Statement: Suspend development projects destroying the Tompoun/Cheung Ek wetlands
<p>On 27 July 2020, the Cambodian League for the promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), Equitable Cambodia (EC) and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) jointly issued a report revealing human rights abuses and environmental devastation as private developments threaten to flood ...p>
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
Government orders $500,000 fines, relocation, for company polluting Sangke river
<p>After waste from a Battambang-based industrial company polluted the Sangke river, the Environment Ministry imposed fines of around half a million dollars and order the company to relocate 10 kilometers away in a letter issued Thursday. ...p>
Sovann Sreypich and Runn Sreydeth
https://cambojanews.com/government-orders-500000-fines-relocation-for-company-polluting-sangke-river/
21 opposition activists overseas fined, banned from running for office for 20 years
<p>Twenty-one opposition members and activists were banned from holding elected office for at least 20 years after being convicted in absentia of inciting voters to spoil their national election ballots by the phnom penh Municipal Election Committee (pEC) on Tuesday. ...p>
Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/21-opposition-activists-overseas-fined-banned-from-running-for-office-for-20-years/
Private non-profit development assistance
<p>Maina Kiai speaking with journalists outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in phnom penh. photo by Maina Kiai, taken on 6 February 2014. Licensed under CC BY 2.0The first humanitarian international non-governmental organizations arrived in 1989. After the 1993 election, more and more internal organizations ...p>
Chinese bank to enter country's banking fold
<p>The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will enter Cambodia’s banking sector in November to become the country’s 30th commercial bank to date, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
The report said that ICBC president Yang Kaisheng had met with prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday ...p>
Battambang fire causes over $1m in damage
<p>A fire that ripped through a market in Battambang province’s phnom proek district late on Monday night caused somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in damages, according to local officials.
The fire, which reportedly started at about 11:30 p.m. and destroyed 244 stalls, was believed to have ...p>
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/battambang-fire-causes-over-1m-in-damage-64725/
Police chief questioned about smuggling rosewood
<p>A provincial police officer appeared for questioning at the pailin provincial Court on Tuesday after military police, led by a local wildlife NGO founded by U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, caught him transporting more than 177 kg of illegally logged rosewood on Sunday.
Sor phalla was arrested ...p>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-chief-questioned-after-caught-smuggling-rosewood-65801/
European Union aid
<p>The EU Ambassador to Cambodia, Carmen Moreno, shook hands with prime Minister Hun Sen at peace palace on December 2, 2019. photo from prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page.European Union (EU) has been one of Cambodia’s biggest trading partners and a major development partner since ...p>
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
<p>Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 07 new map features in preah Sihanouk, Mondul Kiri, preah Vihear, phnom penh and Takeo province. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification ...p>
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
<p>Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 03 new map features in Koh Kong, phnom penh and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties ...p>
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
<p>Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 03 new map features in Takeo, Battambang, and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some ...p>
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
<p>Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 02 new map features in Mondul Kiri, and preah Sihanouk province. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of ...p>
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on "Mining concessions in Cambodia (1995–2022)"
<p>Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Mining concessions in Cambodia (1995–2022)” by adding 1 new map feature of the mining concession of Angkor Resources Corp. in Oddarmeanchey province. This dataset contains data for mining concessions in Cambodia from 1995 to 2022. The ...p>
Documents revealed in massive fraud case
<p>The documents concern a court case brought by representatives of Hong Kong-based Enviro Group Holdings Limited who are suing John Davies and Lim Lian Tho – both former company directors of phnom penh based subsidiary Enviro Corporation (Cambodia) Ltd – and Mark McCluskey, a lawyer ...p>
Signing ceremony on the exchange of notes and record of discussions on grant aid and loan for 4 projects between Royal Government of Cambodia and Japan
<p>On 30 March 2017 at 16:00, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,H.E prak Sokhonn, Senior Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and H.E HORINOUCHI Hidehisa, Ambassador Extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Japan to Cambodia, signed on the exchange of notes and record of ...p>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Letter of the Ministry of Information on health- and agriculture-related product advertising
<p>On 21 August 2017, in order to avoid any misconduct and infringement of the law, the Ministry of Information issued a final letter of recommendations to owners of radio stations, television stations, newspapers, magazines and newsletters as follows:All health-related product advertisements shall be authorized by ...p>
Ministry of Information
Joint statement between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the People’s Republic of China
<p>At the invitation of H.E. Mr. premier Li Keqiang of State Council of the people’s Republic of China, prime Minister Hun Sen paid an official visit to people’s Republic of China from 13 to 17 May 2017. During the visit, prime Minister Hun Sen also ...p>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Soldiers cry foul over ‘land grabbing’
<p>About 1,500 representatives of military families in Oddar Meanchey province are planning to file a complaint directly to prime Minister Hun Sen’s office accusing a high-ranking Royal Cambodian Armed Forces general of selling a large chunk of their land to two Vietnamese rubber companies.
The soldiers, ...p>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062557004/National-news/soldiers-land-grabbed.html
Too many Cambodian women dying during childbirth
<p>Cambodia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Southeast Asia. The number of women dying during pregnancy or childbirth has dropped in recent years. But it is still far short of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. The Cambodian government accepted those goals ...p>
Men Kimseng
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-maternal-mortality-rates/2712966.html
