ACU tosses complaint against ActionAid
The Anti-Corruption Unit on Thursday dismissed a complaint filed by a Cambodian NGO against the local arm of the international humanitarian group ActionAid for allegedly embezzling $3 million, the unit’s chairman said. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Janelle Kohnert
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-tosses-complaint-against-actionaid-110404/
Homeless children back from Vietnam
Twenty-nine homeless Cambodians, including 20 children, will be repatriated from Ho Chi Minh City today. Apart from the children, the group consists of nine adults – three men and six women. Of the 20 children, 10 are boys and 10 are girls, according to Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27017/homeless-children-back-from-vietnam/
Cambodia signs MoU with Morocco
Cambodia’s secretariat of Civil Aviation signed a Memorandum of Understanding, last week, with the Morocco Civil Aviation Authority that technically allows direct flights between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2016/08/cambodia-signs-mou-with-morocco/
Cambodia, Vietnam to enhance cooperation
Cambodia and Vietnam yesterday pledged to enhance cooperation and also pushed for the completion of demarcating the border to build peace and development. The discussion was held yesterday during a meeting between National Assembly President Heng samrin and Vietnam’s National Assembly chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30250/cambodia--vietnam-to-enhance-cooperation/
Sugar plantation caught again with illegal wood
Authorities in Kompong speu province on Wednesday seized more than 1,000 logs on the property of a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation, marking the third time the firm has been found with illicit timber in the past year. Local officials offered no explanation for why the plantation’s on-site ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-plantation-caught-illegal-wood-118908/
Gray-market cars continue to deter potential investment
Germany’s car manufacturers are on edge as the U.K., their No. 1 importer, prepares to leave the E.U. And although expanding into Cambodia’s market is unlikely to ease their anxiety, German investors who gathered in Phnom Penh on Thursday said whatever potential might exist here ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/gray-market-cars-continue-to-deter-potential-investment-125321/
Kingdom a one-man show, report asserts
It’s a mistake to consider Cambodia a nation under authoritarian rule by a single party; it comes down to a single man – Prime Minister Hun sen, a new paper argues. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-one-man-show-report-asserts
JICA support for logistics
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will continue to support the development of Cambodia’s logistics sector in its partnership with the government to reduce transport costs and strengthen the country’s logistics infrastructure. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35010/jica-support-for-logistics/
US imposes sanctions on Oknha Pheap and Kun Kim
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed strong dismay on Monday over the designation of Cambodian tycoon Oknha Try Pheap and General Kun Kim under the Us’ Global Magnitsky Act. “It is very disturbing when the public figures of a country become the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/us-imposes-sanctions-oknha-pheap-and-kun-kim
Google Launches Khmer Translation Service
Internet search giant Google on Friday launched a new service that for the first time allows users to instantly translate Khmer script into other languages. Khmer is the most recent addition to the 66-strong collection of languages between which words, sentences or whole websites can be ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/google-launches-khmer-translation-service-19417/
Death Threat Made Against CNRP’s Social Media Activist
Thy Sovantha iS accuStomed to being threatened on Facebook. But the 19-year-old CNRP youth activiSt, who became Something of an online celebrity through the popular oppoSition Facebook page “I Love Cambodia Hot NewS,” SayS the lateSt threat againSt her, in which a copy of her paSSport SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/death-threat-made-against-cnrps-social-media-activist-51124/
Workers on strike to demand annual leave, administrator be ousted
Around 1,000 garment workers from a factory producing jeans in Bith Trang special Economic Zone in Prey Nop district went on strike to protest against administration chief in their factory. They also demanded the annual leave of 18-21 days per years, which were rejected by ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MDc5ZDFkY2Q1MzB
Hun Manet meets Vietnamese defense minister in Hanoi
Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh says Vietnam is willing to co-operate with Cambodia in terrorism prevention through exchanges and joint drills, Nhan Dan reported Wednesday. The official organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam said the offer was made at a reception in Hanoi Tuesday ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=YjI5OWFhZGMwMTM
Flooding chaos drives families onto safe hill
Recent flooding has claimed another victim, a child in Kratie province who drowned, bringing the total death toll to 30, Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said yesterday. While water levels are declining across the 12 provinces affected by flooding, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-chaos-drives-families-safe-hill
Tally of goods linked to child labour grows
Four more goods made in Cambodia have been linked to exploitative child labour, adding to a mounting list of items the United states considers to be produced in violation of international rights laws. The mounting number of Cambodian goods found to use child labour runs ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tally-goods-linked-child-labour-grows
Disability benefits to be broadened by gov’t
A Ministry of social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/disability-benefits-be-broadened-gov%E2%80%99t
Montagnards emerge from Cambodian jungle to meet UN team
Thirteen ethnic Montagnards have emerged from the jungles of Cambodia, where they hid for more than seven weeks after entering the country from Vietnam to flee alleged persecution, the United Nations and local authorities said saturday. Eight of the Montagnards–including one woman–left their jungle hiding ss='cambodia-color'>...
Big News Network Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/228741119
Banh says military shows bias toward the gov’t
Defense Minister Tea Banh joked Tuesday that the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are “biased to the right people” in protecting the government from destabilizing political agitators. speaking at the annual review of the military’s activities at the Defense Ministry, General Banh said the armed forces ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/banh-says-military-shows-bias-toward-the-govt-79059/
In logging hotbed, 7 arrested for felling trees
Forestry officials and police on Monday arrested seven men for logging illegally in stung Treng province’s sesan district, officials said Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-logging-hotbed-7-arrested-for-felling-trees-80657/
CNRP lawmaker plans to visit controversial detention center
Opposition CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang says he will visit Phnom Penh’s Prey speu social affairs center today to investigate its controversial treatment of detainees following the death of a recent charge. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-plans-to-visit-controversial-detention-center-74001/