Auditors from the Coca-Cola Company visited Oddar Meanchey province on Friday to investigate allegations of land grabbing against sugar plantations that supply the global drinks giant, but called off a community meeting because of a heavy police presence, an NGO said sunday. Chun Bora of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a visit by representatives of the Chinese company planning to build a controversial 108-MW hydropower dam in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, local officials and residents say they fear that construction on the project, which will require the evacuation of an estimated 1,500 villagers, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The freedom of the press and expression in Cambodia becomes worse this year, according the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC). ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 19-month-old girl critically injured when her mother was stabbed to death in their Phnom Penh home last month has died in a Bangkok hospital, a Dutch Embassy official confirmed Thursday. “I can confirm this,” said an official at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Bangkok, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Mondolkiri province have found a pair of rusty barrels believed to date back to the early 1970s and which officials suspect hold chemicals the U.s. used in its war against the Viet Cong to defoliate trees and eliminate cover. The officials said they did ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just after sunrise in the slums surrounding the stung Meanchey dump, Lak Han, 45, sits in the dirt outside his home methodically chopping up a large pile of rodents. For many years, like hundreds of others at the dumpsite, Mr. Han made a paltry living collecting ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s snuol district were blocked Friday from marching on Prime Minister Hun sen’s house to call for intervention in their ongoing land dispute. More than 20 Meanchey district security guards met the group at the gates of samakki Raingsey pagoda, where ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers from Koh Kong province have descended on the capital, ready to petition Prime Minister Hun sen and the government today to intervene in their long-running land dispute with prominent businessman Heng Huy. Phav Nhoeung, a representative of 15 families in sre Ambel district’s Chi Khor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tycoon Try Pheap has collected an estimated 1,500 cubic metres of timber from Forestry Administration offices since the government in July issued his companies permission to confiscate “waste wood” from their offices and from the Ministry of Environment, according to preliminary government figures obtained by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The wife of slain journalist Taing Try filed a complaint with the Kratie Provincial Court on Tuesday urging judicial officials to bring charges against two more men, including a local military police chief, for her husband’s murder on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pailin province’s ex-governor and provincial council president Y Chhien yesterday denied corruption allegations against him, describing the claims as politically motivated. The two opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party members on the nine-seat provincial council accused Chhien in mid-October of misusing $400,000 in state funds and exploiting ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior CPP official on Monday night outlined the ruling party’s stance in its stalled negotiations with the opposition CNRP on the creation of the new bipartisan election commission. The CPP is insisting that NEC members not be allowed to hold foreign passports and that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s banking and finance commission met Monday to discuss the proposed $3.8-billion budget for 2015, with lawmakers from both parliamentary parties agreeing that more specific details are needed before they can evaluate the plan, according to the commission’s deputy chairman, son Chhay. Mr. Chhay, ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP spokesman Yim sovann said Thursday that a group of businessmen close to the opposition has successfully registered a company with the Ministry of Commerce that will hold the television license promised to the party. Mr. sovann said that the CNRP received notice in the past ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six police officerS in Tbong Khmum province who opened fire during a raid on an illegal cockfight that left a man dead were SuSpended from duty WedneSday, according to a provincial police official. Chhay Oeun, 25, waS Shot dead on November 25 after being hit in SS='cambodia-color'>...

The wife of slain businessman Eng Meng Cheu, Tang Kim Chheng, has barely been involved in the investigation of her husband’s murder, despite police having charged multiple suspects, she said in an interview yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP Vice President Kem sokha on sunday assured supporters that the opposition party is still working to oust Prime Minister Hun sen from power, claiming that no other Cambodian leader has overseen the level of environmental destruction that has taken place during his time in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cintri, Phnom Penh’s sole trash-collection company, said on Tuesday that the firm was not to blame for the capital’s trash-strewn streets and that the government was using it as a scapegoat to avoid accepting responsibility for the problem. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has formed a 20-person committee to plan a sprawling memorial in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district to ensure that his legacy is preserved for generations to come, according to a government order and officials on the committee. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the highest-profile sacking since Prime Minister Hun sen promised to rid the government of corruption after the CPP’s shock losses in the July 2013 election, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s chief judge was removed this week amid claims that millions of dollars had reversed ss='cambodia-color'>...