Collecting jewel orchids has become a new source of income for remote residents in Kampong Speu, worrying botanical experts who warn the rare plant could be picked to extinction.
Indigenous Suoy families say they have blocked a company formerly chaired by the prime minister’s nephew Hun Chea from clearing their farmland in Kampong Speu, and are seeking compensation.
Just before lunchtime Wednesday, a security guard fired his gun at a colleague inside CIMB bank in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak I, shooting the colleague’s leg before fleeing the scene on his motorbike.
More than 300 construction workers who protested last month against a Booyoung Town subcontractor have been paid their unpaid wages for halted construction.
A group of 39 families in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao on Sunday hired an excavator to destroy part of their neighbor’s house in an ongoing dispute over a new road.
More than 300 construction workers gathered in protest against a subcontractor at the Booyoung Town development on Monday, saying the subcontractor was late in paying their salaries after stopping site work.
Garment factory workers filed a fresh petition to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court this week as they continue to camp out every night on Phnom Penh’s Veng Sreng Blvd. four months into their labor dispute.
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.
Candlelight Party official Hem Chhil was released on bail by the Appeal Court on Thursday, months after he was arrested for alleged illegal fishing in Pursat province.
More than 200 families are refusing to leave their homes along the Tonle Sap river in Russei Keo district, saying they would be willing to relocate only if authorities provide fair compensation.
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