Battambang

Thailand deports migrants

More than 100 Cambodians were deported from Thailand yesterday after Thai security forces conducted operations over the weekend aimed at stemming the flow of illegal immigrants. Net Sary, Cambodia’s consul-general in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province, said yesterday that 120 Cambodians, including four minors, were deported after ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thailand-deports-migrants

Battambang, tourism, UNESCO officials talk World Heritage plans

UNESCO, the Battambang provicial government and tourism officials held talks yesterday on plans to list the province on the UN arm’s World Heritage Cities Program. As part of the first of several conferences on sustainable tourism for the conservation of cultural and natural heritage and the ...

Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/battambang-tourism-unesco-officials-talk-world-heritage-plans

Battambang Rice Investment gets international certification

Battambang Rice Investment Co Ltd says it has been certified as the first rice mill in Cambodia with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP). In a statement, the company said it received confirmation of GMP and HACCP certification in a ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YjA4ZDZhYTFmOTJ

Gates couple makes visit to Cambodia

The world’s wealthiest person, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, made a brief appearance in the border town of Pailin on Saturday, where their foundation funds projects to combat drug-resistant malaria. According to staff at the Memoria Palace & Resort, the philanthropists met with health ministry ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gates-couple-makes-visit-cambodia

UXO injuries, deaths on the rise

Forty people were injured or killed by landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the first two months of 2014, a figure nearly twice as high as that recorded in the same period last year, a recent report from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre shows. In ...

Maria Wirth
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uxo-injuries-deaths-rise

Landmine casualties in Cambodia up 90 pct in first two months

Casualties from landmines and unexploded ordnance have remarkably increased in the first two months of this year, a report of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority showed Tuesday. The country reported 40 casualties, 6 people died and 34 injured, during the January-February period this ...

Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/854674.shtml#.U09J9_mSx8E

Rail evictees threaten protests against ADB

Families evicted for a rail project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) threatened to demonstrate if the bank does not show them its plan to improve their living conditions within one week. About 1,000 families who built homes over the country’s long-neglected train tracks were ...

Zsombor Peter and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rail-evictees-threaten-protests-against-adb-56290/

Two Killed, 73 Houses Destroyed by Lightning in Northwest

Officials said two people were killed on Tuesday by separate lightning strikes in Pailin and Kompong Cham provinces as the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a warning about seasonal storms spreading across the country. Searing temperatures and the approach of wet season ignited the ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-killed-73-houses-destroyed-by-lightning-in-northwest-55648/

Battambang moves to establish first Pub Street

To attract tourism and make Battambang province more appealing as a nightlife destination, provincial authorities are preparing to follow the way of Siem Reap and lay the groundwork for a Pub Street ahead of the Khmer New Year. The deputy governor of Battambang, Ngon Ratthanak, says ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/battambang-moves-establish-first-pub-street

Two killed in separate UXO blasts

A 12-year-old boy and a 37-year-old farmer lost their lives over the weekend in UXO explosions in Battambang and Pailin provinces. ...

Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-killed-separate-uxo-blasts

Two killed in mine, mortar shell blasts in Battambang, Pailin

A man and a teenage boy were killed by an anti-tank mine and a mortar shell in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday, according to police. In Battambang province, Chea Toum, 37, was seriously injured when the tractor he was walking behind set off a buried ...

Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-killed-in-mine-mortar-shell-blasts-in-battambang-pailin-55263/

Cambodian shot, killed in Thailand

A Cambodian national was fatally shot near the Thailand-Cambodia border on Wednesday in the latest of a string of deadly incidents along the border this month, officials said yesterday. Theng Sokla, 27, a native of Pailin province’s Sala Krao district, was hunting for animals on a ...

Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-shot-killed-thailand

Improved economic conditions boost land prices in Battambang city, province

Battambang land prices have increased this year, according to a local real estate firm. Sorn Seap, general manager of Key Real Estate, said land prices in Battambang city, capital of the province of the same name, have increased by around 12 per cent this year compared ...

Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/improved-economic-conditions-boost-land-prices-battambang-city-province

Clean water keeping kids in school: report

Keeping students in school may not be as straightforward as providing them with clean water, but a filtered drinking supply makes them less likely to take sick days, research published on Friday shows. The study, conducted by a UK-based medical school, compared drinking water access in ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clean-water-keeping-kids-school-report

Latrine numbers up

The number of Cambodian rural households with access to latrines increased from 23 to 33 per cent in 2013, a Ministry of Rural Development report released yesterday says. Chreay Pom, director of the ministry’s rural health care department, said that last year, the ministry constructed about ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/latrine-numbers

Hun Sen Says More Die on Roads Than in War

Road traffic accidents are killing more Cambodians per year than those who died annually as a result of war during their country’s more than two decades of armed conflict, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday. Speaking in Battambang province’s Bavel district at the inauguration of the ...

Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-more-die-on-roads-than-in-war-53853/

Cambodia inaugurates China-funded road in northwestern province

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday inaugurated the China-funded road No. 57B in northwestern Battambang province, saying that the road will contribute to developing economy and reducing poverty. The inauguration ceremony, held in the province’s Bovel district, was attended by Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu ...

Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/847335.shtml#.Ux-25MrsQf1

Exploding bullet kills two children

Two children were killed by the explosion of an unfired rifle shell in a rice field in Battambang province on Friday afternoon, a district police officer said. Captain Phong Sarin, district deputy police chief, said that Roeun Rith, 7, and Mann Marin, 7, “saw an unexploded ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/exploding-bullet-kills-two-children

Worse off than before

In May of 2010, just four days after their family was resettled in Battambang province, two children, accompanied by their sister-in-law, walked to a pond. Stories differ as to why they were there. Rights groups say they went to bathe and collect water. Police claim ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/worse

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