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CMAC officials inspect 340kg American bomb in K’Speu province
A US M117 bomb weighing 340kg was found in Kampong Speu province’s Chamkar Doung village on Monday, with Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) officials inspecting the unexploded ordnance the following day, CMAC director Heng Ratana said on Tuesday. Ratana said villagers reported the discovery to ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-officials-inspect-340kg-american-bomb-kspeu-province
Environment ministry works to better identify timber sources
Minister of Environment Say Sam Al said on Monday that his ministry is working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to identify whether transported timber is from legal or illegal sources. Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) president Pich Sros, who is also a member ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-works-better-identify-timber-sources
Anti-Corruption Unit investigates wealth of sacked RCAF general
A probe was launched on Monday into the excessive wealth of the sacked commander of the Ratanakkiri provincial Military Police, Kim Reaksmey, despite no official complaint having been filed as yet, Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) president Om Yentieng said. “Using our own authority and information available ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-corruption-unit-investigates-wealth-sacked-rcaf-general
Kingdom’s satellite project still under study
The Telecom Regulator of Cambodia yesterday said that the Kingdom’s plan to launch its first satellite is still being studied after the Defence Ministry denied media reports that it will be sent into space in 2021. TRC spokesman Im Vutha yesterday said that the project ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50577036/kingdoms-satellite-project-still-under-study-2/
Samroang city water shortages
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has decided to dig a one-hectare pond to store day-to-day water for the Oddar Meanchey provincial prison and its surroundings. The prison is located in Samroang city, an area currently facing shortages of water. Provincial Governor Pen Kosal ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50577080/samroang-city-water-shortages/
EU starts EBA withdrawal
The EU on Monday announced that it has begun the 18-month process of withdrawing the Kingdom’s access to its preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement over “a deterioration of democracy [and] respect for human rights”. ...
Joseph Curtin
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-starts-eba-withdrawal-0
NGOs call for speedy passage of information freedom law
A group of 19 non-governmental organisations and associations have urged the Kingdom’s legislative and executive bodies to expedite the passage of a draft law on freedom of information, which the group said had been delayed for years. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-call-speedy-passage-information-freedom-law
Cambodia’s cyberbullied children
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has released the results of a five-week poll involving one million young people and suggestions from a series of student-led #ENDviolence Youth Talks. Among the findings from the poll and youth talks was that 85.7 percent of young ...
Sheith Khidhir
https://theaseanpost.com/article/cambodias-cyberbullied-children
Ministry issues guidelines to deal with hot weather
The Health Ministry yesterday issued guidelines on how people can prevent illnesses during extremely hot weather caused by the El Nino phenomenon. Ly Sovann, Communicable Disease Control Department director, yesterday said that people should drink boiled water regularly and avoid drinking too much alcohol or ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50576721/ministry-issues-guidelines-to-deal-with-hot-weather-2/
Illegal logging denied in Mondulkiri province
The Mondulkiri agriculture department yesterday denied claims by an environmental activist that it allowed two private firms to transport timber to Vietnam. Activist Heng Sros, 24, from the Cambodian Human Rights Task Force, yesterday said that the private companies received permission to transport high quality ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50576716/illegal-logging-denied-in-mondulkiri-province/
Swiss commit $6 million to demining
The Swiss government will provide $6 million for demining work in Cambodia from next year to 2025, which is the year the Kingdom targets to become mine-free. Ly Thuch, Cambodian Mine Action Authority vice president, met with Lars Buechler, a representative of Swiss Development and ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/576002/swiss-commit-6-million-to-demining/
Villagers find nearly 40 UXOs in Battambang
Villagers in Battambang province on Wednesday found nearly 40 unexploded ordnances left over from war while they were clearing land in Kors Kralor district’s Chhnal Moan commune. Colonel Chhang Vanchhai, district police chief, yesterday said that 39 unexploded ordnances, including one DK rocket, 21 B rockets, ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/576121/villagers-find-nearly-40-uxos-in-battambang/
Villagers provide fresh evidence in 14-year dispute
Forty-five families in Kampong Chhnang province on Thursday attended the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to submit additional evidence with regard to a 14-year-long land dispute with KDC International. The villagers, from Kampong Tralach district’s Lor Peang village, submitted evidence confirming to the court that the ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-provide-fresh-evidence-14-year-dispute
Is Cambodia’s foreign policy heading in the right direction?
Cambodia’s foreign policy has seen remarkable improvements after 1993 when the country held its UN-organized national election. The Cambodian government’s efforts to integrate Cambodia into the region and the world have resulted in Cambodia’s membership in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1999 ...
Kimkong Heng
https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/is-cambodias-foreign-policy-heading-in-the-right-direction/
Project aims to test climate change response strategies
The Ministry of Environment has funded a Cambodia Climate Change Alliance project and selected five schools to test climate change response strategies by planting trees and developing gardens with increased biodiversity. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/project-aims-test-climate-change-response-strategies
Land row villagers see hope
The Preah Vihear provincial authority and other relevant parties issued a statement on Wednesday that contained five points aimed to end a land dispute between 330 families and private company Metrei Pheap. This follows the submission of a petition requesting Prime Minister Hun Sen to ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-row-villagers-see-hope
Angkor Gold exploring oil and gas potential in Cambodia
Cambodia-focused mineral exploration company Angkor Gold is actively pursuing oil and gas opportunities in Cambodia in addition to its current roster of mineral exploration projects. The Canadian-listed explorer has been in operation in the Asian nation since 2012, closing 10 deals with a combined value of US$19.50 million within ...
Georgia Williams
https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/energy-investing/oil-and-gas-investing/angkor-gold-exploring-potential-cambodia/
Unicef calls for ‘concrete action’ on online bullying in Cambodia
The UN Children’s Agency has called for a new policy to protect Cambodian children from bullying. In a statement released to coincide with Safer Internet Day on Tuesday, Unicef said young people between the ages of 15 and 25 years olds were particularly at risk. Natascha ...
Kann Vicheika
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/unicef-calls-for-concrete-action-on-online-bullying-in-cambodia/4775248.html
Ministry slams HRW over report on acid victims
The Justice Ministry yesterday hit back at US-based Human Rights Watch over a report accusing the government of failing to provide free medical treatment for victims of acid attacks or take action against perpetrators. HRW on Monday issued a 48-page report titled “What Hell Feels Like: ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575560/ministry-slams-hrw-over-report-on-acid-victims/
Acid attacks: Cambodia victims 'denied government aid'
Survivors of acid attacks in Cambodia are being denied free government treatment that they are legally entitled to, Human Rights Watch says. Its report focused on 17 survivors, none of whom are said to have received government aid for their injuries. ...
Paddy rice production reaches 7.4 million in 2018
Cambodia produced 7.4 million tonnes of paddy rice in 2018, a 3.5 percent increase, according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s annual report. In its report, the ministry said total production in 2018 was only 88.47 percent of what the government expected, adding that 2.4 million ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575496/paddy-rice-production-reaches-7-4-million-in-2018/
Preah Vihear land dispute drags on
Preah Vihear provincial authorities have requested villagers to stop clearing disputed land and wait for authorities to find a solution according to the “tiger skin formula”, which aims to reduce the impact of economic land concessions (ELCs) on villagers’ farming land. The villagers have been ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-land-dispute-drags
‘DNA soon to reveal identities of poachers’
Mondulkiri provincial environment department director Keo Sopheak has said that DNA testing will soon reveal the identities of poachers who exchanged gunfire with environmental rangers, injuring one, at Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary last Wednesday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dna-soon-reveal-identities-poachers
CMAC chief: The truth should be accepted together to heal wounds
The director-general of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), Heng Ratana, on Tuesday warned against pointing the blame for past political decisions that led to the devastation of Cambodia, saying, “the truth should be accepted together to heal the wounds”. CMAC is tasked with the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cmac-chief-truth-should-be-accepted-together-heal-wounds