Protest still on: youth leader
Ignoring objections and even vague threats made by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Cambodian activists in south Korea plan to stage a protest on sunday ahead of a five-day summit Prime Minister Hun sen is scheduled to attend on December 10. Around 1,500 opposition supporters intend to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-still-youth-leader
New maps show heavy deforestation in 2013
Newly released maps using U.s. satellite data show that Cambodia continued to suffer major deforestation in 2013, much of it in nominally protected forests and wildlife sanctuaries. In November 2013, the University of Maryland released what it said was the first study to combine a consistent ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-maps-show-heavy-deforestation-in-2013-76239/
Hope for B Kak activists
An Appeal Court judge yesterday said that seven female Boeung Kak land activists imprisoned in November for protesting on Monivong Boulevard in Phnom Penh were not actually blocking traffic at the time of their arrest. Eleven activists – the seven women arrested on November 10 and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hope-b-kak-activists
ACU lays out rules on receiving gifts
The body overseeing the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has made public internal regulations that prohibit ACU personnel from receiving gifts worth more than $25 and require them to report business dinners in advance, while also making rare disclosures about the kinds of items proffered to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-lays-out-rules-receiving-gifts
More trafficked in 2014: gov’t
A mother whose daughter was trafficked into the Malaysian sex industry has pleaded with lawmakers to help rescue her child, as new figures from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry reveal an upswing in human trafficking victims rescued last year. According to the ministry, although sex trafficking cases ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David, Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/more-trafficked-2014-govt
Teachers push ministry over nixed scholarship
More than 400 teachers who took part in an eight-month teaching course at the National Institute of Education (NIE) are demanding the government pay them scholarship funds that were initially promised only to be later axed over cost concerns. In a petition sent yesterday to the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/teachers-push-ministry-over-nixed-scholarship
Cambodia rides out recession smoothly
Cambodia was the only country in the Greater Mekong subregion to have increased its rate of exports following the 2008 global financial crisis, thanks largely to garments accounting for the majority of its manufacturing exports, a new report has found. The Greater Mekong 5 – Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/cambodia-rides-out-recession-smoothly
‘We’re no Funcinpec’
An opposition leader yesterday rejected criticism that his party is becoming too friendly with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, assuring supporters they would fight to win power and not be lured into the same trap as the now marginalised Funcinpec royalist party. speaking to hundreds of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/were-no-funcinpec
Hundreds of thousands without Thai work papers
With less than three weeks left until the deadline, over 300,000 Cambodian migrants registered in Thailand have not completed the verification process necessary to receive work visas, raising the possibility of a repeat of last year’s mass exodus. According to figures from the Thai Labour Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-thousands-without-thai-work-papers
This simple trick helped fix a wildlife water shortage in Cambodia
It is a simple solution to a wildlife water shortage. During the annual dry season [November through April] in a protected forest in eastern Cambodia, wildlife scientists hired local workers with shovels to dig out accumulated sediment from six remote and dried-up waterholes. The result: During ss='cambodia-color'>...
John Barrat
http://smithsonianscience.si.edu/2015/06/this-simple-trick-helped-fix-a-wildlife-water-shortage-in-cambodia/
My dinner with Rainsy
In another effort to cement the so-called culture of dialogue between the two major parties, Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy brought their families together on saturday for what Rainsy billed as a “historic” meal during which they posed for selfies, while ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/my-dinner-rainsy
Acleda, PPCBank granted listing eligibility
Two of Cambodia’s leading commercial banks – locally owned Acleda Bank Plc (Acleda) and south Korean-owned Phnom Penh Commercial Bank Plc (PPCBank) – have been granted listing eligibility from the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX). This paves the way for the banks to move forward with plans ss='cambodia-color'>...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-ppcbank-granted-listing-eligibility
Dead dolphins prompt calls for fishing net ban
A dolphin weighing over 200kg and 2.3m long was found dead by fishermen downstream of the Koh Pos Bridge on Wednesday morning. Officials in Preah sihanouk province’s Fisheries Administration decided to bury the carcass not far from where it was found. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dead-dolphins-prompt-calls-fishing-net-ban
Mondulkiri officials ‘cleared forest’
Members of the indigenous Bunong tribe and civil society organisations on Wednesday filed a complaint against local authorities in Mondulkiri for illegally clearing 300ha of protected forest. The cleared land is located in O’Raing district’s Pou Les village. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-officials-cleared-forest
Hundreds of snares found in Prambei Mom community forest
The Prambei Mom Forest Community in Kampong speu province’s Thpong district has raised concern over a spike in illegal hunting within the forest. Community forest chief soeun Lay said on Thursday that he and his community members patrolled the forest from January 25-27 to combat ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-snares-found-prambei-mom-community-forest
Cambodia has 54 special economic zones, more to come
As of 2019, Cambodia has in total 54 special Economic Zones, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia. In 2019, the exports from Cambodia’s special Economic Zones were Us$2,688 million, up 27 percent compared to 2018, continued the source. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Team
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50686294/cambodia-has-54-special-economic-zones-more-to-come
Royal turtle eggs found in Koh Kong
Three royal turtle nests containing 51 eggs have been found in Koh Kong province’s sre Ambel district. The discovery was made by the Wildlife Conservation society (WCs), fisheries administration officials, and conservationists from the local community. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-turtle-eggs-found-koh-kong
NCDM warns of extreme weather, need for action
A National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) report has warned of the danger of extreme weather in Cambodia and a need to take action. The NCDM’s first vice-president, Kun Kim, attributed 95 deaths to 336 rainstorms which hit 22 provinces in 2019. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ncdm-warns-extreme-weather-need-action
Ministry to promote workers’ rights amid partial EBA status suspension
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training yesterday vowed that it would continue to promote workers’ rights and fair working conditions for those in the garment sector amid the recommended partial withdrawal of the European Union’s Everything but arms (EBA) preferential trade scheme in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...