Fear hinders independent journalism in Cambodia, survey finds
Fear of government interference, legal repercussions and violence remain impediments to free and independent journalism in Cambodia, according to a survey released on Wednesday in a report by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM). ...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fear-hinders-independent-journalism-in-cambodia-survey-finds-109992/
Attack on Prey Lang defender highlights logger brutality
A member of the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) in Kratie province was seriously injured after she was attacked by an unknown assailant while sleeping in a hammock on Sunday night near Boeung Cha village. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23301//
Heat, water shortages affecting rare bird life
Conservationists are expressing concern that some of the Kingdom’s endangered birds are not reproducing this year due to extreme heat stress, inability to find enough food and habitat loss from wildfires and human encroachment. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heat-water-shortages-affecting-rare-bird-life
Japan to help children cope with disabilities
The Japanese Embassy granted $256,317 in development aid to Cambodia on Monday, to be used by the Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan) to promote the educational inclusion of children with disabilities. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26895/japan-to-help-children-cope-with-disabilities/
Concern over trade deal’s investor dispute mechanism
A civil society organisation has raised concerns about the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), claiming that one provision of the sweeping trade agreement would limit the Kingdom’s ability to draft socially beneficial policies. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/concern-over-trade-deals-investor-dispute-mechanism
Cambodia asks China to double rice quota
Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak lobbied his visiting Chinese counterpart, Gao Hucheng, yesterday to consider doubling Cambodia’s annual rice export quota to China while also proposing a host of agricultural trade agreements. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-asks-china-double-rice-quota
Rojana eyes Cambodia zone
SET-listed Rojana Industrial Park Plc (ROJNA) will build an industrial park in Cambodia to tap growing investment in the neighbouring country expected after formation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC). ...
Lamonphet Apisitniran
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/716384/rojana-eyes-cambodia-zone
Sam Rainsy must apologize to Hun Sen, CPP says
The “culture of dialogue” between Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy will be over unless Mr. Rainsy issues a public apology for describing the premier as a fascist, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Thursday. ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sam-rainsy-must-apologize-to-hun-sen-cpp-says-98794/
Prisoner says release contingent on bribe
A Trapaing Thlong prison officer in Kampong Cham was last week accused of demanding $150 to release a prisoner who had fully served his 10-year term, a charge the prison’s director rejected yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisoner-says-release-contingent-bribe
Voter e-registration test run going ‘smoothly’
Testing of a new electronic voter registration system is “running smoothly”, with more than 14,000 people registered across 24 provinces since the pilot project began on November 1, the National Election Committee announced yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voter-e-registration-test-run-going-smoothly
Wild things return to Angkor Wat
Decades after poachers stripped the forests surrounding Angkor Wat of large mammals, an innovative conservation group is bringing them back. Already, Wildlife Alliance has rewilded the forest with gibbons and langurs. And more are coming. ...
Jeremy Hance
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/nov/24/angkor-wat-wildlife-gibbons-rewilding
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/
Duty-free shop follows tourism surge on coast
The new duty-free shop opened by China Duty Free Group (CDFG) in Sihanoukville will have a major impact on development of the tourism industry in the coastal resort, a senior provincial official said yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19469/duty-free-shop-follows-tourism-surge-on-coast/
Ministry seeks to arrest photoshopper abroad
The Interior Ministry has asked Interpol to help arrest a “Cambodian living abroad” it believes is responsible for doctoring and circulating an image of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s wife, according to a ministry spokesman. ...
Anthony Jensen and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-seeks-to-arrest-photoshopper-abroad-105899/
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/
Seatel launches Japan’s freetel smartphone
Seatel, a 100 percent 4G VoLTE telecommunication company in Cambodia, last Friday launched the FreeTel smartphone from Japan in the Cambodian market, as the use of smartphones in Cambodia has grown significantly. ...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24991/seatel-launches-japan---s-freetel-smartphone/
Malaysia to sign MOUs with kingdom
Malaysia may soon cooperate more closely with a number of the Kingdom’s ministries if all goes according to plan after this week’s 25th World Economic Forum on Asean (WEF) in Kuala Lumpur. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25674/malaysia-to-sign-mous-with-kingdom/
Panalpina comes to Cambodia
Switzerland-based Panalpina Group, the world’s leading provider of forwarding and logistics services, specializing in intercontinental air and ocean freight and associated supply chain management solutions, officially opened its own office in Cambodia yesterday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28198/panalpina-comes-to-cambodia/
Cambodia lodges complaint over Vietnam border outpost
The government has sent Hanoi a formal letter to complain about an outpost it claims Vietnam is building along a disputed stretch of border where both governments have supposedly agreed to refrain from any development. ...
Ouch Sony and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-lodges-complaint-vietnam-border-outpost-116486/
Unlicensed doctor flees after patient dies in Kompong Thom
A doctor is on the run following the death of a young woman in Kompong Thom province, who died on Friday after receiving an injection from the doctor at an unlicensed clinic, police said Sunday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unlicensed-doctor-flees-after-patient-dies-in-kompong-thom-95616/