The Cambodia Daily

Authorities clear furniture from Sihanoukville beach—again

Outdoor tables and chairs belonging to bars and restaurants on Sihanoukville’s Serendipity Beach were removed by local authorities on Tuesday as part of a campaign to beautify the city’s beaches by ridding them of illegal commercial activity, an official said on Wednesday. ...

Peter Ford and Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-clear-furniture-from-sihanoukville-beach-again-111301/

Police officer sued over alleged threat to shoot journalist

A journalist in Pailin province yesterday filed a lawsuit against a local police officer for allegedly threatening to kill him if he published a story about a drunken shooting spree the officer went on last week. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-officer-sued-over-alleged-threat-111209/

Court charges five over massive market fire

The Stung Treng Provincial Court on Monday charged a goldsmith, three security guards and the manager of a market in Stung Treng City for negligence that contributed to the outbreak of a fire that gutted the market on Thursday, causing an estimated $1 million in ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-charges-five-over-massive-market-fire-111214/

Garments to keep economy strong through China slowdown

The World Bank on Monday said it still predicted strong growth from the Cambodian economy—led by garment exports—and only a moderate cooling over the next few years despite a “faster than expected” slowdown in China, Cambodia’s biggest foreign investor.   ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garments-to-keep-economy-strong-through-china-slowdown-111225/

Iodine levels dangerously low in moms, children

More than 60 percent of mothers and young children in Cambodia are suffering from dangerously low levels of iodine in what a new study describes as a “serious public health problem.”   ...

Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/iodine-levels-dangerously-low-in-moms-children-111218/

Government mulls online driver’s license registration

Less than a week after taking over the Transport Ministry, Sun Chanthol has established a committee to move more services online, including the process for applying for driver’s licenses, officials said on Monday.   ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-mulls-online-drivers-license-registration-111222/

Hun Manet sued in US for torture, terrorism

Imprisoned CNRP official Meach Sovannara has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, and the Cambodian government, accusing them of “terrorism” and “torture through arbitrary, extra-legal, and long-term detention.” ...

Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manet-sued-in-us-for-torture-terrorism-111204/

Mekong dams not cause of drought, prime minister says

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday disputed the idea that water shortages along the Mekong River have been exacerbated by two massive hydropower dams being developed by Laos, saying the drought currently afflicting much of mainland Southeast Asia was caused only by “the sky.”   ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-dams-not-cause-of-drought-pm-says-111220/

In blow for immunity, lawmaker arrested

Demolishing the constitutional protection forbidding the arrest of lawmakers without National Assembly consent, police apprehended opposition lawmaker Um Sam An early Monday morning in Siem Reap City over his advocacy against Vietnamese border intrusions. ...

Aun Pheap and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-blow-for-immunity-lawmaker-arrested-111206/

Beachfront evictions begin in Sihanoukville

Authorities in Sihanoukville followed through with their long-threatened eviction of vendors from the end of the popular O’Chheuteal beach on Saturday afternoon, demolishing nearly 100 structures along the 2 km strip known locally as Ariston.   ...

Peter Ford and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/beachfront-evictions-begin-in-sihanoukville-111101/

After 14 years, passenger train service to the coast restarts

For most people who boarded the passenger train from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville on Saturday morning—the maiden ride since the service was suspended more than a decade ago—it was something of a new thrill.   ...

Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-14-years-passenger-train-service-to-the-coast-restarts-111121/

Government says Kep water safe; tourists pour back in

After issuing a public health warning earlier this month for Kep province due to an algal bloom in the coastal water, the government on Friday lifted its precautionary ban on swimming, fishing and eating seafood in the province, according to a statement.   ...

Kang Sothear and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-says-kep-water-safe-tourists-pour-back-in-111115/

City Hall spokesman named new ambassador to South Korea

Long Dimanche, the spokesman for Phnom Penh City Hall and son of a secretary of state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry, has been appointed to replace Suth Dina, the disgraced former ambassador to South Korea. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-spokesman-named-new-ambassador-to-south-korea-111113/

More Boeng Kak families accept land swap

Twenty-one more families facing eviction from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood have accepted new plots of land in exchange for moving, further whittling down the number of families still holding out for better deals.    ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-boeng-kak-families-accept-land-swap-111119/

Fire guts market in Stung Treng city, causing $1M in damage

More than 1,000 stalls and shops were destroyed in an over­night fire at a market in Stung Treng City, causing about $1 million in property damage, local police said on Friday. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111063-111063/

Border troops on standby after threat from Laos

Cambodian soldiers in Stung Treng province have been placed on standby following threats of violence by Laotian authorities due to a dispute over Laos’ attempt to construct a military base near a stretch of undemarcated border, a spokes­man for the provincial government said on Friday. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/border-troops-on-standby-after-threat-from-laos-111057/

New mapping app seeks to relay urban woes to city hall

A new mobile phone application launched yesterday aims to collect data on flooding, blackouts, traffic jams and other problems that plague Phnom Penh, then map its findings for use by citizens and City Hall.   ...

Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111069-111069/

Probe into justice minister possible, ACU chief says

The Anti-Corruption Unit has not yet opened an investigation into Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana’s secretive offshore holdings, but the unit’s chairman said on Thursday that a future probe could not be ruled out. ...

Ben Sokhean and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/probe-into-justice-minister-possible-acu-chief-says-110998/

Kantha Bopha nets $6.5M in royal villa sale

The Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals have sold a royal residence in Koh Kong province to the government for about $6.5 million after it was donated to them in October by the king and queen mother.   ...

Khy Sovuthy and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kantha-bopha-nets-millions-111015/

Ambassador charged, jailed for vast corruption

Suth Dina, who rose through the ranks of the Foreign Ministry to become Cambodia’s top diplomat in South Korea in 2014, continued his fall from grace on Thursday as he was imprisoned on charges of corruption and abuse of power, according to his lawyer and ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ambassador-charged-jailed-for-vast-corruption-111000/

New protected forests test overstretched ministry

The nearly 1 million hectares of newly protected forests the Environment Ministry wants to create by the end of the year will add nearly a third more land to the portfolio of an agency already struggling to manage the 3.2 million hectares it has. And ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111001-111001/

Deported Spanish activist gets tourist visa; return uncertain

Environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, who was deported in February last year, has been granted a one-month tourist visa through the Foreign Ministry’s online “e-visa” service, but an immigration official said yesterday that it was unlikely he would be allowed to use it. ...

Alex Willemyns and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/deported-spanish-activist-gets-tourist-visa-return-uncertain-111008/

‘Very slow’ ministers move out

The two ministers who were publicly scolded for their “very slow” work by Prime Minister Hun Sen in February both gave up control to their successors at a pair of handover ceremonies in Phnom Penh on Wednesday as part of a cabinet reshuffle approved by ...

Aun Pheap and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/very-slow-ministers-move-out-110957/

Tigers to be reintroduced to Cambodia in 2019

Eight tigers will be released into the Cambodian wild in an unprecedented plan projected to cost between $20 and $50 million, the Ministry of Agriculture and WWF-Cambodia announced at an event in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.   ...

Kang Sothear and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tigers-to-be-reintroduced-to-cambodia-in-2019-110954/

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