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Trear 4 villagers affected by sewage water logging demand for compensation from lake filling company

4 families living in Trear 4 village, Stung Meanchey commune, Mean Chey district, asked the local authority for providing compensation due to lake filling by a private company that caused sewage water and mud logging, also house and other properties damaging. ...

Sereymony
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/land/villager-demands-compensate-02072016033412.html

Murder suspect of dismembered spaniard arrested in cambodia

A Spanish man who is the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of a fellow Spaniard was arrested in Cambodia, where he is believed to have fled after the victim’s dismembered body was recovered piece by piece from Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River, police said Monday. ...

SOPHENG CHEANG
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/murder-suspect-dismembered-spaniard-arrested-cambodia-36781445

Citizens and civil society hailed Sihanouk provincial authorities demolished stone fence surrounding Beach

The provincial Governor of Sihanoukville claimed that the relevant authorities is implementing the content of the coastal development plan of the government of Cambodia to be more effective for benefit to the tourism sector and to the public use of the beach as it used ...

Den Ayuthyear
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/land/NGO-Villagers-appreciate-the-authorities-demolished-walls-along-the-beach-02072016042101.html

Steng Treng community accuses forest and local officers of not protect forests

Steng Treng’s forestry protection communities called on the government and relevant institutions to investigate the irregularities of duty of the local authorities and Stung Treng provincial forestry officers who did not pay attention to local forest conservation, also enable logger to encroach land arbitrarily. ...

Men Sothy
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/environment/illegal-logging-in-stungstreng-02072016000919.html

Reservoir residents could face eviction

A government sub-decree dated February 3 defined 3,200 hectares of Tamoak Lake as state-owned land, sparking eviction fears among residents. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reservoir-residents-could-face-eviction

Cousins die playing with UXO in Kompong Thom

Two children died on Friday afternoon in Kompong Thom province after attempting to open a rocket-propelled grenade they found near their house with an ax, police said on Sunday. ...

Kang Sothear and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cousins-die-playing-with-uxo-in-k-thom-107689/

Protesting capitol bus drivers attacked

A bloody scuffle in Phnom Penh on Saturday left scores injured after protesting bus drivers and their supporters were brutally set upon by a rival association armed with sticks, metal bars and hammers. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesting-capitol-bus-drivers-attacked

India to ease visa norms to lure visitors

India is looking to ease its visa regime for ASEAN nations in a bid to increase Buddhist tourist arrivals – travellers looking to visit Buddhist heritage sites – to the country, India’s vice president said. ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/india-ease-visa-norms-lure-visitors

Lengthy Banteay Meanchey land dispute finally ends in payout

After a seven-year struggle, a Banteay Meanchey teacher finally got $8,000 in compensation for her land, which was seized by the Cambodian military during a border flare-up with Thailand. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lengthy-banteay-meanchey-land-dispute-finally-ends-payout

Does foreign policy not really partial to China or not?

As the followers political events mostly seen, Cambodia seem not adhere to the neutral foreign policy enshrined in its Constitution, yet the relationship between Cambodia and China and Cambodia – the United States, Prime Minister Hun Sen reaffirmed that Cambodia’s foreign policy is independence, not ...

Yeang Socheameta
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/politics/Is-Cambodia-foreign-policy-independent-02072016024601.html

Another toll road contract canceled by prime minister

For the third time in as many months, the government has canceled a contract with a private com­pany operating a toll road in re­sponse to complaints from motorists.   ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-toll-road-contract-canceled-by-prime-minister-107691/

Company denies responsibility in chicken deaths

The cause of death of more than 11,000 diseased broiler chickens found dumped in a canal in Kompong Thom province last month has been identified as an infectious virus transmittable to humans, according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s animal health department. ...

Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/company-denies-responsibility-in-chicken-deaths-107679/

Polluters hurt Kingdom: study

Cambodia is suffering disproportionately from the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from more developed nations, according to a new study published in the journal Nature on Friday. ...

Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/polluters-hurt-kingdom-study

Environmental experts concern of the extinction of rare fish in the northeast province

Environmental experts concern of a drop in the number of rare species of fish in the river in the northeastern province including of the Upper Mekong Basin, Srepok River and Se San river. The worry after a number of exotic fish caught in the area’s ...

Men Sothy
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/environment/concern-over-fishes-losing-02062016035808.html

The Ministry of Health urged people bring their children to vaccinate

Ministry of Health of Cambodia announced that all guardians ought to bring children to vaccinate (Vaccine) preventing inflammation of the encephalitis, meningitis, hepatitis, polio, measles and rubella. The vaccine for infant is for free. ...

Sereymony
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/health/health-officers-urges-parents-to-bring-children-for-vaccines-02062016075242.html

Researcher says border posts misplaced in Eastern Cambodia

Presenting the initial findings of months of research trips along Cambodia’s eastern border, academic Sok Touch said on Thursday that a stretch of land in Tbong Khmum province had been occupied by Vietnam due to border posts being misplaced during the French colonial era.   ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/researcher-says-border-posts-misplaced-in-eastern-cambodia-107536/

Gov’t denies land issues

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of transparency and sluggish reform pace. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-denies-land-issues

Appeal court upholds Veng Sreng riot convictions

The Appeal Court on Thursday upheld convictions of intentional violence and causing property damage against 13 unionists and workers who were arrested during a riot outside a Phnom Penh industrial park on January 3, 2014, at which military police shot dead at least five people. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/appeal-court-upholds-veng-sreng-riot-convictions-107532/

Breakaway party becomes country’s 10th in past year

A breakaway faction from the Cambodian National Justice Party—itself a recent breakaway from the Beehive Social Democratic Party—has formed a new political party, its founder announced on Friday.   ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/breakaway-party-becomes-countrys-10th-in-past-year-107666/

Online crime ring raid nets ‘23’ Koreans

Police working with Ministry of Post and Telecommunications officials yesterday arrested more than 20 South Korean nationals allegedly running an illegal telecom operation, an officer said yesterday, though an embassy representative said the bust related to online gambling.   ...

Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/online-crime-ring-raid-nets-23-koreans

Cambodia suffering a lack of depth in skilled-worker pool

Kouch Pheng, president of Advanced Glory Logistics Group (Cambodia), is in the business of overcoming obstacles. His Phnom Penh-based freight-forwarding company handles a daily dose of pot-holed roads, unscripted shipping delays and Kafka-esque government red tape – yet still manages to deliver its client’s cargo ...

Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-suffering-lack-depth-skilled-worker-pool

Two Cambodians convicted following Thailand market melee

Officials are attempting to se­cure the release of two Cambo­dian men who were sentenced to three months in a Thai prison on Thursday after being summarily convicted of at­tacking government inspectors at a market in Sa Kaeo province the day before, ac­cording to the Ministry ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-cambodians-convicted-following-thailand-market-melee-107655/

Expert says Mekong pollution will harm ASEAN citizens

Professor of the University of Leeds, UK, Mr. Chheang Vannarith, said that ASEAN citizens, 60 million people directly affected by the conflict environmental Mekong River and ASEAN countries need to cooperate with each other to solve this problem so that the rich and poor gap ...

Sok Khemra
http://khmer.voanews.com/content/hello-voa-expert-says-mekong-pollution-will-harm-asean-citizens-cambodia/3177185.html

Cambodia struggling to stem the spread of drug resistant malaria

Malaria infections in Cambodia and the Greater Mekong sub-region fell overall in 2015, according to health officials. But the continuing spread of drug-resistant parasites that cause the disease remains a major concern for local and international health authorities. ...

Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-struggling-to-stem-the-spread-of-drug-resistant-malaria/3176593.html

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