Unsustainable sand mining is threatening lives along the Mekong River in Cambodia
Now new research, as part of a project led by University of Southampton, has shown sand mining is causing river beds to lower, leading to riverbank instability and increasing the likelihood of dangerous river bank collapse, damaging infrastructure and housing and putting lives at risk. The ...
University of Southampton
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/01/mekong-river-sand.page
NBC’s digital payments to go live in next few months
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will launch a Blockchain-based, peer-to-peer payment and money transfer platform in the next few months, its director-general Chea Serey told The Post on Monday. Dubbed ‘Project Bakong’, the scheme already has the support of 11 banks, with many more ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbcs-digital-payments-go-live-next-few-months
Three ministries will increase more cooperation to help improve people’s lives
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Ministry of Rural Development, and the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology will begin to increase cooperation more smoothly to help improve people’s livelihoods, benefit farmers, and provide economic efficiency to rural areas. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501484140/three-ministries-will-increase-more-cooperation-to-help-improve-peoples-lives/
Road accidents claim 942 lives in Cambodia in first half of year
The number of road fatalities in Cambodia declined to 942 people in the first half of 2022, a decrease of 9 percent from 1,033 over the same period last year, Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Min Manavy said here on Thursday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501135160/road-accidents-claim-942-lives-in-cambodia-in-first-half-of-year/
Floods in Cambodia claim 40n lives as rescue efforts intensify
The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) reported that the ongoing flash floods have so far killed 40 people. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50776800/floods-in-cambodia-claim-40n-lives-as-rescue-efforts-intensify/
VAT implementation on cigarettes in Cambodia could save thousands of lives
The Cambodian government has implemented a value-added tax (VAT) on cigarettes to combat the health risks associated with smoking and tobacco products. Effective August 1, companies importing and distributing cigarettes in Cambodia must apply a flat rate of 10 percent VAT on all cigarette supplies. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501335644/vat-implementation-on-cigarettes-in-cambodia-could-save-thousands-of-lives/
Under a controversial new plan by the Ministry of Interior, ethnic Vietnamese – some living in Cambodia for generations – begin to see documents revoked
Behind the traffic police station in Kampong Chhnang town, set against the picturesque backdrop of the Tonle Sap, immigration officials gathered thousands of ethnic Vietnamese to begin a nationwide process of revoking “improperly” issued documents this week. The plan to review birth certificates, identity cards, passports ...
Kong Meta and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-post-depth/ethnic-vietnamese-some-living-cambodia-generations-see-documents-revoked
Public Works Ministry sets up live broadcast on Facebook to answer people’s concerns
The Ministry of Public Works will debut its first live show on Facebook today to allow people to air concerns over issues with the ministry’s competence. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50925308/public-works-ministry-sets-up-live-broadcast-on-facebook-to-answer-peoples-concerns/
Success of live lobster exports sparks market enthusiam in China
A Cambodian firm intends to export more than 1,000kg of live lobsters to China, after its previous test runs proved the product had garnered “substantial market support”. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/success-live-lobster-exports-sparks-market-enthusiam-china
The Royal Government introduces two key reforms to save people’s lives and rehabilitate the country
Prime Minister Hun Sen has stated that in leading the country to stability and development as it is now, the Royal Government has prepared two major reform plans. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501258559/the-royal-government-introduces-two-key-reforms-to-save-peoples-lives-and-rehabilitate-the-country/
Nearly 500 families in Kandal province concerned over forced evictions
Nearly 500 families living in Tumnob 94 in Kandal province are worried about forced evictions after authorities claimed they were living in slums and illegally while the citizens claim that they had lived in the area for more than 30 years and had valid residence ...
Khut Sokun
https://www.vodkhmer.news/2023/02/07/families-in-kandal-province-concerned-over-forced-evictions/
Foreigner census begins; official tours Vietnamese communities
The Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration began its “census” of ethnic Vietnamese people living in Cambodia on Sunday, with Sok Phal, the department chief, touring Pursat province villages along the Tonle Sap lake. Pursat provincial police chief Sarun Chanthy said that General Phal and a ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factories-ask-govt-to-punish-strike-leaders-67103/
Angkor residents given construction permission
In four months this year, the Apsara Authority has allowed people living in the Angkor area to build and repair 354 houses or do light construction in order to help facilitate their living conditions. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487386/angkor-residents-given-construction-permission/
Release our relatives: evictees
The families of four people from Pailin province’s Krinh village who have been incarcerated since March for allegedly living on state land are calling for their release. Fifty-year-old Nheb Nharn said that he and his wife, Om Som Ath, had lived on the land in Stung ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/release-our-relatives-evictees
Long term residents of state land ask for stability via land titles
People living in the Prek Ta Kong community in Phnom Penh are concerned about the legal status of their homes as they live above the sewer pipes, and have never received land titles, despite some families having lived there for 40 years. ...
Chhun Sunly
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501003610/long-term-residents-of-state-land-ask-for-stability-via-land-titles/
Fewer Pig Imports Send Pork Prices Upward
Growing demand for pork on the Thai market since March has lead to an increase in the price of live pigs in Cambodia, as Thai farmers reduce the amount of live pigs exported to Cambodia in order to fuel local demand, officials said yesterday. ...
City hall makes offer on land to families of Chroy Changva
Families living on contested land on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula were on Wednesday given a choice by municipal governor Pa Socheatvong: give up 90 percent of your land and live on the remainder or sell it all at $40 per square meter. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-makes-offer-on-land-to-families-of-chroy-changva-80097/
Agriculture Ministry asks FAO for support
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon on Wednesday asked the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for financial and technical support to improve the living standards of local communities that still rely on fishery and forestry products for a living. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/agriculture-ministry-asks-fao-support
More families to be evicted from floating river homes
Following the eviction earlier this month of about 1,000 mostly Vietnamese families living in floating homes in Kompong Chhnang City, provincial authorities now have plans to evict a further 1,500 mostly Cambodian families living further south on the river, officials said Sunday. ...
Ben Sokhean and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-families-to-be-evicted-from-floating-river-homes-98233/
Government pledges documentation for ethnic Vietnamese
The government yesterday maintained it was opening a path to citizenship for roughly 70,000 ethnic Vietnamese people living in Cambodia, though many have lived here for generations, and advocates say a current drive to revoke “irregular” government documents is effectively rendering many stateless. ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-pledges-documentation-ethnic-vietnamese