Irrawaddy dolphin found dead in Stung Treng
An Irrawaddy dolphin was found dead on Saturday in Stung Treng province, near the border of Laos’ Don Sahong region, where Lao authorities are constructing a hydropower dam. Environmental activist Chum Huot said yesterday that villagers in the Preah Rumkel community found the dead dolphin and ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113509/irrawaddy-dolphin-found-dead-in-stung-treng/
New international checkpoint to open in Battambang
Cambodia and Thailand are due to open an international checkpoint bordering Battambang province and Sa Kaeo province to facilitate the flow of goods across the border at the end of this month. Nguon Ratanak, Battambang provincial governor, and Porn Poth Penpas, Sa Kaeo provincial governor, held ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50115168/new-international-checkpoint-to-open-in-battambang/
Timber trafficking grandma charged in Phnom Penh
Well-known timber trafficker Heng Samneang was charged on Sunday with illegal logging and interfering with the work of public officials, according to a Phnom Penh Municipal Court officer, days after she allegedly tried to retrieve some of her ill-gotten timber with the help of a ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/timber-trafficking-grandma-charged-phnom-penh-119360/
Hundreds of hectares cleared in Mondulkiri: gov
Mondulkiri’s provincial governor yesterday said officials are investigating allegations of the clearing of 200 to 300 hectares of protected forestland in Keo Seima district. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-hectares-cleared-mondulkiri-gov
For rural minorities, land remains in limbo
Eighteen years ago, long before the roads cutting through the red hills of Ratanakkiri were paved, some 300 indigenous Kreung families living on a hill above a stream in O’Chum district sent a petition to the Ministry of Land Management. ...
Aisha Down
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/topstory/rural-minorities-land-remains-limbo-120583/
Calls to cooperate in sand export data
Civil society members and Ministry of Mines and Energy officials came together recently to discuss discrepancies in the export figures of sand from Cambodia to Singapore, after 47 NGOs wrote an open letter early this month to the ministry seeking an explanation. The letter from civil ...
Ven Rathavong and Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32210/calls-to-cooperate-in-sand-export-data/
Hundreds called in to defend voting rights
Hundreds of registered voters are being called in to a tribunal set up at the interior Ministry compound in Phnom Penh this week to face questioning about whether they are Cambodian enough to participate in upcoming elections. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-called-in-to-defend-voting-rights-123609/
The first prediction of weather in 2017
On 25 January 2017, the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has released an public announcement on the weather prediction for 2017 including world phenomenon, situation and weather in dry season and early rainy season of 2017 in the central lowland, highland and coastal area, and ...
Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology
New ultimatum from city in OCIC dispute
City Hall issued another deadline yesterday to land disputants affected by a satellite city development on Chroy Changvar, telling them to voluntarily part with 90 percent of their land or risk losing it all. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-ultimatum-city-ocic-dispute
Japan wades in on Tonle Sap algae
The Japan International Cooperation Agency has agreed to oversee a project to help recover water quality In the Tonle Sap lake In response to the appearance of a large bloom of algae. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36423/japan-wades-in--on-tonle-sap-algae/
Slowdown in GDP growth projected for 2019
The World Bank on Thursday forecast a slight dip in the country’s economic growth rate by 2019 amid declining foreign investment, rising inflation and a slowdown in the expansion of garments manufacturing, and advised improvements to infrastructure and training to keep the economy on its ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/slowdown-in-gdp-growth-projected-for-2019-128024/
Forests cleared in Koh Kong protected areas
Around 600 hectares of the protected Southern Cardamom National Park in Koh Kong have been illegally cleared and sold off for cultivation since 2013, sometimes by local authorities, according to the conservation organisation Wildlife Alliance. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forests-cleared-koh-kong-protected-areas
Public road reopened after ditch filled in
Authorities yesterday dismantled fences and filled in a ditch in order to reopen a road, allegedly disconnected by two real estate companies several years ago, to public access in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/public-road-reopened-after-ditch-filled
CNRP takes decisive victory in Kampong Cham
Jubilant cheers resounded at the Cambodia National Rescue Party headquarters in Kampong Cham last night as the party transformed its solid support base in the province into an undeniable stronghold. ...
Mech Dara and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-takes-decisive-victory-kampong-cham
‘Grandma Proeung’ in court over timber rap
In the first and only day of her trial yesterday, promInent alleged timber trader Heng Samnieng claimed that Military Police officers had tried to sell off pieces of timber confiscated by authorities In Stung Treng, where she was arrested In October while allegedly attemptIng to ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grandma-proeung-court-over-timber-rap
Equity fund takes stake in iCare
A Singapore-based private equity fund manager has acquired a significant minority stake in iCare Benefits (Cambodia) Co Ltd, an employee benefits programme offered to enterprises that operate in the Kingdom. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/equity-fund-takes-stake-icare
Suspected US aircraft bomb found in Takeo
A 350-kg M117 aircraft bomb believed to have been dropped during the US’s carpet bombing of Cambodia was uncovered in Takeo province’s Tram Kak district yesterday by local residents, an official said. ...
Jovina Chua
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/suspected-us-aircraft-bomb-found-takeo
Press Release on Cambodian Workers in Thailand
On 7 August 2015, the Royal Government of Cambodia released an announcement to inform the public that from 24 July to 7 August 2017, the Ministry of Labor in Thailand has:1). Received letters from 195,627 Thai employers.2). Extracted data from 694,629 illegal migrant workers, of ...
Royal Government of Cambodia
200,000 migrant workers register in Thailand
The Ministry of Labour yesterday released data to show how many illegal migrant workers residing in Thailand have taken the first step to register with authorities there in order to gain all their proper paperwork. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077325/200000-migrant-workers-register-thailand/
GMS ministers to meet in Siem Reap
The second Greater Mekong Subregion Agriculture Ministers Meeting will be held in Siem Reap province early next month, with agro-food products, exploring new markets for agricultural products and solving issues in the sector expected to be high on the agenda. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077636/gms-ministers-meet-siem-reap/