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.
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Four more former NagaWorld employees have agreed to accept severance payments and terminate their employment contracts, while 111 others are continuing to refuse compensation, according to a January 31 press release from the Ministry of Labour and Vocational training.
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A small march vaguely calling for “morality” in the country’s politics faced obstacles within the first day of its planned 10-day trek from Phnom Penh to Pursat as authorities blocked them from sleeping at a pagoda. Around 50 people gathered near Phnom Penh’s Wat Phnom on Wednesday to begin the nationalist march, as participants waved Cambodian and Buddhist flags. The march was organized by the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association, an opposition-aligned body formerly led by union leader Rong Chhun, who recently joined the Candlelight Party.
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Cambodia mildly improved its score on Transparency International’s 2022 corruption index released Tuesday, but remains considered among the most corrupt countries globally. Transparency International’s (TI) 2022 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), ranked Cambodia 150th out of 180 countries. The Kingdom was ranked 157th the previous year.
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