Wild seas alert
Fishermen and passengers travelling by sea have been warned to take care as rainstorms lash coastal areas from tomorrow until Saturday. The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said big waves were expected off Preah Sihanouk, Kampot, Kep and Koh Kong provinces. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38610/wild-seas-alert/
Thy Sovantha threatens new suit
Social media celebrity and card-carrying CPP member Thy Sovantha yesterday said she will file a lawsuit against wildlife NGO head Suwanna Gauntlett alleging discrimination after the latter allegedly denied her access to an ecotourism program the group is launching today in Koh Kong province. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thy-sovantha-threatens-new-suit
Major tycoons added to concessions watchlist
Fourteen companies have been added to a Ministry of Environment watchlist for purportedly failing to live up to their investment promises. The companies include firms owned by some of the country’s wealthiest and most politically connected land barons, such as Mong Reththy and Sok Kong. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/major-tycoons-added-concessions-watchlist
Locals turn against activists
Locals in Koh Kong province have written to the provincial authorities urging them to expel activists from local NGO Mother Nature who have been conducting a campaign of direct action against sand dredging firms that the NGO accuses of breaking the law and damaging the ...
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/locals-turn-against-activists
After distributing cash, group denies CPP links
Representatives of a group known as Cambodia Youth Movement 157, which counts Defense Ministry officials among its leadership, on Sunday handed out money to eviction-threatened indigenous families in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley on behalf of Hun Manet, the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-distributing-cash-in-areng-valley-group-denies-cpp-links-86879/
Thailand plans to set up “travel bubble” with Cambodia
Thailand’s Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said his ministry plans to implement travel bubbles this year along borders such as Trat province and Cambodia’s Koh Kong province. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50949287/thailand-plans-to-set-up-travel-bubble-with-cambodia/
Preah Sihanouk set to pilot jabbed-tourist scheme
Cambodia is set to welcome vaccinated tourists starting on November 30 in Preah Sihanouk province – including Koh Rong – and in the Dara Sakor area of Koh Kong province, the Ministry of Tourism announced. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-set-pilot-jabbed-tourist-scheme
Local authorities unaware of mangrove deforestation and sea construction in Koh Kong province
Local authorities in Koh Kong province claim that they are still unaware of the case of mangrove deforestation and construction of solid structures into the sea within its jurisdiction yet. ...
Khut Sokun
https://www.vodkhmer.news/2022/11/09/local-authorities-not-yet-aware-of-the-case-of-mangrove-deforestation/
Startup Promises a Future for Former Boeng Kak Residents
In mid-August, on day seven of production at the Coco Khmer social enterprise, the team experienced a setback. Temperatures in the fermenting room must remain between 35 and 40 degrees to produce the organization’s virgin coconut oil, but the temperature on that rainy day refused to ...
Devon Geary and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/startup-promises-a-future-for-former-boeng-kak-residents-41532/
OURN Vimoil
Program and Partnership ManagerVimoil is a Program and Partnership Manager at Open Development Cambodia (ODC). She provides strategic oversight and management for the Innovations in Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) project and the research contributions to ODC content, while also coordinating all aspects of the ...
Chinese Embassy petitioned
More than 20 protesters representing 140 families involved in land disputes in Koh Kong province’s Kiri Sakor district gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy on Monday to submit a petition requesting it intervene and ask the Union Development Group (UDG) to provide them with ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinese-embassy-petitioned
Returned UDG evictees want double the land
The 529 families who in 2010 traded their homes inside a $3.8 billion Chinese development project in Koh Kong province for land about 20 km away have petitioned local authorities to double the size of their replacement plots, officials said on Wednesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/returned-udg-evictees-want-double-land-115129/
Pestech awarded $100M transmission line contract
Malaysian-owned power infrastructure provider Pestech (Cambodia) Ltd has been awarded a contract to build a 230-kilovolt transmission line valued at $100 million to connect Koh Kong province’s Stung Tatai hydropower dam to Phnom Penh, according to a filing on the Malaysian stock exchange. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pestech-awarded-100m-transmission-line-contract
Sar Kheng says official held in Thailand avoided checkpoint, vows arms probe
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has vowed an investigation into an alleged arms trafficking operation linked to a Cambodian official, saying information from suspects indicated the guns were smuggled via a “corridor” in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province into Thailand and did not pass through the international ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-says-official-held-thailand-avoided-checkpoint-vows-arms-probe
Cardamoms in power’s path
The Council of Ministers on Friday gave the green light for construction of a transmission line from Koh Kong province’s Stung Tatai hydropower dam to Phnom Penh, raising concerns from conservationists who fear the impact of cutting through largely untouched forest areas in the Southern ...
Ananth Baliga and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cardamoms-powers-path
Families to rejoin protests against sugar farms
Villagers in Koh Kong province left out of compensation deals that some of their neighbors are receiving for land lost to sugar plantations have gathered about 300 signatures on a petition demanding to be included in the payouts and hope to gather more before submitting ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-to-rejoin-protests-against-sugar-farms-77251/
Villagers hand out leaflets in fight with sugar firm
About 100 villagers marched through Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district on Saturday, handing out leaflets in an effort to inform the public about their land dispute with Thailand’s Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Limited (KSL). ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-hand-out-leaflets-in-fight-with-sugar-firm-67359/
Families to rejoin protests against sugar farms
Villagers in Koh Kong province left out of compensation deals that some of their neighbors are receiving for land lost to sugar plantations have gathered about 300 signatures on a petition demanding to be included in the payouts and hope to gather more before submitting ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-to-rejoin-protests-against-sugar-farms-77251/
PM threatens use of rockets in Areng valley
The day after the government deported a foreign activist opposed to a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday invited activists in the valley to secede from Cambodia, but warned that rocket launchers could be deployed if ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-threatens-use-of-rockets-in-areng-valley-78609/
Open Development Cambodia has updated economic land concession information and published contract of Chhun Hong Rubber Better Co., with MAFF
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just updated the economic land concession and developer information of Chhun Hong Rubber Better Co., and published an amendment contract between the company and the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). Published with comprehensive documentation, the profile page is accessible ...