Villagers register in land dispute
The Kampong Speu provincial authority said on Wednesday that its task force has completed registering thousands of families in Oral district who have been locked in a long-running land dispute with a sugar plantation owned by a well-connected tycoon. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-register-land-dispute
Draft budget due in parliament
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved its national budget draft of about $6.7 billion for 2019, an increase of 11.4 percent over 2018, and NGOs now want to review it before it is sent to the National Assembly for ratification. According to the draft, ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50544913/draft-budget-due-in-parliament/
Swine fever detected in Ratanakkiri
African swine fever has been detected for the first time in Cambodia with an outbreak in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district. Some 400 pigs have been killed, said a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries statement. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/swine-fever-detected-ratanakkiri
Landslide for CPP in polls
The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won 4,034 of 4,114 seats in this year’s third mandate municipal, provincial, town and district council elections, while the other six parties received limited support. The National Election Committee (NEC) on Saturday released the formal results of the elections, showing ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/landslide-cpp-polls
Loggers detained in wildlife sanctuary
Rangers and officials from the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) detained 12 loggers and confiscated seven chainsaws and three cubic meters of timber in Kampong Thom province’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-detained-wildlife-sanctuary
Endangered birds spotted in sanctuaries
Nests of five critically endangered bird species were found in the Siem Pang and Siem Pang Kang Lech wildlife sanctuaries last year, according to an annual report issued yesterday by Birdlife international Cambodia. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564942/endangered-birds-spotted-in-sanctuaries/
Droughts in Pailin, Banteay Meanchey
Some areas in Pailin and Banteay Meanchey provinces are facing water shortages due to prolonged drought, though no major impacts have been reported, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/droughts-pailin-banteay-meanchey
Ministry records decrease in dengue
The Health Ministry yesterday said that the number of people contracting dengue fever continues to decrease across the Kingdom in the wake of a spike. The ministry noted that about 2,400 new cases were found across the Kingdom this month since a spike in July. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635149/ministry-records-decrease-in-dengue/
Gap in proposed minimum wage
Unions and employers have proposed starkly differing figures of what the minimum wage for garment and textile factory workers should be next year. Minimum wage negotiations between employers, the government and unions began on August 29 and are expected to end before September 25. After their ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50641382/gap-in-proposed-minimum-wage/
‘Ninety-nine oknha in army’
A senior military official said on Sunday that the Ministry of National Defence had found almost 100 military personnel with the title “oknha”. He told The Post that the ministry was preparing procedural formalities to enable the oknha to choose between keeping the honorific or ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ninety-nine-oknha-army
Radios rounded up in capital
Phnom Penh police yesterday launched a coordinated operation to seize illegal walkie-talkies from tuk-tuk and motorbike taxi drivers, in order to rid the capital of alleged “anarchy”.The campaign is the initiative of the capital’s chief and reportedly comes in response to complaints that drivers’ use ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/radios-rounded-capital
Snaring leeches in their blood
Rokar village empties during the dry season as the workforce migrates to find more gainful employment. But when the monsoon arrives, they return, not to fish as has traditionally been their staple income, but for a more lucrative trade: catching leeches.Chinese demand for the bloodsucking ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/snaring-leeches-their-blood
Crash payouts still in limbo
The families of victims killed or injured by a deadly road accident in Svay Rieng province in May are accusing the bus company involved of not paying out the court-ordered compensation in full.On May 20, a tourist bus from the 15 SH Bus Company tried ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crash-payouts-still-limbo
Tobacco law fines in works
The ministries of health and information are working together to put some teeth into last year’s law restricting the advertisement of tobacco products to sale locations. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tobacco-law-fines-works
Beachfront evictions begin in Sihanoukville
Authorities in Sihanoukville followed through with their long-threatened eviction of vendors from the end of the popular O’Chheuteal beach on Saturday afternoon, demolishing nearly 100 structures along the 2 km strip known locally as Ariston. ...
Peter Ford and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/beachfront-evictions-begin-in-sihanoukville-111101/
LANGO looming in Adhoc rearview
With the screws tightening on Adhoc, pro-government NGOs are calling for the government to use the newly enacted NGO Law to punish the rights group and other organisations caught up in the Kem Sokha mistress scandal using a provision that can be used to shut ...
Shaun Turton and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lango-looming-adhoc-rearview
Three killed in UXO explosion
An elderly man and his two grandchildren were killed after he accidentally detonated an artillery shell yesterday morning in Prey Veng province’s Preah Sdach district, after attempting to dismantle it to create parts for his bullock cart, according to police. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25327/three-killed-in-uxo-explosion/
Wildlife meat seized in Kratie
Authorities seized 100 kilograms of endangered wildlife meat this weekend on Kratie province’s National Road 7. The haul, which contained 60 kg of wild pig and 36 kg of deer meat, was discovered after a local environmental NGO stopped an SUV traveling in Chit Borei’s Sambok ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26280/wildlife-meat-seized-in-kratie/
Illegal mining continues in Ratanakiri
Despite claims from local authorities that illegal mining in Ratanakiri province’s Borkeo district had been stopped, more than 100 people have been seen continuing to mine the area. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26686/illegal-mining-continues-in-ratanakiri/
PM: 115 students in Turkey
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday wrote on his Facebook page that he was concerned about the 115 Cambodian students studying at different universities in Turkey where an attempted coup to overthrow the government happened on Friday. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27331/pm--115-students-in-turkey/