Kep provincial officials cut down around 30 trees along the beachfront in the city and said this was done to beautify the area ahead of the Southeast Asia Games in May.
A fired deputy Kep governor is still on the run after a court complaint was filed against him for assaulting a woman on the head during a party in the last week of December.
The government has appointed a slew of deputy provincial governors across the country. A Preah Sihanouk court charged four people for allegedly encroaching on private land.
Kampot and Kep fishing communities threatened as tourism project linked to the wife of a government minister reportedly moves forward.
The documents, released on Monday and all signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, are dated between August 4 and September 2 and continue the recent flurry of land privatization across the country
The Kampot Provincial Court on Wednesday morning ordered a reinvestigation into a building collapse case more than a year after the incident killed 36 people, including six children, and injured 23 others, mostly construction workers.
A year after a fatal building collapse in Kep province, the trauma and the effects of workers’ injuries linger, but one surviving worker is returning to construction despite opposition from others in the family.
Some officials have breached quarantine and traveled outside Phnom Penh, leading the search for indirect Covid-19 contacts of a visiting Hungarian foreign minister to spread to at least seven provinces.
Officials in Kep province, where 36 people were killed when an unfinished building collapsed on them last week, said the construction had various technical failures — from using incorrect materials to building too many floors — and diverged from what the building permit allowed.
Officials from the national down to the local level should face an investigation into possible collusion and noncompliance in issuing and enforcing building permits, labor groups urged in a press conference on Wednesday.
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