Cambodia hopes to turn Russian debt into investment
Prime Minister Hun Sen discussed the outstanding debt Cambodia owed to Russia on Wednesday, with the prime minister urging the debt be turned into investment and development in the country. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23197/cambodia-hopes-to-turn-russian-debt-into-investment/
Oodles of bad noodles poison three in Siem Reap
Three cousins between the ages of one and eight years old were hospitalized on Sunday after eating expired packaged noodles in Siem Reap’s Chi Kreng district, according to police. ...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23580/oodles-of-bad-noodles-poison-three-in-siem-reap/
UXO Stockpile found in KR bunker
More than 200 mines, rockets and rounds of ammunition were found in Preah Vihear’s Sangkom Thmei district on Wednesday about 150 meters from the Prasat Damrei temple, officials said. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27826/uxo-stockpile-found-in-kr-bunker/
Kampot cements its place in construction industry
Work started yesterday on Cambodia’s largest and most modern cement plant, which will be built in Kampot province with an investment of $262 million by Chip Mong Insee Cement. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23017/kampot-cements-its-place-in-construction-industry/
Dam protesters to meet with officials
Residents from six villages in Oddar Meanchey’s Chong Kal district can now get some respite from the construction of a hydropower dam they claimed was encroaching on their land. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25574/dam-protesters-to-meet-with-officials/
Big catch in fisheries crackdown
Nearly 200 crimes related to fishing were reported by the Kampong Chhnang fisheries administration last month, according to administrator Som Phearun, whose remarks were published on the National Police website. ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27064/big-catch-in-fisheries-crackdown/
Southeast Asian countries to share efforts to promote tourism
Tourism officials from four Southeast Asian countries met in Yangon on Saturday to discuss ways of working together to promote tourism in the Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) region. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/southeast-asian-countries-share-efforts-promote-tourism
Rattanakiri court to hear logging case
The Rattanakiri provincial court will hear a case against provincial officials brought by rights group Adhoc on Wednesday, which accuses them of failing to prevent illegal logging in Lumphat district. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28335/rattanakiri-court-to-hear-logging-case/
Troops mobilized to ‘disperse’ farmers clearing state forest
The governor of Kompong Speu on Tuesday ordered 10 armed soldiers to help a team of environmental officials confront a group of “anarchic” farmers clearing state forestland in the province. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troops-mobilized-disperse-farmers-clearing-state-forest-117983/
Thai princess to visit kingdom
Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will visit Cambodia next month to boost bilateral education ties between the kingdoms, a topic she has worked on since her first visit in 1992. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-princess-visit-kingdom
Social media users in a flap as hundreds of bats die
Hundreds of dead bats were found inside Siem Reap’s Phnom Bouk temple in Banteay Srey district after district police and environmental officers were notified by local residents on Tuesday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24097/social-media-users-in-a-flap-as-hundreds-of-bats-die/
Gov’t health workers underpaid: study
Cambodia’s public health workers are underpaid and poorly trained, with a whopping 98 per cent relying on a second job to supplement their income, according to a recent report. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-health-workers-underpaid-study
Police nab timber warehouse boss
The manager of an illegal timber warehouse owned by Lieutenant General Chheng Long was arrested in Kampong Speu on Wednesday, although Long and his son-in-law remain at large. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-nab-timber-warehouse-boss
Garment exports surge up EU list
Cambodia’s garment manufacturing industry has eclipsed rival Vietnam as a supplier of products to the European Union and is on course to overtake India, a visiting industry insider said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-exports-surge-eu-list
White Building demolition begins as holdouts move out
Two excavators turned bricks to rubble with ease on Monday as walls jutting out from the ground floor of Phnom Penh’s dilapidated White Building slowly tumbled to the ground. ...
Janelle Retka and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/white-building-demolition-begins-as-holdouts-move-out-132612/
Authorities seize hundreds of animals
A raid on Monday of a woman’s house in Prey Veng province turned up hundreds of animals, dead and alive, set to be sold in the illegal wildlife trade. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079229/authorities-seize-hundreds-animals/
Environment ministry targets set
The Environment Minister instructed his staff to cooperate with relevant ministries and institutions to improve management in the sector at the closing of the ministry’s annual meeting on Monday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095895/environment-ministry-targets-set/
Agreement with Laos to import electricity
Electricite du Cambodge has signed an agreement with Laos to import 115 kilowatts of electricity from Laos to Preah Vihear province, and on to Kampong Thom and Oddar Meanchey provinces. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097268/agreement-laos-import-electricity/
Officials deny timber sent to Vietnam via Sesan
Ratanakkiri Military Police officials yesterday denied multiple local media reports that thousands of logs of luxury timber were being transported on the Sesan River to be sent to Vietnam illegally. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-deny-timber-sent-vietnam-sesan
Cheap water deal
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday urged the state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority to buyout infrastructure owned by private companies providing water to the outskirts of the capital. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37320/cheap-water-deal/