Federal job awaits Pailin chief accused of corruption
The former governor of Pailin province, Y Chhien, has been removed from his positions as provincial council president and president of the Pailin chapter of the Cambodian People’s Party following allegations he was involved in embezzling $400,000 in expenses. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/federal-job-awaits-pailin-chief-accused-corruption
Prey Long network ends four-day patrol to monitor logging
A network of about 400 activists completed a five-day patrol of the unprotected 650,000-hectare Prey Long forest in the country’s north Sunday, seizing and burning illegally logged wood and confiscating chainsaws from those they discovered felling trees. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prey-long-network-ends-four-day-patrol-to-monitor-logging-81439/
Strike order protested
About 50 striking garment workers representing more than 2,000 employees from M&V International Garment Factory yesterday gathered outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court where they submitted a letter demanding a court order prohibiting their industrial action be scrapped. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/strike-order-protested
Fish farms key for future: PM
In celebration of the 13th annual National Fish Day, 1 million baby fish, 100,000 young shrimp and a host of eels, turtles and frogs were freed into a reservoir in the Stung Trang district of Kampong Cham yesterday. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fish-farms-key-future-pm
Cambodian opposition lawmakers lead supporters to revisit disputed border with Vietnam
Cambodian opposition lawmakers Real Camerin and Um Sam An led over 1,000 supporters Sunday to revisit disputed Cambodia-Vietnam border in Svay Rieng province, where they had scuffled with Vietnamese villagers last month. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=293340
Border activists fall short of mark
Most of the more than 2,000 activists who traveled to a disputed area of the border with Vietnam in Svay Rieng province’s Kompong Ro district yesterday afternoon were not permitted to reach their ultimate goal – Border Post 203. ...
Ros Chanveasna and Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13464/border-activists-fall-short-of-mark/
Two-month haul shows uptick in illegal fishing
Cambodia’s river guards have reported confiscating more than 35,000 metres of gill nets, 21 boats and an assortment of homemade grenades during patrols in Mekong Irrawaddy Dolphin Sanctuary in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces between May and July. ...
Phak Seangly and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-month-haul-shows-uptick-illegal-fishing
Police shut down Siem Reap Snakehead fish farm
Following the seizure of about 100,000 snakehead fish from a van in Siem Reap province last week, police on Tuesday afternoon raided the fish farm where the illegal fry came from, according to deputy provincial police chief Oum Amra. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-shut-down-siem-reap-snakehead-fish-farm-92669/
តម្រូវការថវិកាសរុបសម្រាប់លទ្ធផលទាំង ៥ នៃ UNDAF (២០១៩-២០២៣)
ប្រភព: ក្របខណ្ឌជំនួយអភិវឌ្ឍន៍របស់អង្គការសហប្រជាជាតិ (UNDAF) ២០១៩– ២០២៣។ ...
Total budget requirement for the 5 outcomes of the UNDAF (2019-2023)
Source: The United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2019– 2023, ...
Free school meals programme approved
Officials have given the green light to a scheme that will provide free meals in schools after a pilot programme increased the attendance and nutrition of over 113,000 students. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/free-school-meals-programme-approved
Property tax deadline moved to year's end
Due to a lack of available tax collectors, the Ministry of Economics and Finance once again delayed collections on the 0.1 percent property tax on all immovable property worth approximately $25,000 or more, according to a ministry notice issued yesterday ...
Kingdom set to bring in Chinese salt
The first deliveries of salt from China arrived on Tuesday at Sihanoukville port after an agreement for a 30,000-tonne import was inked last month, said Bun Baraing, the co-president of the Salt Producers Community of Kampot-Kep (SPCKK). ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-set-bring-chinese-salt
Rubbish Youths collect 10K cigarette butts at Sihanoukville beach
The “Rubbish Youths” have picked up nearly 10,000 cigarette butts from Sihanoukville’s Ochheuteal Beach over the past two weekends, after launching a campaign to collect one million butts from Cambodia’s coastal areas to keep the beaches clean. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rubbish-youths-collect-10k-cigarette-butts-sihanoukville-beach
National exam monitors recruited
The Anti-Corruption Unit yesterday started registering volunteer observers for the Grade 12 National Exam to monitor the process and guard against cheating. The ACU said it needed between 4,500 and 5,000 volunteer observers for the August 20 exam. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50510375/national-exam-monitors-recruited/
Drive to replenish trees in Mondulkiri
Junior Chamber International Cambodia, in collaboration with WCS Cambodia, will hold a two-day tree planting event in Mondulkiri province starting on August 17 as part of a campaign to grow about 50,000 trees from this year to 2020. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50519337/drive-to-replenish-trees-in-mondulkiri/
James Ricketson fundraises for poor
Ricketson said after his release from prison in September that he started helping poor Cambodian scavengers many years ago and will resume again. He and three others started a fund-raising website “Family By Family”, hoping to initially raise $50,000. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/james-ricketson-fundraises-poor
Senior official accused of land grab
A member of the Supreme Consultation Forum is set to forward to Prime Minister Hun Sen, the complaints of more than 1,000 families against a military lieutenant general over alleged land grabbing in Kampong Thom province’s Stoung district. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senior-official-accused-land-grab
Trio holds up gas station, shoots owner, neighbor
Police in Oddar Meanchey province are searching for three armed robbers who made off with about $30,000 in cash on Sunday after holding up a gas station and shooting the owner and her neighbor, a local official said Monday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trio-holds-up-gas-station-shoots-owner-neighbor-99771/
Two at Ratanakkiri hospital axed for fund mismanagement
Two Ratanakkiri Referral Hospital officials have been ousted from their posts following an audit that found that more than $13,000 from the hospital’s travel allowance account was mismanaged, causing the hospital to run out of money to pay staff. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-ratanakkiri-hospital-axed-fund-mismanagement