<p>A copper mine in Siem Reap province’s Chi Kreng district was closed down last Thursday over allegations that its parent company has been running the site with an expired license. The investigation into Meng Xin Hong Fa (Cambodia) Resources Investment Co. Ltd. is being led ...p>

<p>In a wide-ranging speech to ruling Cambodian people’s party supporters in California yesterday, prime Minister Hun Sen slammed the US government as well as the opposition, and said his presence at the US-ASEAN Summit at Rancho Mirage was no different than that of US president ...p>

<p>It has now been some time since the special summit between the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and U.S. president Barack Obama at Sunnylands, California, on Feb. 15-16. The meeting was the first of its kind to be held on American ...p>

<p>Thai financing firm Group Lease plc posted a record-high 222.17 million baht ($6.3 million) net profit from its operations in the first quarter of the year, a 101.5 per cent increase from the same period a year earlier, driven by improvements in its Thai operations ...p>

<p>No one would regard a small country such as Cambodia to be a protagonist in an international affair.&nbsp;However, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and the weakest link Cambodia is now being criticised for breaking Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) ...p>

<p>The first rainfall this year did not arrive until early June to pursat, a province located in the northwest of the country, where land looked bare and thirsty at the height of the planting season. The devastating drought, which the government has described as the ...p>

<p>The Cambodian government is on track to provide electricity to all villages in the Kingdom by 2020 as this year’s seven-month data, from the Ministry of Mines and Energy, indicate that 71 percent of rural areas now have regular power supply.&nbsp;Ith praing, secretary of state ...p>

<p>Condos and boreys have been experiencing a decline in sales, prompting developers to go back to the drawing board when devising financing strategies in a bid to lure back potential buyers.&nbsp;Nget piseth, director assistant of Borey piphup Thmey, said recently that residential sales in his ...p>

<p>A modest increase in the inflow of foreign direct investment is a sign that Cambodia remains an attractive destination to investors, and will go a long way toward the country’s development, analysts said yesterday.&nbsp;Total capital inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Cambodia amounted to ...p>

<p>Half of a Kuoy ethnic community forest in Stung Treng province – for which villagers are seeking official recognition – has been logged in the past three years for private commercial gain, according to recently returned environmental activist twins Chum Hout and Chum Hour. Seven ...p>

<p>A disaster management official said yesterday that recent flooding in some northern provinces had not caused serious damage to villagers’ homes or caused any loss of life, but said authorities were still keeping a watchful eye. Keo Vy, cabinet chief and a spokesman for National ...p>

<p>Civil society organizations yesterday repeated calls for land disputes to be resolved quickly, peacefully and without authorities using police and the courts to put pressure on communities.&nbsp;Speaking at an event celebrating poor urban communities at the American Intercon School yesterday, more than 200 people, including ...p>

<p>Rice millers in the country will now be able to access the government’s promised emergency loan of $20 million to purchase paddy rice from farmers in a bid to prevent rice prices from falling further, the Rural Development Bank (RDB) announced yesterday.&nbsp;Rural Development Bank CEO ...p>

<p>Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have brought almost 70,000 new jobs to the country, according to an Asian Development Bank report released last week. With tax exemptions on production materials, lower profit tax, and renewable leases, the SEZs have drawn foreign-owned factories manufacturing everything from bicycles ...p>

<p>Farmers in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam have called for a halt to the construction of hydroelectricity projects along the upstream of the Mekong River citing negative impact to the environment and on their livelihoods.Farmers in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam have called for a halt to ...p>

<p>About 370 workers fainted at Cambodian factories in the past two days, possibly because of pesticide spraying on nearby rice fields, officials said Friday. The garment industry is Cambodia’s biggest export earner, employing about 700,000 people in more than 700 garment and shoe factories. In ...p>

<p>Some rice businesses in the southern province of Tien Giang have begun sourcing rice from Cambodia to distribute to Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring localities, instead of that grown in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, known as the country’s granary.Trung, who runs a major rice firm ...p>

<p>Cambodia suffers from one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, with an average of one percent of the country’s forest lost each year.&nbsp;But in an initiative funded by USAID Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB), Winrock International hopes to help solve the problem ...p>

<p>According to a 2013 United Nations Environmental protection report, a water hyacinth plant releases more than 3,000 seeds every year and, because its roots are floating, it does not need to be in shallow water to survive. Water hyacinth has moved rapidly across South America, ...p>

<p>The Vietnamese government distanced itself on Wednesday from angry posts its citizens made on prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page, saying the platform should not be used to inflame tensions between “good neighbors.” The statement from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stopped short, however, ...p>