Smach Meanchey land reclamation reinstated
The Koh Kong provincial authorities said the land reclamation work in Smach Meanchey commune in Khemarak Phumin town has already been put back to its original state while the court spokesman said legal procedures are being taken against Tun Dieth, the two-star major general held ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smach-meanchey-land-reclamation-reinstated
Angkor park authority says $9M lease fee ‘not gone’
The Apsara Authority admitted Thursday that millions of dollars it received in exchange for land leased to businessman Sok Kong for a hotel near Angkor Archaeological Park have not been paid to the Finance Ministry due to “a technical problem with accounting.” CNRP lawmaker Son Chhay ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angkor-park-authority-says-9m-lease-fee-not-gone-75694/
Land dispute claims of 197 families rejected
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Monday rejecting the land dispute claims of 197 families in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district. A ministry press release dated Monday said a related land dispute involving 987 families over sugar ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-dispute-claims-197-families-rejected
Tourism industry unruffled by election – experts
Tourism officials and industry insiders say the upcoming election is not affecting the flow on tourists into the Kingdom. Kong Sophearak, director of the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Tourism, told Khmer Times that despite this month’s election and the ongoing political rallies throughout ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50510282/tourism-industry-unruffled-by-election-experts/
Civil servants file complaint over land dispute
The Industry Ministry is investigating a corruption case in Koh Kong province following a complaint filed by civil servants against their superior. According to the complaint sent to Industry Minister Cham Prasidh last week by five civil servants with the provincial industry department, 18 families ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50500647/civil-servants-file-complaint-over-land-dispute/
Mother Nature sentence upheld as activists mull return
The Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a $25,000 fine for three environmental activists who fled the country after being convicted of threatening to destroy a sand dredging barge in Koh Kong province in 2015. They are now debating returning home, however, after the court ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mother-nature-sentence-upheld-as-activists-mull-return-125236/
Thailand plans to buy Cambodian water
Thailand’s listed Eastern Water Resources Development and Management Plc’s subsidiary Universal Utilities Plc. a tap water provider, plans to spend some 200 million baht ($6 million) a year to buy water from the still to be built Stung Nam hydroelectric dam in Koh Kong province ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37220/thailand-plans-to-buy-cambodian-water/
Ministry says factory was operating illegally
Soeun Phal, a 27-year-old security guard, and Kong Phanny, a 61-year-old cleaner, died when a wood-fired steam generator exploded. The guard, who did not know how to operate the machine, had been seen adding more wood to the generator’s fire before the explosion, authorities and ...
Buth Kimsay and Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-factory-was-operating-illegally-127868/
Villagers asked to vacate national park
Koh Kong provincial authorities on Monday ordered 40 families living in Botum Sakor district to vacate their land and homes after it was determined they were illegally occupying a national park. On Friday, authorities went to inspect Botum Sakor National Park and found 40 families ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101013/villagers-asked-vacate-national-park/
Hundreds plea for PM’s help
Hundreds of families descended on Phnom Penh yesterday to ask Prime Minister Hun Sen and the United Nations to intervene in three separate land disputes. More than 800 families from across the country gathered in front of Wat Botum at about 9am, where they submitted petitions ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-plea-pm%E2%80%99s-help
Factory waste blamed for health, crop woes
Forty families in Kampong Chhnang province’s Peani commune complained yesterday that a local factory has been polluting their land with toxic liquid waste. Kong Yom, 40, a representative of the 40 families in Krang Ta Ekh village, said yesterday that this is not the first time ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-waste-blamed-health-crop-woes
18 families ordered to leave land, as Chinese development moves in
Eighteen families in a remote region of Koh Kong province have been ordered to move, in order to make way for the development of a Chinese-funded luxury tourist outpost. The families received notice on June 5, ordering them to leave their homes within one month. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://bit.ly/1L4nJbk
Development in Botum Sakor National Park
Koh Kong Provincial Administration is examining a request from Anko Ahran Niharan company to invest on 6,145 hectares of land inside Botum Sakor National Park. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50999244/development-in-botum-sakor-national-park/
Anniversary Marked With Fiery Demonstration
Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood burned straw effigies symbolizing corrupt government officials yesterday to mark the one-year anniversary of the demolition of eight homes at the contested site. Roughly 100 protesters gathered at the site of the demolitions and set fire to eight scarecrow-like effigies- one ...
Second Fainting in a Week at M&V Garment Factory
Twenty-three workers at the M&V garment factory fainted yesterday morning in Kompong Chhang province, the second thime in a week that a mass faining has occured at the factory, a Labor Ministry official said. Meng Hong, a member of a workplace safety committee that the Ministry ...
Cambodia's banking sector stable despite ongoing political row over poll results
Cambodia’s banking sector remains stable with steady growth in business operations even though political tension between the ruling party and the opposition party over election results is still going on, Central Bank’s chief said Friday. “The banking sector has been developing soundly, in terms of ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-08/23/c_132657163.htm
Chinese project in Cambodia raises alarms of military build-up
While Cambodia welcomes an ongoing influx of Chinese tourists, investment and development, the world at large increasingly suspects that China is launching a military build-up in the country for stronger Chinese influence in Southeast Asia. Dara Sakor, a new China-backed coastal resort in Koh Kong ...
Kyodo News
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1728967/chinese-project-in-cambodia-raises-alarms-of-military-build-up
Ministers promise quick land dispute resolution
The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday promised to settle land disputes between villagers and sugar companies granted economic land concessions in Kampong Speu, Koh Kong and Preah Vihear provinces. Minister Chea Sophara made the promise after an inter-ministerial meeting at his office ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080803/ministers-promise-quick-land-dispute-resolution/
Areng community office forced to relocate
The Chumnoab commune authority in Koh Kong province’s Thmar Baing district yesterday ordered Areng Valley residents to move their community office to a new location to make way for its new office. According to a letter released yesterday by Chumnoab commune, commune officials asked Areng residents ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50115265/areng-community-office-forced-to-relocate/
Lockdown against COVID-19 hampers Century Entertainment’s launch of new Cambodian casino
Strict lockdown measures in place nationwide, implemented on July 29 has again hampered the opening of Century Entertainment’s launch of new Cambodian casino in Koh Kong. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908972/lockdown-against-covid-19-hampers-century-entertainments-launch-of-new-cambodian-casino/