Landfill at Koh Norea, across from Koh Pich, which is being expanded into a massive satellite city. Panha Chhorpoan

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Large-scale Mekong River landfilling draws concern eco-system and water way

22 Feb 2021 3:44 PM|

Almost every day for the past year about a dozen boats carrying thousands of cubic meters of sand dump their load at Koh Norea, a small tip of land where the Mekong spills into the Bassac river. According to workers at the site, the sand comes from the upper Mekong, part of a vast dredging process to provide sufficient landfill for Cambodia’s latest supersized development project: a massive satellite city just south east of Phnom Penh, totaling 125 hectares.

Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers (from L) Mu Sochua, Kem Sokha, Sam Rainsy and Long Ry greet supporters at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh after Rainsy returned to Cambodia, on July 19, 2013.CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Rainsy, CNRP deputies get 20+ years prison over 2019 ‘coup’

2 Mar 2021 11:56 AM|

Prime Minister Hun Sen accepts the first consignment of the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine in Phnom Penh last month. CamboJA/Pring Samrang

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Cambodia to receive Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

1 Mar 2021 8:04 PM|

Rainsy, CNRP deputies get 20+ years prison over 2019 ‘coup’

2 Mar 2021 11:56 AM|

Nine leaders of the outlawed Cambodian National Rescue Party have been sentenced to between 20 and 25 years in prison for their alleged roles in a 2019 coup d’etat, in one of a series of cases against opposition figures that have been labeled a “mockery of justice” by observers.

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Cambodia to receive Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

1 Mar 2021 8:04 PM|

Cambodia will receive around 320,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine produced in India on Tuesday, so that two vaccines, including the Chinese-made Sinopharm, available in the country for inoculations.

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“Maintaining a healthy river ecosystem and balancing the interests of both human and nature” is the advice that expert Carl Middleton, director of the Center for Social Development Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, gave for the multiparty cooperation initiative Mekong-Lancang (LMC)

A medial staffer inspects a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine during the 1st day of injections at Phnom Penh’s Calmette Hospital last month. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Two CNRP activists jailed over vaccine-related Facebook posts

1 Mar 2021 7:58 PM|

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Gov’t says journalist groups “interfering” in Cambodia Daily incitement case

26 Feb 2021 7:25 PM|

A Phnom Penh resident harvests vegetables on the remnants of wetlands in southern Phnom Penh that is being developed by ING Holdings. CamboJA/Pring Samrang

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UN experts say ING City would cause environmental, livelihood losses

25 Feb 2021 8:36 PM|

A man is vaccinated for Covid-19 at a hospital in Phnom Penh on Thursday, February 25, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Chinese-language editor to be deported over “fake news” vaccine sales

25 Feb 2021 8:27 PM|

Workers protested outside the Le Meridien Angkor in Siem Reap in September after the hotel terminated three of their colleagues in July. Panha Chhorpoan

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Seven months on, Le Meridien Angkor unionists receive compensation

24 Feb 2021 6:06 PM|

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Gov’t says journalist groups “interfering” in Cambodia Daily incitement case

26 Feb 2021 7:25 PM|

Government officials said civil society calls for dropping charges against two former Cambodia Daily reporters in a 2017 incitement case was tantamount to interfering with court procedures.

Chinese-language editor to be deported over “fake news” vaccine sales

25 Feb 2021 8:27 PM|

District security guards prevent journalists from taking photographs and conducting interviews outside the Phnom Penh Municipal Court during the trial of former CNRP members and affiliates on January 13. Panha Chhorpoan

Reporters remain unclear on scope of police powers in new directive on interference by media

6 Feb 2021 8:21 PM|

Radio station owner Sok Oudom is escorted by police as he leaves the Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court where he was tried on November 3. Khuon Narim

Provincial journalist convicted for reporting military-linked land dispute

22 Dec 2020 7:46 PM|

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UN experts say ING City would cause environmental, livelihood losses

25 Feb 2021 8:36 PM|

Seven United Nations human rights rapporteurs raised serious concerns over the impacts of in-filling of Boeung Tompoun and the Cheung Ek wetlands to make way for a mega-development project, to which the government said environmental risks had been mitigated and touted its economic benefit.