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FAO-led project to boost meat quality in the Kingdom
A new partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations seeks to enhance the quality of local meat by modernising facilities and raising hygiene standards, with a pilot project launched in Takeo in November. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50525749/fao-led-project-to-boost-meat-quality-in-the-kingdom/
Nine communities join contract farming scheme
Nine more agricultural communities in Kampong Thom province have joined the government’s Boosting Food Projection Programme, entering a contract farming scheme with local exporter Amru Rice. The communities have recently signed agreements with Amru Rice, agreeing to supply a combined 8,000 tonnes of paddy rice ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50525637/nine-communities-join-contract-farming-scheme/
Ministry issues health warning over receding flood waters
The Health Ministry is appealing to flood victims to take precautions against contracting diseases as waters recede. Health Minister Mam Bun Heng on Tuesday made the appeal during a visit to distribute medicine to families in Tboung Khmum province. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50525762/ministry-issues-health-warning-over-receding-flood-waters/
Parents urged to be cautious over dengue
The Health Ministry has urged parents who suspect their children to be suffering from dengue infections, to immediately send them to state-run hospitals for treatment. The call follows the death of 13 children due to dengue fever over the last eight months. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parents-urged-be-cautious-over-dengue
Leader in Koh Kong land dispute is jailed
Heng Sok, who represented 50 families in a land dispute with Oknha Ly Yong Phat was sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined two million riel ($500) by the Koh Kong Provincial Court on Tuesday, on a charge of “using violence on a property ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/leader-koh-kong-land-dispute-jailed
RFA ‘spies’ released on bail
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday freed on bail, two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) reporters, who were charged with espionage. Oun Chhin, 49, and Yeang Sochea Meta (Sothearin), 35, were arrested by the Meanchey district authorities on November 14, last year, and spent ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rfa-spies-released-bail
China eyes poverty reduction
China, which lifted a large number of its almost 1.5 billion citizens from economic hardship over the decades, has pledged to assist Cambodia to alleviate poverty among its people. The assurance was conveyed by Huang Xilian, the Chinese Ambassador to Asean during the two Asean-China-UNDP ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-eyes-poverty-reduction
Koh Kong revokes land rights on clearing fears
Koh Kong provincial hall on Tuesday revoked ownership of land near the protected Peam Krasoap Wildlife Sanctuary to prevent further land clearing in the area. Its announcement raised fears among local communities of a potential forced eviction. “All illegal land ownership or unregistered land at ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-revokes-land-rights-clearing-fears
More than 100 turtles freed into protected zone
Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities yesterday released more than 100 rescued turtles into a conservation area in Preah Netr Preah district. Sin Rasy, district military police commander, said that the turtles were seized from poachers earlier this month and were released into the O’ronteah Banh turtle ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50525131/more-than-100-turtles-freed-into-protected-zone/
Development goals in focus at Siem Reap meet
A two-day symposium kicked off in Siem Reap on Monday, jointly hosted by members of Asean, China and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The meeting sought to focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and discuss ways of alleviating poverty. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/development-goals-focus-siem-reap-meet
Ministry: Selling untitled lands creates conflict
In a bid to prevent land conflicts across the country, the Land Management Ministry is requesting capital and provincial authorities to stop the practice of registering land without approval. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524688/ministry-selling-untitled-lands-creates-conflict/
Crackdown on illegal fishing in Tonle Sap
Pursat provincial police and fishery administration officials cracked down on a large scale illegal fishing operation along Tonle Sap lake and seized equipment including over 5,300 fishing nets in Kandieng district’s Raing Til commune. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524750/crackdown-on-illegal-fishing-in-tonle-sap/
Over 100,000 Kingdom high school students sit exams
A Total of 117,062 students sat for their high school examinations nationwide on Monday, braving incessant rains and the marauding floods in some provinces, said the Ministry of Education. And the number of candidates this year was much higher compared to last year’s 103,112 students. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-100000-kingdom-high-school-students-sit-exams
Two arrested Luxury wood found on the way to VN
Some 300 pieces of timber were discovered and two men arrested in separate cases in Pursat and Mondulkiri provinces as they were transporting the logs to Vietnam. National Military Police on Monday found piles of first-grade timber measuring nine cubic metres in Pursat’s Veal Veng ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-arrested-luxury-wood-found-way-vn
First highway to break ground in November
Construction of the Kingdom’s first-ever highway, stretching 190 kilometres to connect Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, was confirmed to start in November. The highway will begin in Phnom Penh’s Chaom Chao area, starting at street Tom Nop Kop Srov, which links national roads 4 and 5, ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524648/first-highway-to-break-ground-in-november/
Boeung Kak’s Vanny is released
Boeung Kak community land activist Tep Vanny was freed from Prey Sar prison on Monday night after a release warrant was issued by Phnom Penh Municipal Court. This followed a Royal Pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni. Three other Boeung Kak land activists were also released ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/boeung-kaks-vanny-released
Kingdom counts 18 dead from Mekong floods
At least 18 people in the Kingdom have died and more than 40,000 families impacted by the Mekong River flooding this season, National Committee for Natural Disaster spokesman Keo Vy, told The Post on Monday. He said floodwaters in the five riverside provinces of Tbong ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-counts-18-dead-mekong-floods
UN: Large number of voters ‘alienated’
The spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) claimed a significant proportion of the Cambodian population was left alienated in the July 29 elections after the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-large-number-voters-alienated
Five people held for illegally-cut timber
A joint task-force consisting of the national police and Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district police on Saturday arrested five people found transporting illegally-felled timber in Santre commune. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524318/five-people-held-for-illegally-cut-timber/
Ministry to monitor Kirirom national park
Senior Environment Ministry officials on Saturday agreed to continue to work together and cooperate with local forest rangers in order to maintain order and prevent forestry crimes from occurring in Kirirom national park. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524365/ministry-to-monitor-kirirom-national-park/
Number of flood deaths rises to 18
The Ministry of Water Resources and Metereology said yesterday that flooding of the Mekong, Sekong and Sesan rivers was caused by tropical storm Bebinca and that the death toll from floods in some provinces have risen to 18. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524368/number-of-flood-deaths-rises-to-18/
Hun Sen formally appointed as PM
King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday appointed Hun Sen as prime minister with the duty of organising a government for approval by the National Assembly. On his re-appointment, Mr Hun Sen pledged to do his best to serve the whole nation for another five-year term after ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524420/hun-sen-formally-appointed-as-pm/
Land deal ends Preah Sihanouk province dispute
Forty-two families living in Sihanoukville’s Muoy commune, who claim to have a land dispute with a Sihanoukville Autonomous Port official Chan Kang, have been given land plots by Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524366/land-deal-ends-preah-sihanouk-province-dispute/
KrisEnergy set to review bids for drilling services
Singapore-based firm KrisEnergy, which operates Cambodia’s offshore Block A, is now reviewing bids submitted by contractors for integrated drilling services and a facilities platform. They were submitted during the second quarter. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krisenergy-set-review-bids-drilling-services