NGO director arrested by Vietnamese authorities
A Cambodian NGO director who on Saturday took about 40 of his primary- and high-school students on a trip to a disputed border area in Svay Rieng province was beaten by Vietnamese civilians and imprisoned overnight, officials said Sunday. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-director-arrested-by-vietnamese-authorities-87341/
Jarai: police OK’d logging
Members of the ethnic Jarai community in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district have lodged a complaint with the provincial court, demanding that it take legal action against four Vietnamese nationals and two Cambodian border officials for offences related to illegal logging. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jarai-police-okd-logging
Cambodian civil society groups to stage mass protest against NGO draft law
A coalition of Cambodian nongovernmental organizations will stage a peaceful protest on Monday outside parliament in the capital Phnom Penh to oppose proposed legislation that they say will restrict their activities, an official with a prominent domestic rights groups said. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/civil-society-groups-to-stage-mass-protest-against-ngo-draft-law-07102015131222.html
Young Cambodians launch campaign to combat violence against women
About 400 young Cambodians and members of the armed forces have launched a campaign calling for an end to violence against women and girls in response to a brutal attack by a real estate tycoon on a former female TV presenter. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/young-cambodians-launch-campaign-to-combat-violence-against-women-07102015135041.html
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/