The Ministry of Land Management has again accused rights group Licadho of spreading false data that shows that the number of families embroiled in new or intensifying land disputes jumped threefold last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni, Queen Mother Norodom Monineath and Prime MiniSter Hun Sen on ThurSday preSided over the inauguration of Cambodia&rSquo;S firSt geriatric center at the Khmer-Soviet FriendShip HoSpital in Phnom Penh. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government could be forced to shell out more than $120 million [≈ Finance industry 2011 political donations] to build new landfills over the next decade unless it invests in preventing Phnom Penh’s current site from reaching capacity, according to a pair of new reports. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday ordered the arrest of opposition senator Hong sok Hour for “treason” over a fake treaty the senator posted to Facebook that purported to show Heng samrin, as Cambodia’s head of state in 1979, pledging to dissolve the border between ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following orders from Prime Minister Hun sen, opposition senator Hong sok Hour was arrested and charged with forgery and incitement over the weekend for posting an apparently fake treaty with Vietnam to Facebook. ss='cambodia-color'>...

“Turn the lights off soon, or people will see us,” the young fisherman said in a muted voice that was barely audible, even in the pre-dawn quiet. The fact that fishermen are resorting to sneaking into the lake’s protected areas speaks of an alarming ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the Council of Ministers and the Justice Ministry will meet today to discuss the arrest of former opposition senator Hong sok Hour. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister, minister for foreign affairs Hor Namhong said, French will soon send the Cambodia’s requested-maps.The France will soon be send next week or next two week the maps requested by government to Cambodia, he underlined. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian official in charge of the country’s borders denounced an opposition lawmaker who accused him of lying about a map of the southeast Asian nation he found in the U.s. Library of Congress, amid ongoing debate over the charts that the government uses to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition has accused Prime Minister Hun sen’s government of a litany of sins, including ceding territory and allowing Vietnamese companies to exploit Cambodian resources. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital will receive an additional $2 million this year from the government purse, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft (MIH), in partnership with the Republic of Korea, have conducted a training programme to sensitize policymakers to the requirements for upgrading the country’s quality infrastructure (QI). ss='cambodia-color'>...

An “annoyed” Malaysian employer fought back yesterday against allegations made last week by the mother of her maid, who had claimed her daughter had been forced to take drugs and work without enough food. After reading those allegations, the employer, Cynthia Lim, yesterday told Malaysian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Moody’s Investor services will review ACLEDA Bank and Cambodian Public Bank (Campu Bank) for potential downgrades, according to a release from the rating agency on Wednesday. But the move comes primarily as a response to the global financial crisis and the rating agency’s attempt to realign sovereign ratings with ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Special Panel of the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal yeSterday “unanimouSly diSmiSSed” the former Khmer Rouge&rSquo;S top leader Khieu Samphan&rSquo;S application for diSqualification of the Six appeal judgeS who adjudicated in CaSe 002/01 over crimeS againSt humanity. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese company “Jiangsu General science Technology Co Ltd” has invested nearly $300 million to build the largest tyre factory in the sihanoukville special Economic Zone (ssEZ), according to Beijing’s embassy in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kratie province – Cambodia’s transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of Asia’s most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a backwards lurch in human rights and land policies that critics say are entrenching poverty. Next week’s visit by Barack Obama, the fist by a U.s. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Korean-style forest park will be set up near Angkor Wat Buddhist temple complex, Cambodia’s most famous tourist destination, using south Korean forest management technology. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six monthS after Prime MiniSter Hun Sen ordered a moratorium on the granting of economic land conceSSionS (ELCS) and a legal review of the conceSSionS that already exiSt, the Agriculture MiniStry haS yet to begin the review proceSS due to rain, and the danger of SS='cambodia-color'>...