Four children injured by UXO blast near school
Four children were injured, two of them seriously, after playing with unexploded ordnance (UXO) near their school in Siem Reap province’s Chi Kreng district on Tuesday, police said Thursday. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-children-injured-by-uxo-blast-near-school-80835/
Plan to negotiate ends Siem Reap airport strike
Workers at Siem Reap International Airport have ended an 11-day strike after agreeing with the company on a plan to negotiate over their grievances, a union rep said yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/plan-negotiate-ends-siem-reap-airport-strike
Chan Soveth, human rights defender, dies at 51
Chan Soveth, a longtime human rights defender, died of a heart attack on Wednesday. Colleagues say he was returning from celebrations to mark International Human Rights Day. He was 51. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/chan-soveth-human-rights-defender-dies-at-51/2553620.html
Cambodian garment makers, ILO sign deal to abolish child labour
The International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) signed an agreement on Thursday to jointly eliminate child labour in the garment industry. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141218/cambodian-garment-makers-ilo-sign-deal-abolish-child-labour
Union Development Group re-opens road
A Chinese-owned company embroiled in a land dispute with villagers in Koh Kong province agreed yesterday to reopen a road that it had blocked on Wednesday, sparking violent clashes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-development-group-re-opens-road
Terror sentences upheld
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the eight-year prison sentences of three foreign men convicted in 2011 on tenuous evidence of threatening to bomb the US, UK and Australian embassies. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/terror-sentences-upheld
Dam critic questioned over illegal logging
The Koh Kong Provincial Court on Friday questioned an Areng Valley villager opposed to a government-backed hydropower dam over allegations of illegal logging but has yet to lay charges. ...
Sek Odom and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dam-critic-questioned-over-illegal-logging-81453/
Bayon airlines launches flights to Sihanoukville
Cambodia Bayon Airlines made its inaugural flight to Sihanoukville on Sunday, more than three months after the Chinese airline opened a daily route between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap City. ...
Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/bayon-airlines-launches-flights-to-sihanoukville-81984/
Policeman allegedly running illegal mine
A Ratanakkiri provincial police officer was yesterday questioned over his alleged ownership of an illegal gold mine in Lumphat district, which was forced to close on Wednesday by the authorities. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/policeman-allegedly-running-illegal-mine
Parties meet over commune election law
Officials from the CPP and CNRP met Tuesday at the National Assembly to discuss making changes to the Law on Commune Council Elections before the next poll in February 2017. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parties-meet-over-commune-election-law-87000/
Kem Sokha warns against putting trust in leaders
CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha has called on the public to become more actively involved in politics to prevent political leaders from growing too self-important and abandoning their causes. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-warns-against-putting-trust-in-leaders-88556/
Illegal fishermen busted
Authorities in Koh Kong province arrested 26 Vietnamese nationals on Tuesday after they found the group illegally living and fishing off of King Island in Kiri Sakor district. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-fishermen-busted
Exact time of the Cambodian maps’ arrival was released
The royal government of Cambodia said the originals of Cambodian maps borrowed from the UN will arrived here on Aug. 18, at 22:12. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/exact-time-of-the-cambodian-maps%E2%80%99-arrival-was-released-8833
Cambodia returns all 83 plastic waste-filled containers to countries of origin
Cambodia has returned all 83 plastic waste-filled containers to their countries of origin, the country’s General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) said in a statement on Tuesday. ...
Mu Xuequan
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/18/c_138399358.htm
Socfin Cambodia announces success of 2018 CSR initiatives
Socfin Cambodia, a leader in the development and management of rubber plantations in the Kingdom, announced its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) accomplishments in a press release issued on Monday. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/socfin-cambodia-announces-success-2018-csr-initiatives
Transport Minister denies Japan aid cut
Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said on Sunday that the Japanese government will not cut infrastructure financing following international criticism and calls made by former opposition members to end funding. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50514899/transport-minister-denies-japan-aid-cut/
Vans busted carrying illicit timber, furniture
Environmental officials at Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary stopped five vans and trucks transporting timber and wooden furniture in Thmey commune, Kulen district, Preah Vihear province on Tuesday and Wednesday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vans-busted-carrying-illicit-timber-furniture
Ministry of Commerce to hold a meeting with gasoline companies next month
The Cambodian government will hold a meeting with gasoline companies on October 1st aiming to ask those companies to reduce the price of gasoline. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/ministry-of-commerce-to-hold-a-meeting-with-gasoline-companies%E2%80%8B-next-month-8987
Cambodia sends 2nd batch of peacekeepers to war-torn Central African Republic
Cambodia sent the second batch of 216 troops to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Monday, officials said. ...
Xinhua News Agency Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6679674/2015/11/01/cambodia-sends-2nd-batch-peacekeepers-war-torn-central-african-republic
Communities in Daun Penh to receive land titles
Temporary residents on state-owned plots in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district will receive land titles, according to an official letter from the Council of Ministers released Friday. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21416/communities-in-daun-penh-to-receive-land-titles/