A DRUG trafficker was sentenced to two years in jail yesterday after being caught with four packages of yama and 56 amphetamine pills. Motodop Mean Sameth, 36, was found at his rented room in the capital’s Chamkarmon district with the drugs in March. He was also fined 4 million riel (around US$1,000) during sentencing at Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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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 (
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
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