Natural protected areas
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This dataset contains data for eight types of protected areas in Cambodia (national park, wildlife sanctuary, protected landscape, multiple use, natural heritage site, Ramsar site, biosphere reserve and marine national park) with issuing dates starting from 1993 to 2023. The data was collected from government ...
NEC launches advanced system for tracking votes at polling stations
The National Election Committee (NEC) has launched a new system which allows the organisation to track votes at polling stations and keep themselves updated on the election result, as the country heads towards the National Election. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501317624/nec-launches-advanced-system-for-tracking-votes-at-polling-stations/
Third worker killed at hydrodam
Ouch Nob, an electrician, was killed while working at the Russei Chrum Kraom river hydropower construction site. Last week two Chinese nationals also working at the site died. China Huadian Hong Kong Limited has agreed to pay the victim’s family $4,700 in compensation. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/third-worker-killed-hydrodam
Strung Treng flood rescue efforts continue through elections
As the nation was in an election mood on Sunday, authorities revealed more than 1,400 families were impacted by floods in Siem Pang and Sesan, Strung Treng province after the collapse of a hydropower dam in southern Laos on Monday evening. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strung-treng-flood-rescue-efforts-continue-through-elections
Voting goes on quietly in Takeo
The election in Takeo province’s 1,585 polling stations went smoothly on Sunday, though it was relatively quiet compared to the 2013 national polls and the 2017 commune council elections, officials from the provincial election committee (PEC) and participating political parties said. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voting-goes-quietly-takeo
Government leads forum on tourism investment
The Ministry of Tourism led a forum on investment in the Kingdom’s tourism sector for the first time on Monday in Siem Reap. A panel of national and international experts from 11 countries led discussions about the development of the industry. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-leads-forum-tourism-investment
Government makes $6m from land concessions
The government earned $6.6 million in revenue from economic land concessions (ELCs), despite the fact that less than half of the firms granted the concessions paid rental fees, according to a report presented to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50548305/government-makes-6m-from-land-concessions/
New forestry committee formed
The government has created a new national committee to tackle forest land clearing and grabbing. However, the move was immediately shot down by a prominent forest activist who said it would be ineffective, given the systemic collusion between the authorities and land grabbers. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-forestry-committee-formed
Kampong Cham cracks down on illicit wildlife sales
Kampong Cham provincial authority halted the sale of wild animals on National Road 6 in Batheay district, which is notorious for the illegal trade. Provincial deputy governor Keo Nearith said on Wednesday, police seized three species of wild animals and arrested a trader. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-cham-cracks-down-illicit-wildlife-sales
Police intercept vehicle with smuggled wildlife
Chab Sopharith, Banteay Meanchey provincial deputy police chief, said the operation was carried out on National Road 59, in the province’s Malai commune. A driver was arrested but later released when it was ascertained that he was not involved in the case. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-intercept-vehicle-smuggled-wildlife
Three parties promise to free Sokha, other ‘prisoners of conscience’
The campaign season is now underway in the Kingdom and at least three political parties have included in their platform promises to release the “political prisoners” of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) should they win the July 29 polls. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-parties-promise-free-sokha-other-prisoners-conscience
West ‘out to strain China ties’
The People’s Republic of China’s ambassador to Cambodia, Wang Wentian, accused the West of attempting to sabotage the two nations’ friendship during a meeting with Cambodian officials, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation spokesman Ket Sophann said on Tuesday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/west-out-strain-china-ties
CPP to push ahead with new commune election law
The National Assembly will vote on an amended law governing commune elections on October 20 even if the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP do not forge a deal over the parts of the law they disagree on, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Wednesday. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-to-push-ahead-with-new-commune-election-law-96044/
Two Chinese arrested in VoIP ring crackdown
Two Chinese nationals were arrested and 72 others were temporarily detained on Friday in a series of coordinated raids carried out by the Interior Ministry to dismantle a suspected cybercrime ring run by Chinese citizens extorting people in their home country, officials said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-chinese-arrested-in-voip-ring-crackdown-97474/
Lawyer questioned in CNRP lawmaker attack investigation
A lawyer for two opposition lawmakers brutally beaten in front of the National Assembly two months ago appeared at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday on behalf of his clients, who earlier this month filed an attempted murder complaint against their attackers. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawyer-questioned-in-cnrp-lawmaker-attack-investigation-104086/
Police accuse firm, Oknha of illegal logging
In a rare move, the National Police on Monday leveled accusations of illegal logging against a number of government-granted economic land concessions (ELCs) in the eastern province of Mondolkiri, singling out a Chinese-owned rubber plantation and wealthy businessman Soeng Sam Ol. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-accuse-firm-oknha-of-illegal-logging-104389/
ADB appoints Tongan to lead its operation in Cambodia
A Tongan national was appointed as Asian Development Bank’s director for Cambodia effective 01 February.Samiuela T. Tukuafu will lead ADB operations in Cambodia to support the country’s development goals of promoting inclusive growth and diversifying the economy. ...
Alpha Latu
http://nzkanivapacific.co.nz/2016/02/adb-appoints-tongan-to-lead-its-operation-in-cambodia/
Sar Kheng, Sam Rainsy to re-talk on commune council election law
Deputy Prime Minister, minister of interior Sar Kheng, who is also vice president of the ruling Cambodian People Party (CPP) will hold talk for second times with Sam Rainsy, the president of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/sar-kheng-sam-rainsy-to-re-talk-on-commune-council-election-law-8989
Sugar firm ready to compensate evictees, rights body says
Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol has hired a Swiss firm to carry out a damage assessment and agreed to compensate the hundreds of families its nowdefunct plantations in Oddar Meanchey province have robbed of their land, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand announced Wednesday. ...
Zsombor Peter and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-firm-ready-to-compensate-evictees-rights-body-says-98641/
Residents protest satellite city road construction
Roughly ten residents from the Kien Kleang community set fire to tires in protest of a City Hall development near National Road 6A, along which the majority of the community lives, after bulldozers began felling their fences and clearing their land. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20543/residents-protest-satellite-city-road-construction/