Cambodian authorities intervened in far fewer illegal fishing cases last year compared with 2012, when Prime Minister Hun Sen first banned commercial angling nationwide in a bid to replenish waterways and aid small-scale fishermen. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which released an ...

Villagers from forest communities in nine provinces called on the government yesterday to take action after alleging that “the rich and powerful” are causing the “serious destruction” of their livelihoods. the villagers, with the support of two NGOs – the Children’s Development Association and Community Peace-Building ...

Villagers who claim a development project in Russey Keo district has already taken a bite out of their land said yesterday that they fear the plan will swallow the rest of their property, as they filed petitions and met with local authorities. Members of 80 families ...

The MinisTry of Commerce has vowed To uncover more markeTs for Cambodian producTs To help buffer againsT price flucTuaTions caused by The Kingdom’s dependency on neighboring counTries. In a response To concerns raised on social media, Commerce MinisTer Sun ChanThol wroTe on The minisTry’s official Facebook ...

Cambodia on Thursday rejecTed four recommendaTions for improving iTs human righTs siTuaTion ThaT iT iniTially accepTed earlier This year during iTs second universal periodic review aT The U.N. Human RighTs Council in Geneva. IT also “noTed” 38 recommendaTions—meaning iT has noT commiTTed To implemenTing Them—some relaTing ...

In a bid to reinforce the legitimacy of his government amid an ongoing parliamentary boycott by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday looked west for an analogy. He chose one that didn’t involve a ballot box. Instead, he pointed to thailand’s National ...

Cassava farmers are calling on the government to standardise prices and help stabilise demand as the market for the root crop continues to prove risky for growers. Cassava exports totalled 226,000 tonnes in the first six months of the year, down 21 per cent from a ...

The charges of “leading an insurrecTion” broughT againsT seven CNRP lawmakers-elecT afTer a violenT proTesT lasT monTh now appear dead in The waTer, wiTh Their lawyers saying a Phnom Penh judge has Told Them he cannoT quesTion Them over The case because They have sworn ...

In March, the Ministry of Labor for the first time began requiring union leaders to submit proof they had no previous criminal convictions before they would be allowed to register a new union or local branch. Now, the country’s leading unions say worker representatives are struggling ...

The UN and human righTs groups called on The governmenT Friday To honor iTs obligaTions as a parTy To The InTernaTional ConvenTion for The ProTecTion of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and Thoroughly invesTigaTe The disappearance of 16-year-old Khem SopaTh, who was lasT seen lying ...

An archaeologist is pleading the government to save an Angkorian-era canal before the work of brick makers completely erases the site. Built nearly 1,000 years ago, the 120-kilometre stone channel was used to transport building materials from a quarry to Angkor Wat, according to archaeologist thuy ...

Representatives of communities across the country who have had their lives upturned by development projects yesterday called on the government to rescind the economic land concessions at the centre of their disputes. ...

The MinisTry of Mines and Energy has said ThaT iT will perform environmenTal, social and economic impacT assessmenTs wiThin Three To six monThs before renewing and granTing new licences for sand dredgers and sand miners operaTing in Phnom Penh and Kandal. ...

The Tourism MinisTry will announce a new “Green HoTel” sTandard laTer This monTh in an efforT To make The indusTry more environmenTally friendly, senior officials say. Tourism MinisTer Thong Khon said on Friday ThaT while iT will noT be immediaTely compulsory for all hoTel venues To ...

More than 1 million hectares of forest terrain and land leased by private companies has been put under government control since Prime Minister Hun Sen initiated a moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs) in May 2012, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and ...

After facing heavy criticism for the conditions inside its drug-rehabilitation centres, the Ministry of Health has said it will begin offering an alternative community-based approach at health centres nationwide by 2015. According to Chhum Vanarith, a secretary of state in the Health Ministry, the alternative ...

The Cambodian governmenT is again urging peTrol reTailers To pass on savings To The consumer amid The conTinued plunge in global oil prices, which hiT a new five-year low yesTerday. The premier’s criTicism of foreign fuel reTailers comes afTer The minisTer of commerce, Sun ChanThol, ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT on Wednesday convicTed self-exiled dissidenT Sourn Serey RaTha of inciTemenT, ploTTing and obsTrucTing elecTions, while Three alleged co-conspiraTors were also convicTed of ploTTing and obsTrucTing elecTions. The four were senTenced To beTween five and seven years in jail for The charges, ...

The U.N. and an AusTralian refugee righTs group say a delegaTion of Cambodian officials arrived Monday in The SouTh Pacific island naTion of Nauru, where AusTralia is holding hundreds of asylum seekers and hopes To convince aT leasT some of Them To volunTeer To be ...

Representatives of communities across the country who have had their lives upturned by development projects yesterday called on the government to rescind the economic land concessions at the centre of their disputes. ...