NGO seizes 2,300 chainsaws
International wildlife and forest conservation organisation, Wildlife Alliance, said on Monday that 2,300 chainsaws were seized from illegal loggers in the Southern Cardamom Mountains in the last two years. The seizing of the chainsaws is a joint programme initiated by the Ministry of Environment and ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-seizes-2300-chainsaws
Ministry dismisses six officials for negligence in road construction
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has removed six inspectors and supervisors working on the construction of National Road 7 after they were found to be negligent. Some companies involved in the project were also warned to address the quality of construction or face ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-dismisses-six-officials-negligence-road-construction
National Authority to probe land dispute on prime minister’s order
The National Authority for Land Dispute Resolution and Battambang provincial authorities will launch an investigation on Monday into an ongoing land dispute between tycoon Lim Tealeng and Chan Hoeu in Kors Kralor district’s Preah Phos commune following an order from Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-authority-probe-land-dispute-prime-ministers-order
Business leaders urged to curb plastic bag use
Senior Environment Ministry officials have urged owners of big businesses to help cut the use of plastic bags to reduce damage on the environment and people’s health. Tin Ponlok, secretary-general of the ministry’s national council for sustainable development, addressed the problem at a training workshop ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50493621/business-leaders-urged-to-curb-plastic-bag-use/
Workers seek pay after owner shutters factory
Some 300 garment workers from Kbal Koh Garment factory in Chbar Ampov district in Phnom Penh, whose owner unexpectedly shut the factory in January last year, protested again outside the Ministry of Labour on Tuesday to seek compensation. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-seek-pay-after-owner-shutters-factory
Dispute with tycoon was settled by the court, Land Ministry says
The Ministry of Land Management on Monday said it cannot help the 292 families involved in a land dispute with Oknha Sieng Chan Heng’s Heng Aphivath Company in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, because a court verdict has already found the land to be the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dispute-tycoon-was-settled-court-land-ministry-says
Press release on identifying land owners in land disputes
On 18 May 2018 Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction set up a working group cooperated with Koh Kong province authority in order to identify the land owners and land plots related with land disputes from 21 May 2018. The land disputes happened ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Press release on agreement to meet between MLUPC and representatives to seek solution in land disputes
On 24 May 2018 Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction agreed and met with the representatives of household in land disputes with Union Development Co.,Ltd located in Botum Sakor district and L.Y.P.SEZ in Kiri Sakor district, Koh Kong province. The meeting aimed to ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Sar Kheng: Sokha requested security
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Sunday revealed the story behind the transfer of former opposition party leader Kem Sokha from Trapaing Phlong prison in Tbong Khmum province to his house in the capital. Speaking at the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) headquarters in Prey Veng ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-sokha-requested-security
Ministry issues apology for exam errors
The Education Ministry on Saturday apologised for a system error that affected the mathematics results of hundreds of students who sat for the national exam last month. Last week, hundreds of complaints were filed by high school students who were dissatisfied with their mathematics results. ...
Or Sreypich
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50533696/ministry-issues-apology-for-exam-errors/
‘NGOs may operate without restriction’
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Tuesday instructed municipal and provincial authorities to facilitate the activities of civil society organisations and local communities without restriction and prior notice as previously required. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-may-operate-without-restriction
El Nino fire warning issued
The Ministry of Environment issued a statement on Monday on preventing forest fires in natural protected areas and biodiversity conservation corridors. The statement, which cited a government directive on water preservation from last Thursday, said Cambodian weather is set to be heavily influenced by the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/el-nino-fire-warning-issued
Cambodia’s agriculture sector must supply own raw materials
Agricultural sector insiders said relying on neighbouring markets to source raw materials for Cambodia’s agriculture products is a short-term strategy that needs to be managed. During a discussion, last week with Vu Quang Minh, Vietnamese ambassador to Cambodia, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-agriculture-sector-must-supply-own-raw-materials
Ministry tallies forestry crimes
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday stated that last year it cracked down on more than 1,000 cases. In a report, the ministry said that there were a total of 1,093 cases last year, noting that 582 resulted in fines and 511 were ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575309/ministry-tallies-forestry-crimes/
Access to Information draft law ready
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith yesterday confirmed that the draft law on Access to Information has been inserted into the 6th mandate of the government’s strategic plan. In an announcement dated yesterday that addressed public and civil society groups’ requests, Mr Kanharith said the ministry had ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50577422/access-to-information-draft-law-ready/
Higher student dropout rates along Cambodia's border with Thailand
A Cambodian official reported last week that about 23 percent of children in three provinces along the border with Thailand have stopped attending school. Cambodian Education Minister Hangchuon Naron spoke at a conference about the student dropout rate. He said that the rate in Battambang, Banteay Meanchey ...
Jonathan Evans
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/higher-student-dropout-rates-along-cambodia-s-border-with-thailand/4794430.html
Countdown to expressway groundbreaking begins
The groundbreaking of the nearly $2-billion expressway connecting the capital and Sihanoukville has been confirmed for March 22. The expressway will start at Tomnop Kobsrov Street, between Cham Chao and Krang Thnong communes, northwest of Phnom Penh International Airport, said Kong Vimean, spokesman for the ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583762/countdown-to-expressway-groundbreaking-begins/
Unlicensed doctors called by court
The Tbong Khmum provincial court on Monday summoned the first 17 medical practitioners, out of a total of 148, for questioning over allegations they were operating without permission from the provincial health department or the Ministry of Health. The remaining 131 have been summoned for ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unlicensed-doctors-called-court
India signs grant MoU with Cambodia for MGC projects
The Indian government has provided Cambodia a grant for 18 projects worth nearly $900,000 to implement the Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) under the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) framework. The two governments on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the grant at the Ministry of ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india-signs-grant-mou-cambodia-mgc-projects
PM: Kingdom will not bow to ‘preaching’ on human rights
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said “the forest had not been seen for the trees” when the human rights situation in Cambodia was assessed and that the Kingdom would not bow to preaching on the matter. Hun Sen was presiding over a ceremony on ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-kingdom-will-not-bow-preaching-human-rights