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A man was arrested on March 14 after he had hacked a boy to death with a machete in Ampil Pha-em village, Ramlaing Chak commune, and Kampong Speu’s Samrong Tong district. Police
Man held for murder of toddler in Kampong Speu
Tue, 16 March 2021
A 40-year-old man, whose wife claimed he suffered from mental illness, was arrested on March 14 after he had hacked a boy to death with a machete in Ampil Pha-em village, Ramlaing Chak commune, and Kampong Speu’s Samrong Tong district.
Phok Sambath, head of the provincial police’s autopsy bureau said on March 15 that the suspect has a wife with three children aged between six and 16 and lived in the village. The boy was one year and two months old. The victim’s mother is a 30-year-old garment worker.
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PoorID cards are handed to people in Oddar Meanchey province on December 22. Oddar Meanchey Provincial Administration
Minister: Transparency vital in identifying poor households
Mon, 28 December 2020
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has instructed all municipal and provincial governors to improve the process of identifying poor households qualified for financial support from the government’s cash handout programme.
The move came after Minister of Planning Chhay Than urged local authorities not to collude with relatives or better-off families to get IDPoor cards.
In a directive dated December 28, Sar Kheng said that from June to December, more than 700,000 households, equivalent to 2.8 million people, have been receiving the government’s financial support every month. The financial aid is greatly appreciated by the public from all walks of life.
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Kampong Speu palm sugar market to sweeten
Thu, 10 December 2020
The Kampong Speu palm sugar market will only get sweeter next year on the back of a perceived uptrend in demand from Europe.
The Ministry of Commerce granted domestic geographical indication (GI) to the commodity in 2010 under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
And on April 2 last year, the European Commission (EC) announced that it would join Kampot pepper in its registry of protected GIs (PGIs), after the fruit was awarded the status on February 18, 2016.
Any product sold in EU countries purporting to be “Skor Thnot Kampong Speu”, as it was registered, must carry the “EU PGI logo” which certifies that it originates from either Kampong Speu province’s Oudong or Samrong Tong districts, or Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district, the EC said in a statement.