The cabinet of Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday accepted a petition from villagers from Kratie province’s snuol district who are requesting intervention in a land dispute with a plantation owner. Kong Chamroeun, a secretary in the prime minister’s cabinet, met about 100 villagers at Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

When two middle-aged novices emerged with signs protesting the development of disputed land near the tip of the Chroy Changva peninsula on Thursday, one of the country’s foremost anti-eviction activists was there to tell them they were doing it all wrong. Ms. Vanny, who was ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of unions in the U.K. is urging its government to make sure British brands sourcing clothes from Cambodian factories respect their workers’ rights, and to ask the European Union to negotiate a deal with the Cambodian government to improve factory conditions. In a July ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of workers in Preah sihanouk province marched on the local labour department yesterday after three days of protests against the sacking of seven employees. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of housing rights protesters and evictees clashed with security forces outside Phnom Penh on Monday, leaving at least nine people with minor injuries. The clash was one of the first since major violence over Freedom Park in the capital in July. Protesters gathered outside the National ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 70 residents from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district were blocked on saturday from marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s Phnom Penh villa, where they planned to appeal for support in a long-running land dispute. The residents were representing 134 families from four villages in Chhvang ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Israeli gaming firm behind sihanoukville’s Queenco Casino is seeking investors to expand its operations in the seaside town, according to a report released by the company last week, but after six months of “cash flow distress” and losses of more than $1 million, those ss='cambodia-color'>...

After promising in early september to settle a land dispute between farmers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of a government minister within a week, the National Assembly’s human rights commission has yet to find common ground between the two ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court yeSterday upheld the murder convictionS of former Phnom Penh Municipal Police chief Heng Pov and three otherS in the caSe of the 2003 killing of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamoni. DefendantS Pov, Ly RaSy, Hang Vutha and Prum Sophearith have been SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 demonstrators continued to stage an anti-eviction protest in front of Koh Kong province’s city hall after a jailed community leader was denied bail yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen plans to visit seoul next week for talks with south Korean President Park Geun-hye on furthering their economic partnership, Park’s office said Friday. The two leaders are set to hold talks on saturday on how to boost bilateral cooperation in such ss='cambodia-color'>...

Staff at the Phnom Penh Municipal Referral HoSpital Said TueSday that they had no record of a recent viSit from a man who died late laSt month at the Prey Speu Social affairS center, contradicting claimS made by a city official. Both a file Search by SS='cambodia-color'>...

A day after the Appeal Court denied bail to the parents of fugitive defense ministry official Thong sarath, municipal police and court officials Wednesday searched three residences belonging to the family and seized three AK-47 rifles at one of the homes.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local authorities investigating a house in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district confiscated more than 260 containers of fertilizer and insecticide Wednesday morning after neighbors of a Chinese man complained of a noxious smell emanating from his house, which they feared might have been a dangerous ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Thoy Kimsean, the wife of Takhmao town Governor Eam samay, over allegations she issued a fake cheque worth $185,000 in 2013. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was imprisoned Wednesday evening after being arrested at his family’s snake House restaurant in sihanoukville for failing to appear in court to be questioned over fraud charges related to a dispute with his rival, fugitive developer sergei Polonsky. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday delayed the trial of fugitive Defense Ministry official Thong sarath’s parents, who are facing charges of possessing illegal firearms. ss='cambodia-color'>...