Khmer Times
Cambodia reports sharp rise in dengue fever cases in 1st half of 2015
The number of reported dengue fever cases has risen to 2,688 dengue in the first six months of this year, up 116 percent from the 1,245 cases over the same period last year, a statement from the Health Ministry said. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13719/cambodia-reports-sharp-rise-in-dengue-fever-cases-in-1st-half-of-2015/
Cambodia's construction sector attracts 808 mln USD investment in H1
Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction had granted licenses to 915 construction projects with a total investment of 808 million U.S. dollars in the first six months of 2015, an official said Thursday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13599/cambodia-s-construction-sector-attracts-808-mln-usd-investment-in-h1/
France a better place to fight convictions: Rainsy
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Thursday that he will be more able to fight the recent imprisonment of CNRP activists from abroad, while a prominent member of the opposition said the jailings could be a sign of worse things to come before the next elections. ...
Alex Willemyns and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/france-a-better-place-to-fight-convictions-rainsy-89300/
Competition puts pressure on mortgage rates
Mortgage rates are set to continue their decline, driven by strong bank competition, say banks and home lending experts. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13633/competition-puts-pressure-on-mortgage-rates/
Police save man from angry mob
An angry mob of hundreds surrounded a police station in Takeo province for nine hours on Wednesday night and demanded that an alleged organ harvester accused of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl be handed over for summary execution, officials said Thursday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-save-man-from-angry-mob-89302/
Gov’t, civil society butt heads as LANGO goes to senate
The Senate is scheduled to vote Friday on the controversial Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO), despite a boycott by the opposition party and heated opposition from civil society. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13640/gov---t--civil-society-butt-heads-as-lango-goes-t
Release of French Pedophile sparks outrage
This month’s early release of convicted French pedophile Philipe Broaly – despite ongoing court appeals – is an insult to victims and a huge step backwards for child protection in Cambodia, multiple NGOs have warned. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13589/release-of-french-pedophile-sparks-outrage/
UN agency cuts school meal program
A school meal program run by the World Food Program (WFP) has run out of funds, forcing it to transfer about half of its schools to government care. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13587/un-agency-cuts-school-meal-program/
Education Ministry to enforce more teaching hours
The Education Ministry plans to improve the quality of education in primary schools across the country by enforcing stricter protocols for teaching hours, said Education Minister Dr. Hang Chuon Naron on Thursday. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13600/education-ministry-to-enforce-more-teaching-hours/
Researchers, CNRP battle over border maps
A research group from the Royal Academy of Cambodia will study historic maps in an effort to calmly resolve border issues between Cambodia and Vietnam. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13592/researchers--cnrp-battle-over-border-maps/
Cambodia takes regional lead with elite bomb dive squad
A quiet, unoccupied section of Victory Beach in Sihanoukville hosted a group of remarkable visitors this week as divers from the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) tested sophisticated new sonar and magnetic equipment donated by the US. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13581/cambodia-takes-regional-lead-with-elite-bomb-dive-squad/
In year since political accord, an awkward and uneasy truce
Emerging from a five-hour meeting in the Senate on this day last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy struck a pose remarkable for its warmth after a year of growing protests demanding that the long-serving premier step down. ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-year-since-political-accord-an-awkward-and-uneasy-truce-89107/
White building residents receive another safety warning
Every year since 2007, the Phnom Penh government has sent letters to residents of the iconic White Building warning that it is unsafe and urging them to move out. Every year, most of the 547 families packed into the aging apartment complex choose to stay. ...
Va Sonyka and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13550/white-building-residents-receive-another-safety-warning/
“we can’t be rich among millions of poor”
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol warned students at the elite Royal School of Administration on Tuesday: “We cannot live on a rich island in the middle of a poor ocean.” ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13548/---we-can---t-be-rich-among-millions-of-poor---/
Facebook battle over NGO law
The National Assembly may have approved the contentious Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO), but some young people are still urging the government to scrap it. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13552/facebook-battle-over-ngo-law/
Border committee visits northern border posts
Secretary of state of the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Long Visalo led a working group to a disputed area of the border with Vietnam in Tbong Khmum province yesterday, officials said. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13549/border-committee-visits-northern-border-posts/
District police chief denies raping student
A district police chief in Kompong Chhnang province was on Tuesday questioned over accusations that he raped a high-school student in his office earlier this month and threatened to kill the woman’s family if she told anyone about the assault. ...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/district-police-chief-denies-raping-high-school-student-89111/
Cambodia has big clean energy potential
Energy is a basic human need that must be fulfilled to achieve sustainable development. This kind of development is not possible without energy and policies to meet energy demand. ...
Heng Pheakdey
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13540/cambodia-has-big-clean-energy-potential/
Opposition leader threatens to play American card
Meach Sovannara, lead spokesman for the opposition, threatened to play the American card if the Municipal Court does not drop its investigation of him for his role in violent protests at Freedom Park last year. ...
Chea Takihiro and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13505/opposition-leader-threatens-to-play-american-card/
Education ministry failing students, lawmaker says
The Education Ministry is failing students by not doing enough to improve schools before graduates face tougher competition from their Asean peers, the head of the National Assembly’s education commission, Yem Ponhearith, told Khmer Times. ...
Va Sonyka and Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13506/education-ministry-failing-students--lawmaker-says/
New law aims to tame wild drivers
Every day Dr. Chhor Nareth treats injuries caused by the anarchy on Cambodia’s roads, where few drivers wear helmets, traffic lights are routinely ignored, and driving on the wrong side of the road is common. He has worked in the emergency Intensive Care Unit at ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13504/new-law-aims-to-tame-wild-drivers/
Sam Rainsy: “change is irreversible”
Two years after his return from exile in France, the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party says the changes that have occurred in Cambodia since then are dramatic, widespread, and irreversible. ...
Vincent MacIsaac
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13508/sam-rainsy-----change-is-irreversible---/
Border activists fall short of mark
Most of the more than 2,000 activists who traveled to a disputed area of the border with Vietnam in Svay Rieng province’s Kompong Ro district yesterday afternoon were not permitted to reach their ultimate goal – Border Post 203. ...
Ros Chanveasna and Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13464/border-activists-fall-short-of-mark/
Despite drought, crops will come – but at a cost
This year is no different from last year and many of the previous years for the residents of Krong Stung Sen in Kampong Thom province. Rain has been scarce, and rice growers must pay to pump water from the state-owned ditches into their rice paddies. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13457/despite-drought--crops-will-come-----but-at-a-cost/