Kang Sothear
The Cambodia Daily
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Cambodia Spoiled Asean Statement on Sea: Reports
Cambodia helped to scupper an Asean joint statement on the South China Sea last week, according to news reports, an echo of the success it had killing a similar statement when it was chair of the regional bloc four years ago. → Read More
First Shipment Of Australian Cattle Arrives at Sihanoukville Port
A ship carrying 2,766 head of Australian cattle will this morning offload the first delivery of beef cows from the Pacific nation since Phnom Penh and Canberra finalized health protocols two years ago, the importer said on Thursday. → Read More
Dedicated Center for Driver’s Licenses Opens at Aeon Mall
The country’s first dedicated driver’s license renewal center opened at Phnom Penh’s Aeon Mall on Wednesday in a ceremony presided over by new Transport Minister Sun Chanthol. → Read More
Government Wage Hikes Depend on Cost Cutting
Slashing unnecessary spending by ministries will allow the government to guarantee a monthly minimum wage of $250 for civil servants in time for the 2018 national election, a secretary of state at the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. → Read More
Foreign Minister Responds to Ban Ki-moon
After initially refusing to comment on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s surprise telephone call to Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn last week, the ministry has released Mr. Sokhonn’s purported replies, all defending the government’s latest crackdown on the opposition. → Read More
Teen Gets 20 Years for Murder of 8-Year-Old
A 16-year-old girl is set to spend the next 20 years in prison after being found guilty of premeditated murder in Kandal province on Monday for drowning her 8-year-old neighbor in November in order to pawn the child’s jewelry, a court official said on Tuesday. → Read More
Government Sets Dates for Timber Auctions
The majority of the 70,000 cubic meters of timber confiscated by the government this year will be put to bid starting later this month at a combined initial asking price of $12.2 million, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance on Monday. → Read More
Four Injured in Fight Outside Clothes Factory
A brief clash between members of rival unions outside a Phnom Penh garment factory on Friday left four people injured before police could break them apart, local officials said on Sunday. → Read More
Customs Bureau Saves 700 Kgs Of Turtles, Snakes Near Border
A major haul of wild turtles and snakes was found abandoned on Saturday morning on the banks of a small river near a checkpoint along the border with Vietnam in Kandal province, according to customs officials. → Read More
Inflation Down Amid Plummeting Oil Prices
Inflation slowed significantly last year amid plummeting gasoline prices, the National Bank said in its annual report released on Monday. → Read More
Monk Defrocked and Arrested For Repeatedly Raping Nun
A recently ordained monk was defrocked and arrested in Takeo province on Saturday morning after admitting to raping a young nun at his pagoda multiple times earlier in the week, police said on Sunday. → Read More
Drivers Survive Tanker Crash in Preah Sihanouk
A gasoline tanker burst into flames in Preah Sihanouk province on Thursday morning after attempting to overtake a pair of cars on National Road 4, according to local police. → Read More
Vietnam Firm Launches Dairy Plant, Lacks Cows
A new $23 million dairy factory that the owners claim is the first such facility in the country opened in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. → Read More
Hun Sen Returns With Russian Trade Deals
Prime Minister Hun Sen and a delegation of senior government officials returned from Russia on Saturday, having signed eight new agreements with Moscow, pushed for increased trade ties and agreed to review all bilateral agreements signed in the past six decades. → Read More
First Direct Flight With Japan Set for September
Plans were finalized last week for the first direct flight between Cambodia and Japan, which is set to launch in September, according to Tourism Minister Thong Khon, who met with Japanese Ambassador Kumamaru Yuji on Thursday. → Read More
New Rules Aim to Stop Corruption at CDC
Investors and officials looking to do business together at the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) will be subjected to new rules intended to foster greater transparency that were announced on Tuesday. → Read More
Expert Audit Finds Flaws in Airport Security
A group of Australian civil aviation experts advised Cambodia’s civil aviation body to hire more security staff and mend airport fences in advance of a planned inspection by the U.N.’s civil aviation body later this year, officials said on Monday. → Read More
Cambodian Red Cross Raises More Than $13M in One Day
The country’s political and business elite dug deep into their pockets on Sunday for the Cambodian Red Cross’ (CRC) annual fundraising drive in Phnom Penh, contributing a total of $13.43 million during an event marking World Red Cross Day. → Read More
Government Rolls Out Ambitious Plan to Eliminate Hunger
Backed by the U.N., Cambodia on Wednesday launched a national action plan to completely eliminate hunger in the country by 2025, the first step in an ambitious initiative that the government signed on to last year. → Read More
Hun Sen Takes Rail to Sihanoukville; Praises Service
Prime Minister Hun Sen caught the recently restarted passenger train from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville on Saturday, writing on Facebook following the trip that he would ask the king to join him next time and was considering plans for a similar railway line to Siem Reap. → Read More