New year stats show roads safer, police say
National Police on Sunday said Khmer New Year traffic figures were evidence that the New traffic law has been a success, with 98 traffic accidents reported over the four-day holiday this year, a drop from 123 in 2015, when it was a three-day holiday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-year-stats-show-roads-safer-police-say-111402/
New five-point plan to tackle drug slum
The government has announced a new action plan to deal with the drug problem in Trapaing Chhouk, a slum in the capital’s Sen Sok district that has been an open market for drug use and distribution for over a decade. ...
Niem Chheng and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-five-point-plan-tackle-drug-slum
A New Species of ant found in Cambodia
A new species of ant has been discovered in Cambodia by researchers from Japan. Its name is Crematogaster indosinensis, and it is described in Annals of the Entomological Society of America. ...
Entomology Today
https://entomologytoday.org/2016/07/21/a-new-species-of-ant-found-in-cambodia/
Hun Sen gives ousted director new Ministry job
Prime Minister Hun Sen appointed the former director of Phnom Penh’s health department to a new position at the Ministry of Health on Monday, two days after he stripped the official of his erstwhile position during an on-air call to the popular ABC radio station. ...
Kuch Naren and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-gives-ousted-director-new-ministry-job-116720/
Two arrested along new drug route in Pursat
A kilogram of methamphetamine was confiscated and two men were apprehended in Pursat province on Tuesday by police who said the arrests had uncovered a new drug supply route in the country. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-arrested-along-new-drug-route-in-pursat-96052/
Australia makes new PR push for Nauru refugees
Australia has begun another round of public relations campaigning in an attempt to persuade refugees on the Pacific island of Nauru to resettle in Cambodia under a controversial agreement signed last year. ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/australia-makes-new-pr-push-nauru-refugees
New traffic law hurts the poor, citizens say
The introduction of the new traffic law has hit a few potholes, with some citizens complaining that it is too tough on poor families, while analysts say people in rural areas have been left in the dark about the new law’s requirements. ...
Mom Kunthear and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19443/new-traffic-law-hurts-the-poor--citizens-say/
Railway denies report of new passenger train service
Royal Railway on Sunday refuted a state media report that commercial passenger train service between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville was imminent. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/author/zsombor-peter/
New report spotlights hidden workforce behind global brands
Global brands rely on a hidden workforce within their supply chains to avoid responsibility for poor working conditions and abuse, according to a new report from the International Trade Union Confederation. ...
Aria Danaparamita
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-report-spotlights-hidden-workforce-behind-global-brands-105909/
New tourism strategy to focus on Chinese market
A new five-year plan is being drafted to woo more Chinese tourists to the Kingdom, following a surge in visitors from the world’s most populous nation, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said yesterday. /Sum Manet ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20580/new-tourism-strategy-to-focus-on-chinese-market/
New factory to hog the pig leather market
Cambodia’s first factory to process leather from pig skin will open this year and will supply products to the European market, but local pig skin will not be used. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23062/new-factory-to-hog-the-pig-leather-market/
Doctors to be on standby during new year
The Ministry of Health has ordered provincial health department directors to organize officials and doctors to work during the four days of Khmer New Year so hospitals and health centers are able to respond to traffic accidents and other issues. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23703/doctors-to-be-on-standby-during-new-year/
New group set up to tackle land disputes
The newly appointed minister of land management and urban planning, Chea Sophara, has announced a working group to handle petitions and complaints lodged by land dispute victims. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-group-set-tackle-land-disputes
New baby makes waves on way to hospital
A baby was born at sea on Monday afternoon in Koh Kong province after a mother went in labor on a boat on her way to hospital. ...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24536/new-baby-makes-waves-on-way-to-hospital/
Factories create 12,000 new first-quarter jobs
Forty factories were registered during the first three months of the year, creating over 12,000 jobs, according to new data by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/factories-create-12000-new-first-quarter-jobs
Government readies new Nauru visit to meet refugees
The Interior Ministry has made tentative plans to send a delegation of three people to the South Pacific island of Nauru next month to meet and vet two more refugees who have volunteered to resettle in Cambodia. ...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-readies-new-nauru-visit-to-meet-refugees-112947/
Families file new complaint under ADB railway project
Families who have been displaced by railway projects funded by the Asian Development Bank have filed a new complaint to an ADB review panel.Twenty-two people this week requested a new investigation by the ADB’s Compliance Review Panel. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/families-file-new-complaint-under-adb-railway-project/2966131.html
Government undecided on new resettlement sites for evictees
A Finance Ministry official said on Sunday that the government had yet to decide whether it would comply with Asian Development Bank (ADB) rules that families facing eviction from along the country’s old railway tracks be offered resettlement options better than the ones they have ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-undecided-on-new-resettlement-sites-for-evictees-102214/
Land row meet yields no answers, new meeting
A group of Boeung Chhouk village residents being asked to vacate to make room for a new road met yesterday with a senior Council of Ministers official in a bid to resolve the long-running dispute. However, they walked away with nothing but the possibility of ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-row-meet-yields-no-answers-new-meeting
Surge in new product standards as tariffs fall
A recent surge in the development of national standards for manufactured goods and food products is creating more opportunities for local products in regional markets, a government official said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/surge-new-product-standards-tariffs-fall
