Authorities release smuggled animals
Siem Reap’s Banteay Srei and Bakong forestry administrations on Tuesday released more than 100 turtles and water monitor lizards back into their natural habitats after authorities seized them from illegal wildlife traders. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-release-smuggled-animals
Dueling missives press Obama, Cambodian PM on human rights
More than 100 Southeast Asian parliamentarians are urging President Barack Obama to address regional human rights issues during his meetings with ASEAN leaders next week, according to an open letter posted online Thursday. ...
Vendors want market to be restored as it was
More than 100 vendors in Stung Treng yesterday expressed concern that the location of their stalls would change after the town’s fire-damaged market is rebuilt by provincial authorities. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vendors-want-market-be-restored-it-was
City Hall pledges not to evict protesters
More than 100 adults and children representing six rail-side communities in Phnom Penh gathered at City Hall again yesterday, demanding to know if development plans will force them out of their homes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36997/city-hall-pledges-not-to-evict-protesters/
Families alerted as large US bomb found
About 100 families are to be evacuated from their village in Prey Veng province while authorities remove a big bomb dropped by the American air force during the Vietnam War. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35020/families-alerted-as-large-us-bomb-found/
Lake protestors take ‘homes’ to City Hall
Nearly 100 Boeung Kak lake villagers took to city hall yesterday carrying mattresses, umbrellas and food to protest what they called government inaction on the long-standing land dispute over their eviction from the lake. ...
Cambodian villagers angry over HIV outbreak
Cambodia’s prime minister appealed Thursday to villagers in northwestern Cambodia not to lynch an unlicensed medical practitioner who they suspect caused more than 100 people to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. ...
Fox News Staff
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/12/18/cambodian-villagers-angry-over-hiv-outbreak/
Bavet factory ordered to close after mass faintings
The Svay Rieng provincial labor department on Monday ordered a Taiwanese-owned garment factory to temporarily close and improve its ventilation after more than 100 workers collapsed in two separate mass faintings in recent days. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bavet-factory-ordered-to-close-after-mass-faintings-78102/
Racism on display in immigration raid
Police from the Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration on Thursday detained more than 100 Vietnamese men working at a metal scrapyard in Phnom Penh to assess the legitimacy of their employment in Cambodia. ...
Mech Dara and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/racism-on-display-in-scrapyard-immigration-raid-86591/
Two men detained, fined for smuggling snakehead fish fry
Two men were detained, fined and released Monday morning in Siem Reap province for attempting to transport 100,000 newly hatched snakehead fish from the Vietnamese border to sell to fish farmers, officials said Tuesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-men-detained-fined-for-smuggling-snakehead-fish-fry-92011/
Anniversary Marked With Fiery Demonstration
Resident of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood burned straw effigies symbolizing corrupt government officials yesterday to make the one-year anniversary of demolition of eight homes at the contest site. Roughly 100 protesters gathered at the site of the demolitions and set fire to eight scarecrow-like effigies ...
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 27/2: Cambodia, Laos Rubber
The area under Viet Nam Rubber Group’s cultivation in Laos and Cambodia totals 100,000 ha, including 27,000 ha under the group’s seven rubber projects in Laos. By the end of 2012, VRG had 21 rubber projects in Cambodia, including 19 rubber tree plantations and ...
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/67334/business-in-brief-27-2.html
Hun Sen Orders Toxic Ice Factory Shut Down
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Saturday that he had ordered a Phnom Penh ice-making factory to shut down, after pungent chemical emissions from the plant in Russei Keo district caused more than 100 nearby residents to be hospitalized with breathing problems on Friday. At least 20 ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-orders-toxic-ice-factory-shut-down-23617/
Airport dwellers displaced from ‘anarchic’ houses
Nearly 100 families who live in three villages in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune near the Phnom Penh International Airport have been told by district authorities they have seven days to relocate and will be given no compensation. However, the residents are refusing ...
Villagers block national road
Nearly 100 residents from about 50 families in Sihanoukville town’s commune 1 blocked National Road 4 yesterday to protest against a Supreme Court verdict ordering their eviction on Friday in favour of a local official ...
Kratie villagers return home after filing petitions
Some 100 people representing more than 600 families from Kratie province’s Snuol district who have a land dispute with the Memot Rubber Plantation Company returned home yesterday after sending petitions to relevant ministries. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50116387/kratie-villagers-return-home-after-filing-petitions/
Cambodia’s budget transparency dismal, survey finds
Cambodia fared dismally in the 2014 budget transparency index compiled by the US-based International Budget Partnership, scoring only eight out of 100 and coming in near the bottom of the 102 countries surveyed, at 94. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17911/cambodia---s-budget-transparency-dismal--survey-finds/
Recruiter’s assets seized by police
Police have seized property from a rented house in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district belonging to a recruitment firm that allegedly cheated money from some 100 Cambodians hoping to find work in Thailand. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/recruiters-assets-seized-police
Soldier’s home hiding luxury wood: officials
Some 100 pieces of luxury wood believed to be from the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary area were seized at the house of a military officer near the Vietnamese border on Friday, officials said yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-home-hiding-luxury-wood-officials
Illegal timber loads seized
The Cambodia Royal Gendarmerie and Kratie provincial military police yesterday concluded a crackdown on a known timber smuggling route in Sambour district, confiscating nearly 100 pieces of wood equivalent to about 40 cubic metres. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40130/illegal-timber-loads-seized/