For some women, sex work is a choice, not a matter of trafficking
Cambodian sex workers are often thought of as victims of trafficking. And that may be true for some. For others, however, work in the country’s entertainment sectors offers financial security, and sex work becomes a choice. ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/for-some-women-sex-work-is-a-choice-not-a-matter-of-trafficking/3065664.html
Arrest ordered for Rainsy Facebook manager
An arrest warrant was issued on Tuesday for an assistant of opposition leader Sam Rainsy who helps run his popular Facebook page and is allegedly responsible for producing the video in which now-jailed Senator Hong Sok Hour presents a forged treaty. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/arrest-ordered-for-rainsy-facebook-manager-101683/
Schools to learn disaster risk reduction
The Education Ministry will include an internationally agreed disaster risk reduction component in school curriculums from next year as part of a growing global move to teach students and communities how to deal with events such as flooding and major storms. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18489/schools-to-learn-disaster-risk-reduction/
Ministry official kills village chief
A seemingly minor dispute between an Interior Ministry official and a village chief in Phnom Penh turned deadly when the official gunned down the village chief and his relative on Wednesday afternoon, according to police, who offered wildly different reports of the shooting. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-ministry-official-kills-village-chief-103241/
Police motorbike rammed by truck with state license plates
The pickup truck that intentionally rear-ended a police motorbike in Kandal province on Saturday night —killing one officer and seriously injuring another—bore state license plates and has been used by an established timber smuggling outfit, officials said on Monday. ...
Education ministry planning student loans fund for university
In an effort to prepare more students for ASEAN integration, the Education Ministry plans to set up a program to give high school students access to student loans so they can continue their studies at university. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20143/education-ministry-planning-student-loans-fund-for-university/
Families file complaint against CPP senator
Nine families who lost their farmland to an under-construction special economic zone (SEZ) in Koh Kong province filed a complaint with the provincial government on Friday seeking to have the land excised from the industrial park and returned to them. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-file-complaint-against-cpp-senator-108773/
Regulator mulling moves to boost bourse
The Securities Exchange and Commission of Cambodia (SECC) and Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) are drafting a regulation to allow the establishment of a liquidity provider in order to attract more interest to the bourse, according to senior official at CSX. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22256/regulator-mulling-moves-to-boost-bourse/
Preah Sihanouk officials meet over beach compensation plan
Preah Sihanouk provincial officials met on Monday to discuss an order from the national government to provide compensation for a number of families living and running businesses on O’Chheuteal Beach in Sihanoukville who are facing the threat of eviction. ...
Suspect logs found on plantation
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province have found more piles of possibly illegally logged wood as part of the government’s ongoing sweep of eastern Cambodia for illicit timber stocks, this time on a rubber plantation owned by wealthy businessman Soung Vang. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/suspect_logs_found_on_plantation-110061/
National bank ups cash reserve requirements
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has doubled the minimum capital requirements for commercial banks and significantly raised the requirements for microfinance institutions in a move experts say will protect and consolidate the country’s banking sector. ...
Kang Sothear and Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-bank-ups-cash-reserve-requirements-110398/
Old debt on agenda for PM’s Russia visit
Prime Minister Hun Sen will attempt to renegotiate the $1.5 billion of Soviet-era debt Cambodia accrued during the 1980s when he visits Russia in May, according to a post on the premier’s Facebook page. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/old-debt-agenda-pms-russia-visit
Kingdom's economy to remain stable: ADB
Cambodia’s economy is expected to remain stable this year as uncertainty surrounding China’s economic slowdown appears to ease, and backed primarily by strong performance in garment and footwear manufacturing, as well as construction, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-economy-remain-stable-adb
Cambodia heaps praise on U.S.-Vietnam climate accord
Officials and environmentalists have congratulated Vietnam and the United States on a recent climate changed agreement signed between the two former adversaries, saying the co-operation will have a positive impact on mitigating the effects of the phenomenon in the region. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodia-heaps-praise-on-us-vietnam-climate-accord/3347270.html
Teachers’ association condemned
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport issued a statement yesterday condemning the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association (CITA) for calling on the Kingdom’s teachers to strike or protest in support of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Kem Sokha. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25621/teachers----association-condemned/
Grow asia targeting six local cash crops
Grow Asia, which formally launched a partnership with Cambodia late last year, will reconvene on June 13 in Phnom Penh to kick-off working groups between the public and private sector, including NGOs, after targeting six crops for market potential. ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/grow-asia-targeting-six-local-cash-crops
Tax revenue fills coffers of the state
The government’s tax revenue saw a sharp increase of about 22 percent in the first five months of the year, compared with the same period last year, with some $763 million collected by the General Department of Customs and Excise. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25916/tax-revenue-fills-coffers-of-the-state/
While TPP looms, RCEP sidelined
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) should also be given priority as the Kingdom eyes to join the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to promote economic growth, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region and the Pacific Rim countries. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26066/while-tpp-looms--rcep-sidelined/
Vehicle registration lists to be computerised
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport is developing an electronic vehicle registration system to be brought in by the end of this year, said Minister Sun Chanthol during the opening of a driver’s licence centre at Aeon Mall yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vehicle-registration-lists-be-computerised
Thai bilateral trade falls
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand fell by about 15 percent in the first four months of the year, compared to the same period last year, due to the Kingdom’s decreasing imports of oil, food and beverages from its neighbor. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26325/thai-bilateral-trade-falls/