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More than 50 US deportees expected in Cambodia on Thursday
The US is deporting 51 Cambodians who are expected to arrive in the country on Thursday, the single largest group of deportees in the history of the contentious 15-year repatriation program. The group is expected to include deportees with chronic mental and physical health conditions, ...
Daphne Chen
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-50-us-deportees-expected-cambodia-thursday
Hun Sen calls for caution amid China-US trade war
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned on Tuesday that a developing trade war between the US and China could affect Cambodia, and said the Kingdom must act to mitigate any potential fallout. In March, US President Donald Trump’s administration slapped tariffs on global imports of steel ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-calls-caution-amid-china-us-trade-war
Truck ban not as painful as feared, shipper says
Since a crackdown on oversized and illegal trucks began on February 10, the government has checked nearly 100,000 vehicles, taking more than 1,000 off the road and finding 3,000 others in violation of various regulations, according to Transport Ministry spokesman Va Sim Sorya. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/truck-ban-not-painful-feared-shipper-says
Ranger arrested for shooting in Jolie-Pitt Foundation area
An environmental ranger and a community forest member on Tuesday were released from prison under court supervision following their brief detention after allegedly firing at a suspect hauling timber within a protected area supported by the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation in Battambang province. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ranger-arrested-shooting-jolie-pitt-foundation-area
In ‘historic lawsuit’, Oddar Meanchey villagers take sugar giant Mitr Phol to court in Thailand
Cambodian villagers have filed a class action suit in Bangkok against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation for human rights violations after the eviction of hundreds of villagers in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province, with a US rights group calling the case a “historic lawsuit”. ...
Ananth Baliga and Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/historic-lawsuit-oddar-meanchey-villagers-take-sugar-giant-mitr-phol-court-thailand
Kandal locals ask for government intervention as lake filled in
More than 300 families briefly blocked the entrance to the Kandal Provincial Hall on Monday morning to ask the governor to intervene in a land dispute with well-connected conglomerate ING Holdings, which they say has built a fence around Boeung Chi Po, one of multiple ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-locals-ask-government-intervention-lake-filled
China’s sway clear at Mekong summit
China’s ever increasing influence over the Mekong River Basin was apparent on the first day of a Mekong River Commission (MRC) summit on Monday, where cooperation between the MRC and the Chinese-backed Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism was floated. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chinas-sway-clear-mekong-summit
Two charged in Kampong Speu for illegal forest clearing
The director of Kampong Speu’s protected Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary and his predecessor have been charged with illegally clearing forest in a case dating back to 2013, and have been summoned to court for questioning. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-charged-kampong-speu-illegal-forest-clearing
Cambodia, Thailand agree to open international border checkpoint mid-May
Cambodia and Thailand plan to officially open a new international border checkpoint in mid-May, an official confirmed on Sunday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-thailand-agree-open-international-border-checkpoint-mid-may
Mekong summit sees $66B worth of projects agreed to
Six countries pledged to enact $66 billion worth of projects over the next five years at the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit in Hanoi on Saturday, with Cambodia-specific projects scheduled to receive the least amount of funding of any participant. ...
Robin Spiess
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mekong-summit-sees-66b-worth-projects-agreed
Kratie officials seize bulldozer involved in clearing state forest
Kratie’s Prek Prasap district authorities on Friday confiscated a bulldozer in connection with the clearing of 10 hectares of forestland near the protected Prey Lang forest, officials said on Sunday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-officials-seize-bulldozer-involved-clearing-state-forest
Kingdom’s disease burden shifting
Cambodia is facing the double burden of infectious and noncommunicable diseases, experts say, but the country can still prevent the problem from becoming “catastrophic” by implementing adequate measures and funnelling appropriate funding to tackle chronic illnesses. ...
Yesenia Amaro and Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-disease-burden-shifting
NBC warns against unlicensed deposit schemes
The National Bank of Cambodia issued a letter on Wednesday clarifying that only seven microfinance institutions (MFIs) are licensed to accept deposits from the public. The notification came after the central bank noticed several “rural credit operators” – institutions smaller than a typical MFI that ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nbc-warns-against-unlicensed-deposit-schemes
Preah Vihear villagers petition PM over razing
Around 20 people representing 250 villagers from Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district petitioned Prime Minister Hun Sen for a solution to the razing of their village in 2012, which was done under instructions from current provincial CPP lawmaker Suos Yara and local officials. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-petition-pm-over-razing
EU to probe exports of rice
The European Commission has found sufficient evidence to launch an investigation into whether Cambodian rice exported to the EU puts an unfair burden on European rice farmers, potentially imperiling the Kingdom’s tariff-free exports to the bloc. ...
Cheng Sokhorng and Brendan O’Byrne
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eu-probe-exports-rice
Golden Dragon military exercises end with bang
Amid a hail of 20,000 bullets, the thud of eight helicopters, a hostage rescue demonstration and choreographed martial arts performances, the joint Chinese-Cambodian Golden Dragon military exercises concluded yesterday as officials from both sides praised the expanding relationship between the two countries. ...
Ben Sokhean and Daphne Chen
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/golden-dragon-military-exercises-end-bang
Local journalists lead police to Pursat timber stockpile
Environmental officials in Pursat are questioning rangers over how a group of local journalists discovered nearly 100 logs of luxury timber inside a wildlife sanctuary. After receiving a tip, the journalists, representing 24 small online media outlets, teamed up with five local policemen on Tuesday ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-journalists-lead-police-pursat-timber-stockpile
Authorities call for increased surveillance of unions, NGOs
Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Chuon Sovann on Wednesday ordered authorities in Phnom Penh to tighten their grip on a broad cross-section of groups, including civil society organisations and communities with “opposition tendencies”, that attempt to cause “social instability” and “political turmoil”. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-call-increased-surveillance-unions-ngos
Environment Ministry rolls out plastic bag fee
Customers at shopping centres and supermarkets will be charged 400 riel per plastic bag beginning April 10. Heng Nareth, the director of environmental protection at the Ministry of Environment, said the aim is to reduce wasteful use of plastic bags. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Daphne Chen
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-rolls-out-plastic-bag-fee
Four villagers called to court over land dispute
A complaint filed at the Preah Vihear Provincial Court accuses four Kuoy ethnic villagers of goading some 70 others into confiscating tractors being used to clear community land by a subsidiary of the Chinese sugar company Rui Feng, which has been involved in a series ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-villagers-called-court-over-land-dispute
UN data show nearly half of Kingdom’s rice exports undocumented
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is forecasting that 44 percent of Cambodia’s total rice exports will be smuggled out of the country through informal channels this year, a persistent problem that weighs down profits and threatens to cripple the industry. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/un-data-show-nearly-half-kingdoms-rice-exports-undocumented
Ministry sees strong growth for Kingdom
Cambodia should continue to see steady economic growth at about 7 percent this year despite potential investor caution that could arise ahead of July’s national election, officials from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) said on Wednesday. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-sees-strong-growth-kingdom
Village protests halt Phan Imex land clearing in Kandal
A 20-year-old land dispute in Kandal province between residents of Por Miev village and the Phan Imex construction company hit a new snag on Wednesday when villagers discovered that workers had brought excavation equipment to a parcel of land that borders communal property at the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/village-protests-halt-phan-imex-land-clearing-kandal
Hun Sen: No one negotiates better than me in 'history of world leaders'
In a boast reminiscent of US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Hun Sen went on a tangent on Wednesday before thousands of garment workers in Por Sen Chey district extolling his negotiating prowess, calling himself one of the top negotiators in the “history of world ...
Ben Sokhean and Quinn Libson
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-no-one-negotiates-better-me-history-world-leaders