Forestry Administration officials on Friday confiscated 1,000 pieces of luxury wood on land belonging to a Vietnamese rubber company that has been repeatedly accused of illegal logging in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, local officials and human rights workers said sunday. Romash svat, a representative of some ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was the bloodiest battle since Waterloo. Yet the carnage wrought 150 years ago by the Italian and French troops, fighting under Napoleon III, and the forces of the Austrian Hungarian Empire, was overshadowed by its aftermath. While 30,000 had died on the battlefield, more than 40,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) said Thursday most of its 559 factories would continue to be closed due to security concerns after six pro-opposition trade unions led striking workers to destroy factories’ properties and forced workers to join their protests. “Because of the current ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party’s (CNRP) lawmakers continued their boycott of the National Assembly session on Tuesday. CNRP spokesman Yem Punharith said that the lawmakers of the CNRP didn’t attend today’s session of the National Assembly because solutions to the election disputes have not yet ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s election authorities may be ordered to check key voting data to investigate opposition claims of widespread election irregularities in recent national widespread election irregularities in recent national polls, the country’s highest court ruled Thursday. The Constitutional Council said in a statement that it could call ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s King Norodom sihamoni has come under criticism for not intervening in the country’s election crisis after he ordered parliament to be convened despite allegations of voter fraud and other irregularities that the opposition wants investigated. But some experts said the monarch has limited influence in ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 150 garment worker union representatives will defy a ban on public assemblies and mark the 10th anniversary of the assassination of union leader Chea Vichea by marching from their office in Chamkar Mon district to the site of his murder at Wat Lanka on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling Cambodia People’s Party (CPP) on Monday rejected an opposition proposal to revamp the country’s electoral body as they met for a third round of talks aimed at breaking a seven-month political deadlock following disputed polls. Opposition leader sam Rainsy’s Cambodia National ss='cambodia-color'>...

When he assumed leadership of Phnom Penh municipality in May 2013, Pa socheatvong vowed to be a governor who would get things done. His predecessor, Kep Chuktema, oversaw the filling in of Boeng Kak lake and the mass eviction of its residents. A similar scenario unfolded ss='cambodia-color'>...

Keeping ahead of Phnom Penh’s mounting piles of garbage has proved tough for Cintri since it was awarded sole rights in 2002 to keep the city clean. But a new plan harnessing global satellite positioning and digital mapping is offering the company a high-tech helping ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eighteen sacked drivers for the Phnom Penh sorya Transportation company protested in front of the company’s offices Friday morning calling for their reinstatement and a raise. The drivers say they were fired in mid- and late-April for leading strikes—in which they walked off with the keys ss='cambodia-color'>...

Camera traps have captured six individual banteng (Bos javanicus) in siem Reap Province, north-western Cambodia, in an area where the endangered wild cattle species was thought to be extinct. The banteng discovery in Cambodia’s north-west is significant, as few populations remain in the region due ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN envoy concluded his six-day visit to Cambodia producing a concrete report, which reflects both the positive and negative aspects of human rights situation in the Kingdom. As for the post-election political impasse, Prof. surya P. subedi, the United Nations special Rapporteur on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three Ministers from the Ministry of Urbanization and Construction, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Environment have met to jointly set out work-plan to manage state’s land and natural resources. The work-plan will be undertaken in line with the Government’s land policy introduced ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government collected USD 66. 4 million from taxation in January, up 14.5% from the Same period laSt year, according to a Statement releaSed by the Taxation department. In 2014, tax revenue haS been going up in all SectorS of which financial Service 27.6%, import-export SS='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS government on TueSday organized an intellectual property rightS (IPR) enforcement workShop for Some 50 Cambodian and Lao law enforcement officialS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The number of four-star generals in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) grew Thursday as 29 former lieutenant generals were promoted at a ceremony in Phnom Penh presided over by Defense Minister Tea Banh, who last month underlined the army’s role as defender of Prime ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 40 residents from Kratie province rallied on Monday in front of Wat Botum pagoda in order to present a petition to Prime Minister Hun sen over land disputes in their community. ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea on Monday Signed up to provide a grant aid of 21 million U.S. dollarS to Cambodia to Support four projectS for rural development, waterway improvement, health and the Stock market. Speaking after the Signing ceremony, Hor Namhong Said 8 million U.S. dollarS of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood lodged a formal complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Monday, asking it to investigate 12 current and former government officials and senator Lao Meng Khin over the senator’s plans to sell land they say was stolen from ss='cambodia-color'>...