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People encouraged to make fermented and dried fish this week

The Fisheries Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries has encouraged interested Cambodians to start making Cambodia’s traditional fermented fish (locally called Prahok) and dried fish this week. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501425814/people-encouraged-to-make-fermented-and-dried-fish-this-week/

ADB joint project helps reduce poverty along Tonle Sap River

Asia Development Bank (ADB) along with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) under the guidance of the Royal Government has successfully implemented the project to support the poorest communities in the provinces along the Tonle Sap River through the Farmer Livelihood Improvement Association (FLIA), ...

Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501403667/adb-joint-project-helps-reduce-poverty-along-tonle-sap-river/

Korea Friendship Bridge work to begin soon

The construction of the $245 million cable-stayed Cambodia-Korea Friendship Bridge, to be built in two sections across the Tonle Sap River and the Mekong River, will begin soon as the final evaluation of the project has just been completed. ...

Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501359850/korea-friendship-bridge-work-to-begin-soon/

Heat kills more Kampong Chhnang fish

Commercial fish farmers along the Tonle Sap River in Kampong Chhnang province have called on the authorities to find a way to rescue the remaining fish in their fish farms, as the unrelenting hot weather continues to kill their fish. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heat-kills-more-kampong-chhnang-fish

Key road job with longest bridge ‘in 2024’

A groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a 58km road and bridges crossing the Tonle Sap River connecting Kampong Chhnang to Kampong Thom provinces will be held in 2024, with several relevant ministries assuring that the project would have no serious impact on the environment. ...

Sem Pisey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-road-job-longest-bridge-2024

Bountiful prahok season, say fishermen

The primary prahok fishing season may have passed, but fishermen are continuing to haul in respectable catches, say residents of the Phnnom Penh and Kandal province. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bountiful-prahok-season-say-fishermen

Rosy official forecasts fail to lift freshwater fishermen’s hopes

While river fishermen are claiming to have had smaller catches this season, experts are predicting that this year’s freshwater fish yields will be double that of previous years. Heng Kong, director of the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute at the Fisheries Administration (FiA), predicted that ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosy-official-forecasts-fail-lift-freshwater-fishermens-hopes

City Hall starts rebuilding road after Chroy Changva riverbank collapse

Phnom Penh officials said they will begin reconstructing a road that collapsed into the Tonle Sap River in Chroy Changva district earlier this year, another instance of the riverbank collapsing due to erosion. ...

Roun Ry
https://vodenglish.news/city-hall-starts-rebuilding-road-after-chroy-changva-riverbank-collapse/

Water rises at Tonle Sap River in Kampong Chhnang due to heavy rain

With heavy rain in the last three days, the water level had risen at the Tonle Sap River at Phsar Krom Station in Kampong Chhnang province but thankfully it has not affected the crops of farmers along the river side. ...

Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50905708/water-rises-at-tonle-sap-river-in-kampong-chhnang-due-to-heavy-rain/

Land allotted for Kampong Chhnang boat people must be rented

Kampong Chhnang deputy provincial governor Sun Sovannarith reaffirmed that the 40ha the provincial authorities allocated to Vietnamese boat people is Cambodian national Ros Chamroeun’s private land. He said there was no cutting of land for them, but the Vietnamese immigrants will have to pay rent ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-allotted-kampong-chhnang-boat-people-must-be-rented

Ministries, institutions discuss measures for Mekong conservation

Members of relevant ministries and institutions gathered on Friday and Saturday to discuss the importance of the Mekong to Cambodia from a policy standpoint and how the government can best work together to ensure the conservation of the river. The two-day meeting, held under the ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministries-institutions-discuss-measures-mekong-conservation

Second fishing season begins

The second fishing season starts today, and will run until Jan 17, with the Fisheries Administration calling on prahok and pha’ak producers to buy fish in designated areas along the Tonle Sap River. ...

Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50568036/second-fishing-season-begins/

Tonle Sap Vietnamese to stay on river for now

Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities announced they have allowed 750 ethnic Vietnamese families living on the Tonle Sap river to stay until July, after more than 3,000 other Vietnamese families voluntarily relocated to designated areas on higher ground. Provincial governor Chhour Chandoeun said authorities made the decision ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-vietnamese-stay-river-now

River relocation request rejected

A request from the Khmer Vietnamese Association for the Interior Ministry to delay the relocation of Vietnamese familes living on the Tonle Sap river in Kampong Chhnang province has been rejected. The KVA’s letter, submitted last week, asked the ministry to intervene in the relocation of ...

Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50551914/river-relocation-request-rejected-2/

Efforts to save fish highlighted

National and international environmental experts concluded discussions on migratory fish management and preservation in Cambodia on Wednesday through a workshop facilitated by the US Agency of International Development (USAID) in Phnom Penh. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/efforts-save-fish-highlighted

Tonle Sap Vietnamese ‘reluctant’ to move

While more than 100 ethnic Vietnamese families out of the 300 living in floating houses on the Tonle Sap River in Kampong Chhnang province are willing to be relocated, a small number are holding out. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tonle-sap-vietnamese-reluctant-move

Local gov’t to move 2,000 families from Tonle Sap

Some 115 Vietnamese and Khmer-Muslim families residing on floating houses on the Tonle Sap River in Kampong Chhnang provinces said they were set to relocate to higher grounds after provincial authorities ordered them to move by year’s end. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-govt-move-2000-families-tonle-sap

River residents to be relocated

Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities are planning to relocate hundreds of Cham and Vietnamese residents living on the Tonle Sap river to dry land by the end of 2019. Provincial Governor Chhour Chandoeun on Thursday said that residents have already been informed regarding the decision. ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50538081/river-residents-to-be-relocated/

Authorities to relocate Tonle Sap Vietnamese

Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities plan to relocate around 1,000 Vietnamese people living on the Tonle Sap river in Kampong Chhnang town next Monday. ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-relocate-tonle-sap-vietnamese

Riverbank collapses in capital

Fifty metres of riverbank in Chroy Changvar district collapsed on Saturday amid rising water levels in the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers which have caused the capital’s riverside regions to flood. According to Klang Huot, the district governor, traffic has been impacted by the collapse ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/riverbank-collapses-capital

Families in Kampong Chhnang lose fish in mass die-off

About 70 families who live in floating houses along the Tonle Sap river in Kampong Chhnang province say excessive heat and low water levels have resulted in large-scale die-offs on their fish farms. Van Srey Em, a fishery community representative in both Phsar Chhnang and ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-kampong-chhnang-lose-fish-mass-die

Tropical storm brings flood warning

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology yesterday issued a warning that an impending tropical storm may inundate the Tonle Sap and Mekong river, causing floods to neighbouring communities. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5065734/tropical-storm-brings-flood-warning/

Floating villages to be relocated

Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities have outlined plans to relocate thousands of families living on the Tonle Sap river in an effort to curb water pollution.   ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36848/floating-villages-to-be-relocated/

Deeper water expected to yield more fish

Just weeks ahead of the main fishing season on the Tonle Sap river, which supplies the majority of the fish used in the Kingdom’s traditional cooking sauce, prahok, government officials are predicting a better catch this season as water levels have recovered from last year’s ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/deeper-water-expected-yield-more-fish

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