“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'>...

Cambodian authorities have disrupted several events held by nongovernmental organizations and have threatened to arrest anyone holding protests ahead of sensitive regional summits to be held in the capital Phnom Penh, rights groups said Wednesday. The Independent Democracy of Informal Economic Association (IDEA) said authorities in ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than four years after the violent forced eviction of about 800 families from Dey Krahorm in the capital’s high-rent Tonle Bassac commune, small-scale construction is finally beginning on the site. In the past month, the skeletons of a future barbecue restaurant and a beer garden ss='cambodia-color'>...

The elusive Mekong giant catfish, which the U.s.-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called “one of the world’s largest and rarest freshwater fish,” can reach up to three meters (10 feet) and weigh up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds). The Xayaburi dam would prove an “impassable barrier” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong made another appeal to Australia for additional funds to complete a behind-schedule project to rehabilitate the country’s railway network, this time to newly appointed Australian Ambassador Alison Burrows, according to a ministry spokesman. While work on the southern Line of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forty-four Number One and OK condom packers, out of work since their contracts ended on sunday, protested outside the office of health NGO Population services Khmer (PsK) in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding “unpaid” seniority bonuses. Representative so Nita said the workers, four of whom have physical ss='cambodia-color'>...