Ten years for trafficker duo
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a woman and a man to 10 years in prison each on drug-trafficking charges after their arrest in Sen Sok district last year. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ten-years-trafficker-duo
Buses to Run Direct to and from Bangkok
Starting next month, 80 Cambodian and Thai buses and trucks will be allowed to transport goods and passengers directly between Bangkok and Phnom Penh for the first time, an official said yesterday. Suon Vanhong, deputy director of transport at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, ...
Cambodia's opposition to mark International Human Rights Day
The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will stage mass rallies in capital Phnom Penh and tourist city of Siem Reap on Dec. 10 to celebrate the International Human Rights Day, a party spokesman said Thursday. “We plan to mobilize 20,000 people in Phnom Penh ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131205/cambodias-opposition-mark-international-human-rights-day
Officials ‘take cut’ of dam compensation
Officials involved in negotiating compensation offers between the developers of the Lower Sesan II dam and affected villagers have kept a portion of the money paid out to 12 families for themselves, according to an official. Duong Pov, Stung Treng provincial administration director, claimed that a ...
Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-%E2%80%98take-cut%E2%80%99-dam-compensation
Table. Cassava production in Cambodia
Source: Cassava production in Cambodia from 2000-2019, revived from World data atlas, 2020. ...
More Cambodian borrowers of MFIs are buying land than selling
The financial standing of Cambodian borrowers has seen improvement over the years in many cases, as per data with the Cambodian Microfinance Association (CMA). ...
Rachel David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501523109/more-cambodian-borrowers-of-mfis-are-buying-land-than-selling/
Int’l Union report ranks Kingdom in bottom ten
Cambodia made the list of the 10 worst countries in terms of labour rights, according to a report released last week by the International Trade Union Confederation. ...
Bun Sengkong and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/intl-union-report-ranks-kingdom-bottom-ten
Troops mobilized to ‘disperse’ farmers clearing state forest
The governor of Kompong Speu on Tuesday ordered 10 armed soldiers to help a team of environmental officials confront a group of “anarchic” farmers clearing state forestland in the province. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troops-mobilized-disperse-farmers-clearing-state-forest-117983/
Logging investigation finished
Members of the prime minister’s anti-logging task force who had been looking into officials’alleged collusion with Vietnamese timber smugglers in Mondulkiri has ended its 10-day investigation. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-investigation-finished
Families call for return of land
A group of 20 people representing 554 families locked in a 10-year land dispute yesterday submitted a petition asking the government to end the lengthy conflict. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36748/families-call-for-return-of-land/
Cambodia sees 9 pct drop in malaria cases in Q1
Cambodia reported 10,000 malaria cases in the first three months of 2014, down 9 percent from about 11,000 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Thursday. ...
ASEAN - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/25/c_133290120.htm
Hun Sen surpasses 1 million likes
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page surpassed 1 million likes yesterday, earning him a spot in the country’s top 10 most-liked pages on Cambodia’s most popular social network. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14824/hun-sen-surpasses-1-million-likes/
Kratie officials seize bulldozer involved in clearing state forest
Kratie’s Prek Prasap district authorities on Friday confiscated a bulldozer in connection with the clearing of 10 hectares of forestland near the protected Prey Lang forest, officials said on Sunday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-officials-seize-bulldozer-involved-clearing-state-forest
City hall seeks to expand bus routes
The Phnom Penh Municipality is asking for more city buses from the Chinese and Japanese governments to expand public transport to 10 routes in the capital, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17511/city-hall-seeks-to-expand-bus-routes/
Angkor worksite reveals 2 statues
Authorities at the Angkor Temple Complex in Siem Reap province yesterday announced the discovery of two statues dating from the 10th century, uncovered during the digging of a water channel. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/angkor-worksite-reveals-2-statues
Chicken farm razed in Preah Sihanouk
A grass fire raged through a chicken farm in Preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday, destroying two coops and the chickens within and causing $10,000 in damage, according to provincial authorities. ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chicken-farm-razed-preah-sihanouk
Govt reinstates biosecurity measures
The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry will reinstate sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) inspections on imported goods close to 10 years after having made the commitment to the World Trade Organization (WTO). ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35856/govt-reinstates-biosecurity-measures/
Report warns on pier project
The Kampot Pier Project – a $10 million effort to attract tourists by building a passenger pier – could harm communities due to insufficient consultation, a new NGO report and community representatives claim. ...
Leonie Kijewski and Yon Sineat
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-warns-pier-project
Election reform sticking points sent to leaders
The electoral reform working groups from the CPP and CNRP on Monday sent 10 points of disagreement in the drafting of a new national election law to their top party leaders to discuss. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-reform-sticking-points-sent-to-leaders-78567/
Kids stumble on lost artefacts
Children taking their cows out to pasture in Kampong Chhnang town last week stumbled upon what appear to be the remains of a long-buried 10th-century temple, local authorities said yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kids-stumble-lost-artefacts