Migrant workers rescued from Thai lockup
Thai police have rescued 65 Cambodians, including five children, from a two-story shop house near Rong Kluea market in Sakeo province where they had been locked up for three days. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37778/migrant-workers-rescued-from-thai-lockup/
Sesan residents searched over fears of ‘Terrorism’
Villagers living near the Lower Sesan II dam in Stung Treng province are being stopped and searched at a road checkpoint by officials fearing possible “terrorism” attacks on the controversial dam. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sesan-residents-searched-over-fears-of-terrorism-133331/
Kingdom’s biggest SEZ to get even bigger
he Kingdom’s biggest industrial park is moving beyond its initial development stage and looking to attract nearly 200 new tenants in the next five years as it doubles its footprint. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-biggest-sez-get-even-bigger
Timber oknha misses hearing
An oknha accused of overseeing a massive illegal logging scheme in Mondulkiri has yet to appear for a court summons issued more than a month ago, according to the investigating judge. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-oknha-misses-hearing
Breaking: Supreme Court rules to dissolve CNRP
The Supreme Court this evening ruled to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party, ending the only existing electoral threat to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s grip on power in the Kingdom. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-supreme-court-rules-dissolve-cnrp
Temple restoration gets US cash
The United States has provided $350,000 to the World Monuments Fund for the fifth phase of the conservation of Phnom Bakheng temple in Siem Reap province’s Angkor Archaeological Park. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095896/temple-restoration-gets-us-cash/
Farming project gets extension, $66M
The government and international funders have committed a further $66 million to a project to increase small farmers’ productivity, after yesterday claiming success in the program’s initial seven-year period. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/farming-project-gets-extension-66m
China asked to buy more sugarcane from Cambodia
During a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen asked China to increase imports of Cambodian sugarcane. The officials met in Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101596/china-asked-buy-sugarcane-cambodia/
Chinese patent deal to come into effect this month
The validation agreement between China’s State Intellectual Property Office (Sipo) and Cambodia will enter into force by the end of this month, helping protect Chinese invention patents in the kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113909/chinese-patent-deal-to-come-into-effect-this-month/
U.S. Helps $50 Million Finance For Lower Mekong Countries
The U.S. has declared today that it would help with $50 million US dollars for lower Mekong countries to speed up the integration and connectivity in the region this year. ...
The Southeast Asia Weekly, P. 3
http://thesoutheastasiaweekly.com/
CPP, CNRP throw mud at each other for setback of negotiation
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) were engaged in war of words, accusing each other for the failure of yesterday’s election reform talks. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NTU0NjIzNTQwYWZ
Court drops case against PM Hun Sen
A case filed by a youth organiser against Prime Minister Hun Sen, in which the premier was accused of illegally ceding Cambodian territory to Vietnam, has been dropped by Phnom Penh Municipal Court. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-drops-case-against-pm-hun-sen
Ministry issues storm warning
In the wake of two deaths from separate lightning strikes this week, the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a notice yesterday warning against potentially devastating storms lasting from today until Sunday. ...
Khoun Leakhana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-issues-storm-warning
Villagers on patrol take two loggers
Members of the Kuoy ethnic group captured two loggers and seized two chainsaws on Saturday, accusing the alleged loggers of felling resin trees illegally at Prey Preah Rokar community forest in Preah Vihear. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-patrol-take-two-loggers
Printer cops $12k bill for bootlegged books
The owner of a printing house accused of infringing on the copyright of an author who contracted him was slapped with $12,500 in fines and damages by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/printer-cops-12k-bill-bootlegged-books
Xin Fang workers march to Labor Ministry to solve out working conditions
Around 300 workers from a Taiwanese-owned Xin Fang (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing Co., Ltd marched Monday to Ministry of Labor to seek intervention in their working conditions. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NzhiNDYzNTRiYTN
Cambodia's banks continue enjoying strong growth this year: vice-governor
Cambodia’s banking sector has continued enjoying robust growth in both loans and deposits this year, Ouk Maly, vice-governor of the National Bank of Cambodia, said Wednesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141008/cambodias-banks-continue-enjoying-strong-growth-year-vice-go
Seven-year sentence follows ACU arrest
A corrupt former high-ranking official at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications was yesterday sentenced to seven years in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/seven-year-sentence-follows-acu-arrest
Police confiscate illegal wood, say forestry official a suspect
Police in Stung Treng province confiscated a truckload of illegally logged wood on Sunday and are investigating a Forestry Administration official who tried to take the haul off their hands following the seizure. ...
Jailed family’s release demanded
Human rights group Adhoc has demanded the release of a couple and their 9-month-old child jailed amid a land dispute in Preah Vihear, calling their arrest a “grave human rights abuse”. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jailed-familys-release-demanded