A budding friendship
A more than hour-long meeting between Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, making his first-ever visit to Cambodia, and Prime Minister Hun Sen ended yesterday afternoon with an aide to the premier offering reporters the typical avowals of “cooperation”.
Drug use up by third since ’15, report says
Almost 10,000 people have been arrested in drug-related cases this year and more than 150 kilograms of narcotics confiscated, while the number of addicts in the country increased by about a third compared to 2015, a document obtained yesterday says.
Use vote ‘correctly’, military police told
Three days after Cambodia’s military police distributed images of its forces pointing AK-47s at mock protesters, it said yesterday that its commander, Sao Sokha, told officers he hopes people use their right to vote “correctly” to select the right leaders.
Direct flights to Manila stuck on a layover
Efforts to have the Philippine flag carrier serve Cambodian airports have stalled on Vietnam’s refusal to permit passenger pickups on layovers, a local aviation official said yesterday.
After almost four years, Fryett trial comes to end
The long-running and at times contentious trial of alleged British fraudster Gregg Fryett came to an end yesterday, with the defendant repeating claims that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court is corrupt and vowing to appeal the verdict if convicted on December 28.
Chakrya defamation verdict, sentence stick
Former Adhoc staffer and election official Ny Chakrya’s defamation conviction and six-month jail sentence were upheld by the Court of Appeal yesterday, in a short hearing that offered no legal reasoning for the verdict.
Leopard Capital nixes plan for second investment fund
Private equity firm Leopard Capital will not be looking to raise a second round of funding after its initial $34 million Cambodia-focused fund expired in April, its chief executive said yesterday. Douglas Clayton, whose private equity firm was the first to enter Cambodia’s frontier market in 2008, said that the current investment climate was not conducive to establishing a new investment fund.
Cambodia, China to hold exercises
A major eight-day military exercise between Cambodian and Chinese troops will commence today at the Thlok Tasek Military Institute in Kampong Speu’s Phnom Sruoch district.
Expert denies possibility of extra remains at grave
A conspiracy theory that Vietnamese communist soldiers could have planted additional skulls and bones at the Choeung Ek killing field was floated at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, only to be quickly derided by both the prosecution and an expert witness.
Return of disliked monk prompts pagoda protest
More than 200 Buddhists protested in front of Ou Saray pagoda in Kampong Thom’s Stoung district yesterday to oppose the reappointment of a chief monk who was fired five years ago amid complaints of scandalous behaviour.
Surrogacy law meeting set for early ’17 – ‘maybe’
After more than three months of controversy and the arrest of three surrogacy agents last month, an inter-ministerial committee to draft legislation on commercial surrogacy still has yet to be formed and will not meet until 2017, a Ministry of Women’s Affairs official confirmed yesterday.
NGO calls out rangers
The director of an anti-logging NGO has called on the Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate seven government rangers for alleged involvement in forestry crimes in the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary from February to August this year.
Four drown in cases in two provinces Tuesday
Four children drowned on Tuesday in two separate incidents in Oddar Meanchey and Pursat provinces, local officials said yesterday. According to Vong San, commune police chief in Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district, three boys – brothers Ke Sokleak, 9, and Ke Sokla, 6, and their cousin, Neng Danet, 4 – all drowned in a pond located about 50 metres behind their house.
Grandfather arrested in girl’s rape
A 71-year-old man from Battambang’s Banan district was sent to provincial court yesterday following his arrest the previous day for allegedly raping his 7-year-old step-granddaughter, according to police.
Methanol rates high in deadly rice wine
A ministry of Health press conference yesterday revealed that methanol levels in the rice wine that recently claimed the lives of 15 people and left 78 others hospitalised in Kampong Chhnang were significantly higher than the normal rate of 0.15 percent, with laboratory samples containing 0.2 percent to 1.47 percent of the toxic substance.
CNRP leaders abroad for US, Thailand trips
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy arrived in the US yesterday and will begin meeting with Cambodian communities there from Saturday, a party spokesman said, with deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha also having departed for Bangkok for medical visits.
Projects being ‘built on lies’
Ny Sophannak, a 42-year-old mother of three, lives in a small house on a tiny alley behind Wat Thann just off Sothearos Boulevard. Ten years ago, she was among 800 families violently evicted from the nearby Dey Krahorm community on what she says were false pretenses.
Agreement to increase cross-border vehicle limit
Cambodia and Thailand will sign a memorandum of understanding on Friday to increase the quota of buses and trucks permitted to cross the border between the two countries, a transport official said yesterday.
Tourism officials lay out plans for schools
Tourism Ministry officials outlined plans yesterday for two new vocational training facilities for the country’s growing tourism sector. Try Chhiv, deputy director general of the Ministry of Tourism, said the government will build the first school in Phnom Penh with a capacity of 1,000 students, while the second will be built in Sihanoukville for 300 students.
Chinese firm snaps up $49.2M in local assets
Shanghai-listed Guangzhou Yuetai Group will purchase $49.2 million in assets in Cambodia by buying a 45 percent stake in a local property development firm and a 19 percent stake in a Cambodian import-export company, the company said in a filing yesterday.
Four-day product fair to open in capital today
The Ministry of Commerce will launch the 11th annual Cambodia Import-Export & One Province One Product (OPOP) Exhibition today.
Plan for Jurassic park is hatched
A Malaysian investment firm and its Cambodian-registered partner are looking to build a “Jurassic Theme Park” as part of a proposed $51 million entertainment complex that would include a casino, hotel and 500 serviced apartments set to rise in Prey Veng province near the Vietnamese border, according to a filing on the Malaysian stock exchange yesterday.
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