WWF campaign airs dark possibilities at border
Over 200 people gathered on Friday from across Cambodia to join in a campaign against the construction of the Don Sahong Dam, which has been ongoing in the past month on one of the major channels of the Mekong at the Cambodia-Lao border. The campaign, ...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18634/wwf-campaign-airs-dark-possibilities-at-border/
Authorities, villagers at odds over Mondulkiri logging
Local authorities say they are struggling to protect the Mondulkiri Protected Forest and the Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary from being logged by villagers in the province’s Koh Nhek and Pech Chreada districts, while villagers accuse authorities of colluding with certain logging groups. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-villagers-odds-over-mondulkiri-logging
Interior ministry takes aim at illegal guns
Following a nationwide spate of violent gun crime over the past few months, the government has called on City Hall for help in its crackdown on illegal firearms, a problem one Ministry of Interior official laid at the feet of authorities themselves. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/interior-ministry-takes-aim-illegal-guns
US envoy says rights discussed at summit
The top U.S. envoy to ASEAN said on Wednesday that despite trade and security issues being at the center of last week’s U.S.-ASEAN Summit, U.S. President Barack Obama also used the setting to address the region’s human rights problems. ...
Kuch Naren and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/108955-108955/
New building, broken promises at Borei Keila
A decade ago, powerful businesswoman Suy Sophan promised to build 10 apartment blocks for residents of Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood who faced eviction to make way for her real estate project. She only built eight, leaving hundreds of residents without a home. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-building-broken-promises-at-borei-keila-113303/
Education association hits back at Sam Rainsy
The Cambodian Higher Education Association released a statement on Saturday defending its members against claims made last week by CNRP President Sam Rainsy, who criticized the quality of Cambodia’s postsecondary education system. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-association-hits-back-at-sam-rainsy-97147/
Urns found at Wat Langka receive blessings
Decades after her mother died, Orn Bottumrasmey was finally reunited with her ashes three days ago. ...
Aun Pheap and Aria Danaparamita
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/urns-found-at-wat-langka-receive-blessings-97141/
Land disputes centre stage at capital forum
A broad spectrum of villager representatives, civil society organisations and government officials – large land-concession holders among them – met in the capital for the ninth year in a row yesterday to discuss the Kingdom’s seemingly intractable issue of land disputes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-disputes-centre-stage-capital-forum
Development fears at Cambodia's most beautiful beach
Dozens of independent bungalows at one of Cambodia’s most unspoiled beaches are to be bulldozed with weeks, raising fears that a “soulless” mega-resort will replace them. ...
Nathan Thompson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/cambodia/articles/otres-beach-cambodia-threatened-by-development/
Forest fire detonates UXOs at Preah Vihear
A forest fire near the Preah Vihear temple complex caused decades-old landmines and other unexploded ordnance to explode on Sunday, according to regional military commander Duong Sam Neang. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-fire-detonates-uxos-preah-vihear
Accurate scales to be placed at markets
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts is planning to install so-called “justice scales” at all markets throughout the Kingdom to ensure customers are not being overcharged for items that weigh less than their sellers claim, according to ministry spokesman Oum Sitha. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24981/accurate-scales-to-be-placed-at-markets/
Rice body elections come at crucial time
Elections are due in the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) for the second term of its president and council of board members. The elections come at a crucial time as the government considers an emergency loan request from the CRF to help protect the rice sector ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25665/rice-body-elections-come-at-crucial-time/
Students migrate, leaving school at the border
Before she dropped out of school in April, following her cousin to a factory in Thailand where a week of making mattresses pays $48, Dong Sreyda was ranked third in her ninth grade class in Banteay Meanchey province. ...
Janelle Retka and Samoeurth Seavmeng
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-migrate-leaving-school-at-the-border-115695/
Cambodia will chair LDC bureau at WTO
Cambodia has been selected to chair the Global Coordination Bureau of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) next year, state-owned media outlet AKP reported yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-will-chair-ldc-bureau-wto
Chinese firm begins construction at Boeng Kak
Eight years after CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin signed off on a 99-year lease of Boeng Kak lake in one of the most controversial real estate deals in Phnom Penh’s recent history, a Chinese firm has begun construction on the first major development project on ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinese-firm-begins-construction-at-boeng-kak-96025/
UXO’s found at land clearing site
An excavator driver and his supervisor had a shock when they found Unexploded Ordnance (UXOs) while marking land for clearing works in Kampot province. ...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17291/uxo---s-found-at-land-clearing-site/
Education minister lays out reforms at assembly
Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron was questioned in front of a parliamentary panel yesterday, offering lawmakers a nine-point policy for reforming the Kingdom’s educational sector, according to a ministry official. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-minister-lays-out-reforms-assembly
Rosewood bust at Tbong Khmum pepper field
Officers from Tbong Khmum provincial police’s anti-economic crime unit yesterday seized 36 pieces of luxury rosewood timber dumped in a pepper field in Memot district’s Memot commune. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosewood-bust-tbong-khmum-pepper-field
Alleged attackers at capitol protest to sue
The president of a tuk-tuk and motodop drivers’ association, whose members were recorded on video brutally beating protesting bus drivers over the weekend, said he would file complaints against prominent union and civil society leaders for sparking the violence his own group was accused of ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alleged-attackers-capitol-protest-sue
China, Thailand drive annual growth at airports
Passengers from China and Thailand are driving double-digit annual growth in Cambodia’s airport traffic, according to a report released on Thursday by the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-thailand-drive-annual-growth-at-airports-108285/