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Trash piling up in temple town
Residents of Wat Damnak village, just one kilometer from Pub Street, still resort to burning their rubbish when trash collection is slow. ...
Naomi Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15459/trash-piling-up-in-temple-town/
Political clout against litter
Cambodia’s Environment Minister Say Samal is a hybrid package. On one hand, he comes from a politically powerful family. This Saturday, his father, Say Chhum, is to be elected co-vice president of the ruling party. On the other hand, the 35-year-old Minister represents Cambodia’s rising, ...
James Brooke and Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12350/political-clout-against-litter/
Gov’t mulls green incentives
The Ministry of Environment said it is working to make eco-friendly and green technologies tax-free, in order to reduce the cost barriers associated with importing and implementing these technologies, such as the use of solar panels. Speaking at EuroCham’s Green Business Forum in Phnom Penh, Environment ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-mulls-green-incentives
Environment officials to monitor conditions
The Ministry of Environment is set to join the Ministry of Labour in the monitoring of garment factory workplaces, after creating a working group that will probe the environmental safety of all plants in Cambodia. At a press conference at the ministry yesterday, Minister of Environment ...
Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/environment-officials-monitor-conditions
Major tycoons added to concessions watchlist
Fourteen companies have been added to a Ministry of Environment watchlist for purportedly failing to live up to their investment promises. The companies include firms owned by some of the country’s wealthiest and most politically connected land barons, such as Mong Reththy and Sok Kong. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/major-tycoons-added-concessions-watchlist
Cambodia gov't seizes back economic land concession licenses from 23 companies last year
Cambodian Environment Minister Say Samal said Tuesday that the government had cancelled licenses of economic land concessions (ELCs) for 23 companies last year after the firms have failed to develop the land for years. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150106/cambodia-govt-seizes-back-economic-land-concession-licenses-
Despite ELC ban, minister talks of new land deals
Two-and-a-half years after Prime Minister Hun Sen imposed a freeze on the granting of economic land concessions (ELCs), Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Monday appeared to leave the door open to the government giving more companies access to the often-controversial land holdings. At a press ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-elc-ban-minister-talks-of-new-land-deals-68632/
Cambodia revokes land licenses from 8 companies
Cambodian Environment Minister Say Samal said Monday that the government has canceled licenses of economic land concessions (ELCs) for eight companies after they have not undertaken development on the lands for years. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140929/cambodia-revokes-land-licenses-8-companies
Cambodia, FAO ink deal to battle climate impacts on agriculture
The Cambodian Ministry of Environment and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday signed a five-year cooperation agreement with an aim to reduce climate impacts on agriculture, according to a joint statement. The agreement was inked jointly by Cambodian Minister of Environment Say ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140609/cambodia-fao-ink-deal-battle-climate-impacts-agriculture
Cambodian PM flies to Vietnam for Mekong River Commission Summit
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen flew Friday to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to attend the second Summit of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), which will be held on Saturday. The premier was accompanied by Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor, Environment Minister ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/04/c_133238058.htm