Clearing along Koh Kong beach raises eyebrows
Concerns have been raised over the clearing of mangrove forests along Bak Khlong beach in Koh Kong province’s Mondul seima district as land prices in the area increase. Bak Khlong commune chief Eav Kosorl told The Post on Monday that land titles existed for areas ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clearing-along-koh-kong-beach-raises-eyebrows
River relocation request rejected
A request from the Khmer Vietnamese Association for the Interior Ministry to delay the relocation of Vietnamese familes living on the Tonle sap river in Kampong Chhnang province has been rejected. The KVA’s letter, submitted last week, asked the ministry to intervene in the relocation of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50551914/river-relocation-request-rejected-2/
UDG denies links to naval base
The vice president of China’s Union Development Group has dismissed reports that it is involved in the construction of a Chinese naval base in Koh Kong province. A report published by Asia Times last month said that China has been lobbying the Cambodian government since ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564717/udg-denies-links-to-naval-base/
Rural road work continues to boost livelihoods
The Rural Development Ministry last year paved more than 40,000 kilometres of roads in rural areas to accommodate business travel. According to the ministry’s annual report, in 2018 ministry officials worked with development partners to pave 39,045 kilometres of dirt road, 165 kilometres of asphalt ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50574457/rural-road-work-continues-to-boost-livelihoods/
Ministry suspends licences of 90 mining companies
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has suspended the licences of 90 mining companies across Kampong speu province for a week for failing to properly repair and water roads, tormenting residents with clouds of dust. Yos Monirath, General Department of Mineral Resources director-general at the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-suspends-licences-90-mining-companies
Villagers appeal for road access to disputed land
More than 100 families in Preah sihanouk province’s Tracheak Chet and Bat Khteah communities gathered on Monday to submit a petition asking the Prey Nop district administration to order the Thansuor Chamkat company to open an access road for them to transport their crops through ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-appeal-road-access-disputed-land
‘Life goes on’ if Cambodia loses Everything But Arms
Cambodia’s business sector is exploring ways to mitigate any fallout from a possible loss of access to the EU’s Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement as talks continue before the 28-member bloc makes a final decision. The EU monitoring process is set to conclude in mid-August, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Husain Haider
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-goes-if-cambodia-loses-everything-arms
Illegal Vietnamese fisherman shot during crackdown
Prey Veng provincial police on Friday fired shots at a group of illegal Vietnamese fishermen who tried to ram their patrol boat, wounding one man in Peam Chor district’s svay Phluos commune. Colonel Kim salouth, provincial anti-economic crime police chief, yesterday said that six suspects ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50619549/illegal-vietnamese-fisherman-shot-during-crackdown/
National committee set to destroy timber vehicles
In order to preserve the Kingdom’s forests, the National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention has warned it will take strict action against offenders by burning any vehicles used to transport timber at the crime scene itself. But environmental activists said this course of action would ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-committee-set-destroy-timber-vehicles
Underpass feasibility study OK’ed
The Phnom Penh Municipality has approved a feasibility study on an underpass crossing National Road 1. The study will be conducted by Borey Peng Hout, a leading local real estate developer. In a meeting Thursday chaired by Khuong sreng, the governor of Phnom Penh, the municipality ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50634963/underpass-feasibility-study-oked/
Mitigation policy aids more than 60,000 families
The Social AffairS MiniStry yeSterday Said the government haS helped more than 60,000 impoveriShed familieS affected by natural diSaSterS Since it firSt launched itS mitigation policy in 2014.&nbSp;Lao Veng, deputy director of the miniStry&rSquo;S general technical department, Said during a preSS conference at the Council SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642974/mitigation-policy-aids-more-than-60000-families/
PM: Utility bill to be separated
Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday ordered that waste collection fees be removed from electricity invoices issued by Cambodian national utility company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC). The decision will take effect from January. The move came a day after the government revoked the business licence ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-utility-bill-be-separated
Council of Ministers abrogates Kampong Speu land swap deal
The government, through the Council of Ministers, has decided to abrogate a land swap deal between the Kampong speu Provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Touch sarin Development Co Ltd. In the initial agreement, ownership titles for 10ha were to be given to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/council-ministers-abrogates-kampong-speu-land-swap-deal
MFI loans, deposits grow in first nine months of this year
Outstanding loans and deposits in Cambodia’s crowded microfinance institution (MFI) sector have seen a sharp rise in the first three quarters of this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfi-loans-deposits-grow-first-nine-months-year
Authorities fix breached dam
Battambang provincial authorities and residents are fixing a partly broken dam in svay Cheat village, in sangke district’s Raing Kesei commune, after farmers breached it to irrigate their paddy fields. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-fix-breached-dam
US to train Cambodian government on combating cybercrime
The United StateS haS invited Senior Cambodian officialS to learn about cybercrime from U.S. expertS.&nbSp;NumerouS countrieS and nongovernmental organizationS have expreSSed concern in recent yearS over the drafting of a Cambodian cybercrime law, which criticS Say could be uSed to reStrict freedom of expreSSion and SS='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voanews.com/content/united-states-train-cambodian-government-combat-cybercrime/3396048.html
Preah Sihanouk province to recruit beach lifeguards
Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS plan to recruit about 30 lifeguardS to help prevent drowningS acroSS the province&rSquo;S Seven beacheS.&nbSp;The move comeS in the wake of Several touriSt drowningS; the lateSt caSualtieS involved a South Korean 40-year-old father, Lee MinSeock, and hiS 4-year-old Son, Lee Seungjae, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-province-recruit-beach-lifeguards
Plan hatched to save Ibis
A new 10-year action plan proposed by a host of NGOs aims to reverse the fortunes of Cambodia’s national bird, the giant ibis, which faces increasing pressure from human encroachment in its dwindling habitat.With fewer than 200 mature individuals now believed to survive in the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plan-hatched-save-ibis
Scholars say empathy, forgiveness key to reconciling Khmer Rouge crimes
Empathy and forgiveness should be at the heart of efforts to heal the wounds of Cambodia’s tragic history, according to academics attending a recent symposium. Kosal of Brooklyn College added that the tribunal might not be an effective mechanism to achieve reconciliation and healing for ss='cambodia-color'>...
New ISP aims to compete on quality, not low pricing
Cambodia’s newest internet service provider (IsP), Today Communication, will join a busy market when it begins offering its services in Phnom Penh on saturday. However, the company hopes that its focus on providing quality service, especially to businesses, will distinguish it from more than 30 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-isp-aims-compete-quality-not-low-pricing