Sex workers risk their lives with home abortions, study finds
Fear of social reprisal may be causing Phnom Penh’s sex workers to seek abortions in the privacy of unregistered private clinics or at home. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14218/sex-workers-risk-their-lives-with-home-abortions--study-finds/
Gov’t weighs requests for pardons
The Ministry of Interior is reviewing a list of more than 700 inmates eligible for pardons or reduced sentences during the upcoming Water Festival. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-weighs-requests-pardons
Cambodian stock exchange begins trading
The formerly state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, the only stock on offer, has floated 13 million shares or 15 per cent of the company. ...
New campaign against infant mortality
Every day, 35 Cambodian children die before their fifth birthday. Their premature deaths are caused mainly by such preventable and treatable diseases as diarrhea or pneumonia. ...
Marina Shafik
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12131/new-campaign-against-infant-mortality/
Kratie families feel effects of NGO law
Officials in Kratie province are insisting that a small group of families involved in a local land dispute register with the Interior Ministry or be “punished.” ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-families-in-land-dispute-feel-effects-of-ngo-law-91796/
Gov’t warns fly-by-night mechanics
The Ministry of Interior on Friday threatened legal action against lawbreaking auto shops that work without a licence or illegally assemble vehicles from scrap parts. ...
Lay Samean and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-warns-fly-night-mechanics
Overseas voters told to register at home
The National Election Committee has appealed to Cambodian people working or studying abroad to come home and register to vote in the 2018 national election. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081002/overseas-voters-told-register-home/
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Soybean Prices Increase as Farmers Move Away From Crop
The decreasing amount of farmers harvesting soybeans last year has limited supply and raised prices at the markets roughly 42 percent to 4,000 riel per kg, or about $1, according to an agricultural official and farmers. Cheam Chan Sorphaon, director of the provincial agriculture department in ...
Cambodia's highly competitive mobile phone industry poised for change
The nation is awash with SIM cards, and that is indicative of an industry that, as most observers see it, is simply overcrowded. But [mobile phone] operators, despite their special promotions and a young population in love with phones, are finding themselves squeezed as margins ...
A factory’s fainting crisis
In a single factory that supplies some of the biggest international brands, faintings occurred every day for five years, a new investigation by the Cambodian Legal Education Centre has found. Until just weeks ago, when the management installed new fans, three to four garments workers were ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110759624/National-news/a-factorys-fainting-crisis.html
Halal food exports could boost trade
Cambodia could attract an increasing number of Malaysian investors interested in food production and global export if moves to create a halal food recognition body were implemented, Malaysian ambassador Mond Tahir Nasruddin said yesterday. Officials were working together to establish the halal food product recognition ...
Kingdom lacks engineers: minister
Because Cambodia’s youth has not focused enough on studying technical or engineering subjects, the Kingdom now faces a lack of human resources and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports plans to reform the country’s education system, according to the minister in charge. Minister Im Sethy ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965901/Business/kingdom-lacks-engineers-minister.html
Transparency NGOs Call for CPP to End Parking Corruption
A group of NGOs released a statement Thursday calling on the CPP government of Prime Minister Hun Sen to begin its program of promised post-election reforms by ending the practice of overcharging for motorcycle parking outside of local markets. The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-Cambodia, a ...
Ben Sokhean and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/transparency-ngos-call-for-cpp-to-end-parking-corruption-48213/
Rainsy says CNRP doesn’t recognize newly-formed government
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday said that the CNRP doesn’t recognize the newly-formed government of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Speaking at a news conference, he urged all international communities and countries of the Paris Peace Agreement to condemn “this ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NDAyMDdiZDljZDY#sthash.hG32ZEwp.dpuf
Protest planned for 2nd day of garment protest trials
Some 500 supporters of union leader Vorn Pao and 24 others arrested during a string of garment worker protests since November will rally in front of the PhNom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday on the second day of their trials, a union official said. All 25 ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protest-planned-for-2nd-day-of-garment-protest-trials-58141/
NEC spokesman calls on authorities to take action to stop inciting people not to vote
A spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC) said it is a crime to use provocative words or create a spectacle that prevents and discourage people from going to vote. He urged the authorities to take action to prevent all crimes and incitement that disrupt ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501303285/nec-spokesman-calls-on-authorities-to-take-action-to-stop-inciting-people-not-to-vote/
Tax-Free Trade Access Will Stay, Says EU
The European Union has said that it has no plans to suspend Cambodia’s duty-free trade access even though there have been concerns over land evictions as a result of economic land concessions. The EU is seeking that human rights are not the cost of trade ...
Protest blocked by security guards
About 250 villagers who turned out in Preah Vihear province’s Srayong commune to protest against alleged land-grabbing by rubber firm Siladamich Company yesterday found themselves blocked by company security guards and police, though arrests threatened a day earlier failed to materialise, villagers said. Villager representative Meas ...
Stories vary on latest mass fainting incident
Workers at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province that supplies global retailer H&M will return to work tomorrow, after more than 100 staff were hopitalised on Monday, following what they and union representatives described as a mass fainting incident. A spokesperson for H&M’s headquarters in ...