Police seek grave smashers after video goes viral
Police in Kandal province are seeking to arrest three men after footage emerged last week of them running through a Vietnamese graveyard in Sa’ang district damaging headstones. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seek-grave-smashers-after-video-goes-viral-88168/
Dredging protest in Kandal
Over 200 people held a protest yesterday morning in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district, demanding that provincial authorities halt Sand-dredging operations on the BasSac River. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-protest-kandal
Trucks rerouted from flooded Nat’l Road 4
Kampong Speu provincial authorities yesterday issued an order banning heavy trucks from using National Road 4 in Phnom Sruoch district’s Maha Saing commune in response to heavy flooding in the area. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trucks-rerouted-flooded-natl-road-4
Villagers block land survey
Kandal provincial authorities on Sunday attempted to measure wetland in Sa’ang district’s Roka Kpuos commune but were stopped by about 100 villagers who Said the measurement overlapped with their flooded land. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-block-land-survey
Kandal villagers burn tyres to fight dredging
Nearly a hundred villagers living along a river located in Sa’ang district’s Koh Anlong Chin commune in Kandal province recently protested against the plans of one company to dredge Sand in the area. On Sunday, employees of Sand-dredging company Sok Teang Import Export, which has been ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-villagers-burn-tyres-fight-dredging
Thais detain more than 30 migrants
More than 30 workers who entered Thailand illegally to find jobs were arrested on Monday in Sa Kaeo province’s Aranyaprathet district and sent to the district police station for questioning. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078534/thais-detain-30-migrants/
Cambodia 'must admit to logging'
At a meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had admitted Cambodians were conducting illegal logging and that Thai authorities were right to attempt to defend their territory. On Saturday, 20 natural resource protection officials from Si Sa Ket province which borders ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/292142/cambodia-must-admit-to-logging
Thai timber found with Khmer script
More than 100 pieces of luxury rosewood bearing Cambodian names and a phone number were found by Thai police and forest conservation officers in a national park in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province on Tuesday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-timber-found-khmer-script
More riverbank collapses near sand dredging site
Still more riverbank collapses have struck a community in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district where multiple houses have crumbled into the Tonle BasSac river a stone’s throw from where four companies are dredging the riverbed for Sand. ...
Yesenia Amaro and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-riverbank-collapses-near-sand-dredging-site
Locals voice concerns as dredging to restart
Locals in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district are worried that renewed Sand dredging will damage their land as the Ministry of Mines and Energy gears up to hand out licences that will make the practice legal once more. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/locals-voice-concerns-dredging-restart
House collapses into river, others removed
One home collapsed into the Tonle Bassac river on saturday in Kandal’s sa’ang district, while two others are at risk of collapse and eight others had to be dismantled and moved across the road, away from the riverbank, officials said yesterday. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/house-collapses-river-others-removed
Thai SEZ eyes Cambodia
The Thai government plans to build a special economic zone (SEZ) worth about $141.6 million in Sa Kaeo, which borders the Kingdom’s Banteay Meanchey and Battambang provinces, to serve SMEs that aim to expand their business into Cambodia, according a Thai media report. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25858/thai-sez-eyes-cambodia/
Mother Nature activists allege intimidation at sand dredging protest
About 30 villagers escorted two environmental activists from Kandal province’s Sa’ang district to the relative Safety of Phnom Penh yesterday after the pair were allegedly harassed by local police for helping coordinate a protest against Sand dredging in the area the day before. ...
Phak Seangly and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mother-nature-activists-allege-intimidation-sand-dredging-protest
Messy sand depots suspended
The Mines and Energy Ministry yesterday shut down six sand depots in Kandal province’s sa’ang district for allegedly failing to “respect” a ministry directive concerning the proper transportation of sand, but they will be allowed to reopen on Wednesday if they agree to comply. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31486/messy-sand-depots-suspended/
Kandal authorities deny land grab claims
Authorities in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district on Monday denied the claims of some 30 families in Roka Khpos commune that there are plans to confiscate their land to construct a wastewater treatment facility, Saying that long-term local residents no longer own land in the area. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-authorities-deny-land-grab-claims
Loggers detained in Thailand
Sixteen Cambodians were arrested on Monday for illegally crossing the border to log luxury rosewood trees in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province. The men, aged between 16 and 55, were all residents of Battambang province. They were arrested in Pang Sida National Park with logging tools and ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38744/loggers-detained--in-thailand/
Wetlands clearance stopped
Sa’ang and Kien Svay district authorities in Kandal province stopped a military official from clearing an area of wetland, creating a canal that was siphoning water from a larger canal that served farmers in the area and filling in other canals, seizing a bulldozer in ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wetlands-clearance-stopped
Thais crack down on illegal workers
Thai soldiers on Thursday detained four Cambodian men, three women and a one-month old baby after they crossed the border to find work. The Cambodian Consulate in Thailand’s Sa Keao province Said it quickly secured the release of the group, who were from Sout Nikom ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38801/thais-crack-down-on-illegal-workers/
Detained migrant workers get Thai work permits
More than 20 Cambodian migrants who had been working at two pig farms in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province have been given work permits and allowed to remain in the country after they were found to have been working without proper documents. The move followed intervention from ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23701/detained-migrant-workers-get-thai-work-permits/
New border checkpoint to Thailand planned
Preparations are underway for the construction of a new border checkpoint to Thailand in Banteay Meanchey province, officials said yesterday. After signing a joint agreement to open a new checkpoint last August for the purpose of boosting bilateral trade, Banteay Meanchey authorities sent a letter to ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25676/new-border-checkpoint-to-thailand-planned/