Authorities seize close to 100kg of snakes in Pursat
A forestry administration chief at the Pursat provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Monday said a couple and their six-year-old daughter had been detained for several hours over the illegal trafficking of wildlife before being released. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-seize-close-100kg-snakes-pursat
Court rejects activists’ appeal to reopen case
The Appeal Court has rejected a plea from two Boeung Kak activists to restart an investigation into a nighttime attack on lake residents, journalists and others in 2013 at Phnom Penh’s Wat Phnom by thugs and plainclothes police officials. ...
Kim Sarom and Ananth Baliga
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rejects-activists-appeal-reopen-case
Unpaid workers planning procession
Workers at the First Gawon Apparel factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district are planning a procession to many different institutions as well as Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house next week to request intervention in a dispute over wages. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50303356/unpaid-workers-planning-procession/
Report outlines Prey Lang loggers
At least 73 people were detained this year and handed over to the environment authority by the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) for clearing forest in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a huge nAture reserve in northern Cambodia spanning four provinces. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-outlines-prey-lang-loggers
Cambodian firm probed over S’ville plastic waste
Kun Nhem the director-general of the General Department of Customs and Excise, said on Sunday that the owner of a Cambodian business is being questioned over the discovery last week of 83 plastic-rubbish filled containers at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-firm-probed-over-sville-plastic-waste
Mekong summit sees $66B worth of projects agreed to
Six countries pledged to enact $66 billion worth of projects over the next five years at the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit in Hanoi on Saturday, with Cambodia-specific projects scheduled to receive the least amount of funding of any participant. ...
Robin Spiess
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mekong-summit-sees-66b-worth-projects-agreed
Fake news a serious issue
The Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) on Monday said ‘fake news’ has been polluting publications and sparking controversy in the Kingdom, especially on social media. The remarks were made on Monday at a roundtable discussion organised by CCJ in Phnom Penh. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fake-news-serious-issue
Government and FAO push for zero hunger
The government and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation have committed to eradicating hunger in Cambodia by 2030. The commitment was made yesterday at an event to mark World Food Day 2018 in Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541166/government-and-fao-push-for-zero-hunger/
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
As UN envoy arrives, rights defenders question sway
As Rhona Smith, the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, began her first official visit to the country Wednesday, leading human rights activists were at odds over how much her position could influence the situation on the ground. ...
Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-un-envoy-arrives-rights-defenders-question-sway-94474/
Budget for a rising economy
Government spending on social welfare and economic development could both see double-digit growth next year, according to a document summarizing expenditures in next year’s budget that will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Hun Sen today. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16970/budget-for-a-rising-economy/
CNRP lawmakers set to retake seats in NA
The CNRP yesterday announced its lawmakers will attend Wednesday’s plenary session at the National Assembly, ending the party’s almost two-month boycott that began after the brutal beating of two of its lawmakers outside parliament by pro-government protesters. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-lawmakers-set-retake-seats-na
Trilateral agreement signed to combat human trafficking
Cambodia signed an agreement with Vietnam and Laos during a meeting on Thursday to enhance efforts to fight human trafficking—with Vietnam reporting at the meeting that police discovered nearly 90 human trafficking rings along its border with Cambodia last year. ...
សាំង សុឥន្ទរិទ្ធ និង Aria Danaparamita
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/29587/
Gov’t warns of rainy season diseases
The director of the Communicable Disease Control (CDC) Department at the Ministry of Health has urged the public to protect themselves from diseases that are easily spread in the upcoming rainy season, including dengue fever, malaria, acute watery diarrohea and influenza. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25567/gov---t-warns-of-rainy-season-diseases/
Gov’t chides EU over Sokha statement
A Justice Ministry spokesman yesterday lashed out at European Union representatives for a statement condemning the “judicial harassment” of opposition leader Kem Sokha, while the Ministry of Education slammed a teachers union that backed the CNRP acting president. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-chides-eu-over-sokha-statement
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/
Including the poor in a financial ecosystem
Financial markets in Cambodia have to serve more people, especially the poor, with more products at a lower cost and the key challenge lies in creating a broader interconnected financial ecosystem that reaches populations that cannot access banks, said industry experts. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27265/including-the-poor-in-a-financial-ecosystem/
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
Immigration police raid Cambodia beer site
Immigration police rounded up nearly 80 Vietnamese migrant workers along with six European engineers at the construction site of a new Cambodia Beer factory in Phnom Penh on Monday afternoon because they did not possess work permits, according to an immigration official. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/immigration-police-raid-cambodia-beer-site-97743/
Teacher who stripped student awaiting trial
A teacher accused six months ago of punishing an 11-year-old female student by making her strip at the Hun Sen Wat Thmey Primary School in Svay Rieng province was finally detained and is awaiting trial, authorities said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teacher-who-stripped-student-awaiting-trial