Families split on offer from Vietnamese firm
Seventy families in Ratanakkiri province have agreed to accept a 100-hectare plot of land, bringing an end to their four-year dispute with a Vietnamese rubber company, but 156 other families refused to settle, officials said Thursday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-split-on-offer-from-vietnamese-firm-88709/
Pedophile Molodyakov guilty in Russia
Russian serial pedophile Stanislav Molodyakov—who preyed on Cambodian Street children for years before he was deported to his home country in 2012—has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for raping dozens of schoolgirls, according to Russian media. ...
Ben Woods
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/notorious-pedophile-molodyakov-guilty-in-russia-90577/
Trafficking arrests protested
About 200 people gathered in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district on Sunday demanding the release of two women who were arrested last week for allegedly chaining up their 13-year-old niece and selling her for sex. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficking-arrests-protested
Study finds high HIV rate among men having sex with men
The infection rate of HIV has fallen sharply in Cambodia over the last five years, new statistics show, though the rate for men who have sex with men in the sex industry remains high. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/study-finds-high-hiv-rate-among-men-having-sex-with-men/2915005.html
Bus crash death toll reaches 17
The number of casualties from last week’s fatal bus crash in the Dankrek Mountains rose to 17 on Friday, after victim Sem Sambath, 58, succumbed to her injuries, Siem Reap Provincial Hospital director Pen Phalkun said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-crash-death-toll-reaches-17
On trial, former counselor to Vietnam denies forging letter
Cambodia’s former deputy consul-general to Ho Chi Minh City denied forging a document to help a private company smuggle luxury-grade wood into Vietnam during the first day of his trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-trial-former-counselor-to-vietnam-denies-forging-letter-91891/
Cambodia dam’s benefits exclude people in its vicinity
The construction of the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia, though beneficial to urban areas, has not been so good for those who live close to the dam site in Kampot province, according to a study. ...
Madhukara Putty
http://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/energy/news/cambodia-dam-s-benefits-exclude-people-in-its-vicinity.html
Illegal fishing nets, traps seized
Fisheries administration officials cracked down on illegal fishing activities in Kampong Cham province’s Boeung Thom lake on Saturday, seizing and destroying illegal fish traps and more than a kilometre of illegal extra-fine netting, officials said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-fishing-nets-traps-seized
Student arrested after posting about 'revolution'
An anti-government activist has been imprisoned over a social media post in which he called for people in Cambodia to join him in a “colour revolution”, though critics of the arrest say he enjoys no political influence. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/student-arrested-after-posting-about-revolution
ACU to push for law to protect whistleblowers
In May, the government said it was prepared to pass a law that would provide long-overdue protections to whistleblowers in Cambodia, but the officials responsible for drafting the law have been suffering from a bad case of writer’s block. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14915/acu-to-push-for-law-to-protect-whistleblowers/
Police shut down Siem Reap Snakehead fish farm
Following the seizure of about 100,000 snakehead fish from a van in Siem Reap province last week, police on Tuesday afternoon raided the fish farm where the illegal fry came from, according to deputy provincial police chief Oum Amra. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-shut-down-siem-reap-snakehead-fish-farm-92669/
Opposition VP says fair elections would mean wins in 2017, 2018
Kem Sokha, the vice president of the opposition, addressed supporters in Australia last week, claiming that even if “another” party has its own supporters embedded in his party, fair elections in 2018 are what count. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-vp-says-fair-elections-would-mean-wins-in-2017-2018/2939298.html
Vietnam starts building new bridge to Cambodia
Construction began Monday on the Tan An Bridge on a key transport route connecting the southern province of An Giang’s Tan Chau Town and Cambodia’s Phnom Penh via the Vinh Xuong International Border Gate. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/world/vietnam-starts-building-new-bridge-to-cambodia-13245
No link between past trauma and poverty: study
Thirty-five years later, the psychological wounds caused by the Khmer Rouge remain fresh. Witnesses still break down in tears while testifying at the Tribunal. But how has the psychological trauma of the Khmer Rouge years affected the survivors’ economic status? ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15422//
Angkor resort received 400,000 tourists in first eight months
Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap province welcomed 393,293 foreign tourists in the first eight months of this year, earning $18,332,011. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50759735/angkor-resort-received-400000-tourists-in-first-eight-months/
At least 88 Covid-19 cases logged in Svay Rieng
Svay Rieng provincial administration has detected at least 88 Covid-19 patients, all of them are garment workers from six districts and two cities. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50865364/at-least-88-covid-19-cases-logged-in-svay-rieng/
1354 people busted for curfew violation in Cambodia last night
The COVID-19 Law Enforcement Commission says that 1354 people were detained and 734 vehicles were confiscated in another night of widespread curfew breaking in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50909134/1354-people-busted-for-curfew-violation-in-cambodia-last-night/
Delta can spread in 15 seconds
The Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus is at least two times more transmissible, being able to infect the next person within 15 seconds, according to world experts. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50902050/delta-can-spread-in-15-seconds/
Pailin to reopen more than 40 schools after evaluation
Pailin is gearing up for the reopening of 47 schools after evaluation and risk assessment. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50930815/pailin-to-reopen-more-than-40-schools-after-evaluation/
MoH ends at-home quarantine for recovered patients
The Health Ministry yesterday announced the exemption of at-home quarantine for Covid-19 patients who have completed treatment at hospitals or treatment centres. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50959497/moh-ends-at-home-quarantine-for-recovered-patients/