An archaeologist is pleading the government to save an Angkorian-era canal before the work of brick makers completely erases the site. Built nearly 1,000 years ago, the 120-kilometre stone channel was used to transport building materials from a quarry to Angkor Wat, according to archaeologist thuy ...

Representatives of communities across the country who have had their lives upturned by development projects yesterday called on the government to rescind the economic land concessions at the centre of their disputes. ...

The MinisTry of Mines and Energy has said ThaT iT will perform environmenTal, social and economic impacT assessmenTs wiThin Three To six monThs before renewing and granTing new licences for sand dredgers and sand miners operaTing in Phnom Penh and Kandal. ...

The Tourism MinisTry will announce a new “Green HoTel” sTandard laTer This monTh in an efforT To make The indusTry more environmenTally friendly, senior officials say. Tourism MinisTer Thong Khon said on Friday ThaT while iT will noT be immediaTely compulsory for all hoTel venues To ...

More than 1 million hectares of forest terrain and land leased by private companies has been put under government control since Prime Minister Hun Sen initiated a moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs) in May 2012, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and ...

After facing heavy criticism for the conditions inside its drug-rehabilitation centres, the Ministry of Health has said it will begin offering an alternative community-based approach at health centres nationwide by 2015. According to Chhum Vanarith, a secretary of state in the Health Ministry, the alternative ...

The Cambodian governmenT is again urging peTrol reTailers To pass on savings To The consumer amid The conTinued plunge in global oil prices, which hiT a new five-year low yesTerday. The premier’s criTicism of foreign fuel reTailers comes afTer The minisTer of commerce, Sun ChanThol, ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT on Wednesday convicTed self-exiled dissidenT Sourn Serey RaTha of inciTemenT, ploTTing and obsTrucTing elecTions, while Three alleged co-conspiraTors were also convicTed of ploTTing and obsTrucTing elecTions. The four were senTenced To beTween five and seven years in jail for The charges, ...

The U.N. and an AusTralian refugee righTs group say a delegaTion of Cambodian officials arrived Monday in The SouTh Pacific island naTion of Nauru, where AusTralia is holding hundreds of asylum seekers and hopes To convince aT leasT some of Them To volunTeer To be ...

Representatives of communities across the country who have had their lives upturned by development projects yesterday called on the government to rescind the economic land concessions at the centre of their disputes. ...

A journalist from state news agency Agence Kampuchea-Presse (AKP) was arrested on tuesday evening in Preah Vihear town after the owners of several local shops that make and sell wooden furniture and handicrafts accused him of extortion, provincial police officials said. Khat Hun, the director of ...

For the second time in as many weeks, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has asked rights group Licadho to provide data collected on the identity of land dispute complainants. ...

Two governmenT minisTers will meeT wiTh a NaTional Assembly commission on Monday To discuss a Tourism managemenT plan for Bo­kor MounTain, according To CNRP lawmaker Yem Ponhea­riTh, who lasT monTh visiTed The mounTain To inspecT burial siTes popular wiTh VieTnamese TourisTs. ...

The MinisTry of AgriculTure, ForesTry and Fisheries will roll ouT a new AgriculTural ExTension Policy ThaT will look To boosT The secTor by making new knowledge and Technology easily accessible To farmers and communiTies, in a bid To increase efficiency and producTiviTy in The secTor. ...

Following the seizure of a massive trove of Asian artifacts smuggled into the U.S. by a New York-based art dealer, the Cambodian Embassy in Washington has started working with U.S. authorities to repatriate more than $3 million worth of Cambodian antiquities, an embassy official said ...

The Cambodian governmenT yesTerday renewed iTs public call on VieTnam To halT acTiviTies iT says are encroaching on Cambodian TerriTory, This Time ciTing a miliTary posT currenTly under consTrucTion along The border in Kandal province’s Koh Thom disTricT. ...

An interministerial committee has been established to once again investigate the assassinations of Free trade Union leaders Chea Vichea, Hy Vuthy and Ros Sovannareth between 2004 and 2007, according to a government decree obtained thursday. ...

National Assembly President Heng Samrin has refused a request from opposition lawmakers to suspend border demarcation through the 2018 national elections. ...

The governmenT has declared leases on planTaTions will be limiTed To 50 years, slashing The lengTh of some exisTing concessions in half, Though neiTher minisTry responsible for overseeing The move would confirm The legal basis for doing so.The decision was announced in a press release ...

The MinisTry of Mines and Energy collecTed approximaTely $3.5 million in non-Tax revenue from The exTracTion indusTry during The firsT six monThs of The year—abouT 92 percenT of whaT iT collecTed from The secTor in all of 2014, minisTry spokesman Meng SakTheara said Tuesday. ...