Bodyguard Unit ties for leader of rally group
The honorary president of the CPP-aligned youth group involved in last week’s protest outside parliament, which ended with two opposition lawmakers being savagely beaten, is a deputy commander in the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit, the Post has learned.Three soldiers were charged on Wednesday over the ...
Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bodyguard-unit-ties-leader-rally-group
Mobile money transfer heats up
True Money, a new entrant to Cambodia’s growing mobile money-transfer market, said yesterday it will start operations across the Kingdom from January 1, with the first phase focusing only on local transfers, according to a company official.The money-transfer service, which comes under the Thailand-based Charoen ...
Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mobile-money-transfer-heats
Croc release at dam site planned
A conservation group may release 20 baby Siamese crocodiles into the Areng Valley amid an ongoing stand-off between villagers and a Chinese firm over the construction of a controversial hydropower dam in Koh Kong province. Tuy Serey Vathana, country directory at Fauna and Flora International, said ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/croc-release-dam-site-planned
Latrine numbers up
The number of Cambodian rural households with access to latrines increased from 23 to 33 per cent in 2013, a Ministry of Rural Development report released yesterday says. Chreay Pom, director of the ministry’s rural health care department, said that last year, the ministry constructed about ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/latrine-numbers
Impact assessment for Areng dam nears final steps as project looms
Companies contracted to carry out social and environmental studies of the proposed Stung Cheay Areng dam in Koh Kong province yesterday confirmed that the Sinohydro Group is set to renew work in the Areng Valley in the coming days. The studies, which would pave the way ...
Daniel Pye and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/impact-assessment-areng-dam-nears-final-steps-project-looms
6th Chinese-built hydropower dam in Cambodia starts operation
The sixth Chinese-built hydropower plant, located in the Koh Kong province of southwestern Cambodia, has begun producing electricity after more than four years of construction, the China National Heavy Machinery Corporation (CHMC) said in a statement on Thursday. CHMC started to develop the 246-megawatt Tatay River Hydropower Plant in 2010. The dam comprises three generators, each capable of producing 82 megawatts, the statement said. ...
People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0814/c90777-8769756.html
Dara Sakor International Airport ‘to open mid-2021’
A senior official at the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said the construction of Dara Sakor International Airport in Koh Kong province is on schedule and plans are for flight operations to begin in mid-2021. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50820010/dara-sakor-international-airport-to-open-mid-2021/
Kandal factories to shut if 5% of workers Covid positive
Factories in Kandal province where at least five per cent of workers test positive for Covid-19 will be temporarily closed, provincial governor Kong Sophorn said in an April 25 Facebook post. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-factories-shut-if-5-workers-covid-positive
Heavy rainfall filling capital’s drain canals as flood threat looms
Flash flooding caused by extremely heavy rainfall is affecting communities in the outer-suburbs of Phnom Penh – especially people residing in Prek Kampus, Sak Sampov and Kong Noy communes in Dangkor district. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heavy-rainfall-filling-capitals-drain-canals-flood-threat-looms
$1.5b real estate project launches in Phnom Penh
Hong Kong-based Sunwah Group has launched a $1.5 billion real estate project in Phnom Penh, saying it will represent a new symbol of Cambodia’s high-quality life. ...
Penh Chamroeun
https://kiripost.com/stories/15b-real-estate-project-launches-in-phnom-penh
Hoa Phat receives many orders to export steel in January, including Cambodia
In the early days of this year, Hoa Phat Group secured many orders to export its steel products to the US, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong (China), and Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501234931/hoa-phat-receives-many-orders-to-export-steel-in-january-including-cambodia/
Ministry official jailed for land fraud
A former government official from Koh Kong province was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, for illegally selling five hectares of land, worth $25,000 to his friend in 2019. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239510/ministry-official-jailed-for-land-fraud/
Kandal governor requests emergency assistance for southeast Takhmao flood victims
Kandal provincial governor Kong Sophorn has instructed Takhmao town officials to prepare makeshift tents and toilets as well as clean drinking water sources for recent flood victims, and have a medical team on standby. ...
Cambodian greens see red in upcoming dams
For Meach Mean, a veteran campaigner against hydropower dams in Cambodia’s northeast, this year has brought a double dose of bad news. First, he says, two Chinese hydropower companies have begun feasibility studies into a pair of dams planned for tributaries of the Mekong River ...
http://www.gulf-times.com/environment/231/details/353963/cambodian-greens-see-red-in-upcoming-dams
Work underway on 'catastrophic' Cambodian dam
Srekor village has stood on the banks of the Se San River in northeastern Cambodia for generations. In a few years it will be gone, submerged along with more than 300 square kilometres of surrounding farmland and forest. For 37-year-old rice farmer Pa Tou, the ...
http://www.dw.de/work-underway-on-catastrophic-cambodian-dam/a-16803423
Hun Sen leaves Kingdom for Belt and Road Forum in Beijing
Prime Minister Hun Sen and his delegation left the Kingdom yesterday to attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing where a number of assistance agreements are expected to be signed. Sry Thamrong, minister attached to the Prime Minister, said at Phnom Penh International Airport that ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50598349/hun-sen-leaves-kingdom-for-belt-and-road-forum-in-beijing/
‘Trapped in debt bondage’
Cambodia’s construction boom has pushed thousands of families into modern slavery in the brick industry through debt bondage, a report by researchers from London’s Royal Holloway University say. The blood bricks report was released on Tuesday following the sharp rise in Cambodian brick prices in ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trapped-debt-bondage
Cambodia urges tourism training on par with Asean
Cambodia is calling for the establishment of tourism institutes and universities to provide relevant skills in compliance with an Asean curriculum, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said. He was speaking during the Sub-Forum on Yunnan-South Asia & Southeast Asia Tourism Vocational Education and Personnel Training ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-urges-tourism-training-par-asean
Gov’t preps new health plan
Plans for a universal health care system will be included in the 10-year strategy to strengthen Cambodia’s social welfare, according to a government official, as a new report reveals almost three-quarters of Cambodians lack any legal health coverage. The study, released this week by the International ...
Shaun Turton
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-preps-new-health-plan
Hun Sen announces raises for teachers, nurses
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced a three-stage plan to raise the salaries of civil servants working under the Education and Health ministries, with the first increase to come in September. Speaking to graduating students at Beltei University in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun Sen said that ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-announces-raises-for-teachers-nurses-67017/