Tboung Khmum
Military officer arrested for transporting luxury wood
Tbong Khmum province police on Sunday arrested a man carrying both journalist and military credentials for allegedly illegally transporting rosewood, police said. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-officer-arrested-transporting-luxury-wood
Sokha laywers snub questions
Jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha’s lawyers yesterday boycotted the questioning of their client on “treason” charges at Trapaing Phlong Prison to protest the judge’s decision not to question him at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-laywers-snub-questions
Sokha questioned on family’s private lives
Jailed former opposition leader Kem Sokha was questioned by a judge in prison yesterday, according to his lawyers, who classified the questioning as “aggressive” and “inappropriate”. ...
Ben Sokhean and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/sokha-questioned-familys-private-lives
Eyes on Sokha not welcome: lawyers
Jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha’s lawyers have said that they are under surveillance during meetings with their client in Tbong Khmum’s Trapaing Thlong prison, which they yesterday called a violation of their rights ensuring client-attorney conversations are confidential. ...
Chhay Channyda and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eyes-sokha-not-welcome-lawyers
Chemical-free vegetable project takes off fast
A government project to boost the production of chemical-free vegetables has taken-off, with supplies already available in Cambodian markets, according to an Agriculture Ministry official. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081484/chemical-free-vegetable-project-takes-off-fast/
Samrin’s hometown technically in Vietnam
National Assembly President Heng Samrin’s native village is, as map lines go, technically inside of Vietnam, the head of Cambodia’s Royal Academy said at a recent press conference. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/samrins-hometown-technically-vietnam
Tbong Khmum residents evacuated as Mekong floods moves south
Hundreds of riverside families in Tbong Khmum province were on Monday evacuated away from the flooding Mekong River, even as the provinces hit hardest by tropical storm ‘Sonca’ last week returned to normalcy and evacuees shuffled back to their homes. ...
Rice mogul spices up business with pepper
Cambodia rice mogul Song Saran, the CEO of one of the Kingdom’s top rice exporters, will diversify his agricultural business interests with the construction of a factory to clean and process locally grown pepper, he said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-mogul-spices-business-pepper
Army worm outbreak plagues rice crop in five provinces
An outbreak of army worms – brought on by recent rains – is attacking crops in five provinces, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. ...
Pepper business adds to Kingdom’s deforestation woes
While the luxury timber trade continues to eat away at Cambodia’s forests, there is another industry that poses a growing threat to the Kingdom’s trees: pepper farms. ...
Mech Dara and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pepper-business-adds-kingdoms-deforestation-woes
Inmates charged with selling drugs
The provincial court in Tbong Khmum province has charged four inmates with selling drugs in Trapaing Phlong prison after police found a bottle of methamphetamine pills hidden in the prison farm. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21687/inmates-charged-with-selling-drugs/
Cambodia arrests 2 for destroying Vietnam boundary marker
Police in the Cambodian province of Tbong Khmum have arrested two men for allegedly damaging a pillar that marks the border between the country and Vietnam, Vietnam Plus reported on Wednesday. ...
Thanh Nien News Staff
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/cambodia-arrests-2-for-destroying-vietnam-boundary-marker-50957.html
Cambodia villager held in attack on Chinese worker over land dispute
Police in Cambodia’s Tbong Khmum province on Friday arrested a villager accused of injuring a Chinese worker and his translator in a long running land dispute. ...
Saut Sok Pratna
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-villager-06262015153727.html
Border chief says locals to blame for land loss
The head of the government’s border committee said Tuesday that villagers in Tbong Khmum province who are angry about Vietnam claiming 16.6 hectares of land they had farmed failed to inform authorities that they used the land before the countries signed a 2011 border agreement. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/border-chief-says-locals-to-blame-for-land-loss-84978/
Military cops suspended
Four military police officers have been suspended from their duties after an incident last week in which officials shot at, arrested and beat two men driving a rice truck that ran a checkpoint. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/military-cops-suspended
Commission set up to probe military police beating of truck driver
National military police commander Sao Sokha has set up an ad hoc commission to investigate a group of officers who allegedly shot at a truck that drove through a pair of checkpoints in Thbong Khmum province on Thursday night, then beat up the driver and ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/commission-set-up-to-probe-military-police-beating-of-truck-driver-80570/
Trafficking victims eye homeland
A woman lured into marriage in China and a group of men forced to work on a Thai fishing boat in Indonesia are the latest Cambodians rescued after being trafficked abroad. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trafficking-victims-eye-homeland
Trafficking victims eye homeland
A woman lured into marriage in China and a group of men forced to work on a Thai fishing boat in Indonesia are the latest Cambodians rescued after being trafficked abroad. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trafficking-victims-eye-homeland
Development plan in works
Villagers in three provinces are currently being surveyed by the Ministry of Rural Development and South Korea’s International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for an upcoming development pilot project. The surveys in Takeo, Kampong Speu and Tbong Khmum provinces seek to find 30 villages to be a part ...
Taing Vida and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/development-plan-works
Cambodia, Vietnam team up over missing border marker
Cambodia and Vietnam have launched a joint investigation over a temporary border marker found to have gone missing during a routine patrol of the area on Tuesday in Tbong Khmum province, according to a local official. Much of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam remains contested and ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-vietnam-team-up-over-missing-border-marker-70835/
One dies, 3 injured in old mine explosion in eastern Cambodia
One man was killed on the spot and three others sustained injuries after a truck, carrying roof tiles, ran onto an old anti-tank mine in eastern Tboung Khmum province, local police chief confirmed Saturday. The accident occurred at a rural path in Memot district when the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/03/c_133306615.htm
Prach Chan appointed as governor of newly formed province
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday announced that Prach Chan is appointed as the Governor of newly-created Tbong Khmom province which was split from Kampong Cham, the biggest province of Cambodia. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZmVjOTRhYTJiYzk
Government Creates New CPP-Majority Province
A government request to create a new province in the eastern half of Kompong Cham, where the ruling CPP won its only districts in the province in July’s national election, was approved by King Norodom Sihamoni last month, according to a copy of the Royal ...
Phorn Bopha and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-creates-new-cpp-majority-province-50391/
Rice Trader Claims Being Wrongly Fined Bad Scale to Measure Her Truck
A rice trader on Monday filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet and three ministries alleging that officials in Kompong Cham province had wrongly fined her for an overweight truck after using improperly weighted scales. Saing Darlin had her truck impounded ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-trader-claims-being-wrongly-fined-bad-scale-to-measure-her-truck-49631/