Chinese Credit Cache
Prime Minister Hun Sen has returned home from his trip to China a wealthier leader having secured upwards of US$2.5 billion in Chinese investment and loans over the next year alone, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. The package includes a $2 billion ...
Weapons cache found
A cache of 130 AK-47 rifles, ammunition and two unexploded rockets have been found by a group of children in the Oral mountain range, Kampong Chhnang police officials said yesterday. Khem Vibol, police chief at Teuk Phos district, where the weapons were reported to the authorities, ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/weapons-cache-found
Rosewood cache uncovered
Provincial authorities in Siem Reap discovered a stockpile of rosewood weighing approximately 21 tonnes in Banteay Srei district on Wednesday afternoon. Tea Kimsoth, provincial Forestry Administration director, yesterday credited joint efforts made by the Forestry Administration and anti-economic crime police officials in discovering the wood stashed ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosewood-cache-uncovered
Timber cache hidden in plantation
A raid on an orange plantation netted more than five cubic metres of illegally logged rosewood and other luxury-grade timber in Pursat’s Kravanh district on Friday, local officials said. More than 25 police officers, forestry administration officials and environment ministry officers conducted the operation, which found ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-cache-hidden-plantation
US Army weighing cache in Cambodia
The US Army is currently considering Cambodia as a possible host for some of its extensive stockpiles of equipment kept overseas, known as “prepositioned stocks”. ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-army-weighing-cache-cambodia
Cache of luxury wood on riverbank seized
Authorities in Stung Treng province confiscated more than 100 pieces of illegal luxury-grade wood stockpiled on the bank of the Mekong River Saturday, officials said Sunday. ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cache-of-luxury-wood-on-riverbank-seized-71943/
Battambang pagoda’s pond held deadly UXO cache
Five unexploded ordnance (UXO) and 80 bullets were dug out from the drained pond of a Battambang pagoda yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-pagoda%E2%80%99s-pond-held-deadly-uxo-cache
CMAC unearths cache of 1,800 pieces of UXO
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) has unearthed more than 1,800 pieces of unexploded ordnance in Kandal province’s Takhmao town, with authorities saying they believe it was buried there for the July 1997 factional fighting in Phnom Penh. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-unearths-cache-1800-pieces-uxo
Another cache of buried logs found near Oknha’s sawmill
Authorities have unearthed another cache of high-grade logs buried near a well-known timber dealer’s sawmill in Tbong Khmum province, weeks after finding a stockpile of buried logs on the businessman’s property in the same district. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-cache-of-buried-logs-found-near-oknhas-sawmill-107986/
More timber seized from Ratanakkiri
Ratanakkiri provincial authorities yesterday seized a large cache of luxury wood and arrested four people about to sell the timber to Vietnam. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37605/more-timber-seized-from-ratanakkiri/
Farmer unearths 28 bombs
A farmer in Oddar Meanchey province discovered a cache of unexploded bombs on Saturday while excavating part of his land to create a pond for irrigation. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39894/farmer-unearths-28-bombs/
Car chase results in capture of notorious timber trafficker
Police in Mondolkiri province yesterday arrested a former military police officer with two outstanding warrants after chasing down his SUV and finding a cache of illegally sourced luxury wood inside. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/car-chase-results-in-capture-of-notorious-timber-trafficker-111568/
UXO stockpile discovered in Oddar Meanchey
A cache of anti-tank weapons, including mines and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were discovered by authorities near the Cambodia-Thai border in Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district on Tuesday, according to officials. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23422/uxo-stockpile-discovered-in-oddar-meanchey/
Oknha linked to timber bust
Police officers, gendarmes and Forestry Administration officials yesterday discovered a large cache of valuable, illegally felled wood – which locals say was destined for Vietnam – after raiding a house in Stung Treng province linked to a prominent timber trader. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oknha-linked-timber-bust
More than 140 unexploded mortar rounds found at Pursat school
A farmer preparing a plot of land for a vegetable garden found a cache of unexploded 60mm mortar rounds from the 1970s on the campus of a secondary school in Pursat province’s Kandieng district over the weekend. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-140-unexploded-mortar-rounds-found-pursat-school
Cambodia manages the recovery of its heritage in Thailand
Cambodia is managing here today the recovery of missing ancient heritage objects that might be in a cache of relics confiscated from a Thai general arrested for various offenses. About a thousand objects of different types were taken a month ago from the high officer in ...
Prensa Latina News Staff
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3373781&Itemid=1
Huge timber haul seized in Kratie raid, suspects sought
Kratie provincial authorities were searching on Wednesday for the owners of hundreds of cubic metres of first-grade timber found loaded onto seven heavy trucks during a raid on a warehouse in Snuol district. After getting a tip-off, Military Police, police, Forestry Administration and court officials ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-timber-haul-seized-kratie-raid-suspects-sought
Long Haul for Illegal Wood Seized on River
Forestry Administration officers said yesterday they were still struggling to remove a large cache of illegally harvested wood they seized along the Stung Chinit River in Kampong Thom province a week ago. Heng Kamich, head of the Forestry Administration in Santuk district, said the officers seized ...
Illegal wood found near military police base
Environment Ministry officials on Thursday found a cache of more than 400 pieces of illegally logged first-grade wood in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary, which the ministry oversees, and suspect officers from a nearby military police base of being involved. Thin Ngoal, the sanctuary’s deputy director, ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-wood-found-near-military-police-base-77008/
Chut Wutty's wife says he was target for murder
The wife of slain environmental activist Chut Wutty today rejected early police accounts of the circumstances around his shooting death, saying she believed he had been targeted for death for his work in protecting Cambodia’s endangered forests. Speaking to the Post by phone, 40-year-old Sam Chanthy, ...