Trilateral discussions in agricultural trade begin
Representatives of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam gathered yesterday in Phnom Penh to discuss ways of improving trading procedures in Asean, particularly in agricultural goods, as part of a workshop organised by German development agency GIZ. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50484131/trilateral-discussions-in-agricultural-trade-begin/
UXOs found in Preah Vihear province
Nearly 100 unexploded ordnances were handed over to the authorities yesterday after farmers working the land found them in Preah Vihear province on Friday. A Koulen district police official said yesterday that police were called after villagers reported that farmers had accumulated about 70 UXOs. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50496724/uxos-found-in-preah-vihear-province/
Demand for water in capital increases
The general director of the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority yesterday said that the capital is facing a shortage of water as facilities across the city struggle to produce enough to meet rising demands. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50520186/demand-for-water-in-capital-increases/
Angkor finds gold-in-soil anomaly
Angkor Gold Corp reported the discovery of a new gold-in-soil anomaly at Angkor’s Koan Nheak license in Cambodia, according to the company’s statement released last week. The anomaly extends over 700 metres from north to south, and up to 300 metres east to west. ...
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50521746/angkor-finds-gold-in-soil-anomaly/
Water levels rising in two provinces
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology yesterday announced that the provinces of Battambang and Ratanakkiri are facing floods following a rise of water levels in the Sesan river. Nhem Samoeun, Ratanakkiri provincial spokesman, said that the floods have affected Veun Sai, Andoung Meas and ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50523120/water-levels-rising-in-two-provinces/
Sights in Kampot granted new designation
Home to abundant natural resources and biodiversity, the listing of Phnom Kampong Trach, Phnom Chhngouk, Phnom Kbal Romeas and Phnom La’ang as protected cultural and historical sites would be of great benefit to the local communities and environment, said Kampot provincial governor Cheav Tay. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sights-kampot-granted-new-designation
Deminers to get training in China
The Cambodian Mine Action Authority is going to dispatch 40 of its demining staff to China to receive training next month as part of China’s commitment in supporting mine clearance. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50527762/deminers-to-get-training-in-china/
CMAA reports increase in landmine incidents
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority has estimated that the number of mine casualties has increased in the first eight months of this year when compared to the same period last year. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536527/cmaa-reports-increase-in-landmine-incidents/
Poipet Airport project resumes in Cambodia
The Poipet Airport development project, which had been abandoned for more than 10 years, will resume construction in 2020 as the city welcomes more Chinese, say provincial authorities. Hotel and casino investment firm Holiday Palace began construction of the airport in 2007 and had already ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/poipet-resumes-airport-project
Psychology department sees decrease in students
The Royal University of Phnom Penh’s department of psychology has seen a decrease in students and its dean has blamed a lack of human resources and decreased interest in the subject. Phan Chan Pov, dean of the psychology department at the university, said there are ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50544908/psychology-department-sees-decrease-in-students-2/
Ethnic cultural centre in land dispute
A Bunong ethnic community representative on Tuesday claimed Mondulkiri provincial officials have not begun measuring land for the Hill Tribes Cultural Centre in the Phnom Dos Kramom mountain area even though they had received an order to do so from Prime Minister Hun Sen late ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-cultural-centre-land-dispute
Koica, Childfund in rural education drive
ChildFund and Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) on Monday announced a new drive to improve primary education In rural Kratie provInce. “Koica has made $1.6 million In fundIng commitments over the next three years to expand the ‘Easy to Learn’ project In remote communities In ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koica-childfund-rural-education-drive
Cambodians arrested in Thailand over logging
A dozen Cambodian migrant workers suspected of cutting down trees in a Thai protected forest were arrested on Sunday by military police at a rubber plantation in Thailand’s Nakhon Reachasima province. According to a report by the Bangkok Post, Thai military police conducted a raid ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50592318/cambodians-arrested-in-thailand-over-logging/
Development challenges in Ream National Park
Ecosystems play an important role in sustaining not only plants and animals, but also humans. But as demands for development continue, a balance between investments and sustainability remains elusive in Ream National Park. A forest ranger is geared with a bag behind his back and a ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50607376/development-challenges-in-ream-national-park/
Helmet checks to begin in PP
Phnom Penh authorities will deploy forces day and night at 16 points throughout the capital to identify motorcyclists not wearing helmets, while police will be stationed at two further locations at night to check truck drivers for alcohol and addictive substances. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/helmet-checks-begin-pp
Kampot mangroves ‘cleared in land grab’
The Changhaon village community claims that many hectares of mangrove forest in the coastal area in a village in Teuk Chhou district’s Prek Tnort commune, in Kampot province, were being cut down to grab land for private ownership. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-mangroves-cleared-land-grab
Local activist called in for questioning
A prominent activist in Koh Kong province who has opposed the construction of the Stung Cheay Areng dam has been summonsed to court for alleged “forest crimes”. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-activist-called-questioning
Dengue cases rising in Siem Reap
Dengue fever has killed 24 people so far this year, most of them children. As dengue fever cases continue to rise in Siem Reap province, the statistics seem scary. Death by dengue, however, is most often due to complications stemming from multiple infections coupled with ...
Naomi Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15953/dengue-cases-rising-in-siem-reap/
Express road to airport in works
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday announced the start of feasibility studies aimed at building an express elevated toll road that would extend from Phnom Penh’s city centre to the airport by 2021.Public Works Minister Tram Iv Tek said yesterday that China’s Henan ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/express-road-airport-works
Body of foreigner found in suitcase
The unidentified body of a male foreign national, stuffed into a suitcase with only the head sticking out, was found by local fishermen in Kep province yesterday morning after washing up on the side of a canal near a mangrove forest. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/body-foreigner-found-suitcase