The part in relation to Cambodia under The ASEAN-Hong Kong free trade agreement (FTA) and Investment Agreement (IA) is set to take effect on February 12, according to Hong Kong’s Trade and Industry Department. The Kingdom will be last country in which The two agreements ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has urged migrant workers in Thailand who had Their names on The voter list to return to The country to vote for The upcoming Commune Election after The NEC last week ruled out The request from some political parties to ...

For the third time this week, Boeng Kak residents protested on Friday over claims that their land rights have been violated. More than 50 residents gathered outside the Srah Chak commune office to complain that a sub-decree issued by Prime Minister Hun Sen in August, ...

The dispute that grounded a Tonlesap Airlines plane on Tuesday and stranded more than 200 passengers in Siem Reap and Taipei, Taiwain, continued yesterday, as plane owner Far Eastern Transport upped The sum it claimed Tonlesap owed for fuel. Far Eastern grounded a plane it had ...

The Phnom Penh International Airport has been awarded Best Asia Pacific Regional Airport 2019 for its sustained high growth in passenger traffic in recent years. The award was presented by The Capa Centre for Aviation (Capa) – a world-leading and trusted organisation that provides market intelligence ...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen announced plans Thursday to encourage rubber smallholdings in a bid to expand production as the country promotes the cash crop as the number two commodity after rice. Hun Sen said the government will support not only large-scale rubber plantations but also ...

A day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) notched up its forecast for Cambodia’s economy this year, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday revised its own estimation down slightly, to 6.4 percent. the ADB’s estimation was edged down just 0.1 percent from its last forecast made ...

The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that They would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. Security forces evicted villagers from ...

Five Koh Kong families embroiled in an ongoing land dispute with Heng Huy Agriculture Company were accompanied by more than 50 villagers yesterday as they went to court to clarify why they are asking for contracts signed with the company to be annulled. Pok Yon, ...

Today, a month to the day after his stomach ruptured, Term Hun, 49, remains hospitalised. He was operated on and has long since healed. But without the money to pay for his treatment, the clinic refuses to let him go. After receiving emergency surgery at ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Hall will soon open The bidding process to choose at least three new waste collection companies for The capital as it works on reforming waste management systems to better serve The public and reduce rubbish pollution on The streets. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday ordered Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun to explain irregularities that have taken place in the bidding process for licenses to operate fishing lots around the Tonle Sap lake. the order was carried out after Mr Hun Sen received a report from ...

Hu Jintao had already left the day before, but five Boeung Kak villagers were undeterred yesterday as they attempted to leave a petition for China’s president, only to be turned back by police. the quintet, whose petition requests that Hu intervene in their land dispute with ...

Stung Treng provincial military police yesterday arrested four Vietnamese nationals caught poaching in a wildlife sanctuary in Sesan district. Sok Rithy, district military police commander, yesterday confirmed the arrests but referred questions to the provincial military police. Local media reported that provincial military officers arrested ...

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) is planning a joint patrol this month with activists from four provinces – Stung Treng, Kratie, Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear – to scout The protected area and crack down on forestry crimes. Kheng Kho, a PLCN representative in ...

Electricite du Cambodge has challenged a claim by eight families from Kampong Cham province for compensation after power lines were built across their land. EDC said it had to build the line from Kampong Cham province to Stung Treng province. the 240km line affects 1,054 ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday denied that the government intends to allow private development around a lake in Ratanakkiri province, which is important to a biologically diverse ecosystem. the denial was sparked by an article published in the Rasmei Kampuchea Daily on Monday that ...

Cambodian People Party (CPP) president Hun Sen on Tuesday promised that his new government would serve the people by doing “double work” for Cambodia’s development. Meanwhile, Cambodia National Rescue Movement (CNRM) president Sam Rainsy hinted at accepting the caretaker prime minister’s challenge to swear on ...

Villagers in Mondulkiri province have pleaded with local authorities to intervene after a company behind a nearby rubber plantation began charging them 20,000 riel ($5) to use a local road. Security guards at the Tong Min Group property told villagers from Pech Chreada district’s Pou ...

Li’s visit comes at a time when Cambodia’s government, under Prime Minister Hun Sen, is facing rising pressure from the United States and the European Union over its human rights record. Both have threatened sanctions in response to a ruling by the nation’s top court ...