Kampot KTV Shootout
Shooting Incident Outside Royal Karaoke in Kampot 11/2018, at 18:10 pm, there was a shooting incident involving six suspects at Royal Karaoke in Kampot in Tou Tou North, Apeang Chea…
Pursat Plantation Gone to Pot
Pursat: Police in Pursat province burned down 10 illegal cannabis plantations in Bakan district, Pursat province in the early hours of 07 November 2018. Over 3000 plants were torched, as…
Crashed and Burned
Phnom Penh: A car travelling at speed crashed and exploded along Street 271, opposite Chea Sim Samaki Highway in Boeung Salang Commune, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, at 11 pm on…
Cambodia to boost clean energy use – but coal plants planned too
Jared Ferrie PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cambodia will push ahead with plans to use hydropower and coal to electrify the entire country by 2020, but solar energy will…
UAE Promise $500 Million Credit to Cambodia
Phnom Penh (FN), Nov. 6 – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) have expressed their willingness to further assist Cambodia on economic development, particularly granting $500 million of credit line to…
Deportee Returns to USA
Six months after he was deported to Cambodia, a country he has never visited and a place his family fled as refugees more than two decades ago, Phorn Tem returned…
I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff and I’ll Burn My House Down
Kampong Thom: On Friday, November 2, 2018, at 8:25 PM in Phum Houng village, Phnanomom commune, Phsar Thmei district, a fire destroyed a house. Owner, Hoc Tien, 35 years old…
“Boring is Best” Says Dutch Entrepreneur
[SIEM REAP] Boring is best when it comes to business – or so says Piet Holten, a Dutch entrepreneur who credits “normal” working conditions for helping to grow his textile…
Power Pole Lights Up BKK1
Phnom Penh: A fire broke out from electricity wiring at 11:40 pm on October 25, 2018 on Street 288 in BKK1, Khan Chamkar Morn, Phnom Penh. Local people took their own…
Horrific Scene as Truck Hits Moto, and Burns in Koh Kong
Koh Kong: On October 25, 2018, at least two men were killed at the scene and 2 more still missing in the wreckage after a truck hit a motorbike, turned over…
Arsonists Torch Sugarcane
Svay Rieng Province: Several hectares of a sugarcane plantation owned by Mr. Kuy Saren were set on fire on October 22, 2018, in Kiksom commune, Svay Teap district, Svay Rieng…
‘Funan’ – A Cambodian Feature Animation
Denis Do’s award-winning animated feature suggests the horrors of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime without depicting the worst atrocities. By PETER DEBRUGE How does one depict a genocide such as that inflicted…
Reluctant Driver Pulled From Kampot Truck Blaze
Kampot Province: A truck caught on fire on the evening of October 18 in Dangkor district, Kampot province. According to reports from witnesses, the vehicle stopped and the door opened. Black…
Rattanikiri Man Busted With Brace of Guns
Ratanakiri: At 7 pm on October 17, 2018, district police chief and the Deputy Prosecutor, received a suspect named Yeung, aka Kavet. The 34-year-old was arrested by soldiers in Koklak district, over…
One Dead, Three Injured in Preah Sihanouk Lightning Strike
Sihanoukville: One person died instantly and three others were seriously injured in lightning strikes when the four victims sheltered under trees during a thunderstorm. The incident took place at around…
Cops Shots Cause Panic
PHNOM PENH: Police moved in on a drug dealer at around 9 pm on October 16, 2018 at the Preak Ta Peov point (in front of the mosque), Prek Rak Khan Chab…
