Cambodia’s leopards facing extinction by 2018: expert
Cambodia’s population of spotted Indochinese leopards will be extinct by 2018 unless action is taken to deal with the “snaring crisis” in Mondolkiri province, where the few remaining leopards live, according to the author of a forthcoming paper on the issue. ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-leopards-facing-extinction-by-2018-expert-113182/
Condo boom in Cambodia's capital driven by expat demand and a leap of faith
High-rise apartments are springing up across Cambodia’s capital, part of a property boom led by expat demand, while developers are also betting the country’s growing middle class will shed a traditional distaste for “living on top of each other”. ...
Prak Chan Thul, Aradhana Aravindan
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/02/cambodia-condominiums-idUSL3N12N3UL20151102
Railway protesters seek talks
More than 100 residents living in Por Sen Chey district’s Ka Kab commune yesterday burned tyres while protesting over the construction of a railway that will lead to the Phnom Penh International Airport, claiming that people were not given notice of the construction. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5073738/railway-protesters-seek-talks/
Cambodia takes the regional lead in HIV treatment effort
Cambodia has made significant progress in HIV treatment, taking the lead regionally by reaching 80 percent of those living with the virus and becoming one of only seven countries globally to reach target treatment goals, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-takes-the-regional-lead-in-hiv-treatment-effort-132751/
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/
Major tycoons added to concessions watchlist
Fourteen companies have been added to a Ministry of Environment watchlist for purportedly failing to live up to their investment promises. The companies include firms owned by some of the country’s wealthiest and most politically connected land barons, such as Mong Reththy and Sok Kong. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/major-tycoons-added-concessions-watchlist
Villagers say dredging a danger, disturbance
About 50 villagers living along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district protested outside their local pagoda Sunday to demand that authorities take action against a company illegally dredging sand from the riverbed. ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-say-dredging-a-danger-disturbance-67660/
More wage negotiations set, as workers maintain demands
The government has released a schedule for minimum wage discussions with unions and factories this year, as workers continue to demand $177 per month to keep up with the rising cost of living. More talks are scheduled from July through January. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/more-wage-negotiations-set-as-workers-maintain-demands/2822361.html
Parking attendants leery of automation
A pilot project to create the first-ever mechanical toll-parking system in the Cambodian capital has sparked concern among the city’s freelance parking attendants, who eke out a living on the tips they receive from helping drivers find space to park their car. ...
Un Raksmey
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13530/parking-attendants-leery-of-automation/
For many, alcohol has become a ‘communication’ tool
Alcohol consumption in Cambodia is high enough that authorities are now drafting legislation for a drinking age. But as the country and its economy develop, many here say it has become an essential part of their social—and professional—lives. ...
Pang Chamnan
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/for-many-alcholol-has-become-a-communication-tool/2880192.html
Mass infection in pigs sparks fears
A new breakout of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has taken the lives of more than 1,200 pigs while infecting some 3,200 more in three districts across Siem Reap since mid-August, a new report by the province’s Agriculture Department says. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mass-infection-pigs-sparks-fears
RUPP students campaign to reduce plastic pollution with coffee discount plans
Fifty coffee shops have joined a two-month campaign initiated by the Royal University of Phnom Penh’s (RUPP) Department of Media and Communication (DMC) to reduce the use of plastic in daily lives. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rupp-students-campaign-reduce-plastic-pollution-coffee-discount-plans
PM hands over more than 3,000 hectares of land to people in Pursat
Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a sub-decree to amend the area of 3,448 hectares, 77 and hand it over to the people of Pursat to live in and enjoy. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501083820/pm-hands-over-more-than-3000-hectares-of-land-to-people-in-pursat/
500 Kandal families petition authorities to halt evictions for airport development
Hundreds of families facing displacement from a $1.5 billion airport project in Kandal province petitioned the provincial governor Monday, requesting authorities grant them land titles and allow them to continue living on the land. ...
Sorn Sarath and Runn Sreydeth
https://cambojanews.com/500-kandal-families-petition-authorities-to-halt-evictions-for-airport-development/
Agriculture ministry warns of legal action over pig import loopholes
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has warned that it will take legal action against its provincial departments and production offices if they maintain any loopholes which allow live pigs or pork products that might be contaminated with African swine fever to be imported ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/agriculture-ministry-warns-legal-action-over-pig-import-loopholes
"Blue-ear disease" kills over 1,200 pigs in northwest Cambodia
A new outbreak of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has taken the lives of more than 1,200 pigs while infecting some 3,200 more in three districts across Cambodia’s Siem Reap province since mid-August, according to Chinese News Agency-Xinhua. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/%22blue-ear-disease%22-kills-over-1200-pigs-in-northwest-cambodia-8929
Kingdom’s first abattoir primed for Australian cattle
After a series of technical delays and setbacks, the Kingdom’s first industrial slaughterhouse is ready to begin operations and will start production upon receiving its first shipment of 2,000 heads of live Australian cattle in late May, the company behind the project said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-first-abattoir-primed-australian-cattle
Aust company brings solar to Cambodia
Before dawn breaks, Houk Kymia and Wen Suen begin to make coffee they will later sell on the streets of Phnom Penh, all this aboard their “tuk tuk,” a three-wheeled light delivery van which runs on solar energy and is helping them make a decent ...
Ricardo Perez-Solero
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/aust-company-brings-solar-to-cambodia/news-story/9490b85707deb72d333f728a12edd9d5
Aust company brings solar to Cambodia
Before dawn breaks, Houk Kymia and Wen Suen begin to make coffee they will later sell on the streets of Phnom Penh, all this aboard their “tuk tuk,” a three-wheeled light delivery van which runs on solar energy and is helping them make a decent ...
Free health care for Cambodia’s poorest
Cambodia received a new $130 million funding package from the World Bank last month that focuses on poverty reduction and bettering the lives of poor and vulnerable Cambodians in the country cooperation strategy set out in the new Cambodia -World Bank Group Country Engagement Note ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26055/free-health-care-for-cambodia---s-poorest/