City hall makes offer on land to families of Chroy Changva
Families living on contested land on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula were on Wednesday given a choice by municipal governor Pa Socheatvong: give up 90 percent of your land and live on the remainder or sell it all at $40 per square meter. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-makes-offer-on-land-to-families-of-chroy-changva-80097/
Police shut down center promising jobs abroad
Anti-human trafficking police arrested a woman Wednesday after they discovered she was running an unlicensed training center in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district that promised to send students to work in Japan or South Korea after paying for courses, an official said Thursday. ...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-shut-down-center-promising-jobs-abroad-80847/
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The cowboys of the Mekong
The calls almost always come at night. Three or four times a month, the mobile phone of Koh Pdao’s river guard outpost will ring. A villager has spotted illegal fishermen somewhere along a 10-kilometer stretch of brushy island shore and wants them caught. ...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15312/the-cowboys-of-the-mekong/
Boost to tourism-related business
More than 30 percent of tourism-related businesses have resumed operations after closing or suspending work since March this year because of COVID-19, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Tourism. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50760394/boost-to-tourism-related-business/
“Trey Riel”, the most commercially important species in Cambodia
Small mud carps or “Trey Riel” (Henicorhynchus entmema and H. siamensis) are the most commercially important keystone species in Cambodia, according to Wonders of the Mekong project. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501095979/trey-riel-the-most-commercially-important-species-in-cambodia/
NEC calls on citizens to participate in Commune/Sangkat elections
The National Election Committee (NEC) calls on people on the 2021 voter list to prepare or prepare documents to participate in the commune elections which will be taking place soon. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501077011/nec-calls-on-citizens-to-participate-in-commune-sangkat-elections/
Weddings, festivals and other ceremonies banned on streets during election campaign
People hoping to hold weddings or other celebration and events on the streets of Daun Penh District will have to postpone them after the authorities banned any from taking place during election campaigns. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501079052/weddings-festivals-and-other-ceremonies-banned-on-streets-during-election-campaign/
Small people, big ideas: kids win award for flood solution
Cambodia suffers from severe annual flooding, and many people who can’t swim die every year as a result. An innovative solution to the generations-old problem may have been found, not by policy hacks or scientists, but by children. A group of 11-year-olds from Cambodia’s one-of-a-kind Liger ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/small-people-big-ideas-kids-win-award-flood-solution
Protesters demand Japan pull support for elections
More than 1,000 Cambodians in Tokyo, Japan, demonstrated on Sunday, demanding that the Japanese government cease supporting the upcoming national elections. The protesters asked the Japanese government to declare that it will not support the national elections on July 29 or its results. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-demand-japan-pull-support-elections
Hun Sen: Peace brought by Khmers, not ‘foreign hands’
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday rejected the idea that “foreign hands” or assistance secured a resolution to Cambodia’s civil war in the early 1990s, warning historians to refrain from claiming the international community was responsible for peace-building in the country. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-peace-brought-khmers-not-foreign-hands
Nonvote a vote for ‘rebels’, AIDS Authority chief slams Rainsy’s call to boycott national elections
After a ruling CPP official claimed that those who refuse to cast their ballot in the Kingdom’s upcoming elections “love dictatorship” and are “supporting rebel groups”, legal and election experts have said it is the individual right of citizens whether or not to vote. ...
Ministry says NGO law a resounding success
More than 30 non-government groups have recently applied to register with the state or asked for changes to their current registration records, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry that hailed the requests as broad endorsement of Cambodia’s highly controversial new NGO law. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-ngo-law-a-resounding-success-94500/
Interior Ministry warns prison officials not to use violence on inmates
A senior official from the Ministry of Interior on Thursday warned all prison chiefs and guards stop to use or not to use all forms of violence illegally on inmates in order to ensure the respect of human rights at prisons. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/interior-ministry-warns-prison-officials-not-to-use-violence-on-inmates-9124
Changing climate has major impacts for under-prepared Cambodia
Cambodia is ranked one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Many of its people rely on agriculture, and the changes to the country’s climate, whether more droughts or more floods, makes them particularly vulnerable. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/changing-climate-has-major-impacts-for-under-prepared-cambodia/3073169.html
Sihanoukville power plant draws Royal Group's interest
The Royal Group, Cambodia’s biggest conglomerate, will be involved in funding future phases of a massive coal-fired power plant under construction in Preah Sihanouk province, a government official said yesterday, although details of the size of the investment or its timeline remain hazy. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-power-plant-draws-royal-groups-interest
Central Bank puts 40B riel up for bid in LPCO
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) yesterday held its second Liquidity-Providing Collateralised Operation (LPCO), making 40 billion riel ($9.89 million) available to financial institutions in an auction in which repurchase agreements, or repos, were signed for 8.4 billion riel ($2.07 million). ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/central-bank-puts-40b-riel-bid-lpco
As company clears land, Bunong villagers fight for ancestral home
The land concession overlaps the site of the Bunong community’s old village, their spirit forest and their burial grounds—religiously significant areas that, according to Bunong beliefs, are not to be disturbed or logged at the risk of incurring the wrath of local spirits. ...
Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-company-clears-land-bunong-villagers-fight-for-ancestral-home-132609/
Ministry meets with protesting garment workers following factory closures
Officials from the Ministry of Labour met with former workers from three garment factories in the capital’s Por Senchey district this morning after the owner absconded without warning last week, leaving 2,000 workers without their severance or salary for the month of January. ...
Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-meets-protesting-garment-workers-following-factory-closures
More evictees may have recourse through IFC
Rights groups say families being forced off their land by development projects recently revealed to have World Bank Group backing could probably file successful complaints against the institution, effectively forcing it to help the families save their homes or at least win better compensation. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-may-recourse-ifc-119213/
Technical issue mars voter list publication
Prospective voters ran into problems yesterday during the first publication of the country’s new voter lists. Citizens will have until January 14 to check their names and information on voter lists to confirm they are correct, either in person, at registration offices or online. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33877/technical-issue-mars-voter-list-publication/