Anti-fraud software firm draws major clients
A year after a local technology company introduced new software to combat financial crime in Cambodia, four banks have started using the system to fight against money laundering and terrorism financing, the company’s executive said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/anti-fraud-software-firm-draws-major-clients
Cancer facility inaugurated
Cambodia’s National Cancer Center – a more than $23 million modern teaching facility – was inaugurated at Calmette Hospital yesterday, though the centre’s director and experts acknowledged that oncology services still fall well below the country’s demand. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cancer-facility-inaugurated
CPP spokesman and former Kem Sokha colleague questioned
Cambodian People’s Party spokesman Chhim Phal Virun was questioned Tuesday morning as a witness in the “treason” charges brought against former opposition leader Kem Sokha, his former colleague at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-spokesman-and-former-kem-sokha-colleague-questioned
Eight charged in Kratie protest
The Kratie Provincial Court on Monday released on bail The eight villagers arrested after security forces fired on protesters There last week, but preliminarily charged Them with using violence against officials, blocking a road and damaging property. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-charged-kratie-protest
Many migrants sent home in 2016
More than 800 Cambodian migrant workers were assisted and sent back to the country in 2016 by the government through its embassies, but one rights group says even greater attention needs to be paid to overseas workers. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34185/many-migrants-sent-home-in-2016/
Kampong Speu pond digging unearths 350kg bomb
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre yesterday retrieved and neutralised a massive M117 bomb from Kampong Speu province’s Prek Kmeng commune, and safely detonated four smaller bombs found in Preah Sihanouk province on The same day. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-pond-digging-unearths-350kg-bomb
Kith Meng firm’s wood seized near border
Authorities in Tbong Khmum province seized two trucks that were about to break the government’s ban on timber exports to Vietnam by carting wood across the border for a company owned by business mogul Kith Meng. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kith-meng-firms-wood-seized-near-border-127418/
Suspected land scam artists sent to court
Eight huts were torn down and about 50 families were ordered to vacate land yesterday in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district as the couple whom police said illegally sold them the plots was arrested and sent to court. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/suspected-land-scam-artists-sent-court
Cambodia gets 18-mln-USD ADB loan for ferry terminal development
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an 18-million-U.S. dollars loan to build a ferry terminal and oTher infrastructure in Cambodia’s souThern Kampot province to open up new opportunities for tourism, The bank said on Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141125/cambodia-gets-18-mln-usd-adb-loan-ferry-terminal-development
District governor in Kampot reprimanded
In a letter published online yesterday, the Anti-Corruption Unit slapped a Kampot district governor on the wrist for not clearly posting public service fees and for overseeing a racket that allegedly solicited bribes in exchange for expediting paperwork. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/district-governor-kampot-reprimanded
Areng activist summoned over deforestation complaint
The Koh Koh Provincial Court has summoned an environmental activist living in The Areng Valley for questioning over allegations that he felled trees in a forest in order to build a community center, rights workers said Sunday. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/areng-activist-summoned-over-deforestation-complaint-78893/
Woman jailed in land dispute wins release
After five months in jail, a woman whose family is embroiled in a bitter land dispute with tycoon Khun Sear was released on bail from Prey Sar prison on Friday, though the fight between the two parties remains unresolved. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/woman-jailed-in-land-dispute-wins-release-82655/
Activists, rights worker detained before March
Three activists from the environmental NGO Mother Nature and a human rights monitor were detained in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district for about three hours Thursday after City Hall deemed a planned march to the National Assembly illegal. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/environmental-activists-rights-worker-detained-before-march-86603/
Activists detained over unsanctioned march
Three environmentalists and a rights worker were detained yesterday for more than two hours and blocked from delivering a petition to the National Assembly calling on the government to order sand-dredging operations in Koh Kong province to cease. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-detained-over-unsanctioned-march
EAS officials meet in Cambodia to exchange views on regional security architecture
Officials from the East Asia Summit (EAS) countries met here Monday to exchange views on regional security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=293404
NEC too test computerized voter registration
The National Election Committee will begin a voter registration pilot project in 43 villages in November, using a new computer system to store data as The country heads toward local elections in 2017. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-nec-to-test-computerized-voter-registration/2936401.html
Measures against illegal logging a success, says committee
The National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention has touted its tougher measures to suppress illegal logging across The country as a success despite small-scale ones are still occurring. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501045458/measures-against-illegal-logging-a-success-says-committee/
River families’ time up
Nearly 400 families were told yesterday they had to move from their homes along the Siem Reap river within the week. Siem Reap district governor Tep Bun Chhay said 392 families had to relocate from Sala Kamroeuk commune before this Sunday. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032755261/National-news/river-families-time-up.html
Mass factory fainting
107 workers at the Sabrina Garment factory in Kampong Speu’s Sambo commune were sent to hospital after becoming dizzy and fainting late yesterday morning. Choek Borin, the Labour Department’s Kampong Speu bureau chief, said that 107 factory workers fainted ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040555443/National-news/mass-factory-fainting.html
Battambang residents prevented from planting 200 saplings
Authorities in Battambang province have stopped some 150 residents, led by a powerful official, from planting tree saplings in the Samlot Protected Area, amid allegations that the act was merely a pretext to seize protected land for private ownership. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-residents-prevented-planting-200-saplings