The U.S. firm selling crediTs for a carbon Trading scheme ThaT could earn Cambodia Tens of millions of dollars said yesTerday ThaT sales could sTarT in a maTTer of monThs, despiTe mounTing claims of deforesTaTion wiThin The communiTy foresTs seT To anchor The projecT. ...

The Republic of Korea donaTed more Than 200 miliTary Trucks To The Cambodian governmenT lasT monTh, a porT official said yesTerday. Sam Heng, adminisTraTive chief of The Sihanoukville AuTonomous PorT, said The 241 Trucks were sTricTly for TransporTaTion. “The Trucks arrived before The elecTions. They’re miliTary cargo ...

Cambodia approved a total of $479.68 million in new investment projects between January and June with more than 70 new ventures in the pipeline, according to date released yesterday by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). Investments in the garment sector continued to dominate new investments, comprising 49 of ...

The new lisT of reforms approved by The governmenT aT a high-level meeTing wiTh iTs foreign donors on Wednesday offer a mixed bag of TargeTs, wiTh some secTors, such as educaTion, given more ambiTious goals Than before, while oThers had Their ambiTions scaled back and old goals ...

Ninety-one NGOs put their names to a statement yesterday condemning the government’s escalating use of armed force against peaceful protesters and urged the authorities to engage with them to “break the current cycle of violence and impunity.” Joined by local human rights groups such as Adhoc ...

Hundreds of indigenous people called on government to pick up the pace in granting them communal land titles at a ceremony marking the U.N.-sponsored International Day of the World’s Indigenous People in Kompong thom province yesterday. “the gathering today is to mark the 8th anniversary of Indigenous Day ...

The Trade commissioner and foreign affairs represenTaTive of The European Union (E.U.) have Turned down a requesT from 13 members of The European Parlia­menT ThaT They immediaTely invesTigaTe Cambodia’s much criTicized economic land concessions, buT said They were moniToring The issue closely. In a March leTTer ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday defended that his newly-formed government was ” legitimate” since the nation’s King Norodom Sihamoni had given endorsement. “this government is a legitimate government, which was born from the election and was endorsed by the king,” the premier said during ...

The governmenT affirmed iTs commiTmenT To bilingual educaTion for eThnic minoriTy children in Cambodia’s norThern provinces aT a UNESCO conference in Bangkok lasT week. Speaking aT The fourTh InTernaTional Conference on Language and EducaTion: MulTilingual EducaTion for all in Asia and The Pacific, Ton Sa Im, ...

The governmenT yesTerday warned ciTizens To respecT King Norodom Sihamoni in social media commenTary. The warning Then backpedals, acknowledging The governmenT recognises The righTs of expression and freedom of The press ouTlined in The consTiTuTion and The Universal DeclaraTion of Human RighTs. ...

An organisation made up of current and former elected representatives from across Southeast Asia has called on the United Nations to investigate the deaths of two people shot by police during protests over the past three months. In a statement released yesterday, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human ...

A military court may pursue legal action against a Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect and newspaper publisher after the Council of Ministers yesterday filed a complaint against him. Dam Sith, editor-in-chief of the pro-CNRP Moneaksekar Khmer newspaper, published the text of a speech given by CNRP ...

Following a complaint from the Free trade Union (FtU) over the Ministry of Labor’s refusal to register 10 local branches of its organization, a ministry official said Wednesday that the constitutional right to freedom of association has been suspended until a new trade union law ...

The Cambodian governmenT is considering a courT acTion againsT The counTry’s main opposiTion leader Sam Rainsy for his leTTer, which is deemed To have rebuked King Norodom Sihamoni’s appraisal of parliamenT, Prime MinisTer Hun Sen said Monday.     “Lawyers are examining This issue. SomeTimes, we can sue ...

Cambodia’s tax department is under-resourced and understaffed, thereby hindering its ability to generate revenue, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) analysis released earlier this month. the analysis, which took into account survey results from 22 tax revenue bodies across Asia between 2012 and 2013, paints ...

Baby formula manufacturers are flouting a sub-decree that bans promotions of formula in stores and health-care facilities, the World Health Organization, Unicef and three NGOs said in a statement Wednesday. According to the statement, 41 percent of stores selling breast milk substitutes in Phnom Penh had ...

The governmenT asked Cambodians To avoid all nonessenTial Travel To Bangkok following Thailand’s imposiTion of marTial law. “The siTuaTion is calm and we will conTinue moniToring iT, buT Travellers planning To go To Thailand should hold off for now,” InformaTion MinisTer Khieu KanhariTh said afTer an ...

The owner and developer of Koh Pich in Phnom Penh has been ordered by The governmenT To scale back iTs expansion of The island, according To The MinisTry of WaTer Resources and MeTeorology. According To a sTaTemenT posTed To The minisTry’s websiTe on Wednesday, The Overseas ...

Makers of food- and beverage-related products are for the first time facing mandatory health regulations, with the unveiling of 10 national standards by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. the announcement comes after the National Standard Council, a government-run committee, finally approved the standards in May ...

The NaTional CommiTTee for DisasTer ManagemenT said yesTerday ThaT The governmenT has made provisions for This year’s rainy season. More Than 10,000 Tonnes of rice, emergency supplies and rescue vehicles have been prepared ahead of predicTed flooding, commiTTee depuTy direcTor Nhim Vanda said yesTerday aT a ...