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Thailand to restore rail link with Cambodia

Thailand is hoping to resurrect a rail link with Cambodia to improve transport in the Mekong sub-region, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Thursday. ...

Patsara Jikkham
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/671340/thailand-to-restore-rail-link-with-cambodia

In northeast, one company controls nearly all illegal logging: Report

A new report on illegal logging in Cambodia’s northeastern forests portrays a single company with essentially a monopoly on the illicit trade. Tek Vannara, executive director of NGO Forum, said the report could be a tool to find a solution to combat deforestation. “We ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/in-northeast-one-company-controls-nearly-all-illegal-logging-report/2934773.html

New report shows huge loss of Cambodia’s forest

Economic land concessions are having a huge impact on Cambodia’s northeastern forests, a new reports shows. Still, those who attended Wednesday’s seminar urged the government to do more to stop the practice. Based on calculations of the number of logging trucks counted leaving the ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-report-shows-huge-loss-of-cambodia-forest/2933337.html

Rubber plant built in Cambodia

The Tan Bien-Kampong Thom Development Company opened a rubber latex processing plant in Cambodia yesterday. ​ Fourteen VRG affiliates are implementing 18 rubber projects in Cambodia on 90,000 of the 130,000ha of land allocated for their use. ...

Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/275026/rubber-plant-built-in-cambodia.html

New report shows huge loss of Cambodia’s forest

Economic land concessions are having a huge impact on Cambodia’s northeastern forests, a new reports shows. Still, those who attended Wednesday’s seminar urged the government to do more to stop the practice. Based on calculations of the number of logging trucks counted leaving the ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-report-shows-huge-loss-of-cambodia-forest/2933337.html

Krousar Thmey requests media to help encourage parents to send disabled kids to school

General Director of Krousar Thmey Herve Roqueplan had asked minister of information Khieu Kanharith to help encouraging private-run and state-run media to bring on air a video clip, encouraging parents to send their disabled kids to school. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/krousar-thmey-requests-media-to-help-encourage-parents-to-send-disabled-kids-to-school-8895

Soldier who shot at police in Phnom Penh will face court

A soldier will face court Thursday after his pistol discharged during a scuffle with a group of police officers conducting traffic inspections along Russian Boulevard in Phnom Penh on Tuesday evening, police said Wednesday. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/soldier-who-shot-at-police-in-phnom-penh-will-face-court-92652/

Boycott of Virak Buntham bus company launched

In the face of growing criticism and calls for a boycott of their services, Virak Buntham bus company has offered compensation to a customer who says he was robbed on a Siem Reap to Sihanoukville sleeper bus. ...

Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14989/boycott-of-virak-buntham-bus-company-launched/

Gov’t cuts leases of 12 ELCs

The government yesterday slashed the lifespans of 12 economic land concessions (ELC) – by half in some cases – as it continued to implement a new policy capping ELC leases at 50 years. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-cuts-leases-12-elcs

Ten Koreans jailed for hacking ministry of posts

Ten South Korean nationals—five men and five women—were sentenced to one year in prison Wednesday for hacking into the digital infrastructure of the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry and attempting to set up a racket in Phnom Penh to extort money from people in their home ...

Ouch Sony and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ten-koreans-jailed-for-hacking-ministry-of-posts-92658/

Factory sequestering unionists from others

Eight union representatives at a Chinese-owned window factory in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town say they are being illegally detained by security guards in a separate room at work each day after leading recent protests.​ ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-sequestering-unionists-others

Grade 12 exam asks students to explain the ‘culture of dialogue’

In the country’s current political climate, the term “culture of dialogue” is inescapable, whether because it is being used to resolve the issues of the day or allegedly being violated by the ruling or opposition party. ...

Janelle Retka and Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/grade-12-exam-asks-students-to-explain-the-culture-of-dialogue-92667/

Report slams logging in northeast

National parks and other protected areas are being gutted at a rapid rate in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri by private business interests, among them the powerful Try Pheap Group, a report launched yesterday claims, though authorities have disputed certain figures.The report, titled Logs and Patronage: ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-slams-logging-northeast

SMEs urged to register at Taxation Department

Cambodia’s small- and medium-size enterprises should formalise their accounts and register with the Taxation Department to avoid the risk of unpredictable tax collection in the future, industry insiders said at a tax seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday.​ ...

Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smes-urged-register-taxation-department

Police shut down Siem Reap Snakehead fish farm

Following the seizure of about 100,000 snakehead fish from a van in Siem Reap province last week, police on Tuesday afternoon raided the fish farm where the illegal fry came from, according to deputy provincial police chief Oum Amra. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-shut-down-siem-reap-snakehead-fish-farm-92669/

Gov’t warns of lawsuit over new illegal logging report

Environment and agriculture ministry officials Wednesday warned the authors of a new report accusing the government of colluding with timber magnate Try Pheap to illegally log the protected forests of northeastern Cambodia that they could be sued unless they made changes to the text. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-warns-of-lawsuit-over-new-illegal-logging-report-92665/

Fears over zoo swap

Two elephants living at Kampot province’s notoriously grim Teuk Chhou Zoo are set to be swapped for endangered species with a zoo in Japan, despite deep concern among experts over the suitability of the trade.Teuk Chhou owner Nhim Vanda yesterday said elephants Kiri and Seila ...

Charles Parkinson and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fears-over-zoo-swap

Gov't eyes industrial expansion

In search of Cambodia’s next economic growth driver, the government yesterday laid out the Cambodia Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025, which aims to expand the Kingdom’s narrow industrial base beyond garments and rice.The new policy, launched by Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace in ...

Sor Chandara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-eyes-industrial-expansion

Cambodia looking to join EAEU

Cambodia is seeking support from Belarus to become a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), an economic block of countries that includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. ...

Hang Sokunthea and Kun Kourchettana
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-looking-join-eaeu

Judge rules no bail for 10 ‘KNLF members’

Ten alleged members of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF) who have been accused of treason called for justice outside the Supreme Court yesterday after their request for bail was thrown out yet again. ...

Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/judge-rules-no-bail-10-knlf-members

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