PM’s sons begin to take center stage
As Prime Minister Hun sen ages, more and more talk is surfacing of his sons taking his mantle and leading the country into the future. Two were in the spotlight this past week as they bolster their credentials for their eventual rise to the top ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16893/pm---s-sons-begin-to-take-center-stage/
PM’s response over dredging insufficient: CNRP lawmaker
After writing to Prime Minister Hun sen in July asking him to order an investigation into the sand dredging taking place in Koh Kong province, CNRP lawmaker son Chhay on Wednesday accused the prime minister of not fully addressing the issues in his letter of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pms-response-over-dredging-insufficient-cnrp-lawmaker-101844/
PPWSA’s Q3 profit hit by expenses
Cambodia’s first listed company, the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority, yesterday reported a 41 per cent drop in profits after tax for the quarter ending september 30, with the company attributing the drop to an increase in expenses incurred over the quarter. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppwsas-q3-profit-hit-expenses
Poipet customs director removed in riot’s wake
Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities yesterday promoted a new director of Provincial Customs and Excise to replace his predecessor, seven months after an office under his jurisdiction was at the centre of a riot. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poipet-customs-director-removed-riots-wake
U.S. secretary of state to visit Cambodia
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will pay an official viSit to Cambodia later thiS month to booSt bilateral tieS, Cambodia&rSquo;S MiniStry of Foreign AffairS Said on Saturday. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20012/u-s--secretary-of-state-to-visit-cambodia/
Hun Sen’s Facebook ‘Likes’ real, government declares
Claims that Prime Minister Hun sen’s recent spike in Facebook popularity is the result of purchasing “likes” from abroad are “completely twisted,” the government’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee concluded in a five-page report released on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pms-facebook-likes-real-government-declares-110328/
After attempted scam, ministry seeks secretary’s imposter
Police have started a countrywide manhunt after an anonymous caller attempted to extort money from district governors in Kampong Chhnang and Battambang while posing as Interior Ministry secretary of state sak sehta last month. On March 4 and then again on March 12, an anonymous caller ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23532/after-attempted-scam--ministry-seeks-secretary---s-imposter/
Chinese ‘looking closely’ at kingdom’s agriculture sector
Increasingly closer ties between Phnom Penh and Beijing are spurring a rise of Chinese investment into the Kingdom, with businesses from the world’s second-largest economy now taking a closer look at Cambodia’s agricultural sector, Chinese officials said during a press tour last week to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24476/chinese----looking-closely----at-kingdom---s-agriculture-sector/
Cambodia’s leopards facing extinction by 2018: expert
Cambodia’s population of spotted Indochinese leopards will be extinct by 2018 unless action is taken to deal with the “snaring crisis” in Mondolkiri province, where the few remaining leopards live, according to the author of a forthcoming paper on the issue. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-leopards-facing-extinction-by-2018-expert-113182/
Scientists using DNA to track Mekong’s ‘monsters’
Environmental DNA collection could be a “silver bullet” for tracking and protecting critically endangered fish in the Mekong, according to a new report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/scientists-using-dna-track-mekongs-monsters
Emerald’s gold search heads to fresh territory
Australian mining firm Emerald Resources is preparing to commence first-pass test drilling on its O’Rman prospect in northeastern Cambodia, where soil assays from augur samples have indicated the presence of gold mineralisation, the company said in its latest quarterly report. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/emeralds-gold-search-heads-fresh-territory
Film interview high on PM’s UN visit
Prime Minister Hun sen arrived in New York yesterday for a series of meetings, with making demining a key UN development goal at the top of his agenda. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16145/film-interview-high-on-pm---s-un-visit/
Woman’s seizure prompts mass fainting at factory
Dozens of workers fainted at a garment factory in Kompong Chhnang province on Friday after seeing one of their colleagues have a seizure, which they feared was caused by an electric shock from her sewing machine, a police official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/womans-seizure-prompts-mass-fainting-at-factory-97082/
Activist’s arrest could come soon, judge says
The investigating judge involved in ongoing legal proceedings against human rights activist Ny Chakrya has said a warrant for the man’s arrest is under consideration after Chakrya failed to respond to a subpoena to appear in court yesterday. However, Chakrya’s employer, rights group Adhoc, said ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-arrest-could-come-soon-judge-says
Dolphin’s decline down, infant survival rate up
The rate at which the population of Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong River is declining has dropped dramatically in recent years, although more dolphins must be protected into adulthood to save the species from extinction, according to a new report released Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taylor O'Connell and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dolphins-decline-down-infant-survival-rate-up-99915/
Foreign minister says Cambodia’s judiciary is fair
Cambodia’s foreign minister defended the country’s judiciary before a group of diplomats Thursday, addressing an arrest warrant issued last week for opposition leader sam Rainsy. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-minister-says-cambodia-judiciary-is-fair/3065440.html
Prisoner’s pardon fails to outpace her death
A Vietnamese woman imprisoned on child sex trafficking charges in 2009 received a humanitarian royal pardon last month, but only after she had been dead for more than a month, the rights NGO Licadho said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisoners-pardon-fails-outpace-her-death
Senate slams opposition Sam Rainsy party’s boycott
Senate SpokeSman Mam Bun Neang iSSued a Statement Monday deScribing aS “Shameful” the deciSion by the chamber&rSquo;S 10 oppoSition SenatorS to boycott the day&rSquo;S vote in proteSt of the arreSt warrant iSSued for oppoSition leader Sam RainSy. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senate-slams-opposition-sam-rainsy-partys-boycott-102478/
Mother nature’s youthful ambassadors get to work
Forty young environmental envoys began training on December 5 to become Young Eco Ambassadors, tasked with raising awareness of the need to protect the environment. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Duch Lalin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18498/mother-nature---s-youthful-ambassadors-get-to-work/
The Kingdom’s biggest dirty little trade secret
More than $15 billion exited Cambodia in illicit capital flows over the past decade, stripping the economy of money that could have been used for development, a new report showsA staggering amount of money was funnelled out of Cambodia in shady transactions over the past ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-biggest-dirty-little-trade-secret