Koh Kong land dispute to be reinvestigated
The Land Management Ministry on Friday announced that it will solve a land dispute in the province following a weeks-long demonstration by hundreds of villagers who descended upon the ministry’s office in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50491767/koh-kong-land-dispute-to-be-reinvestigated/
Hun Sen blames forest loss on population rise
Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday blamed the Kingdom’s rising population as a factor contributing to deforestation. He also told government critics who lived on deforested land to return it to the authorities for replanting. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-blames-forest-loss-population-rise
Tour guides voice concern over app that will offer audio tours
Tour guides at the Kingdom’s historical sites are voicing concern over an audio tour app they said is threatening their careers. Developed by local company Angkor Audio, the app provides spoken tours in 14 languages. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tour-guides-voice-concern-over-app-will-offer-audio-tours
Villagers again demand land resolution
Dozens of villagers representing 170 Prek Khsach community households in Koh Kong province’s Kiri sakor district gathered at the Provincial Hall yesterday to petition authorities to speed up land dispute resolution involving two development companies. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541167/villagers-again-demand-land-resolution/
Royal buys out one TV to focus on distribution
Cambodian conglomerate Royal Group has acquired the remaining shareholding of One TV from Russian-owned General satellite Group in a move to boost the distribution of Cambodia’s niche pay for digital terrestrial television (DTT) market. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-buys-out-one-tv-focus-distribution
Siem Reap readies for Khmer new year tourist flood
Tourism authorities in siem Reap are anticipating that more than a million tourists will descend on the temple town for the Angkor sangkran festival, the country’s biggest cultural attraction over the Khmer New Year holiday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-readies-khmer-new-year-tourist-flood
Calls to validate LGBT rights
Gay and transgender people yesterday called on the government to legalise same-sex marriage and change identity cards to reflect a person’s true gender during an event to mark International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/calls-validate-lgbt-rights
New water pumping station is ‘70% done’
Workers are labouring day and night to build a new pumping station at the Boeung Trabek reservoir to relieve the capital’s flood risk ahead of the rainy season, city authorities said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-water-pumping-station-70-done
UNESCO push will clear villagers off of Kulen Mountain
Hundreds of villagers living on siem Reap’s historic Phnom Kulen are reeling after the government announced they would be relocated as part of a scheme to secure a UNEsCO World Heritage Listing for the site. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unesco-push-will-clear-villagers-kulen-mountain
Residents assemble after land dispute
About 10 residents of Kandal province’s Mok Kampol district gathered in front of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday morning to ask for intervention from officials in an ongoing land dispute. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27369/residents-assemble-after-land-dispute/
Japan to donate 140 new buses in $10 million deal
Phnom Penh’s fledgling public transportation system received a welcome boost on Thursday as Japan agreed to donate 140 new buses to the city over the next four years, according to City Hall. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japan-to-donate-140-new-buses-in-10-million-deal-115756/
Garment factories to buy into automation
Investors in Cambodia’s garment industry are increasingly purchasing modern equipment as they look to produce higher value-added products to compete in the international market and counter rising labour costs, an industry insider said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-factories-buy-automation
Mills busy as new rice crop rolls in
Cambodia rice exports saw a small rebound in October, notching up 12 per cent as compared to a year earlier, as harvests from the delayed rainy-season planting began to reach the nation’s rice mills. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mills-busy-new-rice-crop-rolls
Jailed senator to appeal search order
The Court of Appeal will on Monday hear opposition senator Hong sok Hour’s request to overturn a municipal court decision to seize his computer to reinvestigate the forged border treaty that landed him in prison in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/jailed-senator-to-appeal-search-order-101361/
Nagacorp could bid on Cyprus casino licence
Nagacorp Ltd, the parent company of NagaWorld, Cambodia’s biggest casino, is expected to bid on a licence to operate the first casino resort in Cyprus, according to a media report from the Mediterranean island. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagacorp-could-bid-cyprus-casino-licence
Cambodia gets about 320 mln USD investment from ASEAN last year
Cambodia attracted the fixed asset investment of 319.4 million U.s. dollars from its AsEAN member states in 2015, up 56 percent from a year earlier, according to a government report on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Song Miou
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-02/02/c_135068319.htm
Fumes blamed as 20 garment workers faint
Twenty female garment workers at Evergreen Apparel factory in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district fainted yesterday because of toilet fumes funnelled through the ventilation system, though heat stress and heavy workloads were also possible factors. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fumes-blamed-20-garment-workers-faint
US army looks to store field hospital in Cambodia
The U.S. Army iS looking to Store a mobile emergency field hoSpital in Cambodia to be uSed in the caSe of a regional diSaSter, a defenSe induStry newS webSite reported laSt week. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-army-looks-to-store-field-hospital-in-cambodia-110166/
PM requests additional $10 million from South Korea
Prime Minister Hun sen asked his south Korean counterpart, President Park Geun Hye, to grant an additional $10 million yesterday for the second stage of the National Road 21 construction in Kandal province’s saang district. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23300/pm-requests-additional--10-million-from-south-korea/
Transgender Cambodians at higher risk for HIV infection
The rate of HIV infection among Cambodia’s transgender women is nearly six times higher than the national average, according to the results of a 2012 survey published in the online journal PLOs ONE this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/transgender-cambodians-at-higher-risk-for-hiv-infection-111517/