Floods in Cambodia claim 40n lives as rescue efforts intensify
The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) reported that the ongoing flash floods have so far killed 40 people. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50776800/floods-in-cambodia-claim-40n-lives-as-rescue-efforts-intensify/
Agreement to Launch Digital School System “Wiki School” Signed
The National Institute of Education (NIE) and POSCAR Digital Co., Ltd. have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch a digital school system, so-called Wiki School. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50927854/agreement-to-launch-digital-school-system-wiki-school-signed/
More than 60,000 hectares of flooded forest seized by state from encroachers
As the crackdown and seizure of encroached swamp forest land continues, the government has so far seized more than 60,000 hectares of encroached land from more than 14,000 families. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501012926/more-than-60000-hectares-of-flooded-forest-seized-by-state-from-encroachers/
Anti-scamming memorandum of understanding to be signed between Thailand and Cambodia
Thailand’s call-centre scammers have been driven so desperate by the government’s intensified crackdown that they are now trying to deceive police officers, the digital economy and society, a Thai minister said on Tuesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501030236/anti-scamming-memorandum-of-understanding-to-be-signed-between-thailand-and-cambodia/
A long life for all Cambodians through vaccinations
Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific innovations of all time. They prepare our immune systems to recognize and fight diseases in advance so we do not become seriously ill if we encounter those diseases later. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501077488/a-long-life-for-all-cambodians-through-vaccinations/
Ethnic cultural centre in land dispute
A Bunong ethnic community representative on Tuesday claimed Mondulkiri provincial officials have not begun measuring land for the Hill Tribes Cultural Centre in the Phnom Dos Kramom mountain area even though they had received an order to do so from Prime Minister Hun Sen late ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-cultural-centre-land-dispute
Voters give government mixed marks
Just a quarter of Cambodian voters are fully satisfied with the government’s efforts to deliver on its promises thus far in the fifth mandate, though more than half rated themselves partly so, according to the results of a nationwide survey conducted by election watchdog Comfrel. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voters-give-government-mixed-marks
School budgets to be used to buy water
In an attempt to solve the water shortages plaguing schools across the country, the Minister for Education advised all schools to use money from their own budgets to buy water, despite some schools saying they do not have the funds to do so. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24540/school-budgets-to-be-used-to-buy-water/
Cambodia misses goal for zero malaria deaths
Eight people have died of malaria so far this year across the country, according to the government’s latest figures. The deaths mean Cambodia has missed its goal to eliminate fatalities from the mosquito-borne parasite by 2015, though health officials questioned the number—and even the target. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-misses-goal-for-zero-malaria-deaths-100801/
Cambodia: a generation gap divides a struggling nation
Surveys are rare in Cambodia and opinion polls indicating which way the electorate intends to vote are even rarer. That partially explains why so many other commentators failed to predict the hefty swing against Prime Minister Hun Sen at the last national poll. ...
Luke Hunt
http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/cambodia-a-generation-gap-divides-a-struggling-nation/
Authorities given 10 days to collect foreigners’ papers in capital
Foreigners living in certain areas of Phnom Penh have 10 days to show their documents to police so the government can complete registering foreign nationals by the end of the year. Those found to have overstayed their visas or entered the country illegally will be ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24040/authorities-given-10-days-to-collect-foreigners----papers-in-capital/
Villagers complain about dam deal
Several families affected by the construction of the Lower Sesan II dam yesterday renewed their calls for the government to demarcate boundaries so they can stay on their “ancestral land,” while others who chose to relocate painted a grim picture of squalid conditions in their ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36329/villagers-complain-about-dam-deal/
NGOs express concerns over new Prey Lang rules
Environmental NGOs expressed concerns this week about a requirement from the Ministry of Environment to get advanced permission to patrol the Prey Lang protected forest, saying doing so could lead to illegal loggers getting tipped off, given the history of collusion with officials in the ...
Yesenia Amaro and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-express-concerns-over-new-prey-lang-rules
Cambodia’s property market continues to trend upwards, evolve
2015 saw a spike in foreign direct investment (FDI), and the property sector was a big benefactor of these investments both in terms of headline investments in new development projects, and also from foreign individuals investing in one or numerous condos, soHo units or strata ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/cambodias-property-market-continues-trend-upwards-evolve
Cambodian girl dies of bird flu: WHO
A 2-year-old girl from southwestern Kampot province died of H5N1 human avian influenza on Friday, bringing the number of cases to nine so far this year, said a joint statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Cambodian Health Ministry on Monday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-03/17/c_133192908.htm
Report claims $75 Million in damages from January demonstrations
The Cambodian government says it has no plans so far to carry out a lawsuit against the opposition for damages from violent demonstrations in January. The Ministry of Interior has released a report, claiming $72 million in public and private damages, including to 95 different factories, ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/report-claims-75-million-in-damages-from-january-demonstrations/1883036.html
Vietnamese river dwellers in Cambodia ask for hold on eviction
Dozens of Vietnamese families illegally residing in floating homes on the Mekong River in southeastern Cambodia’s Kandal province have urged local authorities to postpone their eviction by eight months so they can sell the fish they are raising and avoid financial ruin. ...
Sirey Muny
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/eviction-06152015175601.html
Culture of dialogue still seen as trap by some
The so-called “culture of dialogue” has seen the Kingdom’s two major political parties cooperating on a number of longstanding political issues, but critics of the new detente continue to warn that it could end up being a trap for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party ...
Va Sonyka and Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13341/culture-of-dialogue-still-seen-as-trap-by-some/
Police promise more arrests if Koh Kong protests persist
A deputy police chief of Koh Kong province on Thursday defended the decision by authorities to arrest four human rights workers and 13 other people during a peaceful protest on Wednesday and said they were prepared to do so again—and next time would not let ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-promise-more-arrests-if-koh-kong-protests-persist-93374/
Water level rises in Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake
The water level in the Mekong River has finally risen, thanks to the rainfall over the past few days, and hopefully the rain continues in the next few days so as to bring the water level to normal ...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501060874/water-level-rises-in-mekong-river-and-tonle-sap-lake/