Khmer New Year Paid Holiday Dates
Phnom Penh: In the coming Lunar New Year, all workers and employees will be entitled to paid holidays for 4 days from 14-15-16-17 April, 2019. According to the Khmer New…
Smuggled Vietnamese Pigs Seized
Tbong Khmum: Authorities and police in Tbong Khmum detained 4 motorbikes, a truck and a car, 39 pigs and four people after pigs from Vietnam illegally entered Cambodian territory. The…
Bus Full of Chinese Tourists Crashes in Siem Reap
Siem Reap: A passenger bus crashed off the road, causing some passengers to suffer minor injuries, while the driver escaped. The accident occurred at 15:40 on the 29th March 2019…
Baby River Dolphin Found Dead in Stung Treng
Stung Treng: On the morning of March 30, 2019, a fisherman spotted a dead baby dolphin in the river near Preah Pumploul commune, Thalaborivat district, Stung Treng province. The animal…
Public Bus Service For Siem Reap
Siem Reap: Temple Town will have public buses as Siem Reap authorities are preparing a bus line to respond to tourism growth and plan to reduce traffic congestion in the…
Traffic Violation Turns Up Trunk Full of Reptiles
SIEM REAP: A car was found carrying 18 live turtles and 4 monitor lizards in a random police traffic stop check. The discovery was made on the morning of March…
Drugs and Violence in Poipet
Banteay Meanchey: A total of eight suspects were arrested on suspicion of involvement in drug-related violence in the area. The crackdown took place on March 30, 2019 in the village of…
Workers Strike For Living Wage in Sihanoukville
Sihanoukville: At around 12 noon on March 30, 2019, about 100 construction workers building casinos and hotels protested in Sangkat 4, Sihanoukville Both Cambodian and Chinese labourers picketed the company…
Schoolboys Run Down in Tbong Khmum
Tbong Khmum: At 10:25 AM on March 29, 2019, a boy was killed and and another seriously injured in village 6, Rokaaknor commune, Krouch Chhmar district, Tbong Khmum province. The…
Battambang Blade Bangers Busted
Battambang: Six gangsters were detained on the evening of March 29 in Peuk Khem Village, Anlong Vil District, Sangke District, after a violent clash left two seriously injured. Choung Kimsong…
Man Shoots Wife With Arrow
Kampong Thom: A woman was shot in the side by a man armed with a homemade speargun. Officers reported that the violence was committed by the victim’s drunken spouse in…
Drunken French Cambodian Wipes Out on Chroy Changvar Bridge
PHNOM PENH: A car crashed at 1:40 am on March 30, 2019 on the Chroy Changvar Bridge. A Cambodian man with French roots had been driving the Toyota car in…
The Water’s Lovely…
Phnom Penh: Social media has shown an unknown foreigner enjoying a dip in the notoriously filthy Boeung Trabek canal. The canal, known as Sh*t River in popular expatriate parlance has…
China, Cambodia vow to strengthen law enforcement, security cooperation
EIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) — China and Cambodia vowed to promote law enforcement and security cooperation on Friday. The pledge was made during a meeting between Guo Shengkun, a member…
“Crossing the river” to a safe delivery in rural Cambodia
KANTUOT VILLAGE, Cambodia – When Bora was pregnant with her fifth child, she prepared to “cross the river.” In the Khmer language, “crossing the river” is a way to describe childbirth…
As ICE cracks down on Cambodian communities, a mother says goodbye to her son
By TERESA COTSIRILOS Immigration and Customs Enforcement is targeting long-time residents with criminal convictions, most of whom have lived in the US since fleeing the Cambodian genocide as children. A…
