New Judge Appointed to Keat Kolney Land Dispute Case
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court will appoint a new judge to process complaints filed by ethnic Jarai minority villagers against a firm owned by Keat Kolney, the sister of Finance Minister Keat Chhon, regarding a land dispute that has now dragged on for more than five ...
Cambodia Airports Funds Study of Five Airstrips
Cambodia Airports, which operates the country’s three international airports, has financed a study of five of the country’s unused domestic airstrips ahead of government plans to rehabilitate the facilities, a representative of the company said yesterday. Khek Norinda, communications manager at the Cambodia Airports, said that ...
Dam critics outline litany of risks
As villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continue to block Sinohydro Corp employees from entering the area where the Stung Cheay Areng dam is planned, conservationists and rights workers have spoken of the havoc it will wreak if it goes ahead. In terms of the ...
Daniel Pye and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-critics-outline-litany-risks
Chong villagers put festive spin on dam protest
Villagers from an ethnic minority community in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continued their blockade over the Khmer New Year holiday of an access road leading to the site of a proposed dam they say would destroy their way of life. Members of the ethnic ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chong-villagers-put-festive-spin-on-dam-protest-56708/
Tourism Not Affected by Deadlock
International tourist arrivals to Cambodia for 2013 increased 14.1 percent over arrivals in 2012, despite lingering political uncertainty following the July election, according to preliminary annual figures from the Ministry of Tourism. The number of visitors entering the country last year reached 4.2 million, compared to ...
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/tourism-not-affected-by-deadlock-51133/
Lack of funds delays railway
The China Railway Group’s planned $7.5 billion Cambodian north-south railway line has been delayed due to funding shortages, according to the company’s top official. Originally slated to begin construction last year, China Railway’s chairman, Li Changjin, told the South China Morning Post that work on the 400-kilometre railway ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lack-funds-delays-railway
Caper to free official works
Military police in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district on Monday were duped into letting a detained immigration official walk free just hours after he was arrested for alleged involvement in the cross-border illegal timber trade, police said yesterday. District military police chief Sok Min said yesterday that ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/caper-free-official-works
Protesters demand speedy land dispute resolution at ministry
More than 700 people affected by land disputes gathered in Phnom Penh on Monday to protest in front of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning, and Construction. The protesters who came from Koh Kong, Kampong Speu, Oddar Meanchey and Preah Vihear provinces demanded a ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-demand-speedy-land-dispute-resolution-ministry
Tax chief vows reforms to meet 2023 revenue goal
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) will make further reforms and upgrade the technology used in tax processes to make things easier for taxpayers and ensure the achievement of the 2023 revenue collection target of $3.57170 billion, or 14.46539 trillion riel, according to director-general Kong ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-chief-vows-reforms-meet-2023-revenue-goal
District authorities remind residents age 15 and up to apply for National ID cards
Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district administration informed the chiefs of all six communes in the district to encourage residents who have reached 15 years of age or older to apply for Cambodian National Identification cards and remind those whose ID cards are about to ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/district-authorities-remind-residents-age-15-and-apply-national-id-cards
Kingdom’s arable land all but gone
If the government continues to grant economic land and mining concessions at the current rate, there will be no more arable land left in the country to give away within one year, a researcher from the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights said yesterday. Pointing to the ...
SOK Haingkheang
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Communications Officer Kheang is in charge of producing ODC’s communication materials as well as assisting with various ODC activities such as trainings, workshops, and meetings with key stakeholders and partners. He also publishes blog posts about ODC’s activities.Haingkheang earned a Bachelor of Arts in International ...
Threat to unleash ‘paratroopers’ in land dispute
About 200 villagers locked in a land dispute with the Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) in Koh Kong province said they were warned on Friday that “paratroopers” would be brought in if they continued to block a road to the company’s headquarters in Botum Sakor ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/threat-to-unleash-paratroopers-in-land-dispute-51740/
Not going without a fight
Teng Khorn’s living room is under a tree, his bedroom in a boat hauled up on a slipway for caulking beside the mangroves that lead to his source of income: the sea. His choice of abode is also his act of defiance against the monolithic Chinese ...
May Titthara and David Boyle
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/not-going-without-fight
Announcement of the Ministry of Health on the preventive measure of H5N1 bird flu
On 26 February 2020, the Ministry of Health has issued an announcement on the cautions and preventive measures of the H5N1 bird flu disease on which the outbreak took place in Tra province of the socialist Republic of Vietnam on 17 February 2020. The preventive ...
Ministry of Health
Test results please many
More than half of the students who sat the grade 12 national exam last month passed the high-stakes test, marking a significant improvement on last year’s results, when nearly two-thirds failed amid sweeping anti-cheating reforms.The results, which were released on Saturday, show that 55.8 per ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/test-results-please-many
PM: the water festival is on again
The annual boat races in Phnom Penh, marking the Water Festival celebrations, will take place between November 13 and 15 even if water levels in the Tonle Sap are low, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. Speaking at a university graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh, the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29936/pm--the-water-festival-is-on-again/
NGO observers to get window into cheating
In case cramming for an exam that determines high school graduation and college placement wasn’t stressful enough, grade 12 test-takers will now have to do so under the scrutiny of independent observers tasked with manning every exam-room window. As part of a slew of reforms to ...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-observers-get-window-cheating
USAID to provide skills training ahead of ASEAN integration
USAID has announced a regional project to train hundreds of instructors and students to be more competitive for Asean integration at the end of next year. Many young Cambodians say they fear the impending competition from an EU-like economic integration that would free up goods and ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/usaid-to-provide-skills-training-ahead-of-asean-int/2527791.html
Ministry, USAID, UC Berkeley launch digital skills project
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the University of California, Berkeley – in collaboration with the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports – launched a five-year digital skill development project with $15 million in USAID funding. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-usaid-uc-berkeley-launch-digital-skills-project