Villagers protest over Kandal development
About 300 villagers from Kandal province’s Kandal Stueng district who are locked in a land dispute with the Heng Development Company gathered in front of the provincial hall yesterday asking for help in solving their case. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109479/villagers-protest-kandal-development/
Luxury time-share resort
A Japan-based firm plans to invest $3 million to develop a time-share resort built to five-star hotel standards on Kirirom Mountain – about 110 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh – with construction to start next year. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32625/luxury-time-share-resort/
General Electric signs sales agreement for 135Mw coal plant
Us-based energy giant General Electric (GE) signed a sales agreement yesterday to outfit the new 135-megawatt coal-fired plant in Preah Sihanouk province that is being constructed by a subsidiary of Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/general-electric-signs-sales-agreement-135mw-coal-plant
$5 million horticulture project
New Zealand is to provide $5 million to support the sustainable development of horticulture over a five-year period in Cambodia, New Zealand’s foreign minister Gerry Brownlee announced on Monday. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077252/5-million-horticulture-project/
CPP-linked monastic leader tells Cambodia’s monks to vote for ruling party
Cambodia’s top monastic leader, Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong, urged the nation’s monks yesterday to vote for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, explaining that the outcome of the 2018 national election has been “arranged already”. ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cpp-linked-monastic-leader-tells-cambodias-monks-vote-ruling-party
Corruption reform remains slow, expert says
Anti-corruption groups say Cambodia needs to do more to curb the practice. Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, told “Hello VOA” on Thursday that Cambodia is going the “right way,” but it needs to do more. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/corruption-reform-remains-slow-expert-says/2556771.html
Assembly to question Phanimex director
The National Assembly’s bipartisan Anti-Corruption Commission will today question Phanimex Development director Suy Sophan, who has been at the center of a bitter land dispute with more than 150 families in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood. ...
KUCH NAREN
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-to-question-phanimex-director-70002/
Prayut vows full cooperation with Asean over Mers
Thailand will give its full cooperation to ASEAN nations to prevent the spread of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus in the region, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said yesterday. ...
Patsara Jikkham and Paritta Wangkiat
http://bit.ly/1LDOYXA
Families seek their daughters’ safe return
Five families whose daughters were illegally trafficked to Malaysia to serve as domestic workers earlier this year are seeking their safe return after receiving word of the mistreatment they are being made to endure, rights group Adhoc said yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-seek-their-daughters-safe-return
HIV/AIDS funding plummets, but risks remain
Foreign funding for HIV/AIDs programs took a sharp dive last year, as a lower rate of HIV infection among the general population led donors to declare victory over the disease. But the disease remains a threat, experts say. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14096/hiv-aids-funding-plummets--but-risks-remain/
Dengue fever deaths on rise for 2015
Dengue fever has killed at least 16 people so far this year, an uptick from the same period last year, health officials say. The deaths are the result of nearly 4,700 infections. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/dengue-fever-deaths-on-rise-for-2015/2915151.html
Amnesty sets stance on sex work
Human rights NGO Amnesty International on Tuesday voted to adopt a policy to “protect the human rights of sex workers”, notably putting forward suggestions to decriminalise the consensual sex trade while safeguarding sex workers from possible exploitation. ...
Pech Sotheary and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/amnesty-sets-stance-sex-work
ACU: More than $150,000 will be paid for upcoming national high school exam observers
Senior minister Om Yentieng, the head of Anti-Corruption Unit, said Wednesday evening that his unit will spend roughly $150,000 for deploying voluntary observers to oversee the upcoming national high school exam. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/acu:-more-than-150000-will-be-paid-for-upcoming-national-high-school-exam-observers-8863
Rice Milling
After the garment industry, Cambodia’s Rice Milling efforts have been seen as ripe for consolidation. Discussion has focused on what model to adopt. Industry members have taken varying stances, as have members of the government more ...
WCS: Four species nearly extinct in Keo Seima Sanctuary
The Cambodian Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a report yesterday showing that four species which inhabit the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri are in danger of extinction. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50777156/wcs-four-species-nearly-extinct-in-keo-seima-sanctuary/
National Committee established to support migrant workers at border checkpoints
The Royal Government has established a national committee to facilitate the border crossing of Cambodian migrant workers. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501361377/national-committee-established-to-support-migrant-workers-at-border-checkpoints/
Australia ambassador says optimistic about ‘free, fair’ July general elections
Outgoing Australian ambassador Pablo Kang expressed confidence that the 7th parliamentary election, scheduled for July 23 this year, will go smoothly with the participation of many political parties. Kang met with Minister of Interior Sar Kheng at the ministry headquarters on January 9, as he ...
Irrawaddy dolphin numbers rise
The World Wildlife Fund said that the Irrawaddy dolphin population increased by ten percent in 2017 when compared to data obtained in 2015, but the animal advocate remains concerned about threats that continue in the habitat of the dolphins. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50480023/irrawaddy-dolphin-numbers-rise-2/
Social Land Concession for poor families in Kampong Thom
The Kampong Thom provincial authority will provide about 2,000 hectares of land to about 700 poor families in Prasat Balaing district’s Daung commune in an effort to help uplift the community, according to the provincial governor. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504865/social-land-concession-for-poor-families-in-kampong-thom/
US human trafficking report ‘biased’
A senior government official on Sunday reacted to a US report which said the Kingdom had not fully met the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, saying it seemed to be biased against the Cambodian government. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-human-trafficking-report-%E2%80%98biased%E2%80%99