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Nauru refugees settle into new neighborhood
In a sprawling villa down a quiet dirt road in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district, four refugees have reached what not so long ago would have seemed like a inconceivable end destination. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Holly Robertson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nauru-refugees-settle-into-new-neighborhood-85106/
Drug smuggling suspects questioned at court
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday began questioning members of a suspected drug smuggling ring who are accused of trafficking crystal methamphetamine into the country from Laos, according to a police official. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-smuggling-suspects-questioned-at-court-79561/
Police arrest four smuggling crystal meth from Laos
Police arrested four men in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district on Sunday on suspicion of smuggling drugs from Laos, confiscating more than half a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine in the bust, officials said Monday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-four-smuggling-crystal-meth-from-laos-79356/
Kandal property bought up before bridge announcement
Property investors with inside information may have bought up land across the Mekong River in Kandal province before the announcement of new bridges, a real estate agent claims. Land in areas like Akrei Khsatr commune in Kandal’s Lvea Em district is set to become more valuable ...
Siv Meng and Vandy Muong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/kandal-property-bought-bridge-announcement
New Mekong bridges slated for Phnom Penh
The Council of Ministers this week announced two new spans across the Mekong River in the vicinity of the capital, one connecting the Chroy Changvar peninsula to Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district and another connecting Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district with Kandal’s Lvea Em. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-mekong-bridges-slated-phnom-penh
New districts signed into being by PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen approved the creation of three new districts for Phnom Penh on Wednesday. Four existing districts are being divided to create the new areas, dubbed Chbar Ampov, Prek Pnov and Chroy Changva. Phnom Penh City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche told the Post last ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-districts-signed-being-pm