NGO to probe illegal logging
A prominent forest activist based in Kampong Speu province is set to launch a field investigation into alleged illegal logging at the Phnom Oral and Phnom Kravanh wildlife sanctuaries despite “threats of arrest” by rangers and military officers in the area. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-probe-illegal-logging
Most garment workers not expecting new $207 monthly wage
Most garment workers are expecting a new monthly minimum wage between $160 and $180, according to the results of a recent survey, far lower than the $207 some unions say they plan to seek in fast-approaching negotiations with the factories. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/most-garment-workers-not-expecting-new-207-monthly-wage-94698/
Sonando’s Beehive party marks first month with second fight
Four of the top officials from charismatic radio personality Mam Sonando’s new Beehive Social Democratic Party, including a deputy leader, have filed a court complaint requesting a temporary injunction against the party’s operations until corruption claims are investigated. ...
Mech Dara and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sonandos-beehive-party-marks-first-month-with-second-fight-97038/
Police arrest 37 in meth sweep in Trapaing Chhouk
Police arrested 36 men and one woman on Saturday in the latest raid on Phnom Penh’s Trapaing Chhouk slum, a cluster of shanties above a fetid pond in Sen Sok district where crystal methamphetamine use and distribution are rampant. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-37-in-meth-sweep-in-trapaing-chhouk-98243/
Olympia Plaza to rise on $60M investment
Local conglomerate Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) will invest $60 million in the construction of Olympia Plaza, a seven-storey shopping mall being built inside the company’s mixed-use Olympia City project in central Phnom Penh, the company confirmed yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/olympia-plaza-rise-60m-investment
Cambodia judicial system failing rape survivors: report
Survivors of rape in Cambodia are being failed by a judicial system mired in corruption, where perpetrators can pay to have charges dropped and some victims have to marry their attackers, according to a report released Sunday. ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/cambodia-judicial-system-failing-rape-survivors-report/482939
NEC to accept secretary-general applications
The nearly year-old bipartisan National Election Committee (NEC) will later this week begin accepting applications for the position of secretary-general, its top administrative role, with the man currently in the job, Tep Nytha, saying on Sunday that he would be applying. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-to-accept-secretary-general-applications-102903/
Wear a helmet: it’s the law and your life!
As the new helmet laws go into effect on January first, with higher fines for not wearing one and a new requirement that motorcycle passengers also be helmeted, there is a push to publicize the dangers of riding without one. ...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19110/wear-a-helmet--it---s-the-law-and-your-life-/
Former prime minister wins defamation case
A former MEC Co. Ltd shareholder was tried in absentia by the Court of Appeals yesterday morning for allegedly defaming his former company and MEC’s chairman, former Cambodian Prime Minister Ung Huot, in 2014, according to a court official. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21540/former-prime-minister-wins-defamation-case/
City hall planning to privatize 280-hectare development site
City Hall plans to privatize a 280-hectare plot of public land set aside for a $3 billion development by the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district, officials said Thursday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-planning-to-privatize-280-hectare-development-site-109413/
Still lessons to learn for Cambodians watching U.S. election campaign
The ongoing presidential election campaign in the United States may be one of the more unseemly the country has seen, but observers and politicians in Cambodia say their country still has a lot to learn from the American democratic process. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/still-lessons-to-learn-for-cambodians-watching-us-election-campaign/3268463.html
Activists request to march on ACU HQ
Land rights activists from 10 communities in the capital yesterday submitted a request to City Hall requesting permission to march to the Anti-Corruption Unit’s headquarters and deliver a petition in support of human rights activists jailed this week. ...
Chhay Channyda and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-request-march-acu-hq
Two at Ratanakkiri hospital axed for fund mismanagement
Two Ratanakkiri Referral Hospital officials have been ousted from their posts following an audit that found that more than $13,000 from the hospital’s travel allowance account was mismanaged, causing the hospital to run out of money to pay staff. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-ratanakkiri-hospital-axed-fund-mismanagement
Maternal, child health outpacing neighbours
Cambodia is among 10 countries that achieved accelerated progress in maternal and child health – ahead of comparable countries – by meeting goals to reduce mortality among those population groups, according to a recent cross-country analysis by the WHO. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maternal-child-health-outpacing-neighbours
Bridge broken by illegal load
Kampot’s Ta Reach bridge was severely damaged by a truck overloaded with illegal luxury timber over the weekend, prompting a manhunt for the truck’s driver, who was apparently on his way to Vietnam at the time of the accident. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26038/bridge-broken-by-illegal-load/
Junket investor’s profit falls but sticking to its Cambodia bets
Jimei International Entertainment Group, a Hong Kong-listed casino junket investor that promotes at least seven gaming tables in NagaWorld casino in Phnom Penh, reported a steep decline in profit during the first half of 2016 despite increased turnover. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/junket-investors-profit-falls-sticking-its-cambodia-bets
Man faces up to two years for threatening Sok Touch’s life
A 27-year-old migrant worker who used his Facebook page to threaten to “shoot the head of Sok Touch,” a prominent scholar recently tasked with researching the Vietnamese border, was provisionally charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/man-faces-up-to-two-years-for-threatening-sok-touchs-life-93588/
With 1M ‘likes,’ PM says Facebook page is his
After more than two years of denials from Prime Minister Hun Sen that a Facebook fan page bearing his name really belongs to him, the premier’s cabinet has acknowledged that it does—shortly after the page garnered its one-millionth “like.” ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-1m-likes-pm-says-facebook-page-is-his-95006/
Cambodian Premier wants to build closer ties with foreign diplomats
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is willing to build closer relations between the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC)’s senior officials and foreign diplomats accredited to the country, according to the State News Angcy-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-premier-wants-to-build-closer-ties-with-foreign-diplomats-9047
Returnee maid takes own life
A Tbong Khmum woman, whose family said she had been plagued by major personality changes and signs of mental illness since returning from working as a maid in Malaysia, hanged herself with a hammock cord in her house Sunday afternoon. ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/returnee-maid-takes-own-life