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Banteay Meanchey villagers protest against pumping of water from drying pond
More than 20 families from Thma Puok district’s Phoum Thmey commune in Banteay Meanchey province have expressed their objection to a request made by a local drinking water company to pump water from a drying communal pond. They alleged that the firm had failed to ...
Jica comitted to support development of PAS port
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) has expressed commitment to support the development of the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) by continuing to provide grant aid and loans after it transferred its shares of PAS to Japanese logistic firm Kamigumi Co Ltd. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jica-comitted-support-development-pas-port
Sar Kheng recognises Phnom Samkos logging
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Saturday acknowledged that there had been illegal logging in the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary in Pursat province. Civil society groups lauded the acknowledgement and urged the authorities to immediately combat the crimes. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-recognises-phnom-samkos-logging
Unlicensed doctors to face legal action
Some 393 unlicensed doctors who dispensed medical treatment in Svay Rieng province will face legal action, the head of the provincial Health Department Ke Rotha said on Sunday. He said he had sent their names to the provincial court last week for illegally providing health ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unlicensed-doctors-face-legal-action
NEC: CPP expected to win polls
The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) received a landslide victory in elections to elect capital, provincial, town and district councillors on Sunday, National Election Commission (NEC) secretary-general Tep Nytha said. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/nec-cpp-expected-win-polls
Development challenges in Ream National Park
Ecosystems play an important role in sustaining not only plants and animals, but also humans. But as demands for development continue, a balance between investments and sustainability remains elusive in Ream National Park. A forest ranger is geared with a bag behind his back and a ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50607376/development-challenges-in-ream-national-park/
Tourism board mulling fresh tourism strategy
Cambodia Tourism Marketing and Promotion Board, a joint institution between the government and the private sector, is studying a new strategy to attract more foreign visitors to the Kingdom, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-board-mulling-fresh-tourism-strategy
China steel company relocates to Cambodia
Chinese state-owned iron and steel company China Baowu Steel Group Corp Ltd has unveiled plans to relocate its blast furnaces from Xinjiang Autonomous Region in the northwest of China to Cambodia, which will be the first overseas Baowu production plant, a Reuters report on Wednesday ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-steel-company-relocates-cambodia
Choeung Ek project awaits approval
Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng on Thursday signed a research report conducted by Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) over 12 months on sewer system development at Choeung Ek lake in the capital. The move will allow Jica to design a development project. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/choeung-ek-project-awaits-approval
Ministry asked about Mekong plan
A member of the Supreme Consultation Forum told The Post on Thursday that he had questioned the Ministry of Mines and Energy over its position regarding a proposed project to develop a sizeable stretch of the Mekong River. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-asked-about-mekong-plan
Licence deadline extended
The deadline for tuk-tuk drivers and riders of motorbikes with engine capacity above 125cc to hold valid licences or face fines has been pushed to August, a senior official at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said on Thursday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/licence-deadline-extended
Phnom Penh gov’t warns of fines on improper garbage disposal
The Phnom Penh Municipal Department of Environment on Thursday warned it would start imposing fines on residents who fail to dispose of rubbish properly after a campaign to raise public awareness about the law and the environment ends. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-govt-warns-fines-improper-garbage-disposal
Koh Rong Sanloem casino ‘is flouting’ closure order
A Preah Sihanouk provincial official said on Thursday that the owner of Jinding Hotel and Casino on Koh Rong Sanloem is flouting the authorities’ order to close the business by March 22. Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall spokesman Kheang Phearum told The Post that the provincial ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-rong-sanloem-casino-flouting-closure-order
140 ex-opposition members summoned by courts: rights group
Cambodian courts and police authorities have summoned a total of 140 ex-members of the opposition party in recent weeks, a local human rights group said, as government efforts to intimidate and suppress the opposition continue more than a year after the party was banned. Dozens of ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/ex-opposition-members-summoned-by-courts-rights-group/4930060.html
Sihanoukville wastewater plant upgrades receive greenlight
The inter-ministerial committee responsible for developing drainage and water treatment systems has agreed to proceed with an infrastructure project to provide Preah Sihanouk province’s Sihanoukville with the capacity to treat up to 30,000 cubic metres of wastewater per day. An agreement was made during an ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50607407/sihanoukville-wastewater-plant-upgrades-receive-greenlight/
Forum raises urgent Mekong issues
The 7th Mekong River Commission (MRC) Regional Stakeholder Forum was held in Lao capital Vientiane over Monday and Tuesday, with participants discussing urgent issues facing the Mekong region, the Secretariat of the MRC has said. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forum-raises-urgent-mekong-issues
More than a dozen institutions set to observe upcoming elections
The National Election Committee yesterday said 19 national institutions will participate in monitoring Sunday’s municipal, provincial and district council elections. NEC spokesman Dim Sovannarom said all-in-all, the 19 institutions consist of 1,010 observers from groups such as the Union of Youth Federations in Cambodia and ...
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https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50606921/more-than-a-dozen-institutions-set-to-observe-upcoming-elections/
More than 200 protest over land woes in Preah Sihanouk
More than 200 villagers from Stung Hav and Prey Nop districts yesterday held a protest in front of Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall over land disputes and a delay in the issuing of titles for state land which the government had agreed to transfer to some of ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50606516/more-than-200-protest-over-land-woes-in-preah-sihanouk/
Probe set for Kampot land
A prominent member of the Supreme Council of Consultation is set to launch an investigation into the “dubious” ownership of a private property that allegedly encroaches on the sea in Kampot province. Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung, who is president of the Khmer Rise Party (KRP), ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/probe-set-kampot-land
Thnot d’Or awards to be held for agronomy and food processing
The Kinal Foundation, in collaboration with the French Agency for Development, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport will hold the 2019 Thnot d’Or Awards for agronomy and food processing on Saturday. The second Thnot d’Or Awards ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thnot-dor-awards-be-held-agronomy-and-food-processing
‘Indigenous people must exercise rights’
While indigenous communities in the Kingdom have largely obtained equal rights, they need to step up their advocacy when facing abuses and threats to their traditions, conservation NGO Save Cambodia’s Wildlife (SCW) said. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/indigenous-people-must-exercise-rights
Impact study on river bank ‘development’ begins
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said on Tuesday it is conducting an environmental impact study after it received a proposal from Try Pheap Engineering & Construction Co Ltd to dredge the Mekong River and use the sand to develop the river bank. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/impact-study-river-bank-development-begins
Kandal state land reclassified
The government has approved the reclassification of 70-hectares of land along the Mekong river in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district for Khun Sear Import and Export Company to rent. According to a letter signed on May 2 by Chhit Sokhon, a secretary of state at ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50606127/kandal-state-land-reclassified/
Battambang residents prevented from planting 200 saplings
Authorities in Battambang province have stopped some 150 residents, led by a powerful official, from planting tree saplings in the Samlot Protected Area, amid allegations that the act was merely a pretext to seize protected land for private ownership. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-residents-prevented-planting-200-saplings