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Soy Sinol, Director of Kampot Provincial Department of Tourism, has stated that tourism operators have committed to eradicate the illegal use of narcotics in the province

Kampot provincial governor Mao Thonin offered a former battlefield turned banana plantation as an example of one of the province’s great success stories.

Pivoting from cutting bamboos to collecting non-timber forest products, nearly all of the working-age population of Taken commune in Kampot province’s Chhouk district have been working on the banana plantations of Longmate Agriculture Co Ltd since 2017.

Pivoting from cutting bamboos to collecting non-timber forest products, nearly all of the working-age population of Taken commune in Kampot province’s Chhouk district have been working on the banana plantations of Longmate Agriculture Co Ltd since 2017. Unlike recent claims made in international media, many of them say this change has benefitted themselves and their families.

Over 400 farmers and rice traders have requested that Kampot provincial governor Mao Thonin reopen the Prek Ansa corridor border crossing in Prey Tonle commune of Kampot’s Banteay Meas district to make it easier for them to sell rice to Vietnam.

The Kampot provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has told district authorities and relevant units to instruct slaughterhouses across the province to stop slaughtering animals on Buddhist Sila day, or holy day, starting October 29.

The Kampot provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has told district authorities and relevant units to instruct slaughterhouses across the province to stop slaughtering animals on Buddhist Sila day, or holy day, starting October 29.

An inter-ministerial committee and the Kampot provincial technical administrative committee have agreed to implement a one-month plan from March 1-31 to assess and update the number of trees remaining in mangrove forests in the province. However, a civil society organisation official said the move was too slow because some mangrove areas have already been lost. Kampot provincial administration director Veth Vathana said on March 2 that the inter-ministerial committee made up of the Ministry of...

Share Paper mill lifts Kampot’s hopes Thu, 4 March 2021 Reports of government approval for what could become the Kingdom’s first pulp and paper mill in Kampot province’s Teuk Chhou district have galvanised investment hopes and instilled a renewed sense of opportunity in the southwestern coastal province. Last month, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) agreed to issue a final registration certificate for Shunying Pulp And Paper Co Ltd’s $504 million factory in Prek Tnaot co...

An inter-ministerial committee and the Kampot provincial technical administrative committee have agreed to implement a one-month plan from March 1-31 to assess and update the number of trees remaining in mangrove forests in the province.