Activists Say Sewage Treatment Pools Rented Out as Fish Farms
A video that a previously jailed Mother Nature activist says he shot in January shows a Siem Reap sewage treatment pool teeming with fish.
Meng Kroypunlok Mar 31, 6:56 pm
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A video that a previously jailed Mother Nature activist says he shot in January shows a Siem Reap sewage treatment pool teeming with fish.
A Siem Reap man was severely beaten and hospitalized after 100 soldiers came to destroy his family’s newly built home this week amid a long-running land dispute near a military base, his family and a local official said.
The mother of a 13-month-old girl has complained that a Siem Reap police officer bit and abused her child, according to provincial police.
A businesswoman has sued a district governor in Siem Reap province for violating a court decision and allegedly beginning to encroach on a 200-hectare plot of land.
Following Prime Minister Hun Sen’s command two weeks ago to stop the Tonle Sap’s destruction, provincial governors say they have retaken thousands of hectares of protected flooded forests but are still working on investigating perpetrators.
Siem Reap officials say they are seeing a drop in Covid-19 cases in the city after 10 days of red-zones in some communes and villages, while working to meet food shortages amid restrictions.
After a year in prison on an incitement conviction for his music, 22-year-old rapper Kea Sokun was released from a Siem Reap prison on Friday and returned home with no regrets about his songs or his refusal to apologize for the lyrics in court.
Migrant workers at a quarantine center in Siem Reap province are unhappy being placed with Covid-19 patients at the same facility, with one worker saying he has not been released from the center for two months despite testing negative.
A “simple person” with two villas and an estimated tens of millions of dollars worth of land in Siem Reap forest has been granted 451 hectares of state land, according to a government document and local commune chiefs.
Nine-hundred-eighty-four geckos being shipped out of Preah Vihear province were rescued from a vehicle in Siem Reap, according to officials, who said they had cracked down on gecko trafficking before but didn’t know its purpose.
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