Police raid brothel, free seven girls
A group of seven Vietnamese and Cambodian girls were freed during a raid on a brothel in Battambang province on Wednesday night in which three suspected brokers were arrested, according to anti-human trafficking police.
Taylor O'Connell and Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-raid-brothel-free-seven-girls-103846/
Cham lawmaker envisioned
A Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker is calling on young Cham party activists to rally support for the opposition party, expressing a desire to see a politician from the Muslim minority join the National Assembly.
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cham-lawmaker-envisioned
Four suspected human traffickers tried
Four suspects in a human trafficking case were tried by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday over allegations that they organized the forced marriage of a 21-year-old woman to a Chinese husband in 2015.
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21166/four-suspected-human-traffickers-tried/
Commerce minister seeks more ideas on rice export
Cambodian Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol says the country’s rice has a branding problem. With better branding, he told a group of officials at a roundtable recently, more rice would sell.
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/commerce-minister-seeks-more-ideas-on-rice-export/3026417.html
NGO accuses pair of trying to sell state land
A local conservation NGO has accused two people, one of them a soldier, of buying up and attempting to sell a parcel of state land near the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Speu province.
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-accuses-pair-trying-sell-state-land
Push for an end to sugarcane land row
Koh Kong provincial authorities have urged 200 families involved in a decade-long land dispute with a sugar cane company to prepare evidence of their claims amid hopes of a final solution from the government.
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074027/push-end-sugarcane-land-row/
Minorities forced to trek from Sesan village
About 100 ethnic minority members were forced to trek 12 km on Wednesday out of a Stung Treng village on the verge of being flooded by a new hydroelectric dam after authorities blockaded a road.
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minorities-forced-to-trek-from-sesan-village-132930/
Forces to get nearly 4,000 more troops
The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces plans to recruit 3,850 new soldiers, the majority of which will be enlisted in a new brigade established after a border row with Laos, a document obtained yesterday showed.
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081208/forces-get-nearly-4000-troops/
Korea hands over aviation center
Three and a half years after signing a memorandum of understanding on the project, the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Cambodia handed over a $10.1 million aviation training center to the government yesterday.
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30685/korea-hands-over-aviation-center/
NA urges resolution in land dispute
Three people, representing 112 migrant families, on Monday submitted a letter to Ratanakkiri province authorities from the National Assembly asking them to investigate and resolve a longstanding land dispute involving a Ministry of Interior official.
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-urges-resolution-land-dispute
Thai firm to help bolster agarwood quality
A Cambodian company is teaming up with a Thai investment partner to spend $100 million improving the quality of Cambodia’s agarwood trees, according to a memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies yesterday.
Hor Kimsay and Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-firm-help-bolster-agarwood-quality
White Building surveyed
Land Management Minister Chea Sophara led a veritable battalion of ministry officials in a survey of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building on Saturday morning in preparation for a proposed development project on the site.
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/white-building-surveyed
120 MW plant in Cambodia to start operation this week
A 120-megawatt hydropower plant in western Cambodian province of Pursat will come into operation on Thursday after a Chinese developer completed five- year construction, a senior energy official said Monday.
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=208411
Court charges man for fishing with grenade
The Stung Treng Provincial Court on Tuesday charged a 25-year-old man with illegal fishing after he allegedly used a grenade to kill fish in a protected stretch of the Mekong River in Thala Barivat district.
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-charges-man-for-fishing-with-grenade-79986/
No response to opposition query on alleged border violation
Mao Monivann, a parliamentarian for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, says he has not received a response from top government officials on whether they are addressing the construction of a road from Vietnam into Mondolkiri province.
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/no-response-to-opposition-query-on-alledged-border-violation/2503543.html
Live US bomb dug up from under shophouse
Forty-three years ago, a 500-pound MK-82 bomb fell from a U.S. warplane and onto a house in Choeung Lang village, crashing through the roof and lodging in the soft dirt beneath the floor.
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/live-us-bomb-dug-up-from-under-shophouse-91800/
One dead in Battambang lightning strike
A man was killed and his wife left unconscious after lightning struck their stilted home as they took shelter from a storm in Battambang province’s Mong Russei district on Thursday, a local official said on Friday.
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-dead-in-battambang-lightning-strike-92329/
Boycott of Virak Buntham bus company launched
In the face of growing criticism and calls for a boycott of their services, Virak Buntham bus company has offered compensation to a customer who says he was robbed on a Siem Reap to Sihanoukville sleeper bus.
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14989/boycott-of-virak-buntham-bus-company-launched/
Strikers, police clash
A woman was killed and at least six others shot yesterday morning when police fired live ammunition into a crowd of hundreds of rioting garment workers in the capital’s Stung Meanchey district.
UN reports said police also arrested 37 people, including seven monks, as a result
Sean Teehan, Mom Kunthear and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strikers-police-clash
Chinese firm seeks rice from the Kingdom
Sino Grain, a Chinese agriculture company, has come to Cambodia seeking to import milled rice to China. Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh has encouraged the company to invest in Cambodia by building a rice processing plant in the country and not merely exporting grain. A
