Farm cooperative venture in pipeline
A Cambodian agriculture cooperative corporation is being planned to help promote agriculture processes involving the private sector and individual producers. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37755/farm-cooperative-venture-in-pipeline/
Intervention sought in land dispute
Claiming that district authorities destroyed their crops with bulldozers in February to evict them from their land, villagers representing 25 families from Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district yesterday petitioned the National Assembly to grant them land titles. Village representative Sat Borath said the area is ...
Hong Menea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/intervention-sought-land-dispute-0
Logging arrest in Stung Treng
A man was accused of illegally collecting and transporting timber after Military Police officials arrested him with over 2 tonnes of illicit rosewood in Stung Treng on Sunday morning. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-arrest-stung-treng
BigPhone now in Cambodia
Mobile World Investment (MWG), one of the largest mobile phone and electronics distribution chaIns In Vietnam’s Ho Chi MInh City, has opened its first overseas store In Cambodia. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39837/pigphone-now-in-cambodia/
Timber busts in Kampong Speu
National and Provincial Military Police in Kampong Speu seized hauls of illicit timber and arrested two suspects in separate cases over the weekend. A Provincial Military Police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the press, said the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-busts-kampong-speu
Fishermen still abused in Thailand
Forced labour remains rampant on Thai fishing boats more than three years after an international outcry, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released yesterday, with Cambodian fishermen reporting that Thai reforms designed to safeguard them from abuse are being used as tools to ...
Erin Handley and Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fishermen-still-abused-thailand
Corruption fueling deforestation in Cambodia
Cambodia’s forests are being felled at a shocking rate, as poachers and corrupt officials profit from the black market trade in rare wood species, which is being exported to Vietnam — and beyond. Loggers are illegally felling rare and valuable trees to sell in China and Europe, ...
Kris Janssens
http://www.dw.com/en/corruption-fueling-deforestation-in-cambodia/a-42674051
Spike in migrant worker numbers
Nearly 100,000 Cambodians were sent to work overseas last year, an increase of 12.6 percent compared with the previous year that saw about 85,000 workers migrate, according to a Ministry of Labour report. The report, issued yesterday, said that last year Cambodia sent 96,338 labourers ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/113661/spike-in-migrant-worker-numbers/
Eight charged in Kratie protest
The Kratie Provincial Court on Monday released on bail the eight villagers arrested after security forces fired on protesters there last week, but preliminarily charged them with using violence against officials, blocking a road and damaging property. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-charged-kratie-protest
Flooded street closed in capital
A flooded section of a main street in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district has been temporarily closed because of flooding, according to a statement by Phnom Penh City Hall on Wednesday. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31115/flooded-street-closed-in-capital/
Tainted prahok found in Takeo
Over 3 tonnes of contaminated prahok – made of fish illegally imported from Vietnam – were confiscated on Friday by Takeo authorities from some of the same sites that in September had already been warned to stop using smuggled fish. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tainted-prahok-found-takeo
Farmer injured in mine explosion
A farmer from Oddar Meanchey province’s Banteay Ampel district was injured on Saturday when his excavator hit an anti-tank mine. District police chief Hom Phearum said that 23-year-old Khum Raksmey was seriously wounded, but did not describe the extent of his injuries. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35076/farmer-injured-in-mine-explosion/
Trade in breast milk outlawed
The government yesterday announced a total ban on the collection and export of human breast milk, after it emerged poor women had been earning cash through the trade. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37002/trade-in-breast-milk-outlawed/
Rare timber seized in sanctuary
A truck full of high-grade timber was seized in Kampong Speu’s Oral district on Monday afternoon by District Military Police forces and the NGO WildAid’s crime interception team, but the driver remains at large. .. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rare-timber-seized-sanctuary
Still no train in sight
The train service between Cambodia and Thailand, which was expected to begin operations early this year, seems to be delayed indefinitely due to a contentious one-kilometer stretch of track in Poipet City. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39753/still-no-train-in-sight/
Bomb found in Kandal province
A team from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre yesterday recovered a large bomb dropped by the US during the Vietnam War in Kandal province. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39763/bomb-found-in-kandal-province/
Army brass arrested in Sihanoukville
An army general in Preah Sihanouk province was arrested by Military Police officials on Tuesday after the provincial court ordered he be taken into custody following allegations of land grabbing. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/army-brass-arrested-sihanoukville
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/