the Ministry of Labor and the factory officials. A Puma owned shoe factory 49 workers fainted and at the Hung Way garment factory another 64 workers fainted. The Puma factory ...