Market for construction materials opened in Phnom Penh
A company based in China’s southern province of Guangdong opened a 2-hectare market for building and construction materials near the Preah Monivong Bridge in Phnom Penh on Saturday, according to a report by online Chinese news site Commercial News. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/market-construction-materials-opened-phnom-penh
Angkor scrutiny: Commission to investigate park figures
The National Assembly’s Anti-Corruption Commission will visit Siem Reap this month to further probe claims Angkor Archaeological Park’s manager, the Apsara Authority, underreported ticket sales, as new figures show a drop in visitors to the World Heritage site last month. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/angkor-scrutiny-commission-investigate-park-figures-0
Gov’t to discuss Bokor mountain management
Two government ministers will meet with a National Assembly commission on Monday to discuss a tourism management plan for Bokor Mountain, according to CNRP lawmaker Yem Ponhearith, who last month visited the mountain to inspect burial sites popular with Vietnamese tourists. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-discuss-bokor-mountain-management-79257/
Poipet checkpoint customs chief to be replaced
The head of customs at the Poipet International Checkpoint, the site of numerous recent protests by handcart-pullers complaining of arbitrary fees for transporting goods across the border, will be replaced Wednesday, according to the Banteay Meanchey provincial customs chief. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poipet-checkpoint-customs-chief-to-be-replaced-89115/
A collaborative training workshop for citizen journalists on ‘News report writing on public service delivery’
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Open Development Cambodia in collaboration with the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) hosted a two-day training workshop in Siem Reap. On 28 February and 1 March, 16 citizen journalists from across the country learned to write stories covering public services in their communities. ODC ...
Eviction fears grow at lake
Villagers living in raised houses on the capital’s Boeung Tumpun lake fear their eviction is on the horizon as sand pumping increases at the site, they said yesterday. In recent months, heavy machinery has been at work at the Boeung Tumpun site. Sand pumping has ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091758736/National-news/eviction-fears-grow-at-lake.html
Timbergreen official questioned in Chut Wutty shooting
The “company” that military police have declined to identify but said sent staff to confront activist Chut Wutty shortly before he was shot last Thursday is Timbergreen, a firm the slain activist had attempted to expose for illegal logging. Documents obtained by the Post yesterday and sources have ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050355957/National-news/company-man-arrested.html
Facing Chinese Dam, Monks Fight for Temple
Monks residing in Koh Kong’s remote Areng Valley have begun raising funds online to renovate their local temple, despite plans in store for a large Chinese backed hydropower dam that would leave the site completely inundated. The 108-MW hydropower dam, to be built by ...
Kuch Naren and Kene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/facing-chinese-dam-monks-fight-for-temple-31987/
Chong villagers block Chinese engineers from reaching dam
A group of 20 ethnic minority Chong villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley blocked the road Friday to prevent a group of Chinese engineers from reaching the site of a controversial proposed dam. A number of Chong villagers have been intermittently camping near the road ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chong-villagers-block-chinese-engineers-from-reaching-dam-58944/
Police visit Phnum Prech to inspect logging
Indigenous people in Mondulkiri province called in the police and environment officials to visit a logging site in the Phnum Prech Wildlife Sanctuary after reports to a village leader were acted upon. Pu Neav village secretary Liv Kheam said on Monday that 10 indigenous people ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-visit-phnum-prech-inspect-logging
Natural protected areas
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This dataset contains data for eight types of protected areas in Cambodia (national park, wildlife sanctuary, protected landscape, multiple use, natural heritage site, Ramsar site, biosphere reserve and marine national park) with issuing dates starting from 1993 to 2023. The data was collected from government ...
Workshop on ODC website and information on access to public services in Siem Reap
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Last week, the ODC team ended the week with an exciting workshop under a project theme of “Public Awareness of and Engagement in Government Service Delivery” funded by Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), at Angkor Hotel Siem Reap, just a short tuk-tuk ...
Civil society groups slam gov’t web-monitor group
Some 116 organisations and associations have urged Cambodian officials to dismantle the new inter-ministry working group that was recently set up to monitor social networking sites, claiming it is an “abuse on the rights and freedom of expression via the internet”. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-society-groups-slam-govt-web-monitor-group
Big investments can succeed in Cambodia - Nagaworld
NagaWorld has just celebrated its 21st anniversary since its inception on May 1, 1995, and sited near the beautiful Mekong River in the capital city of Phnom Penh, NagaWorld is the biggest integrated entertainment resort in the Mekong region. ...
Khmer Time Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25642/big--investments-can-succeed--in-cambodia---nagaworld/
Army to guard voting stations
Voters in next year’s elections will now have to make their choices under the watchful eye of the army after the government issued a decree yesterday establishing permanent military forces at national and sub-national election sites between 2016 and 2019. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27376/army-to-guard-voting-stations/
One logging standoff, two differing accounts
Soldiers allegedly protecting an illegal logging operation in Oddar Meanchey threatened to shoot a group of forest patrollers that stumbled across their logging site on Sunday, Rattanak Rokha community forest patrol leader Chea Chuong said yesterday, though an RCAF commander denied the account. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-logging-standoff-two-differing-accounts
New centre for mentally ill planned in wake of Prey Speu mass escape
After a mass escape of 70 inmates from the notorious Prey Speu centre on Sunday, the government said they would take mentally ill people rounded up off the streets and house them on the same site as a Kandal orphanage. ...
Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-centre-mentally-ill-planned-wake-prey-speu-mass-escape
Government starts preparing confiscated ELCs for poor
Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim said on Monday his staff were already at work studying land that the government has confiscated from economic land concession (ELC) owners for redistribution to poor families, though details on the location of the sites remained elusive. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-starts-preparing-confiscated-elcs-for-poor-109220/
Sesan holdouts will not be given public services
Stung Treng province officials have announced they will not build public facilities for those villagers who refused to relocate to the government’s resettlement site when their villages were flooded late last year by the reservoir of the controversial Lower Sesan II Dam. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sesan-holdouts-will-not-be-given-public-services
Dam critics unswayed
Cambodian environmental groups yesterday stepped up their calls for the Don Sahong dam in Laos to be cancelled, after a visit to the site failed to convince them the hydropower project would not harm the Mekong River and the people who depend on it. ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-critics-unswayed