Trail date set for Mother Nature Cambodia activists
On 23 January 2018, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) has released an alert on trail date set for two Mother Nature Cambodia activists, Hun Vannak and Doem Kundy, have received a date for their trial after spending over four months in pre-trial detention ...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
Court delays questioning of anti-dam activist
The Koh Kong Provincial Court has agreed to a request to delay the questioning of an anti-dam activist accused of illegally felling trees to build a community center in the Areng Valley. Ven Vorn—an ethnic Chong who has joined local protests organized by the NGO Mother ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-delays-questioning-of-anti-dam-activist-79559/
Court delays questioning of anti-dam activist
The Koh Kong Provincial Court has agreed to a request to delay the questioning of an anti-dam activist accused of illegally felling trees to build a community center in the Areng Valley. Ven Vorn—an ethnic Chong who has joined local protests organized by the NGO Mother ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-delays-questioning-of-anti-dam-activist-79559/
Tech designer hopes to create better data system for hospitals
Programmer Kong Divin recently returned from a trip to the US, where he won second place in a Microsoft Office context in Texas. He had entered the same competition last year, but did not win any prizes, though it gave him the drive to return. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/tech-designer-hopes-to-create-better-data-system-for-hospitals/2930672.html
After human drain from Sihanoukville, casinos follow suit
Sihanoukville is set to lose yet another casino as Century Entertainment International Holdings, formerly known as Amax International Holdings Limited, will relocate its gaming floor from Sihanoukville to the up and coming tourist spot of Dara Sakor in Koh Kong province. ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50770745/after-human-drain-from-sihanoukville-casinos-follow-suit/
GDT firm on March 31 tax deadline
General Department of Taxation (GDT) director-general Kong Vibol refused to budge on a March 31 deadline to file tax on income (ToI) for fiscal year 2020 despite the economic pressure on the business community caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-firm-march-31-tax-deadline
Restrictions extended in provinces as Covid bites
The Koh Kong Provincial Administration decided to place 14 private residences in lockdown for a two-week period, while Kampot province has extended administrative measures in the entire province for another week to bring the Covid-19 outbreak under control. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/restrictions-extended-provinces-covid-bites
Wastewater plant breaks ground
Prime Minister Hun Sen presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of the Choeung Ek Wastewater Treatment Facility – to be built using more than $20 million in aid from Japan – in Chak Angre Leu commune’s Prek Ta Kong I village of Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wastewater-plant-breaks-ground
Journalists Trade Blows Over Cash From Wood Smugglers
Two journalists fought it out over cash being paid to them by a wood smuggler along National Road 7 in Kratie province’s Snuol district, landing one of them in the hospital with a head injury on Wednesday morning, a provincial police official said. Kong Sa Im, ...
Backing sought for coal-fired power plant
A Thai energy firm has completed a study for a 1,800-megawatt coal power plant in Koh Kong province, and had asked for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s support in furthering the project, government officials confirmed yesterday. The plant would be the largest power generator in the energy-starved ...
Hun Sen slams activists opposing hydropower dams
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called environmental activists objecting to the construction of hydropower dams in Cambodia “extreme” insisting that such developments would benefit millions of people.His remarks came on Wednesday during the inauguration of a dam located on the Tatay river in Koh Kong ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-slams-activists-opposing-hydropower-dams/3117183.html
CNRP calls on UN to join investigation
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on the United Nations to join an investigation into the beating of two CNRP parliamentarians last Monday, expressing serious doubts the Cambodian People’s Party-led government could conduct an independent inquiry into an incident it was almost immediately ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-calls-un-join-investigation
Tax revenues grow state coffers by $1.3B
Revenue from tax collection jumped 25 per cent in 2015, government officials revealed yesterday, saying the tax department has collected about $1.3 billion on the back of better compliance and awareness among the private sector.At a seminar in Phnom Penh, Kong Vibol, director of the ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-revenues-grow-state-coffers-13b
Authorities to reclaim illegally seized land inside sanctuary
Kampong Speu provincial authorities on Friday said they will reclaim more than 2,000 hectares of land inside the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, though six officials interrogated earlier this month for allegedly grabbing the land will only be “educated”. Oral district deputy police chiefs Prak Moul and ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-reclaim-illegally-seized-land-inside-sanctuary
New Businesses Increase In First Nine Months
A total of 2,606 new businesses were registered in Cambodia during the first nine months of the year, an increase of 11.6 percent compared to the same period last year, data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce shows. According to the figures, the ministry approved 306 new ...
Cambodia’s coastal visits up
The number of foreign and local tourists who spent time in Cambodia’s coastal destinations increased in 2013, according to provincial officials in Preah Sihanouk, Kampot, Kep and Koh Kong provinces. Foreign visits swelled to 302,325, a 42 per cent rise compared with the same period ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia%E2%80%99s-coastal-visits
Evictees abandon new land
About half the Koh Kong province villagers relocated to make way for a Union Development Group resort project have abandoned the new homes provided for them, citing poor conditions and an inconvenient location, a village representative said yesterday. More than 1,000 families living in the province’s ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/evictees-abandon-new-land
Security guards accused of beating
Security guards working for a firm building a resort in Koh Kong province beat a woman who was trying to farm the land from which she had been evicted, she has told police. Khun Phall, 40, said that on Monday evening, she and family members returned ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/security-guards-accused-beating
Ethnic group petitions UN to halt Areng dam
The Areng Chorng ethnic minority group yesterday submitted five petitions – addressed to the UN office in Cambodia and four government institutions – seeking a halt to the Sinohydro dam project in Koh Kong province. After blocking Sinohydro from entering the dam site in the Areng ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-group-petitions-un-halt-areng-dam
To honour Chut Wutty
Nearly two years have passed since Cambodia’s leading forestry activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in the Cardamom Mountains. After a long wait, more than 100 activists, supporters and monks will finally make the pilgrimage on Saturday to the spot where he was killed to pay ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/honour-chut-wutty