Factory Owners Agree to Provide More Benefits
Garment factory owners have agreed to provide workers with an additional $9 in monthly benefits for transportation, housing and attendance in order to reduce growing protests in the sector, Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) officials said yesterday. “We will provide $3 in attendance bonuses and ...
Activists Tie Saffron Robes to Trees to Protect Forest
More than 400 activists fighting the destruction of the Prey Lang forest held a ceremony yesterday in which they tied Buddhist monk’s robes around the trunks of trees – a gesture of protection – to stop them from being cut down. Six monks and villagers from ...
Rubber firm is felling state forest: villagers
Villagers who confiscated land-clearing equipment during a forest patrol yesterday in Khsuem commune in Kratie province’s Snuol district are claiming the equipment belongs to a rubber concessionaire attempting to expand into state land, an allegation local authorities denied. Villager representative Mom Sokkin said the Binh ...
Chut Wutty slaying puts Timbergreen logging in spotlight
Community activists and conservationists commemorating slain environment activist Chut Wutty on the weekend used the occasion to shed light on what they allege are the shadowy practices of a logging company in the southwestern Cardamom forests. Activists amongst the hundreds of people who travelled to Koh ...
Koh Kong authorities probe land clearing
Provincial environment department director Mon Phalla said officials had inspected the area around the Prek Andong Teuk stream in the district’s Andong Teuk and Thmar Sar communes, which are vulnerable to encroachment. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-authorities-probe-land-clearing
Koh Kong villagers deny dispute resolved
Representatives of villagers who are locked in a land dispute with Heng Huy Agriculture Group in Koh Kong province have denied a press release from the Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, which said the dispute had already been resolved. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-villagers-deny-dispute-resolved
PM hails ‘troubled’ Koh Kong project
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday lauded the Chinese developer behind Koh Kong province’s $3.8 billion tourism project, despite it causing a decade-long dispute with the villagers there. “The Union Development Group [UDG] transformed the quiet area in Koh Kong province into an attractive tourist ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-hails-troubled-koh-kong-project
New Koh Kong dams under discussion
The China Huadian Corporation, who currently operates a 338-megawatt hydropower dam on the Russey Chrum River in Koh Kong, is now conducting negotiations with the government to build two more dams in the province. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492003/new-koh-kong-dams-under-discussion/
New Pailin-Koh Kong road planned
A new road linking Pailin province to the coastal province of Koh Kong has been planned, according to the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, aimed at helping agricultural products from the northern provinces reach sea ports quicker. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27093/new-pailin-koh-kong-road-planned/
Another armyworm outbreak hits Koh Kong
As farmers across the country continue to recover from crop devastation wrought by a plague of armyworm caterpillars, those in Koh Kong province are facing a new outbreak that is decimating young rice plants, officials said on Monday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-armyworm-outbreak-hits-koh-kong-114721/
Dredging boats spotted off Koh Kong
An activist and villagers yesterday said that sand dredging boats had been spotted off the coast of Koh Kong, prompting fears that they were set to begin operations, despite a standing ban on sand exports from companies operating in coastal areas. ...
Yon Sineat and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-boats-spotted-koh-kong
Koh Kong dispute gets fresh hearing
The Koh Kong Provincial Court summonsed 23 villagers from Chikor Leu commune to present themselves – and any relevant documents – at a July 12 hearing with representatives of the two sugar companies that bulldozed their farmland and evicted them from their homes in 2006. ...
Court questions Koh Kong shooting suspect
One week after the shooting deaths of forestry activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana, a suspect was sent to the Koh Kong Provincial Court for questioning late yesterday evening before being remanded to military police custody, a court official said. “The prosecutor hasn’t ...
Koh Kong cashes in on conservation
Koh Kong province’s mangrove forests have changed from being a source of charcoal to serving tourists who help to protect their biodiversity. The forests have now become a popular destination for Cambodian tourists. Yem Yan, Peam Krasorb commune chief in Koh Kong, said gradually visitors ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051465588/Business/koh-kong-cashes-in-on-conservation.html
Koh Kong police releases 17 protesters
Police in Koh Kong province on Wednesday late evening set free 17 people, including for local rights workers who were arrested over a protest in the province. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/koh-kong-police-releases-17-protesters-8919
In Cambodia, fake orphanages soak up donations by duping tourists
Just before the sun sets over the enchanting Angkor temples in northern Cambodia, a group of children gets ready for their big show. Every day, according to fliers at restaurants and hotels around town, the children perform an hour-long “charity show” for tourists visiting the ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140721/in-cambodia-fake-orphanages-soak-up-donations-by-duping-tourists
Cambodian police bust Thais with $7M in fake bills
Three Thai men arrested in Cambodia for allegedly carrying counterfeit U.S. $100 bills with a face value of more than $7 million planned to circulate the fakes in rural areas where they would be less likely to be detected, police said Saturday. The men were arrested ...
The Washington Post News Staff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cambodian-police-bust-thais-with-7m-in-fake-bills/2014/09/19/80bcac08-4060-11e4-a430-b82a3e67b762_story.html
Logging in the wild west
Illegal logging of staggering proportions abetted by military personnel is decimating stocks of luxury rosewood in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, while the conversation group tasked with protecting the area and its government counterparts deny the trade is even happening. In a period of several hours ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122153536/National-news/logging-in-the-wild-west.html
Firms, gov't discuss $50m banana farm plan
Plans for a 5,000-hectare banana farming project in Koh Kong province, proposed last year by an Australian and a Japanese company, look set to go ahead, with state news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) yesterday reporting that the project would cost $50 million. Last Friday, the ...
Cambodia secures $11bn funding to boost iron exports
Work will start this year on a 400km railway line and a new seaport in Cambodia, with most of the funding coming from Chinese sources. Cambodia Iron and Steel Mining Industry Group (CISMIG) and China Railway Major Bridge Engineering have signed an agreement to jointly invest ...