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Minister calls for more reporting on climate change
In the lead-up to the global climate change conference in Paris later this month, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith yesterday urged the media to increase reporting on the effects of climate change in Cambodia so that citizens can be better prepared for it. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17957/minister-calls-for-more-reporting-on-climate-change/
New agreements to bolster intelligence, investment ties with Russia
Cambodia and Russia will sign a package of six agreements between the two countries, including on investment, and money laundering cooperation among political parties. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17960/new-agreements-to-bolster-intelligence--investment-ties-with-russia/
City meets with Cintri to draft new waste disposal contract
Phnom Penh municipal authorities met on Wednesday with the city’s embattled trash-collection company, Cintri, to draft a new contract, according to a statement posted to City Hall’s Facebook page. ...
Petanque star promoted in military, given $40k
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday promoted Ke Leng, who recently won her second world championship in petanque, from the rank of captain to major in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and promised her $40,000 for her victory. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/petanque-star-promoted-in-military-given-40k-100662/
More than 2,000 ducks dead after latest bird flu outbreak
More than 2,000 ducks have died from the H5N1 bird flu in Siem Reap and Battambang provinces since Thursday in the first outbreak of the virus since March 2014, according to officials and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on Tuesday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-2000-ducks-dead-after-latest-bird-flu-outbreak-100648/
After Paris attacks, Cambodian authorities strengthen security
Authorities have bolstered security across Cambodia in response to last week’s coordinated terror attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead, according to a statement posted to the National Police’s website on Tuesday. ...
Cambodia’s budget transparency dismal, survey finds
Cambodia fared dismally in the 2014 budget transparency index compiled by the US-based International Budget Partnership, scoring only eight out of 100 and coming in near the bottom of the 102 countries surveyed, at 94. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17911/cambodia---s-budget-transparency-dismal--survey-finds/
Whitening cream warnings compete with cultural desire for lighter skin
Cambodia’s Ministry of Health is warning the public to beware many skin whitening creams, which have been found to have high levels of mercury in them. Whitening is a common practice in Cambodia, for both men and women, in a culture where lighter skin is ...
Sokummono Khan
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/whitening-cream-warnings-compete-with-cultural-desire-for-lighter-skin/3061868.html
Annual US-Cambodian naval exercises begin in Sihanoukville
A U.S. naval fleet docked in Sihanoukville on Monday for the sixth annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) exercises with the Royal Cambodian Navy. ...
Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/annual-us-cambodian-naval-exercises-begin-in-sihanoukville-100510/
Cambodia poised to arrest opposition leader, violence feared
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy was stripped of his lawmaker status and parliamentary immunity Monday, paving the way for his arrest in connection with a defamation case that the opposition says is politically motivated. The prospect of Rainsy’s arrest has sparked fears of unrest in ...
The Associated Press News Staff
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ap-cambodia-poised-to-arrest-opposition-leader-violence-feared/3059829.html
Ministry requests governor response to minorities
The Interior Ministry on Friday released a letter that it sent to Mondolkiri provincial governor Eng Bunheang asking him to respond to a petition—filed last month and thumbprinted by 900 members of 17 ethnic minority Bunong communities—requesting his removal. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-requests-governor-response-to-minorities-100365/
Investment protection law with Russia set to pass senate
A new law protecting investment from Russia and Belarus will help Cambodia diversify its export markets as well as encourage more investments from Russia and Eastern Europe, Senate spokesman Mam Bun Neang said yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17761/investment-protection-law-with-russia-set-to-pass-senate/
Deportation of Chinese scammers was Cambodia’s decision: Kheng
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Wednesday dismissed rumours of ulterior motives behind the deportation of a Chinese “scammer” group. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deportation-chinese-scammers-was-cambodias-decision-kheng
Ministry denies responsibility for collapsed dirt quarry
After a wall of land separating a lake and a dirt quarry in Phnom Penh collapsed on Tuesday night, creating a fierce current that destroyed a fishing boat and left one of its crewmen missing, authorities Thursday refused to say who was overseeing the quarry ...
Ben Sokhean and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-denies-responsibility-for-collapsed-dirt-quarry-100208/
Takeo factory dispute negotiations prove fruitless
Unionists, factory representatives and Labor Ministry officials on Thursday failed to find a solution for about 1,600 employees of a garment factory in Takeo province who were fired for striking last month, and the case will be passed along to the Arbitration Council, a ministry ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/takeo-factory-dispute-negotiations-prove-fruitless-100231/
Koh Pich hosts annual kite flying competition
Hundreds of handmade kites fluttered above Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island on Thursday morning as 49 competitors converged for the 19th annual Khmer Kite Flying Festival. ...
Buth Kimsay and Olivia Harlow
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/koh-pich-hosts-annual-kite-flying-competition-100227/
Cheap helmets make new safety rules futile
Pon Lichantha was heading home from a market in Kompong Speu province with her mother and father when the rear tire of the Honda Dream they were riding on exploded, sending the family flying off the motorbike and onto the road. ...
Meghan Tribe and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cheap-helmets-make-new-safety-rules-futile-100055/
Minister orders governors to end illegal construction
Minister of Urban Planning and Construction Im Chhun Lim ordered all governors to check construction sites in their provinces to ensure that none are encroaching on public land, and to take action against those that do. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17744/minister-orders-governors-to-end-illegal-construction/
Registered vehicles increase by 18%
Officials registered 326,620 vehicles for the first ten months of 2015, reflecting an increase of about 18 percent for the same period last year, according to State News Agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/registered-vehicles-increase-by-18-9066
Cambodia performs poorly on index for energy sustainability
Cambodia continues to struggle to adopt a balanced approach to its energy needs, according to a report released by the World Energy Council (WEC) today. ...
Anthony Jensen and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-performs-poorly-on-index-for-energy-sustainability-99923/
Officials firm on deadline for sim card registration
The deadline for the country’s five mobile operators to ensure all their subscribers are registered by National ID cards or other legal documents is December 22, officials said yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17633/officials-firm-on-deadline-for-sim-card-registration/
Minister vows justice for slain forest rangers
Minister of Environment Say Samal yesterday vowed that those responsible for the murder of two forest rangers shot dead while patrolling a protected forest near Preah Vihear temple Saturday morning will be brought to justice. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17610/minister-vows-justice-for-slain-forest-rangers/
Law on animal health at the finish line
A draft law seven years in the making to regulate and standardize the Kingdom’s animal health regulations is on the verge of reaching parliament after getting approval from the Council of Ministers on Friday. ...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17607/law-on-animal-health-at-the-finish-line/
Vehicle registration revving up
The number of registered vehicles surged this year due to rapid economic expansion and rising incomes this year, according to Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Min Meanvy. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17596/vehicle-registration-revving-up/