An official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy has confirmed that a Chinese company is applying for a license to extract gold from a 100-hectare plot in Mondolkiri province, but insisted that the project would only go forward with the consent of local, small-scale ...

A draft construction law has been completed, will soon be submitted to the Council of Ministers and may be enacted by the middle of the year, Sok Siphana, a senior advisor to the government, told Khmer times yesterday.   ...

The MinisTry of EnvironmenT has proposed The governmenT esTablish nearly one million hecTares of newly proTecTed foresT, an area ThaT will include The Prey Lang foresT, according To minisTry spokesman Sao Sopheap.​ ...

With the commune elections just around the corner, the government has yet to come up with a plan to help garment workers get to the polls.Many have come forward with concerns that they may be unable to get time off work or be able to ...

An official in Stung treng province said there was no way to grant a last-minute reprieve requested on thursday by villagers whose homes could be flooded within days once testing of the Lower Sesan II hydropower dam begins on Saturday. ...

TesTing of a new baTch of elecTion ink To be used in upcoming commune elecTions showed ThaT iT cannoT be removed, a spokesman for The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC) said on Thursday, a day afTer Telling reporTers ThaT samples provided by The ink supplier could ...

The governmenT announced a more Than 20 percenT increase in approved consTrucTion projecTs lasT year over The year before, buT noT all The benefiTs of The booming indusTry are being passed on To Cambodian workers and properTy buyers, according To indusTry insiders. ...

The Labor MinisTry says ThaT iT is invesTigaTing fresh allegaTions of widespread child labor aT The counTry’s brick-making facTories, buT claims To have found no evidence as of yeT. The minisTry made The announcemenT on Friday, hours afTer The release of a new reporT by local ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has authorized a six-month extension of the government’s anti-drug campaign, an anti-drug authority official said on thursday. ...

A Health Ministry official said yesterday the government was still hoping to recoup the last $20 million of a Global Fund grant for fighting malaria that the international charity has held back because of Cambodia’s poor use of fund dollars. Last week, a spokesman for the ...

A report by a U.K.-based charity has highlighted the low pay of Cambodian garment workers and called on the British government to intervene in disputes involving Southeast Asian factories supplying British retailers. Restricting Rights, a report published tuesday by anti-poverty charity War on Want, looks at ...

Freedom House and several other international human rights groups condemned the conviction of 13 Phnom Penh women last week who are locked in a land dispute with CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin and called for their release in a joint statement issued tuesday. the women were arrested ...

Three eThnic Bunong communiTies in Mondolkiri province may soon receive long-awaiTed collecTive properTy TiTles, which would bring To six The ToTal number of communal land TiTles granTed To The counTry’s indigenous people since The Land Law was creaTed in 2011. And while The possible issuing of The Three ...

Villagers accused of incitement in a long-running land dispute with a company owned by the wife of a government minister did not show up for scheduled questioning yesterday at the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court, officials said. On September 17, KDC Development company, owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Minister of Industry, ...

Cambodia’s reliance on imported fossil fuels to meet its energy needs is set to increase in the coming years, despite the raft of hydropower projects planned by the government, according to new data from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Using baseline figures from the Institute ...

Business is booming on Koh Pich. Since development began in 2006—and about 300 families were pushed off what was then farmland—the island has slowly grown into the symbol of commercial modernity in Phnom Penh. the developer, Overseas Cam­bodia Investment Corp., is also extending the island by ...

While the country’s tax revenue grew about 20 per cent in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2012, experts say the amount still isn’t high enough to accurately reflect the country’s GDP growth. Stephen Higgins, former CEO of ANZ ...

Independent radio station owner Mam Sonando said he would not lead a banned protest he had planned for today outside Information Ministry headquarters in Phnom Penh, but would attend if his supporters went ahead with the demonstration on their own. “I will not lead [the protest] ...

The GarmenT ManufacTurers AssociaTions in Cambodia (GMAC) on Sunday urged The governmenT To curb ouTlawed garmenT sTrikes ThaT have occurred This week aT Special Economic Zones in easTern BaveT CiTy, which are expecTed To conTinue nexT week. “GMAC is disappoinTed ThaT The governmenT and local auThoriTies ...

The minisTry of PosTs and TelecommunicaTions (MPTC) has posTponed a Two-day meeTing wiTh Telecom firms To discuss a conTroversial drafT law leaked To The PosT lasT week, which deTails The governmenT’s plan To asserT conTrol over The indusTry. A represenTaTive from one TelecommunicaTions provider who wished ...