<p>Families forced to relocate due to the construction of the Lower Sesan II Dam are asking Stung Treng provincial authorities to register their new village as indigenous collective lands.&nbsp;The 67 families from Sre Ko commune received authorisation to set up the new village on their ...p>

<p>phnom penh City Hall yesterday said that demonstrations, strikes and protests increased last year when compared to 2016.&nbsp;A report released yesterday said that 2017 saw 1,760 demonstrations, strikes and protests, an increase of 162 compared to 2016.&nbsp;Last year, there were 613 protests by citizens and ...p>

<p>UN rights experts yesterday urged the government to reconsider constitutional amendments, including a law that forbids insulting the monarchy, saying the changes were too vague and failed to meet international standards.&nbsp;parliament last week adopted a law that forbids insulting the monarchy, along with other amendments ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen has announced his support of a planned waterway taxi service and encouraged those in charge of the project to ensure its launch before the Khmer New Year.&nbsp;Speaking at a river festival in Kandal province’s Takhmao city on Saturday, Mr Hun Sen ...p>

<p>Rhona Smith, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia, who is on a three-day trip to the Kingdom, yesterday voiced her concern about overcrowding in prisons caused by an increase in temporary detentions before trials.&nbsp;Ms. Smith, on her third visit to Cambodia, raised ...p>

<p>In an effort to improve the governance of the Kingdom’s mining industry, with a focus on increasing revenue generation, the government has approved 11 articles largely concerning export permits for mined resources.&nbsp;A September 22 sub-decree signed by prime Minister Hun Sen, but released by the ...p>

<p>Up to 10,000 Cambodians seek legal employment abroad every month, according to a Labor Ministry official, and some civil society groups are not pleased with the large exodus of workers from the country.&nbsp;Labor Minister Ith Samheng told reporters on Wednesday that the government sends thousands ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Transport has started checking trucks traveling along National Road 6 to ensure they conform to legal size and modification requirements, it announced this week.&nbsp;According to a post on the ministry’s Facebook page, mobile inspection teams were deployed in Kampong Cham province to ...p>

<p>The first ever smartphone tax app is set to be launched next year in an effort to make tax payments by companies more transparent.&nbsp;The app developed by the General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, is a platform for individuals ...p>

<p>The 50 percent drop in revenue of the phnom penh Special Economic Zone (ppSEZ) recently announced for the first nine months of the year is due mainly to a significant decline in land sales, a senior official said yesterday.&nbsp;According to the initial, un-audited revenue statement ...p>

<p>The central banks of Cambodia and China are in talks to share customers’ credit reports in an effort to boost bilateral private investment, as a response to rising trade between the two countries.&nbsp;The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) director general Chea Serey told Khmer Times ...p>

<p>King Norodom Sihamoni ordered last week that the phnom penh boundaries be expanded to include portions from neighboring Kandal province in a bid to improve the city’s development.&nbsp;In a royal decree dated November 11, but only released on November 21, King Sihamoni ordered the government ...p>

<p>pursat provincial police have launched a week-long campaign to crack down on widespread illegal fishing.&nbsp;Authorities say they have confiscated and destroyed many kinds of illegal fishing equipment on the Tonle Sap Lake from Kampon Loung in Krakor district to the Kampong Chhang province border.&nbsp;pursat deputy ...p>

<p>After being questioned for more than two hours at the National Assembly yesterday, Environment Minister Say Samal claimed the number of forest crimes decreased in 2016, but acknowledged that some government officials were involved in some of the crimes.&nbsp;A recently released report from the University ...p>

<p>The price per kilogram of cassava exports from Cambodia has fallen this year due to plunging market prices and a lack of processing centers in the country.&nbsp;The price of dried cassava in northeastern Rattanakiri province is down to 410 riel (about $0.10) per kilogram and ...p>

<p>Thirty-eight civil society groups have formed a situation room to monitor the upcoming commune elections in a bid to ensure a free and fair electoral process. During a press conference in phnom penh yesterday, members of the situation room explained that despite having insufficient observers ...p>

<p>The trade volume between Cambodia and the United States in 2016 reached about $3 billion, while nearly 240,000 American tourists visited the kingdom. Foreign Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry told reporters yesterday after a meeting between Foreign Minister prak Sokhonn and Mom Rady, a Democratic member ...p>

<p>Laillou was stunned to find that 90 percent of coarse salt and 40-50 percent of fine salt was now not iodized. And all of it was labeled as iodized. Online journal Nutrients said iodine deficiency in Cambodia had become “a serious public health problem” just ...p>

<p>The Indian Embassy to Cambodia has given a $50,000 grant for a project to help stop the spread of tuberculosis in the kingdom. During a press conference at the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT) on Friday, Operation ASHA programme director Dr Narith ...p>

<p>Cambodian youngsters are being invited to take part in a video contest on the theme “Asean Against Trafficking – Humans Are Not For Sale”.&nbsp;The Cambodia Human Rights Committee (CHRC) has announced its support for the Asean Youth Video Competition, which aims to raise public awareness ...p>