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Battambang to host Vietnam trade fair
Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:00 May Kunmakara
BATTAMBANG province will host the five-day Vietnam High Quality Products Trade Fair, attended by representatives of 200 different Vietnamese companies beginning October 21. Vietnam Trade official Tran Tu said normally the fair was held five times a year – four exhibitions in Phnom Penh and one in Battambang. “We hold it in Battambang province because it has a huge population and there is large demand for Vietnamese products,” he said.
Red corn ripe for sales
Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:00 Chun Sophal
BAITANG Kampuchea Plc sold 160 tonnes of red corn at US$259 per tonne to Vietnamese buyers last month, over half of the 300 tonnes the company purchased for resale. Eung Kimly, a corn buyer at Baitang Kampuchea, said it was able to supply thousands of tonnes of red corn per year – if buyers could be found.
Mass fainting at factory
Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:01 Mom Kunthear
MORE than 20 workers were hospitalised on Tuesday and Wednesday after fainting on the job at the M&V garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province, a union representative said. Choub Samol said officials from the provincial environment department had investigated the factory after the fainting spell and concluded that it was caused by the workers’ poor health. A provincial labour department official offered a similar explanation when nearly 200 workers at the factory fainted last month. But Choub Samol said he believed chemicals at the factory were to blame.
RCAF soldier killed by old grenade launcher
Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:01 Thet Sambath
ONE Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier was killed and another injured earlier this week when a grenade launcher exploded in Banteay Meanchey province, police said. Yort Ray, police chief of Thmar Puok district, where the incident occurred on Monday, said the two soldiers from Military Region 5 – 27-year-old Vong Vuth and 32-year-old Som Pov – were carrying wooden poles to build a fence when Vong Vuth accidentally set one of the poles down on the grenade launcher, causing it to explode. He said the launcher was left during fighting in the 1980s between Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese soldiers. Vong Vuth died at the scene, while Som Pov was hospitalised.
Mass fainting at factory
Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:01 Mom Kunthear
MORE than 20 workers were hospitalised on Tuesday and Wednesday after fainting on the job at the M&V garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province, a union representative said. Choub Samol said officials from the provincial environment department had investigated the factory after the fainting spell and concluded that it was caused by the workers’ poor health. A provincial labour department official offered a similar explanation when nearly 200 workers at the factory fainted last month. But Choub Samol said he believed chemicals at the factory were to blame.
RCAF soldier killed by old grenade launcher
Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:01 Thet Sambath
ONE Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier was killed and another injured earlier this week when a grenade launcher exploded in Banteay Meanchey province, police said. Yort Ray, police chief of Thmar Puok district, where the incident occurred on Monday, said the two soldiers from Military Region 5 – 27-year-old Vong Vuth and 32-year-old Som Pov – were carrying wooden poles to build a fence when Vong Vuth accidentally set one of the poles down on the grenade launcher, causing it to explode. He said the launcher was left during fighting in the 1980s between Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese soldiers. Vong Vuth died at the scene, while Som Pov was hospitalised.
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