The EnvironmenT MinisTry has revoked The righTs of a company owned by governmenT lawmaker and Tycoon Sieng Nam To manage The Kulen MounTain ResorT in The Preah BaT Jayavarman-Nordom NaTional Park in Siem Reap province, saying The move was in The naTional inTeresT. ...

The NaTional CommiTTee on CombaTing Human Trafficking released iTs annual reporT yesTerday, wiTh figures showing an improved efforT by auThoriTies since 2014 To crackdown on The Trade. ...

Cambodia and Singapore have finalised an agreement on double taxation and are set to sign it into effect soon, state news agency AKP reported yesterday. ...

Cambodia must accelerate economic reform and develop a sense of “urgency” if it wishes to continue to attract American investment amid growing regional competition, the head of the US-ASEAN Business Council said yesterday. ...

The NaTional Assembly will peTiTion Asean officials To remove a reference To The SouTh China Sea mariTime dispuTe from an upcoming joinT sTaTemenT, officials confirmed on Tuesday, a move some analysTs and diplomaTs say will again ThreaTen regional cohesion. ...

The MinisTry of Economy and Finance secured a $36.3 million concessionary loan from The UN’s InTernaTional Fund for AgriculTural DevelopmenT (IFAD) program aimed aT acceleraTing The producTion of small-scale agriculTural producTs including rice, vegeTables, poTaToes, silk and livesTock, according To a minisTry release yesTerday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has no plans to negotiate with his Cambodia National Rescue Party counterparts, a ruling party spokesman reiterated yesterday, following calls for intra-party talks last week by a senior US diplomat. ...

Om Yentieng, president of the government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee, yesterday accused U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi of pandering to the opposition party and trying to stifle the work of the national court system through his examination of Cambodia’s rights situation. Mr. Yentieng, who also heads the Anti-Corruption ...

Ethnic Bunong villagers living in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have sent a petition to the Ministry of Land Management, urging the government to refrain from issuing them private land titles, local officials said yesterday. this way they may instead to eligible for a communal title ...

A draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) drawn up by Malaysia to regulate maids working in the country does not sufficiently protect their rights and needs improvements, an official at the Labor Ministry said on thursday. Malaysian officials drew up the MoU between the two governments following ...

Some of the 200 families evicted from a village in Mondolkiri province’s Koh Nhek district last week said yesterday that they were taking up temporary residence in nearby villages and forests because they could not afford to go home, or had no land to return ...

The MinisTry of JusTice will noT press The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT To review The case of 13 Boeng Kak residenTs senTenced To jail lasT monTh for demonsTraTing againsT a CPP senaTor’s real esTaTe projecT, despiTe asking The courT To consider releasing The women. Now ThaT ...

In response to a spate of deadly bus crashes in the country, the government has ordered all bus companies to provide authorities with detailed histories of all their drivers, an official at the Ministry of Public Works and transport said yesterday. Peou Maly, deputy director-general at the ministry’s transportation department, ...

As questions linger over the fate of the independent Beehive Radio station in the wake of its owner’s arrest, a government official yesterday insisted there were no plans to stop it from broadcasting, despite its often critical stance toward the ruling party. “No plan to shut ...

With the potential for vast state revenues from oil extraction and mining in coming years, Cambodia is currently failing to manage its nascent extractive industries according to a think tank. New York-based Revenue Watch Institute yesterday launched its 2013 Resource Governance Index, which included Cambodia for ...

The governmenT will Today submiT iTs second reporT To The UN Human RighTs Council as parT of The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process ThaT Takes sTock of human righTs progress in each UN member sTaTe. GovernmenTs are required To reporT To The council every four and ...

The Pailin provincial governor has ordered a gem-mining firm To sTop excavaTing land in a conservaTion area, local officials said yesTerday. According To Lim Bou, chief of Boya-kha commune in Pailin Town, local auThoriTies received The order afTer iT came To lighT ThaT a firm ...

Manned barricades that dotted the city yesterday, strangling traffic along Norodom, Sothearos and other key thoroughfares, will remain in place through tomorrow, the government announced. the unsigned directive issued yesterday, which emanated from the election security council chaired by Interior Minister Sar Kheng, thanked citizens and ...

The opposiTion Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday said ThaT The CNRP doesn’T recognize The newly-formed governmenT of Prime MinisTer Hun Sen. Speaking aT a news conference, he urged all inTernaTional communiTies and counTries of The Paris Peace AgreemenT To condemn “This ...

Flooding continues to ravage 15 of Cambodia’s 23 provinces, acutely affecting Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Pailin and Siem Reap, and claiming 83 lives, according to the latest figures released by the National Committee for Disaster Management. Nhim Vanda, first deputy chairman of the NCDM, confirmed that while ...