Lawmakers in the U.s. and human rights activists are pushing for cuts of more than $70 million in aid to Cambodia if Prime Minister Hun sen wins the July 28 elections. Many factors have pushed the U.s. to this point be it unfair and unjust, such ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported about 31,000 tonnes of rice in July, a 40 per cent seasonal increase from the average of 22,000 tonnes for first five months of this year. Official data show that Cambodia exported 207,000 tonnes from January through July, an amount surpassing the 205,000 tonnes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty Tampuon ethnic minority families protested yesterday in front of the soeung Commune Hall in Bakeo district against their commune chief, who they allege sold land that belonged to the Ratanakkiri community. In a complaint filed to rights group Adhoc yesterday, the families claim that commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of a land dispute between a 70-year old woman from Kompong Chhang province and a company owned by the wife of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy over a 3,000 square meter parcel of land. In May ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 555-metre tower planned for Diamond Island is to go ahead, and expert engineers from China and Vietnam are studying the river bank and calculating the strength of the foundations needed to support the building. The building plan will not be changed and now the company ss='cambodia-color'>...

The wizened cyclo driver, cigarette in mouth, muscles taut from pedalling up and down French-style boulevards, is one of Indochina’s enduring romantic images. But cyclos on the streets of Phnom Penh are now outnumbered by another means of transport: the luxury car. But with the urban ss='cambodia-color'>...

តាំង​ពី​ឆ្នាំ​២០០៧​មក ​អង្គការ ផេក​ (​P​act)បាននិង​កំពុង​អនុវត្ត​សហ​ប្រតិ​បត្តិ​​​​កា​រ​ជាមួយ​​​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​​ក្នុងការ​ប្រែ​ក្លាយ​ដី​ព្រៃ​ទំហំ​៦៨.០០០​ហិកតា​ ​នៅខេត្ត​ឧត្តរ​មា​ន​ជ័​យ​​​ឲ្យ​ក្លាយ​ជាដី​ ដែល ss='cambodia-color'>...

The military’s ongoing clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey province risks derailing Cambodia’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme backed by the U.N., according to the latest assessment of the project. Community forest groups, who stand to earn millions from the project, said on Wednesday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Young Cambodians will now learn about tourism in grades 11 and 12, according to the new curriculum for public education that was launched yesterday. The development is aimed at enhancing quality in the tourism sector, officials said during a press conference. The new curriculum covers the ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia has made considerable strides in its banking sector, it still lags behind countries in the region in the areas of e-banking and access to services, industry experts attending the Fifth Banking and Microfinance Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction of a special economic zone (sEZ) near the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province’s eastern O’Yad­aw district is on track, but who exactly will avail of the facility and its services remains a mystery—even for senior provincial officials. The latest announced venture of agro-industry land concession ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inside the grounds of this city’s old provincial hall, past a green corrugated iron fence, municipal street cleaners and their families are squatting in what was once a bustling government office filled with civil servants. Across the road, the former department of rural development is a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Phnom Penh on Wednesday banned Cambodia’s opposition party from using public spaces to collect thumbprints  for a petition calling for U.N. and foreign intervention in the country’s political crisis following disputed polls. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to collect at least 3 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s biggest international garment brands met yesterday to discuss wage issues, strikes and worker conditions, among other of the industry’s most pressing topics. But in a year marked by a fatal building collapse at the Wing star shoes factory in Kampong speu, mass demonstrations, and bankruptcies ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday defended that his newly-formed government was ” legitimate” since the nation’s King Norodom sihamoni had given endorsement. “This government is a legitimate government, which was born from the election and was endorsed by the king,” the premier said during ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister sok An has a stunning portfolio of positions within the CPP government. On Monday, CPP lawmakers once again appointed Mr. An as the Cabinet Minister for Prime Minister Hun sen. He is also the chairman of the state-controlled Cambodian National Petroleum Authority and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Myanmar’s president Thein sein congratulated Hun sen over his reappointment for a new five-year term as the Prime Minister of Cambodia for the fifth legislature. “I strongly believe that under the wise leadership of sam Dech, the relation and cooperation between our two countries will ss='cambodia-color'>...

At around 6 p.m. in Phnom Penh each evening, about 5,000 large brown bats, having spent the day dangling upside down from a tree at Wat Phnom, spread their huge wings and fly out to begin their nightly search for fruit. And as useful and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The assets of bankrupt mobile operator Mfone, which owes creditors more than $160 million, have been sold to a single buyer for the bargain price of $10 million, a lawyer involved with the case said Monday. Khan sereyvuthy, a legal adviser to the government-appointed administrator handling ss='cambodia-color'>...

A recent claim by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) that a public health officer accused of demanding bribes to manipulate lucrative contracts did nothing wrong contradicts admissions of illegal activity by both the government and the officer himself, according to interviews and email messages reproduced in ss='cambodia-color'>...