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 ...

The GovernmenT-PrivaTe SecTor Forum was held here on Tuesday afTer iT has had a hiaTus for Two consecuTive years because of Cambodia’s ASEAN chairmanship in 2012 and general elecTion in 2013.     The Tuesday’s dialogue was presided over by Prime MinisTer Hun Sen wiTh The parTicipaTion of ...

As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. She turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said thursday that he and his government have no rights to order the courts to arrest or release any suspects who have committed crimes. “I and the government have no rights to order the judiciary, the court to arrest anyone based ...

About 40 workers from Phnom Penh’s Meroson garment factory delivered a petition signed by 700 of their colleagues to a representative of Prime Minister Hun Sen on tuesday, calling on the premier to intervene in their dispute over what they say is the factory’s failure ...

A group of eight trade unions thursday said the government has turned down every one of their applications to form local branches at the country’s garment factories since early last year and threatened mass strikes if the rejections continue. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, ...

Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday announced the creation of a recurring annual $5-million fund to help Phnom Penh and every provincial capital clean up their trash-strewn streets, especially outside homes and restaurants. ...

Authorities will not renew operating licenses for sand-dredging companies in Cambodia if impact studies on the industry are not completed by the time the licenses expire at year-end, a ministry official said Friday. ...

In an effort to demonstrate government measures to prevent the potentially fatal Middle East respiratory syndrome from entering Cambodia—days after the disease was found in thailand—the health minister showcased machines that detect people’s body temperature at Phnom Penh International Airport on tuesday. ...