Concerns aired ahead of information law meeting
With the Ministry of Information scheduled to meet to discuss a draft of the long-awaited Access to Information Law today, numerous journalists at a forum on Monday voiced concerns about vague wording they say could render the law ineffective or, worse, a cudgel against the ...
Khmer Krom families face sanctuary eviction
A wildlife sanctuary in Takeo province may provide refuge for birds, but it’s a source of contention for 68 Khmer Krom families who stand to lose their livelihood. The local fisheries administration wants to evict villagers from the state-owned sanctuary in Borei Cholsar district, but the ...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-krom-families-face-sanctuary-eviction
Satellite Shots to Help Settle Deforestation Claims
New satellite images of Oddar Meanchey province promise to help settle wildly conflicting deforestation estimates inside a 64,000-hectare area, which is set to anchor the country’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme. With the project potentially ready to sell carbon credits to foreign firms in a matter ...
Legal experts warn Article 44 remains major impediment
Unless the absolute power of Article 44 and existing National Council for Peace and Order’s orders are revoked, citizens will still face a struggle to protect the environment and their rights, legal experts say. As the new constitution came into effect yesterday, legal experts who ...
Rare tiger prey at risk from land concessions
Surveys conducted by the World Wildlife Foundation have revealed that the world’s largest population of banteng, an endangered species of cattle that once thrived in the Kingdom, remains at risk due to economic land concessions and poaching inside protected areas The number of banteng in Cambodia ...
Poor farmers are hit the hardest by damage from floods
With ongoing floods causing an unprecedented $521 million in estimated damages, economists warn that poor farmers are being the hardest hit. The latest government estimate marks a roughly threefold increase from an earlier prediction of more than $161 million, which was the cost of the ...
Gov’t Picks NGOs for Asean Meet
The government has chosen representatives of two obscure NGOs to send to an annual meeting between civil society groups and regional leaders during next month’s Asean summit in Phnom Penh, sparking an outcry among other non-governmental groups that say this will prevent critics from being ...
Activists urge Preah Sihanouk authorities to restore beach
Some 10 environmental activists from Phnom Penh universities have urged Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities to restore the part of Prek Treng beach which a private company filled in September, while the governor claimed the firm had already been ordered to do so. The activists warned ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-urge-preah-sihanouk-authorities-restore-beach
Drought a ‘grave concern’
Local communities in rural areas across the Kingdom have expressed grave concerns over the severe lack of water for their daily consumption amid a prolonged drought that has caused streams, creeks, lakes and ponds to gradually dry up. Due to high demand for water to ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-grave-concern
Ministry moves forward to establish tree breeding centre
A plan to establish a $5.5 million luxury tree breeding centre was set in motion during a meeting between the Agriculture Ministry and China’s Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable forest Management and Rehabilitation yesterday. The plan was raised by Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon and Zhao Shucong, ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50637749/ministry-moves-forward-to-establish-tree-breeding-centre-2/
Siem Reap to welcome $27mln Cambodia-China Cultural Park
The Council for the Development of Cambodia, a government agency that oversees investment, last week approved a large-scale tourism project in Siem Reap. ‘Cambodia-China Cultural Park,’ the project will be developed by Angkor International Culture Investment & Development (Cambodia) Co., Ltd with a capital of ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50651322/siem-reap-to-welcome-27mln-cambodia-china-cultural-park/
USAID project helps trafficking victims
While human trafficking remains a serious concern in the Kingdom, a project initiated by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) helped 108 victims to receive compensation, while a further 1,482 also benefited from the project. ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/usaid-project-helps-trafficking-victims
‘Cartel’ let off hook by ministry
The Agriculture Ministry last week accused slaughterhouses across Cambodia of conspiring to form a cartel and engaging in price fixing while local authorities turned a blind eye, but has since said it has no plans to punish or even name the alleged perpetrators. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cartel-let-hook-ministry
Beach development being scrutinised
The National Committee for the Management and Development of Coastal Zones is taking action against an unnamed company accused of reclaiming parts of Prek Treng beach in Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50534017/beach-development-being-scrutinised/
Helmet use for children low despite traffic law
Research by the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIPF) found helmet use by child motorbike passengers was still low in January despite the government’s much-touted Traffic Law, with observers blaming poor enforcement. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/helmet-use-children-low-despite-traffic-law
Charting changes in Japanese FDI
Japan’s investment in Cambodia continues to grow and its investors are playing a leading role in developing and diversifying the Kingdom’s light industrial sector. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/charting-changes-japanese-fdi
US official pushes for investment agreement
A visiting US government official urged Cambodia to continue with negotiations to develop a bilateral investment agreement between the two nations that could be used for further trade inclusion. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-official-pushes-investment-agreement
Exhibit remembers slain journalists, calls for end to ‘impunity’
Im Chanthy was seven months pregnant when her husband was killed three years ago, his body stuffed in the trunk of his Toyota Camry. ...
Olivia Harlow
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/exhibit-remembers-slain-journalists-calls-for-end-to-impunity-98964/
Tax authority sets window for road tax compliance
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) announced yesterday that the government will collect annual road tax payments from July 1 until November 30. ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-authority-sets-window-road-tax-compliance
Kingdom to feel typhoon’s effects
After wreaking havoc in Taiwan and mainland China this weekend, Typhoon Nepartak will bring heavy rain to the Kingdom today, according to the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27060/kingdom-to-feel-typhoon---s-effects/