<p>There is no security need for Cambodia to have a foreign military base. Although sovereignty disputes and border tensions between Cambodia and its neighbors remain unresolved and sometimes violence occurs, Cambodia will never seek to use force or threaten to use force against its neighbours, ...p>

<p>Speaking at a workshop entitled Disability Inclusion into Climate Change in phnom penh on Tuesday, Jolly, who is the climate change adaptation consultant at the United Nations Development programme (UNDp), requested the government to consider the difficulties facing people with disabilities when drafting government policy ...p>

<p>Wildlife and biodiversity conservation groups have called for an end to the use of snares to kill wild animals. They say it is the most destructive and inhumane method to hunt and denounced all killing of rare and endangered species – such as tigers, leopards, ...p>

<p>The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) has fashioned nearly 10,000 old and damaged weapons into elephants, trucks, maps and clocks to be kept at the peace Museum of Mine Action in Siem Reap province. It will help future generations learn about the violence of the ...p>

<p>Cambodia signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract on the “promotion of paddy production and Rice Exports project” with Chinese state-owned company CITIC Construction Co Ltd to build rice storage facilities and drying silos in strategic locations in the Kingdom, the Ministry of Economy and ...p>

<p>International wildlife and forest conservation organisation, Wildlife Alliance, said on Monday that 2,300 chainsaws were seized from illegal loggers in the Southern Cardamom Mountains in the last two years. The seizing of the chainsaws is a joint programme initiated by the Ministry of Environment and ...p>

<p>Informal businesses owned by Chinese nationals are on the rise in central phnom penh, especially in Tonle Bassac commune, surrounding Koh pich.&nbsp;Such businesses have sprung up notably in Central Market, Orussey Market, Sovanna Shopping Mall, Rattana plaza, as well as Kakab commune across from phnom ...p>

<p>A Chinese-backed plan for Cambodia to build the Mekong River’s biggest dam would destroy fisheries that feed millions and worsen tensions with Vietnam, the downstream country with most to lose from dams on the waterway, according to a three-year study commissioned by the Cambodian government. ...p>

<p>More than 500 families from Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district protested on Saturday in a renewed call to be allowed to mine for gold at depths of more than 20 metres. The families, rallying in Chong plas commune, also accused a Chinese firm of destroying ...p>

<p>The World Bank is to lend Cambodia $110 million interest-free to restore the key national highway linking phnom penh to the country’s only deep-sea port. The loan was approved last week by the bank’s board of executive directors under the Road Asset Management project II. ...p>

<p>The Cambodian government collected more than $1 billion in tax revenue in the first five months of the year, an increase of more than 12 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a monthly report from the General Department of Taxation (GDT) ...p>

<p>In a bid to rid the country of corruption, Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday urged Cpp officials to eliminate the practice of paying bribes for promotions. At a Cpp meeting in prey Veng province yesterday, Mr Kheng said that the practice of paying for promotions ...p>

<p>Rice wine operations in Kratie province have been shut down indefinitely with immediate effect after a toxic batch recently killed several people and hospitalised others. Kratie provincial industry and handicraft department head Ny Chhun said the objective of the move is to reduce the harm ...p>

<p>Four suspects were jailed Thursday for illegally harvesting luxury timber from a protected forest in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district, a court official said yesterday. Morm Vanda, a provincial court spokesman, yesterday said the four were jailed after being suspected of illegal logging in a ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen has warned that ministers who do not delegate responsibilities to the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development by 2020 would be removed from office, said Ngan Chamroeun, the body’s secretary-general, who is also a secretary of state at the Ministry of ...p>

<p>More than 200 workers from prestige Garment Co Ltd in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district have petitioned the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training for an intervention after the factory owner refused to reinstate their sacked representative who stands accused of intending to form a ...p>

<p>Three hulking Chinese warships docked in Cambodia Wednesday for a four-day visit, as Beijing parades its naval prowess alongside its staunch Southeast Asian ally. China is the largest investor in Cambodia and has pumped billions into the economy while asking few questions about its abysmal ...p>

<p>Ten villagers were briefly detained by Ream National park rangers in preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday and instructed to dismantle their tarpaulins from aconservation area. Authorities said the villagers had secretly erected their tents there in order to illegally settle down and clear state forest ...p>

<p>Ouk Chetana, a 39-year-old mother of two, sits on a bamboo bed in a temporary home after the house she had lived in since 2009 was destroyed by authorities, as the village she shared with some 200 other families was deemed to have encroached on ...p>

<p>Authorities in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district on Monday denied the claims of some 30 families in Roka Khpos commune that there are plans to confiscate their land to construct a wastewater treatment facility, saying that long-term local residents no longer own land in the area. ...p>