Meeting puts temple villagers in spotlight
Restoration of the Angkor temples won’t be the only thing talked about at a meeting in Siem Reap today – the living conditions of more than 100,000 villagers residing at the heritage site is also on the agenda. “The villagers should live harmoniously with the temples,” ...
Canada eyes close ties with Cambodia, ASEAN
Canada is willing to build close ties with Cambodia and other ASEAN member states in politics, trade and investment, said Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird on Wednesday. John said that Canada’s International Trade Minister Ed Fast will make a visit to Cambodia next month to ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-07/11/c_131709296.htm
Germany's finance firm lends 10 mln USD to Cambodian microfinance institution
German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG) on Thursday signed to lend 10 million U.S. dollars to a leading Cambodian microfinance institution Hattha Kaksekar. The loan deal was inked here between Herbert Jaeger, Vice President of DEG Representative Office in Bangkok, and Hout Ieng Tong, President and ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-01/09/c_133032485.htm
Illicit fishballs to be destroyed after seizure
Economic crimes police on Wednesday arrested a woman and seized 3 tons of low-quality fishballs, claiming she had illegally imported the potentially dangerous meat. Kandal province resident Chan Thea, 37, was stopped in Phnom Penh while en route to Battambang—where police believe she was planning to ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illicit-fishballs-to-be-destroyed-after-seizure-64808/
Cambodian PM meets opposition leader to discuss issues after dispute ends
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, vice-president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), met with Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), on Friday to find solutions to the remaining issues after the two leaders agreed in July to end their ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=255416
Court lays provisional charges against general
The deputy prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has laid provisional charges against a military general arrested in Takeo province on Thursday, according to a senior military police official, in a high-profile case linked to corruption claims that led to the sacking this week ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-lays-provisional-charges-against-general-78464/
Lawmaker orders photos, video of event erased
Villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, the site of a proposed hydropower dam opposed by most of the local ethnic minority Chong, say police deleted their photos and video of a visit by CPP lawmaker Ay Khorn on Friday to promote the project’s potential ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmaker-orders-photos-video-of-event-erased-79296/
Journalists, alleged illegal loggers clash
A pair of journalists attempting to photograph a pickup truck transporting luxury wood in Preah Vihear City on Sunday evening said they were chased by the drivers and four other men wielding clubs before police intervened, but the provincial police chief denied the reporters’ claims ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-alleged-illegal-loggers-clash-69976/
Health Minister vows to rid Cambodia of unlicensed medical clinics
Cambodia’s Minister of Health on Tuesday vowed to eliminate the country’s unlicensed medical clinics and hire more health care providers, after an unauthorized medical worker who admitted to reusing syringes was linked to a mass HIV infection in a remote western village. ...
Prach Chiv
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/clinics-01272015134440.html
Cambodia, Iran hold 1st political consultation
Cambodia and Iran on Wednesday held the first political consultation with an aim of enhancing bilateral ties and cooperation. The meeting was co-chaired by Cambodia’s Foreign Secretary of State Long Visalo and Iran’s visiting Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Rahimpour. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150318/cambodia-iran-hold-1st-political-consultation
Commission set up to probe military police beating of truck driver
National military police commander Sao Sokha has set up an ad hoc commission to investigate a group of officers who allegedly shot at a truck that drove through a pair of checkpoints in Thbong Khmum province on Thursday night, then beat up the driver and ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commission-set-up-to-probe-military-police-beating-of-truck-driver-80570/
Gov’t to enforce fire safety after club blaze
In the wake of a nightclub fire in Bavet City that killed five people on Monday, the Tourism Ministry has decided to begin more aggressively enforcing a 2014 sub-decree that requires all bars, nightclubs and karaoke parlors to have multiple exits, fire extinguishers and soundproofing, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-enforce-fire-safety-after-club-blaze-80843/
Angkor Wat is no. 1 landmark, but Indian copy inspires fear
Angkor Wat in Siem Reap City topped another tourism poll this week, named as the world’s No. 1 landmark by TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice awards on Tuesday. But a massive temple under construction in India is once again stirring fears that Cambodia’s iconic monument will be ...
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angkor-wat-is-no-1-landmark-but-indian-copy-inspires-fear-85053/
Licadho slams treatment of children in prison
In a recently released report, Licadho says that children who live in prisons should receive proper care so that they can develop physically and psychologically. The UN Convention on the Rights of Children states that countries have a duty to provide children with the right ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12069/licadho-slams-treatment-of-children-in-prison/
Amid border tension, officials told to shape up
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Tuesday handed down a list of instructions to government officials working along the country’s border with Vietnam to help tamp down newly inflamed tensions along disputed stretches of the frontier, including an order to stop cutting informal deals with their ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-border-tension-officials-told-to-shape-up-88330/
Land disputes down in 2015 due to ELC freeze
Although the number of land disputes across the country decreased in the first six months of the year—largely due to a freeze on the granting of economic land concessions—little has been done to resolve existing disputes, according to a report released Wednesday by rights group ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-disputes-down-in-2015-due-to-elc-freeze-89260/
Trafficker linked to ex-court director convicted
A drug dealer who found himself at the center of a high-profile corruption scandal when it emerged that his SUV has been gifted to the son of ousted Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei was convicted on Friday, but the court said his car ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trafficker-linked-to-ex-court-director-convicted-91200/
Three COVID-19 research projects in Cambodia gets French financial support
France has committed 400,000 Euros to support three research projects on COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50721532/three-covid-19-research-projects-in-cambodia-gets-french-financial-support/
Flash-flood chaos in the capital
Day-long heavy rain on Sunday caused unprecedented flash floods which wreaked havoc in the capital. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50772451/flash-flood-chaos-in-the-capital/
GDT set to launch property tax app
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) is set to launch a property tax app soon, according to a senior official. Director-General Kong Vibol announced this during a GDT Special Live Show that provided an update on the tax department’s activities. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50795586/gdt-set-to-launch-property-tax-app/