<p>Local media in Mondulkiri province have accused established businessmen of being involved with logging in phnom prich Wildlife Sanctuary. Online newspaper Nokor Dragon said illegal logging became rampant in the national reserve, and claimed local tycoons Oeng Bunchin, San Choy, and Srieng Meng mobilized people ...p>

<p>Villagers in preah Vihear province locked in land disputes with five economic land concessions belonging to sugar cane firms have urged provincial authorities to resolve their conflicts.&nbsp;Kroeun Vong, a villager representative in Chey Sen district, said ministry officials solved some cases by giving one hectare ...p>

<p>After joining the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) family in 2016, Cambodia has been an active supporter and enthusiastic participant of the mechanism. On Dec. 21, China provided 7.3 million U.S. dollars from the LMC Special Fund to Cambodia for carrying out 16 projects in the kingdom, ...p>

<p>Wah Sun Handbags International Holding unveiled plans yesterday to expand its Cambodia operations, citing the country’s low labour costs as the primary reason for the move. In a filing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the handbag manufacturer announced plans to raise up to $18 ...p>

<p>A Better Factories Cambodia report shows little improvement in the continued use of short-term contracts and safety and health conditions for workers at surveyed factories, with total compliance of all exporting factories still stuck at less than 50 percent.&nbsp;The International Labour Organisation’s compliance program conducts ...p>

<p>The government subsidised $51 million worth of electricity across the country in 2017 in a bid to bring down the price of electricity for low-income households, according to the Minister of Mines and Energy.&nbsp;Speaking at the annual conference of the Electricity Authority Cambodia yesterday, Suy ...p>

<p>India, the world’s second most populous nation, agreed to provide a $20 million concessional loan for the construction of electricity transmission lines in Cambodia after prime Minister Hun Sen’s official four-day visit to India.&nbsp;According to a joint statement, “The two governments agreed to sign a ...p>

<p>Conservationists in Koh Kong province have found a nest of 16 eggs of the critically endangered royal turtle, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today.&nbsp;The discovery in Sre Ambel district, the first of the year, was made on February 3 by WCS staff working with the ...p>

<p>A new cement factory in Battambang province will come online on Friday with an annual production capacity of 1.7 million tonnes of cement, according to Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem. “We will have finished four cement factories that can produce nearly 7 million tones ...p>

<p>Sesan dam holdouts from Kbal Romeas and Srekor villages have gone on the offensive, demanding compensation for destroyed rice fields and new homes on their ancestral land.&nbsp;Both villages were flooded following the inauguration of the China-backed Lower Sesan II Dam in September. While some accepted ...p>

<p>Some 500 overloaded trucks have been stopped and collectively fined more than $300,000 by the Ministry of public Works and Transport in the past five months.&nbsp;According to a series of reports by the ministry, inspection stations across the country collected a total of $310,000 from ...p>

<p>Chinese aid and expertise—and perhaps some fighter jets—will help modernize Cambodia’s military, Defense Minister Tea Banh said on Monday as navy vessels from China and the U.S. paid courtesy calls to Cambodia’s ports.&nbsp;Speaking after his return from the 7th Xiangshan Forum, a regional security summit ...p>

<p>With the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the tax-collection arm of the United States government, stepping up its global sweep to catch American individuals and corporations hiding their overseas earnings, the American Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia yesterday held a presentation for investors and financial institutions ...p>

<p>As part of ongoing government efforts to modernize and streamline the country’s tax system, 43 tax agent licenses were awarded yesterday.&nbsp;The 43 companies are now legally recognized as offering tax declaration services to the public and private sectors. Eighteen had previously been doing this work ...p>

<p>American-owned dairy farm Moo Moo Farms is looking to markedly increase production of its raw – unpasteurized – milk and increase its current herd of 25 cows.&nbsp;The farm, located in Kandal province, began operations earlier this year. According to a statement from the Ministry of ...p>

<p>The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission has asked Suy Sem, the minister of mines and energy, to appear for questioning on December 15, as villagers in Koh Kong province cast doubt on government claims that it had temporarily banned sand mining there.&nbsp;Mr. Sem will answer questions ...p>

<p>Civil society organizations, unions and citizens celebrated Human Rights Day in phnom penh on the weekend, but were not permitted to march through the streets and many opted to hold their celebrations in Freedom park.&nbsp;On Saturday, Yang Kim Eng, the chairman of the Cambodian Human ...p>

<p>The state-owned Cambodia post will launch an online shopping platform in March in a move to tap the current rise in e-commerce activity.&nbsp;Ork Bora, director-general of the Cambodia post, told Khmer Times yesterday that after about a year of studying e-commerce, the state-owned enterprise decided ...p>

<p>The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday reminded political parties participating in the upcoming commune elections to expedite the registration of their party to ensure they met the March deadline. NEC spokesperson Hang puthea said there will be 221,458 polling stations nationwide across the 1,646 communes ...p>

<p>With just two months to go until Cambodia’s commune elections, more than half of respondents to a new survey could not identify Election Day. The finding was detailed in a report released on Wednesday by the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) ...p>