Telecom Cambodia workers protest over missing money
Dozens of employees of Telecom Cambodia protested outside the state-owned company’s head office in Phnom Penh on Monday over allegations that a manager pocketed $230,000 in payments from a private firm. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/telecom-cambodia-workers-protest-over-missing-money-93606/
Cambodian bourse signs deals with Vietnamese, Laotian stock markets
Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) has reached Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Vietnamese and Laotian stock markets, aimed to open ways for better channels of communication between them, said a CSX’s statement on Monday. ...
Shanghai daily's team
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=321551
Development fears at Cambodia's most beautiful beach
Dozens of independent bungalows at one of Cambodia’s most unspoiled beaches are to be bulldozed with weeks, raising fears that a “soulless” mega-resort will replace them. ...
Nathan Thompson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/cambodia/articles/otres-beach-cambodia-threatened-by-development/
Police, NGO search for pedophile in Siem Reap
A task force made up of police and investigators from a child protection organization Thursday began searching in Siem Reap province for wanted Dutch pedophile Pieter Ceulen, according to a member of the team. ...
Buth Kimsay and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/109746-109746/
Cambodia: UN rights expert launches fact-finding mission on women and indigenous peoples
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia today announced she will be visiting the country Monday to assess the enjoyment of rights by women and indigenous peoples in the country. ...
UN team
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53477#.VuvB3ua6OLo
Cop denies graft claim after ACU clears him
In the wake of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) clearing him of any wrongdoing, a Phnom Penh commune police chief yesterday refuted allegations that he had accepted protection pay-offs from neighbourhood drug dealers. ...
Niem Chheng and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cop-denies-graft-claim-after-acu-clears-him
Iodine levels dangerously low in moms, children
More than 60 percent of mothers and young children in Cambodia are suffering from dangerously low levels of iodine in what a new study describes as a “serious public health problem.” ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/iodine-levels-dangerously-low-in-moms-children-111218/
Testing drugs a cop job: Chito
National Police anti-drug chief Mok Chito yesterday said his officers need to begin inserting themselves into a stage of investigations until now the sole domain of the judiciary – drug testing. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/testing-drugs-cop-job-chito
Cambodia refutes new East Sea-related agreement with China
Cambodia does not have any new agreements regarding the South China Sea (East Sea) issue with China, the country’s Secretary of State and Spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Phay Siphan, has said. ...
Vietnam News Team
http://vietnamnews.vn/world/296040/cambodia-refutes-new-east-sea-related-agreement-with-china.html
PM signs off on protected forests
Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed a sub-decree to mark 18 protected areas over nearly three million hectares of land across Prey Lang forest, according to a Ministry of Environment statement released yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24817/pm-signs-off-on-protected-forests/
New office to attract HK investors
Local investors have welcomed the presence of the Hong Kong Business Association in Cambodia (HKBAC), which officially opened its offices on Monday, as a way of attracting more investors from Hong Kong to Cambodia. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26733/new-office-to-attract-hk-investors/
Key to cracking Thai consumer market: unique products
Cambodia should seek to enlarge its market share of the Thai consumer market by focusing on the export of unique items, a visiting Thai trade promoter said during a workshop in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/key-cracking-thai-consumer-market-unique-products
China doubles Cambodian rice quota
The Chinese government will import 200,000 tons of rice from Cambodia from next year – double the current amount – and will also help in the restoration of Preah Vihear temple, it was announced yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29566/china-doubles-cambodian-rice-quota/
Pig disease contained; pork sales still down
The recent outbreak of “blue-ear pig disease” in two districts of Siem Reap province has been successfully contained, but consumer demand for pork in the province has not recovered, a senior official said. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pig-disease-contained-pork-sales-still-down-93700/
Cambodian police arrest 3,402 drug suspects
The number of people arrested for drug-related crimes in Cambodia has increased by 153 percent in the first nine months of 2015, a senior police official said on Saturday. ...
Business Standard News Staff
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/cambodian-police-arrest-3-402-drug-suspects-115100300348_1.html
Tears, anger greet City Hall’s resolution for Borei Keila evictees
Borei Keila residents reacted with outrage yesterday when City Hall announced only 34 of 154 displaced families will get on-site housing in the community, following a reassessment of the land dispute victims’ claims. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/tears-anger-greet-city-halls-resolution-borei-keila-evictees
Port shares ‘likely to rise’ on market debut
Shares of Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) will likely rise when they begin trading on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) next Wednesday, Han Kyung Tae, managing director of the Yuanta Securities (Cambodia), said yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18263/port-shares----likely-to-rise----on-market-debut/
Exports to the US slip slightly
Cambodia’s exports to the United States, the second largest importer of local goods after the European Union, declined slightly during the first quarter of the year compared with the same quarter last year. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24662/exports-to-the-us-slip-slightly/
Soldier’s home hiding luxury wood: officials
Some 100 pieces of luxury wood believed to be from the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary area were seized at the house of a military officer near the Vietnamese border on Friday, officials said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-home-hiding-luxury-wood-officials
Ang Maltey aide given suspended sentence
Pich Prumhmony, the former aide of disgraced Phnom Penh court president Ang Maltey, was convicted of meddling in a court investigation on Friday, but is slated to be released from prison on December 19. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ang-maltey-aide-given-suspended-sentence