National-News Briefs
Foreign minister heads to India-ASEAN meet
- 10 February 2012
- Cheang Sokha
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will depart this weekend for India to attend the two day India-ASEAN meeting
Ministry tells girls to keep their knickers on
- 10 February 2012
- Sen David
The Ministry of Women Affairs will release a 30- minute video on February 14 urging girls to resist pressure to have sex, Secretary of State for Women’s Affairs Sivann Botum said yesterday.
Fire scare near Angkor Wat temple complex
- 10 February 2012
- Thik Kaliyann
More than 10 hectares of forest near the Angkor Wat temple complex burned yesterday during a blaze in Siem Reap’s Norkor Thom commune.
Children drown in dam
- 09 February 2012
- Tep Nimol
Two children died and three others were rescued on Tuesday after their boat capsized in Kampong Speu province’s O’Kampes dam in Thnong village, police said yesterday.
Man in court over rape of two underage girls
- 09 February 2012
- Kim Yuthana
A man will be sent to court today for the alleged rape of two underaged girls in the capital’s Choam Chao commune, authorities said yesterday.
Family loses hope for fisherman lost in river
- 05 January 2012
- Mom Kunthear
Stung Treng province police are searching for the body of a man they presume dead after his boat sank in a freak accident on Tuesday...
Villagers’ first aid saves electrocuted workers
- 05 January 2012
- Mom Kunthear
Five construction workers were electrocuted yesterday morning after touching an exposed electrical wire in Kampong Thom province’s Santuk district...
Renovations complaints
- 04 January 2012
- May Titthara
About 400 villagers in Kratie province’s Prek Prasap district filed a complaint on Monday to provincial authorities against the Prek Prasap...
Search on for family
- 04 January 2012
- Mom Kunthear
National and provincial police in Kampong Speu yesterday searched the house of a family of five who have been missing from Chbar Morn town’s Rakar Thom commune...
Man charged with rape of girl, 14, on boat
- 04 January 2012
- Tep Nimol
A Vietnamese man was remanded in custody yesterday after being charged with two counts of raping a 14-year-old girl on a boat in Pursat province on Sunday...
Police deny Vietnam casino hostage reports
- 02 January 2012
- May Titthara
Cambodia police at Svay Rieng province’s Bavet town denied Vietnamese media allegations that a man had his finger chopped off by gangsters there as part of a ransom demand...
Slaughterhouse bribes for liberation ceremony
- 02 January 2012
- May Titthara
More than 200 slaughterhouse operators in Kampong Chhnang province have accused a government official of extorting 450,000 riel (US $110)...
Drunken New Year’s bash leaves one dead
- 02 January 2012
- Mom Kunthear
A 43-year-old woman was killed after being hacked with an axe by her drunken son-in-law on New Year’s Eve in Kampot province’s Chhouk district...
Karaoke parlour attack
- 13 December 2011
- Phak Seangly
Police are looking for a man who attacked a karaoke-parlour hostess in Kampong Cham commune’s Kampong Cham town on Sunday...
Lamp accident leaves sisters badly burned
- 13 December 2011
- Mom Kunthear
Three teenage sisters in Prey Veng province’s Ba Phnom district are in critical condition from burns received on Friday...
Lawmakers off to China
- 05 December 2011
- Vong Sokheng
President of the National Assembly Heng Samrin and a group of Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers departed for a week-long trip to China yesterday...
Vietnam general ready for three-day visit
- 05 December 2011
- Vong Sokheng
Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong is set to arrive in the Kingdom tomorrow...
