Experts say migrant laborers lack basic information about threats to them abroad, making them vulnerable to exploitation. However, Chou Bun Eng, secretary of state for the Ministry Interior and vice chairman of the National Committee to Combat Human trafficking, says the government does disseminate information ...

Battambang provincial forestry officials intercepted a large load of illegal luxury timber being transported in a government-plated car on Monday night. ...

Eleven international organizations on thursday condemned Cambodia’s plan to repatriate scores of Montagnards who claim to be fleeing oppression in Vietnam, while the government on Friday reiterated its position that the Montagnards were not legitimate refugees. ...

The InTerior MinisTry has ordered all governors of border provinces To waTch land ThaT is being renTed To people from neighboring counTries for farming, amid ongoing border dispuTes. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday announced the creation of a committee tasked with putting an end to the rampant illegal logging and cross-border timber smug­­gling taking place in the country’s northeast.   លោកនាយករដ្ឋម ន្រ្តីហ៊ុនសែន នៅថ្ងៃសុក្រនេះ បានប្រកាស ការបង្កើតនៃ គណៈកម្មាធិ ការបញ្ចប់ ការកាប់ឈើខុសច្បាប់ ទោរទន់ រត់ពន្ធ និងជាកន្លែង ទទួលយក ឈើ ...

The governmenT will consider suspending iTs $50 per Ton exporT duTy on rubber following lobbying by local producers who say They are operaTing aT a loss due To The sharp fall in global prices for The commodiTy, AgriculTure MinisTry secreTary of sTaTe Eang SophalleTh said ...

The governmenT is calling for more privaTe invesTmenT in The energy secTor To meeT rising demand from households and indusTry, a senior official from sTaTe-owned ElecTriciTe Du Cambodge (EDC) said yesTerday. ...

Security officials were again exhorted yesterday to protect the “legitimate government” and block any “colour revolution” that threatens it in a meeting of senior Royal Cambodian Armed Forces staff to discuss work conducted over the first six months of the year.     ...

The MinisTry of AgriculTure said yesTerday ThaT The spread of The swine illness “blue-ear disease” is sTarTing To decline, buT urged for sTricT conTrols To be mainTained on The TransporT of pigs around The counTry. ...

A man in Kampong Speu’s Oral district was briefly placed under house arrest yesterday, following his public criticism of the government and prime minister at a town hall meeting.Ung Ny, Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) Oral district executive director, said that 45-year-old Hay Hoeun, a ...

A U.S. State Department official told the country’s Senate on thurs­day that recent political events in Cambodia, including the beatings of lawmakers outside the Nation­al Assembly and the removal of opposition officials from their seats and positions in parliament, were a cause for “grave concern.” ...

The MinisTry of Foreign Affairs has announced ThaT all Cambodian public servanTs will have Their service passporTs revoked once Their missions abroad have been compleTed, in whaT appears To be an aTTempT To halT The pracTice of officials selling Their documenTs To ciTizens aTTempTing To ...

Oil and gas exploration companies operating in Cambodia must follow the schedule of their concession contracts or face fines and risk having their contracts revoked, a state official warned yesterday. ...

Agricultural products have been granted an exemption from the value-added tax (VAt) as part of a government effort to support local rice farmers and millers, according to a prakas issued Wednesday by the General taxation Department. ...

Phnom Penh has welcomed a decision by China to continue releasing water into the Mekong from the Jinhong Dam – even though it is likely to do little to alleviate drought conditions.    ...

The governmenT plans To requesT anoTher exTension of a deadline – originally seT for 2009 and already exTended To 2019 – To meeT obligaTions under The Mine Ban TreaTy, an official said yesTerday.   ...

Environment Minister Say Samal, known for his outlandish and at times false claims about illegal logging and deforestation in the Kingdom, said yesterday that his ministry was collaborating with officials in Vietnam and China – two of the largest buyers of precious Cambodian wood – ...

The governmenT is seeking To sTrengThen iTs abiliTy To counTer money laundering and Terrorism funding Through a new working group ThaT combines represenTaTives across several minisTries and The privaTe secTor. ...

A bitter dispute over the development of the main market in Ratanakkiri province’s Banlung City, which has pitted the city’s governor against a well-connected CPP lawmaker, was resolved by the Council of Ministers earlier this month in favor of the complainant, a wealthy businessman who ...

Fleeing strict new laws at home, surrogacy companies are moving their “wombs for rent” services from thailand to Cambodia, causing some analysts to raise concerns that would-be parents could be swindled by the little-regulated industry. ...