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Child sex trade on decline: org

A new study by the International Justice Mission (IJM) has asserted that Cambodia’s child sex trade – long a hot-button issue that has for years drawn international attention – has been reduced to a tiny fraction of its previous size. A statement from IJM that accompanied ...

Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-sex-trade-decline-org

Officials’ affairs may be secret under law

Any information that is damaging to Cambodia’s national security or public order, affects its relationship with other countries or threatens the Kingdom’s economy or finances could be withheld from the public under a draft law on access to information. ...

Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-affairs-may-be-secret-under-law

Guns go up in flames after B’bang amnesty

Nearly 600 guns – most of them crude homemade rifles – were burned in Battambang province on Monday after a campaign to encourage locals to hand their weapons over to the proper officials. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/guns-go-flames-after-bbang-amnesty

RCAF officers behind illegal mine operation

The director of the Mondolkiri provincial mines and energy department Tuesday identified the operators of an illegal gold mine that was shut down last week as Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officers. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-officers-behind-illegal-mine-operation-85287/

Illegal workers arrested in construction site raid

Seventeen Vietnamese construction workers were arrested and the passports of 142 Chinese construction workers confiscated when immigration officers raided a building site in Phnom Penh on Tuesday afternoon. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-workers-arrested-in-construction-site-raid-85293/

Thai law firm says IP the main focus

A Bangkok-based regional law firm says it will expand to Cambodia in the coming weeks, despite the local bar association’s renewed drive to clamp down on foreign lawyers practising “illegally” in the country. Law firm Tilleke & Gibbins said it expected to enter the legal scene ...

Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-law-firm-says-ip-main-focus

Authorities shut down illegal M’kiri mine site

An illegal gold mine allegedly managed by a military police commander in Mondulkiri province was shut down by a local prosecutor last week after being in operation for more than two decades, officials said. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-shut-down-illegal-mkiri-mine-site

Hanoi official meet over CNRP's border trips

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday received Vietnamese Communist Party Politburo official Le Hong Anh at his office in Phnom Penh and asked that Vietnam remain “calm” over recent fact-finding trips to the border led by opposition lawmakers. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-hanoi-official-meet-over-cnrp-border-trips-85289/

Firm says it may turn taps off in Poipet homes

Residents of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City have been warned to brace themselves for a major water shortage over the next two weeks as the company contracted to supply the border town’s clean water scrambles to build a new reservoir amid a localized drought. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-says-it-may-turn-taps-off-in-poipet-homes-85285/

NGO gives Hun Sen’s land titling project mixed marks

In perhaps the most comprehensive review to date of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 2012 land titling project, the NGO Forum on Tuesday said the campaign has yielded major benefits, but not without some serious costs—particularly for the country’s beleaguered indigenous communities. ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-gives-hun-sens-land-titling-project-mixed-marks-85297/

New draft of trade Union Law adds guilt by association

An updated version of the draft Trade Union Law gives the Labor Ministry the power to suspend unions that “cooperate” or hold joint activities with groups the government deems to have caused economic sabotage or “damaged” the national interest, according to a copy of the ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-draft-of-trade-union-law-ad

Say Chhum replaces Chea Sim as senate president

A day after the death of CPP President Chea Sim, Say Chhum, the ruling party’s secretary-general, was on Tuesday appointed to succeed him as the president of the Senate, while preparations began for the June 19 national day of mourning for the late figurehead. ...

Khy Sovuthy and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/say-chhum-replaces-chea-sim-as-senate-president-85275/

HIV village demands access to healthcare

Members of a community in Battambang where an unlicensed doctor allegedly infected more than 200 people with HIV earlier this year have demanded free general healthcare, a provision usually reserved only for the country’s most poor. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hiv-village-demands-access-healthcare

Central bank seeks to promote Riel use

Cambodia’s central bank is seeking to promote the use of the riel and wean the Kingdom’s economy off its dependence on the US dollar, a senior banking official said on Tuesday. Speaking at a luncheon organized by the British Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (BritCham), Chea ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12117/central-bank-seeks-to-promote-riel-use/

Exports to Japan bucking the trend

Cambodia’s exports to Japan dramatically increased during in the first quarter of 2015, bucking the trend of fellow ASEAN member states who all saw a decline in shipments to Japan over the same period. ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-japan-bucking-trend

CNRP to try to cancel VN border pact

Opposition lawmakers will propose the cancellation of a 2005 amendment to a border treaty with Vietnam in the National Assembly. Speaking yesterday, Sam An said the CNRP is calling for the border map deposited at the United Nations to be enforced. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-try-cancel-vn-border-pact

Experts gather to discuss Angkor preservation

Researching Angkor’s complex underground irrigation system, the construction of a new tourist hospitality center, and the creation of a strategic plan to preserve the Kulen area were among the topics discussed at last week’s International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic ...

Naomi-Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12124/experts-gather-to-discuss-angkor-preservation/

Viet Nam wins Philippines' rice supply deal

Viet Nam won a bid for rice supply to the Philippines late last week, with an offer of US$410.12 per tonne, according to the Philippines’ National Food Authority (NFA). ...

Viet Nam News Staff
http://bit.ly/1T8igmp

Countries step up response

The outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea has sparked international alarm, and about 25,000 people have cancelled trips to the country between June 5 and 7, the Korean Tourism Organisation said.  ...

Today News Staff
http://bit.ly/1G8OV4h

Cambodian officials encourage illegal fishing in exchange for bribes

Corrupt local officials who patrol the area around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap are encouraging illegal fishing in Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, according to a nongovernmental organization worker. ...

Chin Chetha
http://bit.ly/1JIs1TX

Russia, Cambodia sign anti-terror MoU

Russia and Cambodia signed an intergovernmental memorandum of understanding, where the countries agreed to jointly fight against terrorism, TASS reports. Kheng said his visit to Russia is a great opportunity to build ties. “We need to continue our political dialogue at the level of the ...

RBTH News Staff
http://bit.ly/1HpfAfp

Party official holds talks in Cambodia

Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, Le Hong Anh, held talks with the head of the Standing Board of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) Central Committee, Sai Chhum, in Phnom Penh yesterday.​ ...

Viet Nam News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KrFBvJ

In Cambodia, English classes more popular than Chinese

In a small courtyard in downtown Phnom Penh sits the city’s oldest public school. Founded more than 100 years ago, Tuan Hoa features a Chinese temple and Mandarin language instruction for its 2,000 students. ...

Neou Vannarin and Colin Lovett
http://bit.ly/1GxFgI7

NGOs call for a chance to comment on regulations

With the approval last week of a draft NGO law by Cambodia’s Council of Ministers, many pro-democracy and rights advocates say they should now have a chance to add their comments on the bill, before it goes to the National Assembly for debate. ...

Sok Khemara
http://bit.ly/1Gciimj

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