JUNGLE FEVER HITS BATTAMBANG

BATTAMBANG EXPERIENCES ANOTHER BUS CRASH

Twenty-five people, including nationals from France, Thailand and Vietnam, were injured in two separate bus accidents in Battambang and Kampong Cham provinces over the weekend, police said yesterday.

Kith Heang, Mong Russey district police chief, said 13 passengers, including three Thais and a Frenchman, sustained slight injuries when a mini-tractor collided with a Capitol bus on Friday night in Battambang, along national road 5.

“The mini-tractor had a flat tyre and it crashed into the bus, making it fall into a small ditch near the road,” he said, adding that the mini-tractor driver had fled the scene.

The injured had been sent to the district hospital, he said.

Meanwhile, Cheung Prey district police chief Heng Vuthy said a Hyundai truck had crashed into a bus on Saturday evening in Kampong Cham’s Kouk Rovieng commune, injuring 12 people, seven seriously.

According to Heng Vuthy, the accident was caused by the truck driver’s speeding.


A series of fatal bus accidents earlier this year had spurred the Ministry of Interior to call for the installation of “black boxes” for companies to monitor driving behaviour and a warning that bus companies found to have caused accidents would be penalised.

At the time, Him Yan, director of the department of public order at the Ministry of Interior, told the Post there had been 41 traffic accidents involving buses in 2011, in which 25 people had died and more than 100 were injured.

BATTAMBANG BIRTHDAYS- HIS MAJESTY KING SIHAMONI

His Majesty the King with his Mother and Father

From 13th to 15th May, Cambodians celebrate the birthday of King Sihamoni.

 He was born in 1953 to King Sihanouk and Queen Monieath. 

His Majesty was educated in Europe, mostly Prague, until 1975. 

After the Khmer Rouge coup in 1970, the then Prince Sihamoni was put under house arrest for nine years. 

Released in 1981, he returned to Europe to teach ballet. On October 14, 2004.

 He was elected king by the nine member throne council after his father suddenly abdicated.

  it is an honour and a privilege to congratulate His Majesty on his official Birthday and 8th anniversary of his coronation of the King.