Cambodia News: Preah Vihear

After years of taking on a sugar company, Preah Vihear activist tries hand as CNRP candidate
The Phnom Penh Post
In sleepy Sre Preang town in Preah Vihear province, two abandoned bulldozers sit on either side of the street in front of Brame Commune Hall. Seized in 2014 by a group of ethnic Kuoy villagers to protest land clearing by Chinese sugar company Rui Feng, ...

Responsible businesses are key to Cambodia's future
Khmer Times
Amru Rice, another CSR Platform member, implements its responsibility model through farming cooperatives in Preah Vihear province. It has partnered with an NGO that provides training on organic farming practices to cooperatives, which then provide ...

Logging arrest in Stung Treng
The Phnom Penh Post
Chanthorn was allegedly transporting the wood from Preah Vihear. “After the interrogation, the suspect was [preliminarily] charged with collecting and hauling the illegal rosewood and he will be sent to the court on Tuesday morning for further ...

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Sugar rush puts monster mill well ahead of target
The Phnom Penh Post
Kuy Yoeurn, an administrative manager for Rui Feng (Cambodia) International Co Ltd, said the second harvest season of its $360 million sugar plant in Preah Vihear province greatly exceeded the company's expectations. He said the mill produced 500,000 ...

Choam Ksant District, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia (December 2015 - March 2016)
ReliefWeb
Preah Vihear/Stung Treng Province was reported to have 47.1% in the lowest wealth quintile and 27.3% in the second wealth quintile in the most recent DHS (Demographic Health Survey). Prevalence of stunting was highest at 44.3% and Moderate Acute ...

Satellite Spies Fresh Clearing Of Wildlife Sanctuary Forest
The Cambodia Daily
The area highlighted in the top image shows thousands of hectares of forest that have been clear-cut from the Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province since the start of last year. (USGS). It shows more than a third of the sanctuary's once ...

Preah Vihear: Here is Why this UNESCO World Heritage site in Cambodia is popular among Tourists!
http://www.newsgram.com/
... is Why this UNESCO World Heritage site in Cambodia is popular among Tourists! Affording a view for many kilometers across a plain, Prasat Preah Vihear has the most spectacular setting of all the temples built during the six-centuries-long Khmer Empire.

Storm Destroys Preah Vihear Homes, Kills One
The Cambodia Daily
Fierce winds that jolted Preah Vihear province for 15 minutes on Sunday afternoon destroyed 17 houses in Choam Ksan district's Ramdoh Sre commune, killing one resident, an official said on Monday. Hak Yuth, deputy Choam Ksan district police chief, said ...
Logger loses leg in mine explosionKhmer Times

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Sugar Plantation in Preah Vihear Suspected in Mass Fish Deaths
The Cambodia Daily
The Environment Ministry is studying water samples from Preah Vihear province to find out what has been killing thousands of fish in the Stung Sen River, where villagers are reportedly blaming a sugarcane plantation. A report posted to the National ...
Fish deaths probed in Preah VihearThe Phnom Penh Post

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Soldier Killed by Lightning Strike in Preah Vihear
The Cambodia Daily
Lightning struck and killed a 57-year-old soldier harvesting cassava in a heavy storm in Preah Vihear province, police said yesterday. Seng Thy, a soldier in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces' Intervention Division 3, was working on a farm for extra ...
Soldier dead in lightning strikeKhmer Times

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