Logs seized in Stung Treng
The recently created nationwide anti-logging commission seized 300 logs of illegal timber at a sawmill near a Vietnamese graveyard in Stung Treng province on Friday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logs-seized-stung-treng
Highest hotel in Sunshine City
The highest hotel complex in Phnom Penh city will soon make its debut with ample parking space for all its guests and visitors. The complex, Ding Li Sunshine City, will be 37 stories high with four levels of underground parking, said its developer Ding Li ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25725/highest-hotel-in-sunshine-city/
Eco Park, Maybank in deal
The Singapore investor of Le Urban Eco Park, an ecologically-friendly satellite city, and Maybank have reached a deal to sell residential apartments and shop buildings in the park as the project nears completion by the end of the year. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25913/eco-park--maybank-in-deal/
Slight increase in dolphin numbers
Cambodia’s freshwater Mekong dolphin population has increased by four, adding a quartet of calves in the first five months of 2016 while also seeing a drop in the mortality rate compared with last year. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26288/slight-increase-in-dolphin-numbers/
Child labor rampant in kingdom
Cambodia’s dependence on illegal child labor, despite its small population, is endemic compared to neighboring countries, according to Veng Heang, director of the Child Labor Department at the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26438/child-labor-rampant-in-kingdom/
Cebuano musicians play in Cambodia
Twelve students of the Classic Orchestra Music School (COMS) wowed Cambodian royalty, making them forces to be reckoned with in the international music scene. ...
Jenara Regis Newman
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/entertainment/2016/07/24/cebuano-musicians-play-cambodia-487174
SMEs in anti-graft partnership
The Federation of Associations of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FASMAC) has sought support from the anti-corruption organization Transparency International, to prepare it to be a graft-free busIness entity and help its members to be listed on the Cambodia Stock Exchange (CSX). ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29307/smes-in-anti-graft-partnership/
Rein in credit, warns IMF
In light of global predictions of a slowdown In economic markets, led largely by ChIna’s slackenIng growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday offered Cambodia advice on short and longer term measures to help maIntaIn growth. It also warned that the country’s rapid credit growth ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31763/rein-in-credit--warns-imf/
Homes wrecked in riverbank collapse
Three houses collapsed into the Mekong River in Kratie’s Chhlong district after a riverbank gave way on Monday amid recent unseasonable heavy rains. Twenty-eight other houses in the predominately Cham village have been pre-emptively dismantled following the collapse, according to Meas Kunmony, district deputy governor. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homes-wrecked-riverbank-collapse
Parasites common in kids: study
Half of children in Battambang schools were found to have intestinal parasites that could impact their health, according to a recent study. Of 308 students tested, over 50 percent were found to have a parasite, with 58 having multiple parasitic infections. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parasites-common-kids-study
Slowdown in port container traffic
The Kingdom’s two main ports reported markedly slower growth in container traffic last year due to a fall in import traffic, although exports of garments and agricultural products continued to rise, according to newly released port data. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/slowdown-port-container-traffic
Pensions rise in the pipeline
Retired civil servants and military veterans are to get a pension rise next month, along with the same 50,000 riel Khmer New Year allowance as serving civil servants and armed forces members. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36381/pensions-rise-in-the-pipeline/
Villagers, soldiers in land battle
Villagers involved in a long-running land dispute in Kratie province’s Sambor district have prevented soldiers from building a fence around disputed land that the army intends to use as a sniper training ground. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-soldiers-land-battle
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
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/