Battambang

Cambodia village reports mass HIV/AIDS infection, likely by contaminated needles

Cambodian health authorities on Tuesday said more than 80 people – including children and the elderly – who tested positive for HIV/AIDS in a single remote village may have been infected by contaminated needles. ...

The Straits Times News Staff
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/cambodia-village-reports-mass-hivaids-infection-likely-contaminated-

Cambodia investigates village's high HIV rate

Cambodian health officials are investigating an alarmingly high rate of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in a remote village. At least 82 people have tested positive for HIV in Rokar, Battambang province, which has a population of 2,000 people. Officials said they suspected a ...

Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-investigates-high-hiv-rate-remote-village/2561848.html

82 get HIV in remote Khmer village

Cambodian health authorities on Tuesday said more than 80 people – including children and the elderly – who tested positive for HIV/AIDS in a single remote village may have been infected by contaminated needles. Hundreds of panicked residents of the village in Battambang province in the ...

Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/450227/82-infected-with-hiv-aids-in-one-remote-cambodian-village

Cambodia farms at risk

Cambodian farmers are at high risk of being affected by climate change due to low levels of awareness, education and adaptation, with women particularly vulnerable, a study released yesterday says. The study, which surveyed farmers in the provinces of Battambang, Kampong Thom, Takeo and Prey Veng, ...

Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-farms-risk

Thailand seen as growing source of counterfeit dollars in Southeast Asia

He may be just the police chief of Battambang, a languid riverside town in western Cambodia, but, recently, people have taken to calling Brig Gen Sar Theth the $7 million man. On Sept. 19, Brig Gen Theth’s officers tracked three Thai men in a pickup truck ...

Prak Chan Thul, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Amy Sawitta Lefevre
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crime/437384/record-bust-in-cambodia-highlights-boom-in-us-dollar-counterfeiting-in-thailand

ADB, Japan assist grassroots push to reduce disaster impacts in Cambodia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Japan are supporting a grassroots project to manage risks and reduce impacts from floods and other natural disasters in vulnerable communities in Cambodia. The Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction project, financed by a $2.5 million grant from the ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/adb-japan-assist-grassroots-push-to-reduce-disaster-impacts-in-cambodia-7452

Commune chief leads protest against Adhoc

A CPP commune chief in Battambang province led more than 150 villagers in a demonstration on Friday outside the local office of rights group Adhoc after a representative of the organization accused the official of corruption for allegedly selling plots of public land to local ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commune-chief-leads-protest-against-adhoc-68562/

CPP lawmaker tells governor to solve feud

Ruling party lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday called for the governor of Battambang province to intervene in a long-running land dispute between 38 villagers and wealthy tycoon Lem Tealeng. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-lawmaker-tells-governor-solve-feud

Cambodian police bust Thais with $7M in fake bills

Three Thai men arrested in Cambodia for allegedly carrying counterfeit U.S. $100 bills with a face value of more than $7 million planned to circulate the fakes in rural areas where they would be less likely to be detected, police said Saturday. The men were arrested ...

The Washington Post News Staff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cambodian-police-bust-thais-with-7m-in-fake-bills/2014/09/19/80bcac08-4060-11e4-a430-b82a3e67b762_story.html

Malaysia's Wah Seong in 10-year power deal with Cambodia

Wah Seong Corporation Bhd’s subsidiary will be selling 48,000 MW of power per annum over 10 years to Cambodia’s power company. Wah Seong said on Friday its subsidiary PMTI Energy (Cambodia) Co Ltd had signed a power purchase deal with the Electricité Du Cambodge to sell ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZTNmM2VkMTNmMDI

Telecom regulator warns fee dodgers

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) has issued a warning to 15 companies that offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services for allegedly failing to pay their annual fees. In a statement published on a local media website on August 22, the TRC demanded the companies ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-regulator-warns-fee-dodgers

School lacks basic supplies

The facilities at O’Chrey Primary School in Battambang province are allegedly so basic that it’s difficult to conceive of it as an actual school. The 219 grade one to four students get their lessons crowded in a wall-less storage hut at the edge of a cornfield, ...

Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/school-lacks-basic-supplies

Battambang families to petition Prime Minister

A group of families involved in a land dispute with a businessman in Battambang province will today submit petitions to the National Assembly and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet to plead for intervention. The more than 300 families, from Bavel district’s Boeng Bram commune, maintain that ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/battambang-families-to-petition-prime-minister-67156/

ADB to support $118m rural road project in Cambodia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide nine poor rural provinces in Cambodia with year-round access to markets and social services through a 118 million U.S. dollars project to provide a safer, cost-effective rural road network, the bank said in a press statement on Monday. ...

Daily Times News Staff
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/business/12-Aug-2014/adb-to-support-118m-rural-road-project-in-cambodia

Police chief questioned about smuggling rosewood

A provincial police officer appeared for questioning at the Pailin Provincial Court on Tuesday after military police, led by a local wildlife NGO founded by U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, caught him transporting more than 177 kg of illegally logged rosewood on Sunday. Sor Phalla was arrested ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-chief-questioned-after-caught-smuggling-rosewood-65801/

Heavy falls may mean improved rice harvest

Rainfall over the weekend, which caused flooding in 13 provinces, could improve crop yields for rice growers, provincial authorities say. Agricultural departments in Preah Vihear, Stung Treng, Kampong Thom and Battambang provinces – some of the worst hit on the weekend – all said water was ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/heavy-falls-may-mean-improved-rice-harvest

Illicit fishballs to be destroyed after seizure

Economic crimes police on Wednesday arrested a woman and seized 3 tons of low-quality fishballs, claiming she had illegally imported the potentially dangerous meat. Kandal province resident Chan Thea, 37, was stopped in Phnom Penh while en route to Battambang—where police believe she was planning to ...

Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illicit-fishballs-to-be-destroyed-after-seizure-64808/

Battambang fire causes over $1m in damage

A fire that ripped through a market in Battambang province’s Phnom Proek district late on Monday night caused somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in damages, according to local officials. The fire, which reportedly started at about 11:30 p.m. and destroyed 244 stalls, was believed to have ...

Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/battambang-fire-causes-over-1m-in-damage-64725/

Remittances dip on exodus

Two of Cambodia’s largest financial service providers have reported declines in transactions stemming from key Thai border provinces as thousands of undocumented migrant workers continue to exit the neighbouring country. Third-party payments and remittance service Wing has seen a 3 per cent decline in the amount ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/remittances-dip-exodus

Villagers demand dam open its sluice gate

More than 100 villagers in Battambang province’s Sangke district whose rice crops are threatened by drought protested twice last week, calling on local authorities to force the Chinese company building an irrigation dam in the area to open the sluice gate to flood the parched ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-demand-dam-open-its-sluice-gate-63941/

Migrants told to get permits

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday called on all undocumented Cambodians in Thailand to register for a legal work permit at one of that country’s newly opened one-stop service centres. Thailand’s junta began piloting the latest temporary registration centres at the end of June and ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-told-get-permits

Explosion injures one

An anti-tank mine exploded in Battambang province’s Bavel district on Saturday, injuring an agricultural worker and damaging machinery, an official said, marking the latest in an upswing of explosions this year. The victim, identified only as Sok, 46, of Bavel’s Kdol Tahen commune, and was hired ...

Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/explosion-injures-one

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