700K China jabs to land Mar 31
A total of 700,000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine donated by China are expected to arrive in Cambodia on March 31 with 400,000 to be administered by the Ministry of Health and 300,000 by the Ministry of National Defence. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/700k-china-jabs-land-mar-31
Wife of Pailin Governor Reaps Benefits From Casino Deal
Venturing into Cambodia’s casino market in May 2011, Macau-backed gambling firm Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGA) promised tens of thousands of dollars to the wife of Pailin’s provincial governor in order to lease land for the construction of a new casino, documents filed with the U.S. ...
Simon Lewis and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wife-of-pailin-governor-reaps-benefits-from-casino-deal-40660/
Coca-Cola Company confirms audit of Cambodian suppliers
The Coca-Cola Company on Thursday confirmed that it has sent a team to Cambodia to assess long-running allegations of land grabbing and forced evictions at the sugar cane plantations that help sweeten the global drinks giant’s sodas. The team’s visit follows the company’s pledge in November ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/coca-cola-company-confirms-audit-of-cambodian-suppliers-53328/
245,500 tons of rubber per year to be collected by 2020
Rubber production in Cambodia is expected to increase by 245,500 tons per year by 2020, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). MAFF Minister Chan Sarun said on Aug 30 that Cambodia will have 365,000 hectares for rubber production as the amount ...
Illegal logging has become more violent than ever
Criminal loggers and land snatchers are committing more murders around the world, but they almost always escape justice. ...
Rachel Nuwer
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160202-Illegal-loggers-murders-violence-defending-land/
Tourism still invigorating Siem Reap property market
Land prices in Siem Reap town are continuing to climb due the province’s robust tourism industry, realtors say. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19951/tourism-still-invigorating-siem-reap-property-market/
ADB Admits Fault in Rail Project, Pledges Compensation
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has for the first time admitted to major flaws in its efforts to protect the roughly 4,000 families losing land to a $143 million project it is funding to rehabilitate Cambodia’s dilapidated railway system. On Friday, the ADB said it would ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-admits-fault-in-rail-project-pledges-compensation-51210/
Market likely to peak by year end, analysts say
Although land prices have been cooling throughout Asean, Cambodia remains an exception – but that is not expected to last much longer, analysts say. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15020/market-likely-to-peak-by-year-end--analysts-say/
Cambodia’s pepper takes off
Through a canopy of palm leaves, sunlight falls onto 1,000 four-month-old pepper plants, each one climbing about two feet up a wooden pole in the ground. “We will be ready to harvest pepper from here in about 18 to 20 months,” says one of Kep ...
Daniel de Carteret and Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-pepper-takes
River widening divides opinions
More than 30 families living near the Siem Reap River in Siem Reap’s Aranh Sakor village have sent a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen and member of parliament Seang Nam, asking not to be evicted from their land because of the planned widening of ...
Gov’t to incentivise electric bus imports
The government is working on a policy to encourage imports of high-quality electric buses. Chhoun Voun, director-general of the Department of Land Transport at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, told Khmer Times yesterday they are drafting a “Land transport policy” that will include ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50667515/govt-to-incentivise-electric-bus-imports/
Cambodia’s Kampot pepper granted GI certification from 50 Countries
The Ministry of Commerce has secured geographical indication (GI) certification of Cambodia’s Kampot pepper from 50 countries. The update was provided by the Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak when presiding over official Handover Ceremony of Czech Machine and Buying “Kampot Pepper” from Small Farmers by ...
Phal Sophanith/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50788387/cambodias-kampot-pepper-granted-gi-certification-from-50-countries/
Environment ministry doing survey on land reliance issue
The cadastral survey working group is compiling a list of people who use and rely on land in protected areas and biodiversity conservation corridors under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Environment to prepare a report on land distribution and ownership. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-doing-survey-land-reliance-issue
Khun Sear disputant set free, daughter denied bail
A Tuol Kork resident arrested last month following a complaint by a powerful businessman who wants his family’s land was released on bail yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/khun-sear-disputant-set-free-daughter-denied-bail
Croc release at dam site planned
A conservation group may release 20 baby Siamese crocodiles into the Areng Valley amid an ongoing stand-off between villagers and a Chinese firm over the construction of a controversial hydropower dam in Koh Kong province. Tuy Serey Vathana, country directory at Fauna and Flora International, said ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/croc-release-dam-site-planned
‘A threat to Cambodia’s sacred forests’
In southwest Cambodia, at the foot of the Cardamom Mountains, is a single dirt road that meanders through the heart of the pristine Areng valley. Ten miles down this road, villagers have set up an encampment to stop a hydroelectric dam project that they fear ...
New York Times News Staff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/a-threat-to-cambodias-sacred-forests.html
Ethnic group petitions UN to halt Areng dam
The Areng Chorng ethnic minority group yesterday submitted five petitions – addressed to the UN office in Cambodia and four government institutions – seeking a halt to the Sinohydro dam project in Koh Kong province. After blocking Sinohydro from entering the dam site in the Areng ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-group-petitions-un-halt-areng-dam
UXO found in abandoned Battambang barracks
Thirty-eight unexploded ordinances (UXO) and land mines of various models were found buried in a former Baktrea village jungle barracks yesterday, police said. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22142/uxo-found-in-abandoned-battambang-barracks/
Rocket haul unearthed in Siem Reap market
Construction crews building a container market in Siem Reap province have discovered nearly 40 105 mm rockets while excavating land in Svay Dangkum commune. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077927/rocket-haul-unearthed-siem-reap-market/
Beach property prices soar
Land prices behind Ocheateal and Otres beaches have – in some areas – doubled over the last year, surpassing their previous peak in 2008, according to realtors there. ...
Vincent MacIsaac
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12198/beach-property-prices-soar/