<p>Opposition party lawmaker Son Chhay has sent a letter to Deputy prime Minister Sok An asking for the immediate suspension of a Vietnamese rubber plantation in the endangered prey Long forest, accusing the firm of illegal deforestation. In the letter dated Wednesday, Mr Chhay also asked ...p>

<p>Atok-Big Wedge Co. Inc., a listed company owned by the group of former Trade minister Roberto Ongpin, acquired Tidemark Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong company that owns 25.9 percent of Forum Energy plc, an oil and gas firm controlled by philex Mining Corp. Atok-Big Wedge said ...p>

<p>A better outlook for the price of Cambodian&nbsp;major crops, especially cassava&nbsp;and soybeans, drives the upward revision&nbsp;of growth of the other crops subsector. This in turn leads to a marginal&nbsp;upward revision of growth of the agriculture&nbsp;sector to an annualized rate&nbsp;of 4.6 percent, from 4.5 percent in our&nbsp;January ...p>

<p>Seven Vietnamese nationals arrested during simultaneous raids on a pair of massage parlors in central phnom penh on Thursday night have been sent to the phnom penh Municipal Court for their role in the alleged trafficking of minors, police and a child-protection NGO said Sunday. “We ...p>

<p>Ouch Borith, Secretary of State for Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Ri Myong San, Trade Vice-Minister of DpRK, signed an agreement where Cambodia and North Korea agreed to expand bilateral trade, technology, agriculture, industry, investment and the health sector on July ...p>

<p>The deaths of four more Cambodian over the past two weeks brings to 11 the number of people killed by Thai soldiers so far this year while illegally logging across the border. The death toll is fast approaching the 15 Cambodians killed in the entirety ...p>

<p>Monday’s shooting of protesting factory workers by security guards at a Svay Rieng special economic zone could damage Cambodia’s international reputation and potentially impact the country’s bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday. Speaking at the opening ...p>

<p>The Lower Sesan II dam project is a microcosm of the carving up of Cambodia. In one of the world’s most diverse river ecosystems, the ground burns. Whole forests are felled with scant regard for the law, while the project is backed by the country’s ...p>

<p>Mean Nara, ODC’s Senior Mapper, spoke to the audience about the launch of the GeoServer.On April 30, the ODC team hosted a monthly phnom penh Mapping Meet-up (ppMM), in which ODC, Atlas, and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut presented on the recent project updates and results. As ...p>

<p>According to the statement from the national bank of Cambodia (NBC), the country’s international reserves increased by 2.912 million US dollars so far this year with guaranteeing to import for four months. “For the management of the international reserves, we have implemented the policy with ...p>

<p>Four Land&nbsp;Management&nbsp;Ministry officials charged with corruption last week were released on bail yesterday, less than five days after arriving at prey Sar prison for detention ahead of trial, officials said. Srung Leang, director of the prison’s center no. 1, said he received the written release order ...p>

<p>Cambodian-focused Geopacific Resources (ASX: GpR) has now released its 10 for 17 non-renounceable rights issue which will raise up to A$3.0 million at $0.05, and forms part of a larger funding package. In August GpR outlined a funding package which will include an equity placement of ...p>

<p>After the end of the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia’s entire health sector including the health system, health facilities and equipment were completely destroyed.1 Since the 1990s, the Royal Government of Cambodia has placed a strong emphasis on recovering and improving the country’s health sector. In ...p>

<p>Authorities are planning upgrades to effectively double the capacity of boats travelling from phnom penh Autonomous port to Vietnam, according to port Director General Hei Bavy. A 2009 agreement with Vietnam authorities allows ships travelling down the Mekong from Cambodia to offload at Cai Mep ...p>

<p>Children played along the banks of phnom penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula yesterday, while their parents napped under the shade of their bright yellow and blue boat homes. But members of this Cham fishing community overlooking phnom penh’s&nbsp;city space said it was a very different scene on ...p>

<p>A massive power outage Wednesday in Southern Vietnam brought rolling blackouts that lasted for hours to Ho Chi Minh City, the entire southeastern region of Vietnam and large sections of phnom penh. Vietnam’s state-owned Southern power Corporation said Wednesday that the problem occurred around 2 p.m. ...p>

<p>A United Nations independent human rights expert urged restraint by all sides today after military police opened fire on striking garment workers in phnom penh, reportedly killing at least four people, as high social and political tensions in Cambodia boiled over into deadly clashes. In statement ...p>

<p>United Nations envoy is expected to arrived in Cambodia today, a week after the deadly crackdown by government forces against protesting workers on Veng Sreng street, which left five people dead. This is the first visit of Surya p. Subedi, UN Special Rapporteur on human ...p>

<p>Riot police and groups of men in plain clothes armed with sticks, Tasers and slingshots violently attacked a group of anti-eviction protesters conducting a hunger strike at Wat phnom late last night, injuring several people. protesters from phnom penh’s Boeng Kak community began the hunger strike ...p>

<p>The phnom penh Autonomous port has requested that City Hall reduce the length of its daily ban forbidding container trucks from traveling on phnom penh roads between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. because cargo is unable to reach the port, resulting in a decrease in ...p>