World tiger numbers rise for first time in 100 years
The number of tigers in the wild has risen for the first time in 100 years, marking a major turning point in the big cat’s plight against poaching and habitat loss. Figures collated from national surveys conducted in tiger range states and from the International Union ...
Irrigation in Mekong basin threatens VN’s delta
The lower basin of the trans-boundary Mekong River starts from Laos and runs through Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam before emptying into the East Sea (South China Sea). Any attempts to interrupt the natural status of the river would pose risks to Viet Nam’s Cuu ...
VietNamNet Bridge Team
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/environment/160889/irrigation-in-mekong-basin-threatens-vn-s-delta.html
Ministry and PM warn of rain, flooding
Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to people throughout the country, especially those living in lowland and highland areas, to be careful as heavy rain and flooding is expected from Wednesday to Sunday. Mr. Hun Sen issued the warning in a post on his Facebook page yesterday, ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30617/ministry-and-pm-warn-of-rain--flooding/
Railway families deliver petition to PM seeking reduction in land takeover
The protesters represent a community of over 1,000 families living along a railway in the capital’s Russey Keo district. Plans to replace the track with a new, broader road will displace people in three communes. The new road and accompanying sidewalks would be 60 metres ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-families-deliver-petition-pm-seeking-reduction-land-takeover
Thailand to kick out children of all illegal migrants by 2020
In a move activists fear could endanger thousands of Cambodian children, Thailand plans to reduce the number of children of illegal migrants living in the country to zero by 2020, according to a newspaper report. Thailand is the top destination for Cambodians seeking work abroad, with ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-kick-children-illegal-migrants-2020-120704/
Concerns over Cambodia’s HIV funding
A group of anonymous civil society organisations, people living with HIV and others has raised “grave” concerns regarding funding from the Global Fund, the largest donor to the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in the Kingdom – as well as Cambodia’s allocation process to ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/concerns-over-cambodias-hiv-funding
Sesan locals set up ‘illegal’ village
Families living in a commune flooded by the Lower Sesan II dam have set up a new village on their community forest without the permission of local authorities. Residents of Sre Ko commune were offered new homes in a different area and compensation to leave ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090324/sesan-locals-set-illegal-village/
Haul of Logs Discovered Inside Ratanakkiri Land Concession
The Forestry Administration and military police are investigating reports of a stockpile of nearly 300 logs that ethnic Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadaw district claim have been illegally cut by the Vietnamese owners of a land concession, local officials said yesterday. Indigenous villagers living in Paknhai ...
Cambodia gains 3.5 million tourist arrivals in 2012
Cambodia in 2012 received 3.5 million foreign visitors, an increase of 25 per cent if comparing to 2011 and earned 2 billion US dollars for national income this year, tourism minister said on January 10. He also said: for 2011, there were 8 million of ...
Farmers of crocodile say no to skin exports
Cambodian crocodile farmers prefer selling young live crocodiles directly rather than raising crocodiles and selling their skins for export as they believe there is no market, despite officials encouraging crocodile farming for skin exports. Heng Chheng, a crocodile farmer from Battambang, has raised crocodiles since 1984. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030761796/Business/farmers-of-crocodile-say-no-to-skin-exports.html
Jarai File Complaint Over Firm Filling In Lake
Etnhic Jarai families living in Ratanakkiri province’s Kakeo district yesterday filed a complaint with the provincial court, accusing a Vietnamese rubber company of clearing their ancestral land and filling in a lake they use for fishing and irrigation. Local officials say the company intends to ...
Land Concession Evictees Petition Hun Sen for Help
Representatives of 157 families evicted in 2010 from a social land concession in Preah Vihear province belonging to businessman Pen Lim, a one-time adviser to Senate President Chea Sim, were in Phnom Penh yesterday to petition Hun Sen. The families say they were forced off the ...
HAGL filled in lakes: villagers
More than 100 families living in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have filed a complaint with authorities, claiming a rubber giant – already accused of illegal logging – filled in two natural lakes, provincial officials said yesterday. Villagers, along with government officials, say Vietnamese company Hong Anh Gai ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hagl-filled-lakes-villagers
National TV director general not allowed to resign
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith didn’t allow director general of National Television of Kampuchea (KTV) to resign from his post and asked him to fulfill his duty as usual. Kim Kunwath wrote a resignation letter immediately after the KTV failed to broadcast live the Royal Ploughing ceremony ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YzNiYzRhNWMyM2M
Cambodian court charges French organization director with rape, sexual molestation
A Cambodian court on Friday accused Philippe Broaly, 49, director of Enfants du Cambodge, of rape and sexual molestation after he has allegedly sexually exploited seven boys living in his organization, a senior police officer confirmed. “The Preah Sihanouk provincial court formally charged the French ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/euruope/2014-10/17/c_133724839.htm
New gas safety rules
As part of a new safety initiative, the Ministry of Mines and Energy will require all petrol station owners to present a certificate acknowledging that their businesses follow risk-prevention protocols. The directive came in response to a series of petrol fires and explosions that damaged property ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-gas-safety-rules
Peter Dutton denies claims refugees are snubbing resettlement in Cambodia
Logistical issues could take a few days to sort out but some on Nauru want to start new lives in a new country, immigration minister says. Peter Dutton has insisted plans to send the first batch of refugees from Nauru to Cambodia are on track and ...
The Guardian News Staff
http://bit.ly/1cOCaCb
Campaign begins for improved child health
Unicef and the Cambodian government have launched a campaign to promote better health for children and newborns. Cambodia has made some progress improving the health of women and children, but a high rate of death for children remains a major concern. It saw its newborn mortality ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/campaign-begins-for-improved-child-health/2841753.html
Work picking up at Don Sahong dam site
Despite protests from its neighbours and the international community, construction is ramping up at the proposed Don Sahong dam site in southern Laos, according to Cambodians living near the border. Vanna, 34, said activity spiked last Thursday at the site, less than 2 kilometres north ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/work-picking-don-sahong-dam-site
Sesan families report illness
Villagers living downstream from the controversial Lower Sesan II hydropower project have claimed that they contracted unusual skin ailments causing large black spots on their bodies after the firm building the dam drained industrial waste into a river they use for bathing. Cambodia’s Royal Group, a ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sesan-families-report-illness