Government gives land to villagers
The Preah Sihanouk provincial hall has started providing land to nearly 300 families living illegally around the Kbal Chhay waterfall in Sihanoukville’s Muoy commune. The decision to provide land came after villagers blocked National Road 4 in September, burning tires in protest of resettlement from the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32955/government-gives-land-to-villagers/
United Nations: One third of Cambodian women suffer abuse
More than 30 percent of Cambodian women have experienced some form of domestic violence at the hands of their partner at some point in their lives, a report released on Friday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) revealed. ...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33281/united-nations--one-third-of-cambodian-women-suffer-abuse/
Family fears arrest over ongoing land dispute
A family living in Kratie province’s Snoul district have said they are concerned for their safety following the destruction of their home. Local authorities last week dismantled the home using an excavator because it had been built on state land that is now earmarked for the ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109284/family-fears-arrest-ongoing-land-dispute/
Tenants Look for Apartments Beyond Daun Penh
Foreign renters are vacating apartments in Phnom Penh’s central Daun Penh district and opting for cheaper, more spacious and better-equipped living spaces elsewhere in the city, realtors and landlords say. As a result, landlords in Daun Penh are being forced to decrease rental prices to try ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/tenants-look-for-apartments-beyond-daun-penh-6481/
Cambodia rounds up 1,168 illegal immigrants in last 5 months: police
Cambodia’s General Department of Immigration has rounded up 1,168 illegal immigrants from July to November this year, the National Police said on its website Tuesday. “The immigration police has conducted a census on foreigners and has arrested 1,168 foreigners of 25 nationalities for illegally living ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/894591.shtml
Tour operator accused of flouting gov’t order
Nearly 250 residents and boat drivers living in one of Siem Reap’s popular tourist attractions petitioned local authorities to intervene with what they say is one company’s illegal ticket-selling ventures, which has taken money out of the pockets of village residents and fattened those of ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tour-operator-accused-flouting-govt-order
Over 600 war veterans to get houses and land
About 628 houses and plots of land are being given to as many families of war veterans living in Phnom Kravanh district in Pursat province. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501038290/over-600-war-veterans-to-get-houses-and-land/
Hun Sen’s Land Titles Receive Rare Praise From Germany
Since Prime Minister Hun Sen announced an ambitious new plan some 10 months ago to make nearly half a million families official land owners, hardly a week goes by that a rural community does not complain of local officials trying to scam the project. But when ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-land-titles-receive-rare-praise-from-germany-17312/
Hun Sen: Claim that China is ‘invading’ Kingdom is crazy
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday slammed critics over claims that China is “invading” Cambodia, calling the argument “crazy”. Speaking to members of Cambodian diaspora in Geneva, Switzerland, Hun Sen said some people were concerned about the influx of Chinese nationals who live and work ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-claim-china-invading-kingdom-crazy
PM Hun Sen says dangers averted
Delivering a campaign speech from his home via Facebook Live on Thursday, caretaker Prime Minister Hun Sen said his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) had carried the country through danger in its latest mandate. He was specifically referring to the threat of a “colour revolution” from ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-hun-sen-says-dangers-averted
Ratanakkiri court rejects petition over dispute
More than 200 people living on a contested plot of land in Ratanakkiri province on Thursday lodged a petition with the provincial court calling for the release of three community leaders who were convicted and jailed on Wednesday over a dispute with a wealthy businessman, ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ratanakkiri-court-rejects-petition-over-dispute-102009/
Training in works for garment truck drivers
Reacting to a spate of garment worker transport truck accidents in the past 12 months, including one on Tuesday that took four lives, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) yesterday announced plans to provide truck drivers with road safety education, with the aim of having ...
Lay Samean and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/training-works-garment-truck-drivers
Meat producers told to shape up
The government will not consider further reductions of import quotas for live pigs, nor will it ban imports of the livestock, a high-ranking official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) recently said, adding that companies in the meat industry should rethink their ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5094594/meat-producers-told-shape/
Electronic banking to ‘Help fight corruption’
Civil servants living in Phnom Penh will have wages paid into Canadia Bank accounts starting this week, Moth Kiev, secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs, said on Friday. The children of retired and disabled civil servants who have died will receive payments directly from ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/electronic-banking-%E2%80%98help-fight-corruption%E2%80%99
Giant rats trained to smell explosives are being used to sniff out landmines in Cambodia
They may make your skin crawl, but these rats are saving lives in Cambodia. The giant rats are being used to sniff out landmines in the war-torn country, where there are as many as three million mines still scattered across the countryside. ...
Imogen Calderwood
http://dailym.ai/1GxRWNc
Fishermen worried for their future as lake getting filled
For nearly 40 years, Ing Choeun, a 63-year-old fisherman in Prek Pnov district’s Samraong commune north of Phnom Penh has relied on fishing at Tamouk Lake to make a living and to feed his family. ...
Moeun Chhean Nariddh
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50804750/fishermen-worried-for-their-future-as-lake-getting-filled/
Cambodia’s Lower Sesan II hydropower station provides bright future for relocated villagers
“If there had not been this project, we would have still been living in hardship, using kerosene-burning lamps or batteries,” Souy For, a 51-year-old father of two, said of a new power station in the country. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50924780/cambodias-lower-sesan-ii-hydropower-station-provides-bright-future-for-relocated-villagers/
More than 130 families flee floods
More than 130 families in Kampong Chhnang province’s Boribo district were evacuated from their homes after floods hit the area on Tuesday. Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management, said yesterday that district authorities moved some families to relief centres and others ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50534568/more-than-130-families-flee-floods/
Hun Sen to protect peace
Prime Minister Hun Sen has vowed to protect peace and people’s lives as long as he leads the Kingdom. Mr Hun Sen wrote on his Facebook yesterday saying that no one or group would be allowed to stage a coup or start a colour revolution ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536177/hun-sen-to-protect-peace/
Concerns raised over toxic chemicals in Ratanakkiri
An indigenous minority group living in the eastern province of Ratanakkiri is expressing concerns regarding the use of an illegal chemical in fertilisers by some companies who were granted Economic Land Concessions by the government. The Cambodian Centre for Independent Media conducted a field survey ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50553688/concerns-raised-over-toxic-chemicals-in-ratanakkiri/