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Wing a finalist for innovation award
Friday, 02 July 2010 15:00 Jeremy Mullins
CAMBODIAN mobile payments service WING has been selected as a finalist for an Asian Innovation Award by the Wall Street Journal. The New York newspaper claimed Wednesday that the ANZ Banking Group subsidiary was an example of wireless applications making inroads, claiming it “encourages economic and social development in Cambodia”.
Applications for building licences up
Friday, 02 July 2010 15:00 Soeun Say
THE number of construction companies seeking building licences increased 14.5 percent in the first five months of 2010, according to government statistics obtained Thursday. Seventy construction companies received them, up from 61 for the same time last year. The Ministry of Land Management “has had a lot of companies asking for construction licences because [investors] believe the construction sector will recover soon,” director of the construction department Lao Tip Seiha said.
Child Sex Case: Court drops charges against Dane
Friday, 02 July 2010 15:02 Chrann Chamroeun
Child Sex Case
Banteay Meanchey provincial court has released a Danish man who was serving pretrial detention after being charged with two counts of purchasing child prostitution, a court official said Thursday. So Vath, the provincial court prosecutor, said Monday’s release of J?rgen Hansen had been approved by the investigating judge working the case. “We freed him from the prison on June 28 after an investigating judge found there was not enough evidence to prove him guilty,” So Vath said. Ny Chandara, deputy police chief of the provincial anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection bureau, said Hansen was charged in November with purchasing child prostitution from two girls, ages 13 and 14. “We invited [the girls] to our police station for questioning, and found out the man was involved in purchasing child prostitution,” he said. But So Vath said the court had concluded that the 13-year-old girl’s initial statement to police, in which she said she had had sex with Hansen up to 50 times, was “just a liar’s confession made under police duress”, and that she had later changed her story.
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