Couple charged over child labor ring
A couple arrested for renting 22 children from their parents and forcing them to sell fruit on Phnom Penh’s streets and beer gardens were charged on Friday by the municipal court, police said. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/couple-charged-over-child-labor-ring-95612/
Returnee maid takes own life
A Tbong Khmum woman, whose family said she had been plagued by major personality changes and signs of mental illness since returning from working as a maid in Malaysia, hanged herself with a hammock cord in her house Sunday afternoon. ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/returnee-maid-takes-own-life
NEC to host daily party panel discussions on television, radio
The National Election Committee will broadcast daily interview panels featuring all political parties that are running in upcoming local elections on state-run television and radio stations during the 14-day election campaign period, spokesman Hang Puthea said on Tuesday. ...
Residents claim threats over anti-dam slogans
Residents of Stung Treng province who are facing eviction due to the Lower Sesan II hydropower project accused local officials yesterday of threatening to arrest them if they don’t refrain from hanging banners reading “Would rather die than leave” on their homes. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/residents-claim-threats-over-anti-dam-slogans
Environmental campaigner convicted of forestry crime
A prominent anti-dam activist in Koh Kong province who has been jailed since October was convicted Thursday of illegal logging and given a suspended prison sentence, allowing him to walk free but leaving the shadow of a criminal conviction hanging over him. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/109399-109399/
Barriers remain for Southeast Asia’s economic integration plans
Efforts to integrate of Southeast Asia’s economies are beginning to bear fruit, experts say, although there is some way to go before the goal of turning the region into a single market and production base can be reached. ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/barriers-remain-for-southeast-asia-economic-integration-plans/3190571.html
Ministry of Agriculture calls for investments in Longan processing
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries has called on private sector to invest in processing facilities for longan, while is also in talks to export the fruit to more international markets. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50920608/ministry-of-agriculture-calls-for-investments-in-longan-processing/
Kampong Thom police seize 114 wild animals
Kampong Thom provincial military police yesterday seized 114 wild animals being illegally transported by bus in Stoung district. Brigadier General Hang Thol, provincial military police commander, said police also arrested the bus driver for questioning after the seizure at Samproch commune’s Slak Kranh village. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50645297/kampong-thom-police-seize-114-wild-animals/
Local cotton farming abandoned
Despite huge amounts of potential and a well-rooted past, the Kingdom’s cotton cultivation industry seems to be hanging by a thread. Though the country relies heavily on cotton fabric in its massive garment sector, insiders say Cambodian farmers have mostly abandoned the crop. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-cotton-farming-abandoned
Abuse trial of former orphanage boss starts
The child sex abuse trial of orphanage director and former head of child protection NGO APLE, Hang Vibol, began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, with the defendant reportedly testifying that the accusations against him were an attempt at revenge by aggrieved former colleagues. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/abuse-trial-former-orphanage-boss-starts
Man arrested, timber seized in Kampong Thom raid
One man has been arrested and more than 100 planks of second-grade luxury timber seized by authorities in Kampong Thom yesterday. Hang Vunn, 22, was arrested by Sandan district police after he was found to be operating an illegal sawmill in Sochetr commune. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-arrested-timber-seized-kampong-thom-raid
Hydropower dam puts a way of life at risk
In the heart of the Areng Valley, on the edges of the rolling Cardamom Mountains, an old Bodhi tree pierces the thick green canopy. At its base, nestled in between its hanging roots, sits a ramshackle altar of tin and timber for the spirit of ...
Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hydropower-dam-puts-a-way-of-life-at-risk-78844/
‘Insurrection’ case still looms over opposition activists
Phnom Penh Municipal Court again delayed a hearing for 11 opposition activists, shortly after opening one on Monday. But the case still hangs over them, along with charges that Human Rights Watch has called “ridiculous.” ...
Neou Vannarin
http://bit.ly/1G2p0Zj
Evictions signal coastal development dilemma
With the threat of eviction hanging over businesses on Sihanoukville’s O’Chheuteal and O’Tres beaches, land rights advocates congregated in Phnom Penh this week to give voice to thousands of families locked in land disputes with powerful firms turning swaths of coastline into tourism destinations. ...
Sek Odom and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictions-signal-coastal-development-dilemma-110279/
Dam threat to Mekong River’s last few dolphins
The fate of the last surviving Irrawaddy river dolphins on the Laos-Cambodian border hangs in the balance after a Laos government official was reported as saying this week that construction of the dam would begin by the end of the year. ...
Claire Boobbyer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/11857911/Dam-threat-to-Mekong-Rivers-last-few-dolphins.html
NEC warns NGOs and foreigners
NGOs and foreigners have been warned that they could face fines or expulsion from the country for causing confusion or affecting the results of the upcoming Senate elections. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said the NEC has made regulations and procedures based on existing laws in Cambodia. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108174/nec-warns-ngos-foreigners/
Half a million voters register
The National Election Committee yesterday closed the voter registration list at 5.30 pm, with more than 32 percent of an estimated 1.6 million newly eligible voters having signed up successfully. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said final registration figures will be released today. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089916/half-million-voters-register/
Trial of portrait artist charged with murder ends blurry
Who killed 24-year-old Chhun Kim at an Internet shop run by her family? This was the question left hanging at the end of a hearing at the Court of First Instance yesterday, where 22-year-old portrait sketcher Dang Sopheak was on trial for her murder. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14644/trial-of-portrait-artist-charged-with-murder-ends-blurry/
MFI credit risk relatively low, NBC’s Serey says
On the basis that non-performing loans stood around 2.3 percent as of August 31, 2020, credit risk in the microfinance sector remains relatively low, said National Bank of Cambodia assistant governor and director-general Chea Serey. ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfi-credit-risk-relatively-low-nbcs-serey-says
Tina seeks low-interest agri-loans from Japan
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina requested the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) facilitate low-interest loans for Cambodian entrepreneurs and farmers. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tina-seeks-low-interest-agri-loans-japan