Khmer translated by ODC

Chairman of the Ad-hoc Commission to Receive, Hand over, and Verify Cambodia’s Maps Hor Namhong who is also deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs received here this morning the copies of maps from French official. ...

A young couple has confessed to trafficking Cambodian women to be sold to men in China after they were arrested at the Phnom Penh International Airport Tuesday night while preparing to board a flight to Shanghai with their two latest victims, police said. ...

Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP) secretary-general Sam Inn said Wednesday the new party is aiming to win enough National Assembly seats in the 2018 election to play kingmaker in a scenario in which neither the ruling CPP nor opposition CNRP win enough seats to form government. ...

Despite verifying that the current maps being used to demarcate the border with Vietnam and the maps loaned to the Kingdom from the UN last month were the same, the Cambodian government will hold another verification ceremony with a series of maps sent from France. ...

A lawyer for four unionists who were handed suspended 18-month prison sentences for blocking a road last year filed an appeal with the Svay Rieng Provincial Court on Wednesday. ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has received a complaint from 22 Cambodians who say the lender is falling short in its efforts to fix the mistakes it has made in planning and carrying out its ongoing rehabilitation of the country’s dilapidated railway tracks. ...

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, USAID and a range of participating organizations have launched a five-year initiative they hope will transform the way in which the government, organizations, universities and citizens use data for research and decision-making. ...

Foreign diplomats this week have called for increased vigilance and caution on Cambodia’s coast, partcularly in places such as Sihanoukville, Koh Rong and Kampot, following a spike in serious crimes against foreigners. ...

After Phnom Penh City Hall announced last month that bus stations must be moved outside the city by next year, a Thai company put forward a proposal on Tuesday to invest in bus parking lots on the city’s outskirts, according to the municipality. ...

Indigenous people in Mondolkiri province have joined together to form a new political party to give a voice to the country’s minority groups, a party official said Wednesday. ...

At least eight more people have died from dengue fever in less than a month, prompting health officials to warn people to be vigilant in preventing the disease. The total number of dengue infections has risen to nearly 7,000, up from around 2,000 last year, ...

Cambodian authorities say they have received no request for aid in the Thai investigation of a bombing in Bangkok in August, following the detention of a second suspect near the Cambodian border on Tuesday. ...

The Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to jail an opposition senator, who is accused of posting false border maps online, an offense Prime Minister Hun Sen has likened to “treason.” ...

Seventeen members of a Cambodian rights group and environmental NGO were briefly detained by authorities in Cambodia’s southeastern Koh Kong province Wednesday as they observed protests calling for the release of three activists held for interfering with sand-dredging operations, sources said. ...

Police in Koh Kong province on Wednesday detained at least 17 people, who had been protesting the detention of three environmental activists. ...

Construction began Monday on the Tan An Bridge on a key transport route connecting the southern province of An Giang’s Tan Chau Town and Cambodia’s Phnom Penh via the Vinh Xuong International Border Gate.  ...

French President Francois Hollande on Monday reaffirmed clear stance in border issues between Cambodia and Vietnam. ...

National Police Commissioner Neth Savoeun called a high-level meeting in Phnom Penh on Monday to instruct relevant police units to increase their surveillance of establishments known to deal in human trafficking. ...

Every evening, Seu Rin takes his family’s wooden fishing boat down the Teuk Chhu River to the waters of the Cambodian coast. ...

Cambodia’s new industrial development policy calls for more factories and special economic zones, but accomplishing this will be difficult. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced the owner of a massage parlor to five years in prison for prostituting a 16-year-old girl and four women at his establishment earlier this year. ...

Young workers employed in Phnom Penh’s expansive informal economy may find it easy to get a job, but they face a high likelihood of labor abuses and receive significantly less pay than their peers in the formal sector, according to a study released over the ...

Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An on Tuesday denied claims by the government that he was inciting instability in a Facebook post last week in which he boasted about finding a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam at the U.S. Library of Congress. ...

The opposition yesterday threatened to censure Interior Minister Sar Kheng, accusing the government of not being honest about the number of Vietnamese in the country. ...