Kem Sokha officially charged with ‘treason’
Jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha was officially charged with treason this morning, about 36 hours after he was arrested from his Phnom Penh residence in a midnight raid by more than 100 police and sent to a Tbong Khmum prison. ...
Leonie Kijewski and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-kem-sokha-officially-charged-treason
US demining funding reaches $124m: report
Cambodia received some $124 million between 1993 and 2016, second only to Laos in the region. Mines and unexploded ordnance kill and injure some 100 people annually in Cambodia, keeping poor communities impoverished by limiting access to farmland, the report states. ...
Men Kimseng
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-demining-funding-reaches-124million-according-to-report/4165389.html
More protests at Land Ministry
About 100 people representing nearly 200 families protested at the Ministry of Land Management in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding the ministry expedite a solution to their land disputes with three sugarcane plantation companies in Koh Kong province. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35079/more-protests-at-land-ministry/
Banteay Meanchey villagers seek dispute resolution
Almost 100 people from Boeung Snor village gathered at Banteay Meanchey’s Provincial Hall yesterday, demanding that provincial authorities resolve a 13-year-old dispute involving land promised to a group of Khmer Rouge defectors by the government in 1997. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/banteay-meanchey-villagers-seek-dispute-resolution
Foreigners working in Cambodia face permit fines
About 100,000 foreigners working without permits will be fined after Khmer New Year and potentially face jail time and deportation if they fail to get paperwork or pay their fines, the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Labour announced yesterday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreigners-working-cambodia-face-permit-fines
Land battle leads locals to protest
About 100 villagers in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district who allege two powerful families are trying to push them off their land protested yesterday after workers fenced off more than 3 hectares of the land they claim in Kouk Rokar commune. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-battle-leads-locals-protest
Villagers block highway after police raze homes
Representatives of some 100 families living at the top of a waterfall on the outskirts of Sihanoukville blocked a major highway on Saturday to protest the destruction of their homes and crops by authorities earlier that day, villagers and local officials said Sunday. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-block-highway-after-police-raze-homes-71632/
Villagers in Ratanakkiri prevent company from clearing land
About 100 villagers prevented a company from clearing part of its land concession in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district on Saturday in the latest confrontation in a long-running dispute in the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary, according to a villager and a local official. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-ratanakkiri-prevent-company-from-clearing-land-77219/
Factory to reopen after mass faintings
A garment factory in Svay Rieng province where more than 100 workers fainted in recent days invited six monks to drive out the building’s “bad spirits” on Tuesday and will reopen on Wednesday after agreeing to improve the facility’s ventilation. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-to-reopen-after-mass-faintings-78169/
Three more women faint as factory reopens
The Labor Ministry official in charge of garment factory faintings declared Wednesday’s reopening of a Svay Rieng province factory—where 100 workers fainted in the past week due to chemical fumes—a relative success, with only three more women collapsing while working. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-more-women-faint-as-factory-reopens-78276/
In Cambodia, English classes more popular than Chinese
In a small courtyard in downtown Phnom Penh sits the city’s oldest public school. Founded more than 100 years ago, Tuan Hoa features a Chinese temple and Mandarin language instruction for its 2,000 students. ...
Neou Vannarin and Colin Lovett
http://bit.ly/1GxFgI7
Monks to march to save Prey Lang forest
More than 100 monks from across the Kingdom will gather in Prey Lang forest on July 2 for four days before travelling to Phnom Penh to protest against illegal logging and other environmental threats to the forest, activist monk Venerable But Buntenh said. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12714/monks-to-march-to-save-prey-lang-forest/
Koh Kong fishermen resume anti-sand-dredging campaign
As about 100 fishermen in Koh Kong province on Wednesday resumed their monthslong campaign against a company they accuse of illegal sand dredging, an environmental NGO claimed the firm was now hiring locals as security guards in an attempt to divide the community. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/koh-kong-fishermen-resume-anti-sand-dredging-campaign-91551/
Police raid drug dens, arrest 88
More than 100 police officers descended on a notorious slum in Sen Sok district’s Toek Thla commune on Friday in a coordinated effort to flush out drug-related crime from the ghetto, ultimately arresting 88 people for using or selling crystal methamphetamine. ...
Sek Odom and Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-raid-drug-dens-arrest-88-92312/
Government to increase cash for Labour to $160 million
The Royal Government has decided to increase the budget for Cash for Labour from $100 million to $160 million. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50776562/government-to-increase-cash-for-labour-to-160-million/
Cost pressure squeezes Asian growth
I attended a meeting in Chengdu, Sichuan Province last week. The most frequent word mentioned by local officials and scholars there was “industry.” They are very proud that the number of local jobs created in Sichuan has now surpassed the number of workers leaving to ...
Government Approves Dam On Lower Sesan
The Council of Ministers on Friday signed off on the Lower Sesan 2 dam project in Stung Treng province, despite long-standing criticism leveled against the project by environmental groups who say it would adversely affect 100,000 people as a consequence of reduced access to fish. The ...
Broken rice from Cambodia affects export
Exports of milled rice had fallen dramatically last year because of the poor quality of paddy rice, insiders said yesterday. Milled-rice producers told the Post that a large amount of paddy rice broke. From every 100 kilograms of paddy rice, 20 to 23 kilograms of milled rice ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010960686/Business/broken-rice-from-cambodia-affects-export.html
Hundreds of Preah Sihanouk Families Forced From Homes
More than 100 families in Preah Sihanouk province were forcefully removed from their homes yesterday morning by at least 100 armed police officers who dispersed the crowd by firing shots into the air from AK-47 rifles and spraying villagers with water cannons, accoring to provincial ...
NEC Falls Short of Removing All ‘Ghost Names’ From Voter List
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Wednesday closed the official voter registration period, which lasted for 20 days and saw more than 170,000 people added and nearly 100,000 names struck from the voter list. The list has been heavily criticized by election monitors, who say the ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec%E2%80%88falls-short-of-removing-all-ghost-names-from-voter-list-45743/