Flood crisis another setback for real estate sector
While the political crisis in the country is still ongoing, Cambodia is now suffering another crisis due to flooding, which has had a big impact on the country’s real estate business. Kim Heang, the President of Khmer Real Estate, said the buying and selling of real ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flood-crisis-another-setback-real-estate-sector
Vendors face eviction to beautify beach
In May Cambodia became a member of the World’s Most Beautiful Beach Club and as a result Koh Kong provincial authorities are not renewing leasing for beachfront stores and evicting those who work there. The leases are said to have expired two months ago, and ...
Farmers freed after ‘injustice’
The last of the Chi Kraeng villagers has been freed by the Appeal Court after it upheld their acquittal. The villagers had originally been convicted of forcibly detaining two businessmen over a land dispute involving 475 hectares of rice paddies in Siem Reap in 2009. ...
PM orders restoration of S’ville beach
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered Minister of Land Management Chea Sophara to personally inspect claims of Landfilling at Praek Treng beach. He also ordered a private company to dredge the beach and restore it to its previous condition. The order, issued on September 18, ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-orders-restoration-sville-beach
Cambodia has boosted the “Belt and Road” to a new high
In August 2014, China Wind Global Investment Group Co., Ltd. officially landed in Cambodia and opened another new voyage of its “Belt and Road”. It is reported that “China Wind Global Investment Group” was established in August 2013 and was established after Chinese President Xi ...
Khmer Times
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50531942/cambodia-has-boosted-the-belt-and-road-to-a-new-high/
More than 20 bombs destroyed in Preah Vihear
Cambodian Mine Action Centre officials on Tuesday detonated a pile of about 20 bombs found by a farmer working his land in Preah Vihear province. Chan Dy, Chey Sen district deputy chief of police, said yesterday that a Samrong village farmer notified police about the ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50497920/more-than-20-bombs-destroyed-in-preah-vihear/
River relocation request rejected
A request from the Khmer Vietnamese Association for the Interior Ministry to delay the relocation of Vietnamese familes living on the Tonle Sap river in Kampong Chhnang province has been rejected. The KVA’s letter, submitted last week, asked the ministry to intervene in the relocation of ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50551914/river-relocation-request-rejected-2/
Military Police vow Mondulkiri forestry crimes investigation
The National Military Police vowed to act on the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ order to crack down on forestry crimes which allegedly occurred beyond the perimeter of concession land near the Vietnamese border in Mondulkiri province. Eng Hy, National Military Police spokesperson, claimed ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-police-vow-mondulkiri-forestry-crimes-investigation
Locals block gold exploration
Fearing the loss of their water source, hundreds of villagers of the Jarai ethnic minority last week continued to block an Australian gold mining company from accessing a plot of land in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district that is licensed for exploration.Angkor Gold Company, which first ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/locals-block-gold-exploration
Microfinance success stories from the countryside
When Chheung Rattana was married a few years ago, the only thing she and her new husband inherited from their families was a small plot of land to grow rice on. It was a tough start for the newlyweds, who decided that the only way ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22923/microfinance-success-stories-from-the-countryside/
King orders redrawing of Phnom Penh boundaries
King Norodom Sihamoni ordered last week that the Phnom Penh boundaries be expanded to include portions from neighboring Kandal province in a bid to improve the city’s development. In a royal decree dated November 11, but only released on November 21, King Sihamoni ordered the government ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32686/king-orders-redrawing-of-phnom-penh-boundaries/
Sesan holdouts demand compensation from flood
Sesan dam holdouts from Kbal Romeas and Srekor villages have gone on the offensive, demanding compensation for destroyed rice fields and new homes on their ancestral land. Both villages were flooded following the inauguration of the China-backed Lower Sesan II Dam in September. While some accepted ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sesan-holdouts-demand-compensation-flood
PM: Save our flooded forests
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on the Agriculture Ministry to do more to prevent land grabbing in the country’s endangered flooded forests.Speaking at the closing ceremony of the Agriculture Ministry’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr. Hun Sen said encroachment risks wiping out fish populations that ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37427/pm--save-our-flooded-forests/
Hun Sen again stresses need to develop irrigation systems
Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech at a food security seminar Monday to once again stress the need for Cambodia to develop modern irrigation facilities to better exploit the land and meet growing food requirements. Speaking from his office building in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-again-stresses-need-to-develop-irrigation-systems-66810/
Homes for ‘sorcerers’ in short supply: Cops
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province are struggling to find a plot of land that could safely house an accused sorcerer who has been held in protective custody at a district police station for the past two months. Forty-eight-year-old ethnic Jarai Rocham Kin fled his home in the ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homes-sorcerers-short-supply-cops
Group claims suit against rights worker is intimidation
The international watchdog Frontline Defenders has called on Cambodian authorities to drop a defamation lawsuit against a prominent human rights worker. Ny Chakrya, head of legal assistance for the rights group Adhoc, is facing a suit filed by two court officials in Siem Reap province last ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/group-claims-suit-against-rights-worker-is-intimidation/2850618.html
New community proposed to protect Stung Sen Ramsar site
Fifty-one families, equivalent to 87% of the total number of households in Phat Sanday commune, Kampong Svay district, Kampong Thom province, have applied to establish a new community in the Stung Sen Ramsar site for the protection and conservation of natural resources by local villagers ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50938052/new-community-proposed-to-protect-stung-sen-ramsar-site/
Vietnam, Cambodia build common border of peace and friendship
The completion of land border demarcation and marker planting between Vietnam and Cambodia to build a common borderline of peace, friendship and sustainable development has long been the legitimate aspirations of the two countries’ people, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang affirmed on May ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501083138/vietnam-cambodia-build-common-border-of-peace-and-friendship/
Pursat encroachers told to clear out
The Pursat Provincial Hall has warned of administrative action – without exception – against those who have illegally encroached on or occupied land in the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-encroachers-told-clear-out
Close to 3,000 sq km of landmine, ERW contaminated land in Cambodia cleared and returned to farmers
Cambodia had cleared some 2,579 square km of landmine and explosive remnant of war (ERW) contaminated land in the last 30 years, a senior official said on Thursday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501309266/close-to-3000-sq-km-of-landmine-erw-contaminated-land-in-cambodia-cleared-and-returned-to-farmers/