<p>Authorities in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary seized a stockpile of first- and second-grade luxury timber on Saturday, while a truck hauling wood was intercepted by authorities in Kratie province in the early hours of yesterday morning. No arrests have been made in either case, authorities ...p>

<p>The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has appealed to prime Minister Hun Sen to delay a crackdown on oversized trucks, which has already forced more than half of the vehicles serving the garment industry off of the roads since it was called for by ...p>

<p>Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive industry, including some projects expected to be approved before the end of the year, now equals $1.3 billion, making it one of the most valuable economic sectors in the kingdom, according to data from the Ministry of Mines ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Land Management on Thursday morning said it has resolved two long-running land disputes between communities in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts and two sugar companies owned by tycoon and ruling party Senator Ly Yong phat involving more than 800 ...p>

<p>The National Bank of Cambodia rolled out a new mechanism yesterday that offers immediate liquidity to financial institutions to cover their payments and reserve obligations, while giving the central bank greater control over the country’s money supply and moving toward the establishment of a benchmark ...p>

<p>The US and Royal Cambodian Navy joined forces yesterday for the opening ceremony of the seventh annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness Training (CARAT) exercise at Ream Naval Base, a joint maritime training exercise that since 2010 has aimed to increase cooperation and strengthen security at sea ...p>

<p>Four Cambodian products – Kampot salt, phnom Srok silk of Banteay Meanchey province, fragrant milled rice from Battambang province and Kampot durian – could be given geographical indication (GI) status by the European Union (EU), said a senior official from the Ministry of Commerce and ...p>

<p>Transport Minister Sun Chanthol has vowed to reinvigorate a long-dormant project to connect the Kingdom’s sole operating railway line to the capital’s biggest industrial park – a move that would boost rail traffic ahead of the completion of a rail link to northwestern Cambodia and ...p>

<p>Alex Corporation, the firm behind a proposal for an ambitious Mondulkiri mining project, appears to be ultimately owned by ruling party Senator Lao Meng Khin and his wife, Choeung Sopheap, the post has discovered, a scenario rights groups say should give cause for concern.​ ...p>

<p>Chroy Changvar district residents affected by the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation’s (OCIC) satellite city project have again appealed to authorities to help them solve their land dispute, especially ahead of the upcoming commune elections, instead of the phnom penh city hall’s below market value compensation ...p>

<p>Micro-Credit Ratings International Ltd (M-CRIL), an Indian provider of rating and advisory services to the microfinance industry, has secured a $1.5 million equity investment agreement from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to push into emerging markets including Cambodia, the ADB said in an announcement last ...p>

<p>Eleven wild elephants were rescued on Saturday in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima protected area after becoming trapped in a former bomb crater without food for four days, though rangers will continue to monitor the herd to ensure it reaccepts one juvenile who was handled by humans ...p>

<p>The chief of the Banteay Meanchey provincial prison has denied allegations of inmate torture, amid calls from a local rights official for an investigation.&nbsp;prison director Oung Siphan, through a clarification letter issued on Monday, challenged a foreign radio broadcast that alleged provincial prison officials tortured ...p>

<p>Work by military engineers on a contentious road skirting Cambodia’s border with Laos – which has prompted a military stand-off in the area – has quietly resumed, local officials say, even as run-ins between Cambodian and Lao military patrols in the disputed area have further ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) is planning to form a joint committee chaired by government officials and microfinance institutions (MFIs) to promote small loan disbursements as the new 18 percent loan interest rate cap takes effect, according to an announcement released by the ...p>

<p>Cambodia is to open commercial centres in China to help Chinese investors understand the potential of Cambodia.&nbsp;The centres will soon be established in some provinces, prime Minister Hun Sen said on his Facebook page during his trip to the Commercial and Tourism Cooperation Forum in ...p>

<p>After Grassroots Democracy party (GDp) candidates for the upcoming commune elections took their seats inside the leafy grounds of the party headquarters in phnom penh for a pre-election congress on Thursday, they rose to their feet and bowed their heads in remembrance of their founding ...p>

<p>Ink that will be used to mark voters’ fingers during the June 4 commune election is trustworthy, prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday, two weeks after the country’s top election committee found that a sample batch of the stainer could be rubbed out with ...p>

<p>Rent Japan Group Inc, a publicly listed Japanese company that specializes in the recycling and reuse of consumer products, will establish a joint venture with a Japanese financial services firm to launch a new leasing company in Cambodia, it said in a filing yesterday to ...p>

<p>Local authorities in poipet are grappling with a dilemma of their own making after the ruling party for months footed the bill to make day passes to enter Thailand free for Cambodian vendors – a populist move now complicated by the Cpp’s apparent electoral loss ...p>