Rokar Thom News Today

The royal oxen snacked on rice, corn, and beans during the annual Royal Ploughing Ceremony yesterday, implying that farmers will reap bumper harvests of those products.

A fire broke out in two stalls in Kampong Speu market in Peanicheakkam village, Sangkat Rokar Thom, Chbar Morn city, Kampong Speu province at 19:10 on May 16.

South Korean-owned Yura Harness (Cambodia) Co Ltd is looking at additional investment opportunities in the Cambodian automotive sector and plans to set up a research and development (R&D) centre at an as-yet undetermined location, as the Kingdom’s economic road to recovery continues on a smooth trajectory, according to an industry ministry statement.

Kampong Speu province’s “first” paper mill, with registered investment capital of about $30 million, is scheduled to go online in the “next four or five months”, and generate some 2,000 jobs, according to provincial governor Vei Samnang on December 14.

Kampong Speu province’s “first” paper mill, with registered investment capital of about $30 million, is scheduled to go online in the “next four or five months”, and generate some 2,000 jobs, according to provincial governor Vei Samnang on December 14.

The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on May 14 placed a 43-year-old man in pre-trial detention for the “brutal” slaying of his pregnant wife in Prey Nop district’s Choeung Kor commune on May 10. Provincial court spokesman Ly Chandara said on May 15 that the investigating judge had charged Yem Chenda with the murder of his wife Vun Van, 36, in the commune’s Choeung Kor village.