Authorities Burn 60 Homes in Pursat Province
More than 60 wooden homes in Pursat province were burned to the ground Wednesday by officials in Veal Veng district, who claimed that the owners were living on state land, rights group Licadho said. “on Wednesday morning, police, military police, RCAF soldiers and the deputy provincial ...
Ben Sokhean and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-burn-60-homes-in-pursat-province-52093/
Pursat land dispute leads to destruction
Villagers in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district, locked in an ongoing land dispute with local tycoon Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Co Ltd, claimed yesterday that security forces and environmental officers opened fire and tried to burn down their houses and plantations on Tuesday after ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pursat-land-dispute-leads-destruction
More than 20 police surround RCAF general’s Mondolkiri home
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. “I never thought I would get out. There was a ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-20-police-surround-rcaf-generals-mondolkiri-home-51769/
Villagers detain suspected illegal loggers
A team of ethnic minority Banong villagers in Mondolkiri province detained a group of Vietnamese men on Saturday, who they suspect of illegally logging inside their community forest, and have handed them over to local police. Khut Chanra said he was among about 60 fellow Banong ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-detain-suspected-illegal-loggers-53756/
Wood confiscated in Stung Treng Province
Military police and local forestry officials in Stung Treng province confiscated more than 90 pieces of luxury-grade Thnong wood from a private farm on Sunday, but only after the suspected owner escaped, according to officials. Provincial court prosecutor Chroeng Khmao said a joint force of military ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wood-confiscated-in-stung-treng-province-56919/
Minister lauds controversial sugar industry
Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday lauded the country’s controversial sugar industry and the jobs it has created, saying that companies operating in the sector need to be defended against the widespread criticism they have been receiving. Rights groups and the opposition CNRP have undertaken ...
Khuon Narim and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-lauds-controversial-sugar-industry-64810/
Two officials convicted of defrauding farmer
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday sentenced two government officials to three years in prison, with one year suspended, after they were found guilty of aggravated fraud. Nuon Sarath, 42, a former officer from the Justice Ministry’s civil department, and Keo Sophal, 48, a former ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-officials-convicted-of-defrauding-farmer-52469/
Education boost needed: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday encouraged Cambodia to pick up the slack on its higher-education system in order to bolster the country’s economic competitiveness. “Training human resources is necessary to developing the labour market and encouraging investments,” the premier said during the Royal University of Law ...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-boost-needed-pm
Police raid store, seize fake beauty products
Police raided a discount store in Phnom Penh and seized more than 1,000 bottles of beauty products on Monday after receiving a tip that the shop was selling counterfeit goods, an official said. Police confiscated 872 bottles of shower gel and 280 bottles of whitening cream ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-raid-store-seize-fake-beauty-products-59803/
Workers win seniority pay
A six-month standoff that eventually halted a box factory’s production ended on Friday, when managers of the factory in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district paid seniority bonuses to almost 150 former employees. Harta Packaging Industries paid bonuses of between $500 and $4,000 to a total ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-win-seniority-pay
Competitiveness ranking slips
A lack of innovation has contributed to Cambodia dropping seven spots on the World Economic Forum’s 2014-15 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR), which was released on Wednesday. The Kingdom ranked 95th out of 144 countries, down from 88th in the previous report, according to the GCR. Apart ...
Hor Kimsay
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/competitiveness-ranking-slips
Cambodian ruling elite accused of crimes against humanity
Forty NGOs from around the world have called on the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to begin preliminary examinations into claims that Cambodia’s “ruling elite” were accused of committing crimes against humanity. on October 7, British lawyer Richard Rogers submitted ...
World Bulletin News Staff
http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/150663/israeli-army-detains-palestinian-woman-in-w-bank
Teachers to get wage hike
Cambodia’s lowest paid high-school and primary-school teachers will receive a $25 increase to their base monthly salary by the end of May, the government revealed on Monday. Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the raise at the opening of the National Literacy Campaign on Monday and reiterated ...
Tat Oudom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/teachers-get-wage-hike
More than 70 money laundering cases uncovered since global watchdog’s grey listing
After global money-laundering watchdog Financial Action Task Force placed the Kingdom on its grey list last year, the Interior Ministry has cracked down on 75 cases, seized about $8 million and confiscated nearly 3,000 vehicles. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50702059/more-than-70-money-laundering-cases-uncovered-since-global-watchdogs-grey-listing/
Road accidents down sharply since January
Traffic accidents declined by 552 cases in the first six months of the year, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng posted on Facebook on Wednesday. Deaths also decreased by 172 and injuries 778 compared to the same period last year. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-accidents-down-sharply-january
Cambodia FM to have talks with Russian counterpart
Prak Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will participate in the Special ASEAN-Russia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on COVID-19 via video-conference to be held on the 17th of June at 2:00 in the afternoon. ...
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50734117/cambodia-fm-to-have-talks-with-russian-counterpart/
Three Preah Sihanouk land grabbers nabbed
Environment officials are preparing to send three suspects to the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court after arresting them on March 13 in connection with encroachment on state forest land in the multi-use areas of Prek Teuk Sap Kbal Chhay in Prey Nop district. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-preah-sihanouk-land-grabbers-nabbed
Another one tonne UXO cleared from sunken warship
Over one tonne of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and remnants of war were cleared from a sunken warship in the Mekong River in Kampong Cham province on Sunday, increasing the total amount recovered to more than six tonnes since its discovery on November 5, 2020. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807436/another-one-tonne-uxo-cleared-from-sunken-warship/