Flooding takes a toll
Ten days ago, Loun Somaly, 33, left his house to deliver a deposit to the glass workers he hired to replace a window on his rickety sheet metal-panelled house. Ly Sophal, Somaly’s tenacious three-year-old son, followed him outside, asking if he could join. But with floodwater ...
Sihanoukville gets more garbage trucks and collectors
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities have distributed 30 garbage trucks and deployed 171 garbage collectors in four communes to improve the collection, cleaning and transportation of garbage in Sihanoukville. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50569701/sihanoukville-gets-more-garbage-trucks-and-collectors/
U.N.’s new rights envoy to make official visit to Cambodia tomorrow
The U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith will make her first official visit eight-day in Cambodia. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/un%E2%80%99s-new-rights-envoy-to-make-official-visit-to-cambodia-tomorrow-8955
Tonle Sap wetland on the brink of a crisis
In a statement last week, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature identified ongoing fires in flooded forests as a major threat to the Tonle Sap lake. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-wetland-brink-crisis?utm_content=buffer27079&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Institution-based sex crimes raise concerns
Institution-based sex crimes agaInst children and the threat of online pedophiles are a “growing concern” in Cambodia, child protection organisation APLE said in its annual report yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/institution-based-sex-crimes-raise-concerns
Phnom Penh may add eleven new communes
Phnom Penh Municipal Hall plans to create 11 new communes in five districts in the capital to improve social service management, Deputy Municipal Governor Eang Ony said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-may-add-eleven-new-communes
Forty faint at Svay Rieng SEZ factory
Officials blamed food poisoning for sparking the mass fainting of about 40 garment workers in a factory in the Svay Rieng border town of Bavet on Monday afternoon. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forty-faint-svay-rieng-sez-factory
Central bank moves to spark Interbank lending
The National Bank of Cambodia has decreased the minimum value of negotiable certificates of deposit (NCDs) in a bid to promote interbank lending in the Kingdom’s crowded financial industry. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17371/central-bank-moves-to-spark-interbank-lending/
$6M to be spent on staff security over New Year
Prime Minister Hun Sen made an appeal to public safety yesterday, announcing $6 million in bonuses for soldiers and law enforcement in anticipation of the Khmer New Year. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/6m-be-spent-staff-security-over-new-year
Rubber prices bounce back
A sharp rebound in international rubber prices has put workers at plantations in Cambodian back to work, and has infused the sector with a rare sense of optimism. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-prices-bounce-back
UN agency to assist with human rights
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) yesterday asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia for help in writing reports and educating law enforcement officials. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30398/un-agency-to-assist-with-human-rights/
Travel Mart to showcase tourism
Cambodia hopes to attract some 200 international companies to participate in the first Cambodia Travel Mart (CTM) event to be held in November this year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39749/travel-mart-to-showcase-tourism/
Migrants given six months to get legal
The Labour Ministry yesterday released a detailed schedule for illegal migrant workers who remain in Thailand to aid them in gathering legal documentation over the next few months. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074775/migrants-given-six-months-get-legal/
Takeo marijuana plantation set alight
Police in Takeo province burned more than 6,300 marijuana plants on Saturday. Authorities discovered the illegal marijuana plantation in Kirivong district after villagers tipped off local police. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5096482/takeo-marijuana-plantation-set-alight/
Chinese equipment maker eyes Cambodia
Sany Heavy Industry, one of the biggest manufacturers of heavy construction machinery in China’s Hunan province, plans to expand in Cambodia to tap into rising infrastructure development. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37672/chinese-equipment-maker-eyes-cambodia/
Florican population faces extinction threat
The increase in commercial dry-season rice cultivation in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap floodplain is threatening the survival of the critically endangered Bengal florican, a new study suggests. ...
Phak Seangly and Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/florican-population-faces-extinction-threat
CMAC to receive $1.2 million for 2018 project
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre will receive $1.2 million from the United Nations Development Program for a one-year mine clearance project in three provinces in 2018. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098732/cmac-recieve-1-2-million-2018-project/
Lightning strikes kill two as return of colder temps predicted
Two people were killed and one injured in three separate lightning strikes in Pursat and Prey Veng provinces on Monday, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lightning-strikes-kill-two-return-colder-temps-predicted
CSX-listed companies report moderate growth
Most companies listed in the local stock market reported slow business performances in 2017, according to unaudited financial statements filed to the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) on Monday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109670/csx-listed-companies-report-moderate-growth/
Cambodia to get $40M from ADB’s green fund
The Asian Development Bank has announced an additional $30 million in grants and $10 million in loans to Cambodia as part of the organization’s Green Climate Fund. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-get-40m-adbs-green-fund
