Protected areas in Kirirom National Park and the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary are being privatized for companies run by family members of notorious tycoon Choeung Sopheap as well as the wife of the country’s finance minister.
The government continued the trend of giving state institutions and private individuals tracts of land on Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake, handing over 70 hectares to state utilities supplier Electricite du Cambodge.
A week after a riverbank collapsed in Kandal’s Takhmao city, nearly 70 families are still living on the sidewalk next to the water as they plead with authorities to expedite the building of temporary shelters for them.
Candlelight Party supporters in Thailand held a small protest against the arrest of party leader Thach Setha but say they were surveilled and asked to end the protest by Thai police.
The Information Ministry has taken down a statement that appeared to show the Candlelight Party applauding the arrest of its vice president, but blamed poor organization in the opposition party for “releasing information without consensus and creating chaos.”
Floodwaters raged through a small stream in Kandal’s Takhmao city on Tuesday as at least seven homes collapsed into the waters and another 70 homes were evacuated.
A body has been recovered from the rubble of Poipet’s casino fire by a cleanup team almost two weeks after authorities called off their recovery efforts, claiming at the time “we have searched all the rooms.”
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