Australian grant to assist railway families
The Australian government is committing $1 million to help families being forced out of their homes to make way for a railway rehabilitation project it is co-funding with the government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Australian Embassy said in a statement Friday. The embassy ...
Chinese tourists warned of expensive counterfeits in Siem Reap
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) — Chinese Tourism companies have warned their citizens visiting Siem Reap province not to buy gifts or souvenirs from vendors for fear of expensive counterfeit products. A tourist guide in Ankor Wat, Siem Reap said that this happens a lot because ...
The Cambodia Herald Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MzFkMGQwMzM1YmM
តំបន់ព្រែកទាល់គ្រោងស្នើបញ្ចូលជាសមាជិកតំបន់រ៉ាំសារជាផ្លូវការ
ក្រសួងបរិស្ថានគ្រោងដាក់លិខិតទៅទីស្តីការគណៈរដ្ឋមន្រ្តីក្រោយពិធីបុណ្យអុំទូក ដើម្បីសុំការទទួលស្គាល់ជាសំណើផ្លូវការទៅកាន់ប្រទេសជាសមាជិកនៃតំបន់រ៉ាំសារ (Ramsar) ដាក់បញ្ចូលតំបន់ព្រែកទាល់ ស្ថិតក្នុង ស្រុកឯកភ្នំ ខេត្តបាត់ដំបង ជាតំបន់អភិរក្សសំខាន់ (International Protection Importance) ដោយសារតំបន់នេះ ជា ...
តាំង វីដា
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Firms Go to Arbitration Over Failed Gold Mining License Deal
Despite touting its Cambodian venture on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE), a British registered mining firm’s plan to extract gold in Ratanakkiri province stalled and the firm may face legal action over a failed deal to obtain an exploration license. Astra Resources Plc. has also gone ...
Air Pollution—The Latest Threat to Angkor Park
Air pollution from vehicles and electric generators inside the Angkor Archeological Park and in Siem Reap City is soiling and darkening the monuments at the World Heritage Site, an official at the Apsara Authority, which is responsible for the park, said Friday. Options to decrease ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/air-pollution-the-latest-threat-to-angkor-park-48814/
(English) CNRP seeks to supplant vietnamese prayer sites
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Khuon Narim and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-seeks-to-supplant-vietnamese-prayer-sites-78107/
Group awaits eviction No. 2
Families in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district face a tense morning as they prepare for the familiar sound of authorities moving in to evict them. Nineteen families in Andong village were told in a letter from district authorities that today was the deadline for them ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100359062/National-news/group-awaits-eviction-no-2.html
(English) Ancient temples of Cambodia's Angkor civilization incorporated into Google Street View in effort to boost tourism
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New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/cambodia-angkor-civilization-google-street-view-article-1.1744354
Aspara studying ticket cost
Ticket prices for Angkor Wat will increase after a feasibility study is conducted by tourism experts, according to an official from the Apsara National Authority, the state-run body charged with maintaining the archaeological park. The experts were determining how feasible increasing entrance fees for Cambodia’s UNESCO ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071357387/Business/apsara-studying-ticket-cost.html
Cambodia's World Heritage Angkor Wat attracts 2.06 mln foreigners in 2012
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Temple, one of the World Heritage Sites, received 2.06 million foreign visitors last year, up 28 percent compared to 1.61 million in a year earlier, a tourism report said Tuesday. The temple greeted 339,530 South Koreans last year, up 23 percent year-on-year; ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2013-01/15/c_132103894.htm
Climate change threatens Asian birds
Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are among the six countries whose bird species will suffer, in the future, from the effects of climate change, according to a research conducted by two British scientist institutions. The document, published by Global Biological Change magazine, assesses a future distribution ...
Land evictions hurt women most, rights group report says
Amnesty International yesterday launched a report on land evictions in Cambodia that details the impact that government-bestowed economic land concessions have had on women, and sets out recommendations for the government in light of those findings. The new report, titled ‘Eviction and Resistance in Cambodia: Five ...
Families Told to Prepare to Vacate Land Needed for Railway Station
Government officials met with more than 200 Phnom Penh families on Friday to lay out the state’s case for ownership of their land and the compensation they can expect when they are evicted from their homes situated along the city’s railway tracks. The $142 million project ...
Thousands to Be Evicted From Riverbank
Nearly 2,000 families living on the bank of the Sekong River in Stung Treng district will be evicted beginning January to make way for the construction of public gardens, officials said this week. Loy Sophat, Stung Treng provincial governor, said the evicted families could purchase ...
(English) Temple may be heritage site
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Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/temple-may-be-heritage-site
Construction site mishap injures four
Four construction workers were injured, two seriously, when a wall dividing their building site from a school collapsed on them yesterday, police said, the latest in a string of mishaps in Cambodia’s burgeoning construction industry. The brick wall, between the site of an apartment complex being ...
Gibbons to Be Reintroduced to Angkor Forest
A pair of endangered pileated gibbons will be released today into the forest in the Angkor Archaeological Park, the beginning of a project that could see the resettlement of many other animals that had been extirpated from the area, wildlife experts said. “We are hoping that ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gibbons-to-be-reintroduced-to-angkor-forest-49157/
Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple attracts 1.36 mln foreign visitors in 8 months, up 31%
About 1.36 million international tourists visited Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Temple, one of the World Heritage sites, in the first eight months of this year, a 31 percent rise compared with 1.04 million during the same period last year, a report of Siem Reap provincial tourism ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2012-09/26/c_131874967.htm
Farmers Blame Gold Mines for Cattle Deaths
Villagers in Battambang province’s Phnom Proek district have called on the government to shut down several unlicensed gold mines being blamed for the deaths of cattle that drank from a pond contaminated by chemical runoff. “Three of the village’s cows died and two became sick after ...
As Phnom Penh's buildings rise, safety scales back
Vatha, a 42-year-old construction worker, has been toiling for four years at numerous building sites across Phnom Penh. He knocks down dilapidated dwellings and in their place builds houses and apartments that are bigger, better – and increasingly higher – as demand for residential property, especially ...