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More suspects in Thailand arms smuggling case sought

Banteay Meanchey Provincial Police are hunting four more suspects believed to be connected to a recent case of smuggling weapons to Thailand, with an official saying the group is accused of transporting the ordnance across the border. ...

Niem Chheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-suspects-thailand-arms-smuggling-case-sought

Health Ministry warns of bird flu

The Ministry of Health yesterday warned people to be aware of the new avian influenza strain H7N9, which has spread to poultry in China and neighbouring countries. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074793/health-ministry-warns-bird-flu/

PM announces plan for social security system

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced that the government has plans to have a functioning social security system operational in the country by 2025, including universal health care, unemployment insurance and old-aged pensions. ...

Touch Sokha and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-announces-plan-social-security-system

Migrant worker protections ‘lacking’, reports find

Cambodia lacks effective mechanisms to protect its citizens working both as legal and undocumented migrants abroad, where such workers also face insufficient protection from the countries that receive them, according to two new reports published last week. ...

Leonie Kijewski and Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrant-worker-protections-lacking-reports-find

Cambodia’s Facebook crackdown: Police are monitoring site for ‘enemies’ and ‘rebel movements’

National Police are monitoring Facebook to repress attempts to create a “rebel movement against the government” through negative posts and are working to better control civil society groups that have “opposition trends” and try to cause instability in society, a semiannual police report issued yesterday ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-facebook-crackdown-police-are-monitoring-site-enemies-and-rebel-movements

Prime Minister vows to keep children’s hospitals running

Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the government to draw up a plan to fund the country’s popular Kantha Bopha children’s hospitals on Monday, four months after the long-serving director of the foundation that runs them resigned. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-vows-to-keep-childrens-hospitals-running-2-132837/

US dollar used to curb inflation

Cambodia’s central bank purchased a total of $479.4 million worth of cash during the first half of this year to convert to riel, utilising one of the few tools the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has to stabilise the value of the local currency and ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-dollar-used-curb-inflation

Activist ‘threatened’ for tip over land clearing

An ethnic Kuoy activist in Stung Treng province says his life was threatened after he tipped authorities off to an alleged land grab on Saturday involving two suspects who remain at large. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-threatened-tip-over-land-clearing

China funded 70 percent of Cambodian roads, bridges: Minister

About 70 percent of roads and bridges in Cambodia have been funded by China, with loans for their financing adding up to about $2 billion, government-affiliated Fresh News reported the transport minister as saying on Friday. ...

Sek Odom and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-funded-70-percent-cambodian-roads-bridges-minister-132786/

Bond to funnel benefits to women

An $8 million bond set to debut on Singapore’s stock exchange will mobilise private capital to support social enterprises and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines, providing nearly half a million women in these countries with more access to credit in order ...

Brian Ng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bond-funnel-benefits-women

Under pressure, senior KNUP officials jump ship to Funcinpec

Several senior officials from the embattled KNUP have defected to rival party Funcinpec, a spokesman said on Sunday, following the sacking of 12 government advisers and a warning from the ruling party that all government workers linked to KNUP leader Nhek Bun Chhay will be ...

Van Roeun and Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/under-pressure-senior-knup-officials-jump-ship-to-funcinpec-132806/

Two bombs found in sandpit

The Cambodian Mine Action Centre yesterday removed two unexploded MK-82 bombs from a sandpit in Kandal province’s Kandal Steung district. ...

Zahron Sokry
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074409/two-bombs-found-sandpit/

Deminer among three Cambodians arrested for arms sale

Banteay Meanchey police have arrested three men, including a deminer from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), for their alleged involvement in selling three mortars seized last week by Thai authorities, who, in a separate raid in Thailand near the country’s border with Myanmar, detained ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deminer-among-three-cambodians-arrested-arms-sale

Garment sector’s lackluster results

Cambodia’s garment exports grew slower than expected by about 4 percent in the first half of the year compared with 9 percent in the same period last year while foreign investment in the sector fell by 30 percent, according to a report released by the ...

Sok Chan and Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074380/garment-sectors-lackluster-results/

Sesan locals protest over supporters’ detention

The temporary detention and questioning of 24 people travelling to the reservoir area of the Lower Sesan II dam prompted a three-hour confrontation between Military Police and provincial police officials and more than 100 villagers in Stung Treng’s Kbal Romea village yesterday. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sesan-locals-protest-over-supporters-detention

Labour minister visits illegal workers in Thailand

Labour Minister Ith Samheng visited migrant workers in Thailand over the weekend, urging them to make use of centres that Thai authorities are opening to provide them with legal documents to remain in the country. ...

Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074413/labour-minister-visits-illegal-workers-thailand/

Phnom Penh set to open first airport railway link by April

A railway line that will transport passengers from the center of Phnom Penh to its airport is set to open in April, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol announced on Friday, adding that no evictions would be necessary to make way for the development.  ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-set-to-open-first-airport-railway-link-by-april-132805/

King again in Beijing for contested Party Law’s signing

King Norodom Sihamoni will once again be out of Cambodia on the day that widely condemned new laws are due to be signed into force, prompting some observers to suggest he is abstaining from affixing his signature to politically questionable legislation. ...

Meas Sokchea and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/king-again-beijing-contested-party-laws-signing

NGO report finds banned exports of logs to Vietnam still increasing

The ostensibly-outlawed export of logs to Vietnam increased in May, while the trade in sawn timber, also supposedly banned, remained substantial, new Vietnamese customs data shows. ...

Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-report-finds-banned-exports-logs-vietnam-still-increasing

Construction workers denied paid leave

More than 90 percent of construction workers in the capital do not receive paid holiday, a survey into the industry has revealed. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074185/construction-workers-denied-paid-leave/

Cambodia takes the regional lead in HIV treatment effort

Cambodia has made significant progress in HIV treatment, taking the lead regionally by reaching 80 percent of those living with the virus and becoming one of only seven countries globally to reach target treatment goals, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday. ...

Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-takes-the-regional-lead-in-hiv-treatment-effort-132751/

Tycoon held in land case

Phnom Penh military police officials have arrested tycoon Sok Heng and some aides involved in a land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district. ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074196/tycoon-held-land-case/

Nhek Bun Chhay loyalists stripped of government roles

Twelve government advisers—many of them said to be allies of KNUP leader Nhek Bun Chhay—have been stripped of their positions in a suspected purge of officials loyal to the former general. ...

Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nhek-bun-chhay-loyalists-stripped-of-govt-roles-132754/

Situation room seeks meeting with Minister

Two key members of the election monitoring group dubbed the Situation Room are seeking a meeting with Interior Minister Sar Kheng to discuss a recent government order that would bar the NGO consortium from continuing its work for next year’s general election. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/situation-room-seeks-meeting-with-minister-132742/

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