Phnom Penh Post - Brothel demolition
A section of ramshackle squatter housing and brothels on Sothearos Boulevard was
demolished on July 6 as part of the Municipal Government's ongoing city beautification
effort.. The area, next to the site of recent fire that resulted in the relocation
of more than 2700 people, is to be a park.
Rainsy writes
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has published his first Khmer-language book, a political
tract titled "Light of Justice". The initial copy run hit bookstores on
July 9.
Rainsy will return at ‘favourable time’Opposition figure Sam Rainsy on Saturday suggested he would not return to Cambodia as he had previously promised, saying that like liberators King Father Norodom Sihanouk and Charles de Gaulle, he would only do so at a “favourable time”. “I will go back to Cambodia
Temi tourism project approved by the CDCThe $500.4 million Tourism, Ecological, Marine and International (Temi) tourism project has been approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), according to a notice on its Facebook page on Monday. The project is part of Chinese-owned Union City Development Group Co Ltd’s (
US Embassy urged to stop ‘disrespecting sovereignty’The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation called on the US Embassy in Phnom Penh on Saturday to respect the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations after it called former opposition leader Kem Sokha “an innocent man” – a move deemed to be “disrespecting Cambodia’s
NagaWorld casino sees net profit of more than $390M last yearPhnom Penh’s NagaWorld casino posted a 53 per cent net profit increase last year at $390.6 million, a sum which is almost equal to the combined net profit of all Cambodian commercial banks in 2017. NagaWorld’s parent company, NagaCorp Ltd, is listed on the Hong Kong