Ethnic community rejects mineral exploration
Exploration company Angkor Gold Corp is working with NGOs to educate residents of Pate commune’s Plang village in Ratanakiri’s Ou Ya Dav district after villagers refused to give the company permission to explore for gold on their land. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25519/ethnic-community-rejects-mineral-exploration/
Families file complaint against CPP senator
Nine families who lost their farmland to an under-construction special economic zone (SEZ) in Koh Kong province filed a complaint with the provincial government on Friday seeking to have the land excised from the industrial park and returned to them. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-file-complaint-against-cpp-senator-108773/
Factory agrees to stop poisoning neighbors
About 60 families in Battambang town gathered yesterday to demand that the owner of an ice-making factory stop releasing polluted water into the creek that runs through their neighborhood in Romchek village 5 as well as on their land. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22273/factory-agrees-to-stop-poisoning-neighbors/
Organisation seeks women to study in US
A US-based organisation that helps young women from post-conflict countries attend school in the United States is currently seeking Cambodian applicants who have the academic strength and leadership potential that could land them in a top US school. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/organisation-seeks-women-study-us
More than 140 unexploded mortar rounds found at Pursat school
A farmer preparing a plot of land for a vegetable garden found a cache of unexploded 60mm mortar rounds from the 1970s on the campus of a secondary school in Pursat province’s Kandieng district over the weekend. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-140-unexploded-mortar-rounds-found-pursat-school
Tension flares up again on Cambodia’s border with Laos
Dozens of Laotian soldiers started building a post on a disputed tract of land along the border on Thursday, breaking a deal made just a day earlier between Laos and Cambodia to withdraw forces until after the Khmer New Year. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tension-flares-up-again-on-cambodias-border-with-laos-127704/
ADB to help find answers for railway families
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday promised to help pry answers out of the government for residents of Phnom Penh who fear losing all or some of their land to a bank-funded project to rehabilitate the country’s railway network. ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-to-help-find-answers-for-railway-families-70398/
Bayon ready to fly in Cambodia
Cambodia Bayon Airlines received its first aircraft, earlier this week, according to a World Civil Aviation Resource Net report. The report said the first Modern Ark 60 (MA60) aircraft for Cambodia Bayon Airlines landed at Phnom Penh International Airport (PNH) Monday night. ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/12/bayon-ready-to-fly-in-cambodia/
More than 3,000 luxury logs found in wildlife sanctuary
Police and environment officers in Mondolkiri province on Sunday confiscated more than 3,000 lengths of luxury-grade timber found inside a wildlife sanctuary but have yet to determine if it belongs to a Chinese company with a land concession in the area. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-3000-luxury-logs-found-in-wildlife-sanctuary-70532/
Cambodians and Vietnamese clash over borderland
A clash between Cambodians and Vietnamese soldiers over a swath of disputed land in a border district separating the two countries in southern Cambodia has become the latest tussle in a string of such territorial conflicts. ...
Morm Moniroth
http://bit.ly/1SUV4bb
Soldiers, civilians charged over illegal forest clearing operation
A soldier and two civilians were charged on Wednesday with illegally clearing forest land by the Kompong Thom Provincial Court, while a second soldier who allegedly guarded the illicit operation has been charged with illegal weapons possession, a court official said Thursday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/soldiers-civilians-charged-over-illegal-forest-clearing-operation-90215/
Official warns against rainsy’s most recent border claims
The country’s second most senior border affairs official on Sunday warned against oversimplifying territorial disputes after opposition leader Sam Rainsy claimed that Vietnam has flagrantly annexed land on Cambodia’s side of a demarcated border area in Svay Rieng province. ...
Alex Willemyns and Chhorn Chansy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-warns-against-rainsys-most-recent-border-claims-90422/
Demining efforts a contributor to socio-economic development in Cambodia
Senior Minister Ly Thuch said that humanitarian mine action has made a significant contribution to Cambodia’s socio-economic development by ensuring safe land for the livelihood of local communities. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501094304/demining-efforts-a-contributor-to-socio-economic-development-in-cambodia/
Cambodia’s forests cover 8.5 million hectares
Forest coverage in Cambodia accounts for 46.86 percent or approximately 8.5 million hectares of the country’s land area, Ministry of Environment’s report showed. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501142217/cambodias-forests-cover-8-5-million-hectares/
Kampot dredging escalates
Dredging in Kampot has escalated in the face of community concerns, with more boats now mining sand right in front of the provincial capital and dumping vast amounts of it directly outside the provincial land management authority. The Post counted a total of 17 boats ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012030554851/National-news/kampot-dredging-only-grows.html
Small-scale protests continue
A day after authorities carted away 11 protesters intending to camp out in front of the United States embassy, a similarly ad hoc group of citizens struggled to deliver petitions to three embassies in the capital yesterday. The group of about 50 were blocked by police ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/small-scale-protests-continue
Wat Lanka Monks in Dispute With State Electricity Provider
About 200 monks from Phnom Penh’s Wat Lanka on Thursday called off a protest against the planned construction of an electricity distribution substation on the pagoda’s land by state electricity provider Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), pending negotiations with the company. Having assembled to make banners for ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wat-lanka-monks-in-dispute-with-state-electricity-provider-49974/
Ethnic group claims forest being illegally cut
Villagers from the Tumpuon ethnic minority group in Keng San community forest are accusing the local authority and some community members of colluding with timber traders to illegally fell large trees and clear dozens of hectares of forest land in their community. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-group-claims-forest-being-illegally-cut
NGO urges Cambodia’s Interior Ministry to intervene in eviction of Vietnamese from Tonle Sap Lake
A nongovernmental organization in Cambodia called on the country’s Interior Ministry to intervene in the eviction of more than 2,000 ethnic Vietnamese living on the Tonle Sap Lake, saying land demarcated for their relocation lacks the infrastructure necessary to support them. ...
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/vietnamese-11142018160710.html
Political fraudster appeals sentence
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the bail request of the former director of the small Khmer Economic Development Party, who had been handed a sentence of two years in prison for defrauding a land buyer out of $150,000 in 2008. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/political-fraudster-appeals-sentence