<p>The provincial government on Tuesday ordered the creation of a forum in a bid to find a resolution in the 10-year land dispute between 12 ethnic minority communities in Ratanakkiri province and Vietnamese agribusiness giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) over 20 ancestral “spirit mountains”. ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the World Food programme (WFp) have signed a $50 million aid plan aimed to reduce food security and nutrition. The Cambodia Country Strategic plan 2019-2023 was approved by the WFp council on February 27 in Italy. ...p>

<p>Environmental activists have launched the “Rescue Island” campaign to urge the government to preserve Koh Kong province’s Koh Kong Krao island, Cambodia’s largest, as a national park. They are concerned that development could destroy forever the natural beauty of the 103sq km island. ...p>

<p>The president of the Khmer Rise party, Sok Sovann Vathana Sabung is preparing a request for prime Minister Hun Sen to review the cases of 224 families who claim irregularities after buying plots of land in Kandal province from Bun Chan Krishna’s JameCam Company. ...p>

<p>About 70 people representing thousands of Kampong Speu province households yesterday gathered once again in front of the Land Management Ministry to appeal to the authorities to take action against three rubber plantations and a sugar cane plantation over more than 2,000 hectares of disputed ...p>

<p>The Minister of Agriculture yesterday said the government’s programme to boost agricultural output is well on its way to achieve its goals, but called on farmers and firms to modernise and abide by international standards of agricultural and production practice to ensure the programme’s success. ...p>

<p>Interior Minister Sar Kheng has slammed the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) which organised the 1993 elections. He said there were irregularities under UNTAC’s supervision of the polls, and despite spending $2 billion to bring democracy and peace to the country, war still ...p>

<p>After winning all 125 seats in the National Assembly, senior officers of the Cambodian people’s party on Thursday defended their victory by taking to international and local media to call out countries that condemned the election. They also criticised members of a former opposition party. ...p>

<p>Heng Sok, who represented 50 families in a land dispute with Oknha Ly Yong phat was sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined two million riel ($500) by the Koh Kong provincial Court on Tuesday, on a charge of “using violence on a property ...p>

<p>Ministry of Environment senior officials yesterday urged people, especially students, to invent substances to replace those which harm the ozone layer. The call was made during a workshop on “The Implementation of Montreal protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in Cambodia” held at ...p>

<p>A senior land management ministry official has warned that officials will take action against land dealers who sell unregistered plots amid a market boom. The warning came as the Ministry of Land Management yesterday held a workshop in phnom penh to disseminate a directive on ...p>

<p>The government has vowed to combat the illegal wildlife trade and cooperate with foreign countries to conserve the Kingdom’s natural resources. Environment Minister Say Samal made the commitment during a wildlife awareness event with British Ambassador Tina Redshaw at her residence in phnom penh on ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen has left for his European tour, which will include attending an Asia-Europe meeting organised by the EU. Departing at 12:20am, he will lead a delegation at the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, Belgium. ...p>

<p>Kampong Speu palm Sugar, which has a geographical indication (GI) status, is seeing lower production due to a labour shortage. Kampong Speu palm Sugar promotion Association (KSpSpA) president, Sam Saroeun, said on Tuesday that production fell from 300 tonnes last year to 250 tonnes this ...p>

<p>The teuk phos district authority in Kampong Chhnang province has released a driver of an overloaded truck which broke a Khlong popoak commune Bailey bridge after the company owner promised to pay damages and restore the bridge, the district military police commander Den Sambun said ...p>

<p>About 300 farmers and some civil society organisations yesterday launched a campaign to celebrate Human Rights Day in Svay Rieng province, where they appealed to the government and local authorities to attend to the basic needs of farmers, resolve land issues and promote human rights ...p>

<p>The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) recorded its highest ever trading volume on Monday, exchanging 2,150,535 shares with a total value of more than $4.43 million, according to a CSX press release. The previous record was 939,498 shares traded on July 5, 2017. ...p>

<p>Forest rangers and the prey Lang Community Network (pLCN) said on Tuesday that forest in the phnom Tnort-phnom pok and prey Lang wildlife sanctuaries in preah Vihear province are being cleared by groups of perpetrators from Kampong Thom, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap and Battambang provinces. ...p>

<p>Some 1,000 villagers on Tuesday blocked National Road 2 in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, each demanding compensation of $250 from the provincial authority for communal land they claim a former commune chief sold to a well-connected developer without their knowledge in 2008. ...p>

<p>Those wishing to export their goods to the EU under the tax-free preferential scheme, Everything but Arms (EBA), are no longer required to apply for a Certificate of Origin (CO), according to a joint announcement from the ministries of Commerce, and Economy and Finance on ...p>