Two power plants get ministers council OK
The Cambodian government on Friday approved two power plant projects worth more than $1.3 billion in total in what authorities said was an effort to reduce the Kingdom’s dependence on imports. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/two-power-plants-get-ministers-council-ok
Preah Vihear’s teachers barred from tutoring
Teachers in Preah Vihear province and the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association (Cita) have denounced a letter issued on Tuesday by the provincial education department banning teachers from tutoring on Sundays and public holidays. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihears-teachers-barred-tutoring
Fisherman killed by electrified rat trap
Police in Kandal province on Tuesday arrested the owner of an electrified rat trap that killed a fisherman in a flooded rice field behind the suspect’s home on Monday night, an official said. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fisherman-killed-by-electrified-rat-trap-103174/
Minister wants malaria eliminated by 2025
In recognition of this year’s World Malaria Day on Monday this week, the Health Minister reconfirmed Cambodia’s commitment to eliminate the disease by 2025 during a speech in Pailin on Monday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24322/minister-wants-malaria-eliminated-by-2025/
Backup M’kiri bridge ready after Monday collapse
Authorities in Mondolkiri province on Wednesday finished installing an emergency bridge over the O’Phly river near the site of the existing bridge, which was damaged by an overloaded truck on Monday night. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/backup-mkiri-bridge-ready-after-monday-collapse-103759/
Water birds make comeback in Battambang
Water bird numbers are making a big comeback in the Prek Toal conservation area on the Tonle Sap lake in Battambang province, the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a report released on Saturday. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-birds-make-comeback-battambang
Boy killed after UXO he was playing with explodes
A 12-year-old boy was killed when a piece of an 80-mm mortar shell he was playing with exploded on Saturday in Battambang province, police said on Sunday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boy-killed-after-uxo-he-was-playing-with-explodes-108806/
Unlicensed medic arrested over patient’s death
An unlicensed medic was arrested in Tbong Khmum province on Monday after administering three injections to a patient who then died en route to a nearby clinic, a police official said on Tuesday. ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unlicensed-medic-charged-with-manslaughter-in-patients-death-113755/
Border police official arrested over fatal shooting in Vietnam
A police official from Takeo province was arrested in Vietnam on Saturday night after fatally shooting one man and injuring a second at a restaurant just across the border, officials said on Sunday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/border-police-official-arrested-over-fatal-shooting-in-vietnam-115562/
Unexploded ordinances destroyed in Preah Vihear
Villagers in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district who found a haul of unexploded ordinances on their farmland on Monday have handed it over to provincial authorities. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085588/unexploded-ordinances-destroyed-preah-vihear/
Four deny charges in violent Koh Rong robbery
Four Cambodian men were charged by the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Tuesday over the brutal beating and robbery of two expatriates on the holiday island of Koh Rong last week, a court official said. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-deny-charges-in-violent-koh-rong-robbery-80655/
Cambodian officials, CEOs discuss country's economic future
Around 300 Cambodian government officials, business leaders, economists and researchers met in an international investment conference here on Monday to exchange views on the prospect of Cambodia’s economic development. ...
Xinuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-10/06/c_133695677.htm
Municipal Court questions arrested union head
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday began questioning union leader Seang Rithy, who was arrested outside a garment factory in Pur Senchey district on Tuesday while leading what police said was an illegal strike. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/municipal-court-questions-arrested-union-head-77411/
After deportation, opposition wants Vietnamese out
After the government deported Spanish environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson on Monday, the opposition CNRP has called on the Interior Ministry to turn its attention to thousands of Vietnamese immigrants living in the country illegally. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-deportation-opposition-wants-vietnamese-out-78762/
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/
Sesan Dam Decision Questioned
Cambodia has decided to go ahead with the construction of a dam on a Mekong tributary, but conservation groups are concerned that not enough study has been done on the hydropower project’s environmental consequences. Construction on the 400 megawatt Lower Sesan 2 dam in northwestern Cambodia’s ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/sesan-11142012170421.html
China's Taiwan opens 2nd bank in Cambodia
Taiwan Cooperative Bank, one of the leading banks in China’s Taiwan, officially commenced business in capital Phnom Penh on Thursday, bringing the number of commercial banks in the kingdom to 33. Taiwan Cooperative Bank is the 2nd bank from China’s Taiwan in Cambodia after the Mega ...
PM announces oil-food equation hurting poor
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blamed soaring food prices on fuel prices set by oil cartels like OPEC, appealing to oil-producing countries to pay attention to the connection between food security and energy. Cambodia imports 100 per cent of its oil, and the majority of agriculture ...
Record Bad Medicine Haul
Police seized more than two tonnes of dangerous counterfeit medication on Saturday and arrested a Phnom Penh pharmacy owner in a sting officials say has netted the largest-ever haul of illegal medication in Cambodia. After nine days of surveillance, the Ministry of Interior’s Economic Police unit swooped ...
Dams slash Mekong fish stocks
More than 70 Vietnamese and international scientists and other experts and officials from ministries and international organisations discussed ongoing research into the impact of dams on the mainstream of the Mekong River at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on 4 December. At the conference ...