Villagers want dispute resolution
About 100 residents from Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts gathered to protest and block the road of Koh Kong Sugar Industry to demand the company, local authorities and relevant ministries expedite a resolution to end their land dispute. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112239/villagers-want-dispute-resolution/
Koh Kong protesters return to Land Ministry
Villagers in a land dispute with companies producing sugar in Koh Kong province gathered again at the Land Ministry yesterday afternoon, demanding the ministry resolve their land disputes as soon as possible. More than 70 people from Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts are facing difficulties ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50115083/koh-kong-protesters-return-to-land-ministry/
Promotion of Cambodia-Hong Kong trade and investment relations discussed
Cambodia and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) will promote their relationship, particularly in terms of trade and investment. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501459806/promotion-of-cambodia-hong-kong-trade-and-investment-relations-discussed/
Youth seek tobacco curbs: org
A survey has found that while only 12 per cent of young Cambodians smoke cigarettes, more than four times that number are exposed to passive smoke every day, and a broad majority back tougher regulation of tobacco products. Mom Kong, executive director at the Cambodian Movement ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-seek-tobacco-curbs-org
Government calls for PM ‘fake news’ correction
The Cambodian government on Friday strongly urged Singaporean outlet Channel News Asia (CNA) to issue a correction to an article it published on Thursday, claiming Prime Minister Hun Sen had called on the military to destroy the country’s political opponents. The statement, issued by the ...
Mech Dara and Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-calls-pm-fake-news-correction
Police Search for Counterfeit Riel Notes in Prey Veng
Police in Prey Veng’s Peamro district are searching for a rice trader who paid a traditional healer with counterfeit money, and suspect that more of the fake bills could enter circulation. Neak Loeung commune police chief Chhin Sophal said the unnamed woman had paid 45,000 ...
Eleven families request more compensation in land dispute
Eleven families locked in a land dispute with two sugarcane plantation companies in Koh Kong province returned yesterday to the Ministry of Land Management, asking it to work out compensation for them as it did for other villagers. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50299272/eleven-families-request-more-compensation-in-land-dispute/
Land Ministry hails successes
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction on Monday held a convention in Phnom Penh to report on its accomplishments for the year, hailing the 263 land disputes it has resolved, and to set its plans for next year. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-ministry-hails-successes
Villagers seek help with their dispute
About 100 people representing 162 families from Koh Kong province came to Phnom Penh yesterday to resubmit a petition to the National Assembly and some state institutions asking for intervention in a decade-old land dispute with three sugar companies. Phav Nherng, a representative of the families ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33387/villagers-seek-help-with-their-dispute/
Farmers ask Hun Sen for help, told to go home
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet on Tuesday refused to accept a petition from some 200 farmers who traveled from Kratie province to Phnom Penh to ask for help in settling their land dispute with a plantation owner, urging them to try settling the case with ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/farmers-ask-hun-sen-for-help-told-to-go-home-64716/
Koh Kong’s first int’l seaport set for launch
Koh Kong province’s first international seaport, invested in and developed by Koh Kong Port Management Co Ltd, is scheduled to launch in the second half of the year, as a number of linked infrastructure works reach completion, according to provincial governor Mithona Phoutong. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/koh-kongs-first-intl-seaport-set-launch
Thai princess to visit kingdom
Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will visit Cambodia next month to boost bilateral education ties between the kingdoms, a topic she has worked on since her first visit in 1992. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-princess-visit-kingdom
Fine arts university to relocate
The government will spend at least $12 million to relocate the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA) and build a cultural center on four hectares of land in Chroy Changvar district, while the old University buildings will be used to expand the National Museum. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36128/fine-arts-university-to-relocate/
Kratie University construction complete
The recently constructed Kratie University, which was mostly funded by the Chinese government, was handed over to the Education Ministry yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37563/kratie-university-construction-complete/
Thai uni offers scholarships to 40 Cambodian students: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen requested that Thailand’s Krirk University meet with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to discuss recruitment after the school announced scholarships for 40 Cambodians. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-uni-offers-scholarships-40-cambodian-students-pm
Government establishes sub-committee on universal health coverage
The government is establishing a Sub-committee on Univeral Health Coverage in Cambodia to direct, coordinate, monitor and review all policies, strategies and action plans set out in the “Roadmap for Univeral Health Coverage in Cambodia 2024-2035” policy planning document. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501529683/government-establishes-sub-committee-on-universal-health-coverage/
Activists launch ‘Rescue Island’ campaign for Koh Kong Krao
Environmental activists have launched the “Rescue Island” campaign to urge the government to preserve Koh Kong province’s Koh Kong Krao island, Cambodia’s largest, as a national park. They are concerned that development could destroy forever the natural beauty of the 103sq km island. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-launch-rescue-island-campaign-koh-kong-krao
Sam Rainsy Party meets soon to pick new chief
Sam Rainsy Party deputy president Teav Vannol yesterday declined to say whether he would take leadership of the party in the wake of president Kong Korm’s retirement, though a fellow senator said it was all but a foregone conclusion. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-rainsy-party-meets-soon-pick-new-chief
Former SRP president slams arrest of Um Sam An
As the opposition marked the 41st anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, one of its senior officials yesterday lashed out at the imprisonment of a CNRP lawmaker for criticising the government’s handling of the Vietnamese border issue. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-srp-president-slams-arrest-um-sam
Cambodia tourism grows 2.6%
Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered an increase of 2.6% during January to March, this year, according to the Statistics and Tourist Information Department. ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2016/05/cambodia-tourism-grows-2-6/