About 100 villagers who lost land to a sugarcane plantation, which was until recently financed by ANZ Royal Bank, traveled to Phnom Penh to protest in front of the bank’s headquarters Thursday, but failed to convince the bank to help them. several hundred families in Kompong ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Cambodia’s economy has boomed over the last decade, the broad French-built boulevards and leafy backstreets of Phnom Penh have become bottlenecks, with giant sUVs parked two- or three- deep, clogging the roads. At peak hour, the center of town turns into a Hobbesian crush of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties expect to finalize a draft of the nation’s new election law by the end of the month as the centerpiece of key reforms promised in a July agreement that ended a nearly one-year political crisis, an official said Monday. “The two ss='cambodia-color'>...

The newly established National Commercial Arbitration Center (NCAC) may have been set up to al­low businesses to settle disputes outside the court system, but it still needs support from judges and court officials to do its work effectively, its president said on Friday. speaking at ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday denied bail to the former common-law wife of one of Cambodia’s richest men, who was extradited from Thailand on Tuesday over her alleged involvement in a plot to rape and murder Commerce Minister sun Chanthol’s wife and daughter. Lay ss='cambodia-color'>...

With Valentine’s Day just days away, the Ministry of Education on Tuesday entreated the nation’s teachers to put their students through a crash course to dispel what it believes is a widely held misconception among Cambodian youth that the holiday is a pretext for sex. ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea haS granted Cambodia USD 56.1 million loan for reStoration of National Road number two from Kandal&rSquo;S Takmao town to Daun Keo town, and National Road number 22 from Ou Chambork to Ang TaSourm. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The impending visit of First Lady Michelle Obama to Cambodia will serve as an opportunity for people and officials to revisit their attitude towards girls’ education, a lawmaker says. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said Tuesday that Cambodia is at a new political stage in its history and called for the continuation of the “culture of dialogue” and putting “an end to the culture of revenge” between politicians from the ruling and opposition parties. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just two days after Prime Minister Hun sen promised to resolve a 20-year-old land dispute in siem Reap City, the government on Friday issued a subdecree that divides 115 hectares of the contested plot between more than 700 families. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ostap Doroshenko, the son of jailed Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko, has spoken out on his father’s recent detainment, blaming it on a plot orchestrated by a predictable family foe. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In this sparsely populated area along the eastern fringe of Bokor National Park in Chhuk district, villagers are scrambling to claim sandy, arid land as an international company surges ahead with its palm oil plantation. As in many of the hundreds of unresolved land disputes playing ss='cambodia-color'>...

A dissident group, which was unexpectedly given the green light last month to form a political party, claims it has already exceeded the number of signatures necessary to register. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In perhaps the most comprehensive review to date of Prime Minister Hun sen’s 2012 land titling project, the NGO Forum on Tuesday said the campaign has yielded major benefits, but not without some serious costs—particularly for the country’s beleaguered indigenous communities. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The day ends late for Cambodian waste pickers. Darkness does not stop them. They walk through the night wearing  small miners’ lights announcing their presence by shouting “et chay,” which means “scavenger.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

A British national and convicted pedophile, who served about three quarters of his two-year sentence for child sex abuse, will be deported to the U.K. by the end of the week, an immigration official said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese and Cambodian border authorities prevented about 1,800 Cambodian from illegally crossing the border into the southern Vietnamese province of Long An on sunday, a senior border guard official has said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP lawmaker Un Sam An Sent a letter to Prime MiniSter Hun Sen on Monday aSking for an inveStigation of Try Pheap&rSquo;S Special Economic Zone in Ratanakkiri province, Saying that the timber magnate iS miSuSing the Site to export illegally logged treeS to Vietnam. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

Borith has been on the payroll of Cambodia’s parliament for 15 years but rarely shows up for work. He is busy with his other job at a non-governmental organization, and no one notices his absence. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen’s public use of derogatory terms when discussing an unnamed woman accused of injuring a security guard after allegedly kicking him prompted rebukes from rights groups in the country on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...