Yim Vivatey has cast his ballot at the same polling station in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district since 2003. He has never moved and has been assigned to the same polling station number each time—351.
But when the wiry 35-year-old tried looking up his name on a loose leaf copy of the voters list clipped to a billboard outside the Veal Vong commune office two days ago, it was nowhere to be found.
Deep-fried arthropod-eating enthusiast Ly Vibol pointed at the mound of crickets in Phnom Penh as they were scooped into a plastic bag.
“A bit salty, sugary and sweet,” Mr. Vibol said with a smile, adding that he eats insects at least three times in any given week. “I love it,” he said.
From beetles to weevils, food experts are beginning to turn to the world’s smallest critters in order to solve some of their biggest hunger problems.
An investigation by French police into the murder of a 25-year-old French tourist in Kampot province in February has failed to produce any DNA evidence that could identify her killer, an Interior Ministry official said Tuesday.
Lieutenant General Mok Chito, who heads the National Judicial Police department, said that he had received the DNA report from French Embassy officials two weeks ago but that it was inconclusive.
As mobile rallies of the ruling CPP and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) have passed each other on the streets during the lead-up to Sunday’s election, their confrontations could be taken from the script of “West Side Story.”
Like the Jets and the Sharks in the Broadway stage play, the young CPP and CNRP supporters have traded little more than jeers and insults as they cross paths on motorcycles, carrying party flags and posters.
Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Sam Rainsy on Friday vowed to write a new page of Cambodian history in next week’s election in his first speech after returning from four years of self-imposed exile.
An estimated 100,000 people turned out to greet Mr. Rainsy, gathering on boulevards, in parks and traveling in the huge convoy that accompanied his slow drive from Phnom Penh International Airport to Freedom Park.
The throngs far exceeded his own party’s expectations of a turnout of 40,000 people.
Half of Cambodia’s garment factories monitored between November and April are “chronically non-compliant” with the Labor Law and the industry has experienced deteriorating working conditions and fire safety records in the past three years, according to the latest report from the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) factory monitoring program.
The biannual report released Thursday by Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) comes after criticism was leveled at the ILO recently for not holding non-compliant factories responsible by naming them in its reports.
When the National Assembly forms after this month’s election, Pen Sovann—Cambodia’s first prime minister after the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, and a man imprisoned in Hanoi between 1981 and 1991—may well be seated close enough to stare down the man who he believes betrayed him three decades ago.
Mr. Sovann, whose life tracks modern Cambodian history from the anti-colonial Issarak movement of the 1950s to the Salvation Front that overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979, is running as the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party’s (CNRP) top-listed candidate in Kompong Speu province.
And he expects to win.
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her Lao counterpart flew into Cambodia on Tuesday to pay their respects to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s late father, Hun Neang, an official said.
Hun Neang passed away at the age of 89 in the early hours of Friday morning. His funeral will be held this morning at Mr. Hun Sen’s compound in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, after which Hun Neang’s body will be buried at Vongkut Borei pagoda in Sen Sok district alongside his late wife.
The Ministry of Education is preparing to distribute questionnaires nationwide to assess the gap between the job market and subjects being studied by university students.
Hun Neang, the elderly father of Prime Minister Hun Sen, died in the early hours of Friday morning at the age of 89, government officials said.
“[Hun Neang] passed away at 4:10 a.m. at the age of [89] due to old age,” said Chhin Ketna, secretary-general of the National Committee for Organizing National and International Festivals (NCONIF).
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