More than 200 people representing 274 families from three communes in Sre Ambel district, Koh Kong province gathered at the district hall on Thursday morning to urge the authorities to expedite the settlement of land for them, claiming that Ly Yong Phat Company violated for ...

Chinese firms have proposed a new hydroelectric power project on Koh Kong’s Tatay river. Chint Group and Sinomach-HE recently asked the Ministry of Mines and Energy for permission to begin a feasibility study on a project to build a 150-megawatt hydropower dam on the Tatay river, ...

The number of people seeking for jobs has been on the rise each day. However, companies, organizations and institutions are relentlessly complaining that human resource is both scarce and of low quality. Many students who have just graduated for about a year or two say they ...

Despite outcry from medical students, the government is refusing to reduce the latest in a string of proposed fee hikes, this one nearly doubling the charge for the University of Health Science’s exit exam. In a letter sent to the university’s rector on Friday, the ...

As the booming construction sector attracts more rural Cambodians to seek employment in the capital, the different working conditions between high-rises in urban areas and borey developments have factored into varying degrees of earning potential and living standards.According to estimates by the Ministry of Land ...

Rubber production in early 2012 increased 21 per cent when compared to the end of 2011, according to Mak Kim Hong, president of the Cambodian Rubber Association. He said yesterday that the price of one tonne of good-quality rubber rose to US$3,800 in early 2012, ...

About a decade ago, global manufacturing firms staged a mass exodus to Asia in search of low-cost alternatives to increasing domestic wage demands and operational costs. The consensus was the continued development of a regional supply chain that had formed in countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, ...

The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parlia­ment that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...

On 18 November, the Government of Japan agreed to provide Nature Center Risen with USD 191,744 for “The Project for Realization of sustainable life environment through mainly the teaching practical environmental education in Teacher Education College (3rd Phase).” The Grant Contract was signed between H. ...

On 19 February 2020 the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia announces a press release on its official Facebook page to update the current health status of the passenger on board Hollan America’s MS Westerdam. According to the press, the Ministry has been ...

Military police in Kompong Speu province on Friday arrested eight men for attempting to rob a parked container truck full of undergarments from a Phnom Penh factory, but released six of the suspects the same day, officials said Sunday. Hong Vinol, director of the military ...

A farming family has agreed to receive $3,000 in compensation from the Wildlife Alliance after it cleared the family’s fruit trees in Koh Kong province’s Koh Kong district. Yorng Tay, the wife of farmer Seng Thet, said by phone yesterday that Wildlife Alliance agreed to ...

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 ...

Koh Kong’s provincial prosecutor has invited four community representatives to provide statements regarding violence allegedly committed in January during an ongoing land dispute with Chinese company Union Development Group.The invitation was received this week by residents of Prek Smach village in Kiri Sakor district, who ...

The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission has asked Suy Sem, the minister of mines and energy, to appear for questioning on December 15, as villagers in Koh Kong province cast doubt on government claims that it had temporarily banned sand mining there. Mr. Sem will answer questions ...

Local private airline Aero Cambodia intends to launch domestic chartered flights by the end of this year once it receives approval from the government. The airline is preparing to apply for its air operator certificate from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) and hopes to ...

About 1,000 garment workers on Wednesday demonstrated outside Kompong Speu Provincial Court calling for the release of eight people arrested during a protest this week over wages at a factory supplying U.S. brand Nike, a union official said. Fighting between the workers on Monday displayed ...

On 24 May 2018 Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction agreed and met with the representatives of household in land disputes with Union Development Co.,Ltd located in Botum Sakor district and L.Y.P.SEZ in Kiri Sakor district, Koh Kong province. The meeting aimed to ...

Pre-commissioning work on the $350 million Dara Sakor International Airport in Koh Kong province remains on schedule, with flight operations planned to start in mid-2021, State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) spokesman Sin Chansereyvutha told The Post on March 15. ...

Koh Kong provincial governor Mithona Phuthong was the first woman to ever have been appointed to the top job in any province back in 2017. She is the daughter of a veteran politician who fought to liberate the country and extinguish the flames of war ...