The National Election Committee (NEC) can now turn its attention to preparations for next year’s national election, which are already underway as voter registration will start in september, said Khorn Keo Mono, director of the NEC’s communications department. Mr. Keo Mono said on Tuesday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rampant deforestation and development have increased pressure on animals throughout Cambodia. They’ve especially intensified in the country’s “spirit forests,” as the hill communities like the ethnic-minority Chong call them, which are some of the creatures’ last refuges. But the changes also threaten their culture, as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen escalated the government’s attacks on media outlets and NGOs yesterday, reiterating in a speech that the Cambodia Daily would have to “pack up their things and leave” if they failed to pay a $6.3 million tax bill, while at the same ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials expressed optimism that microfinance institution Prasac would be able to attract more deposit placing clients, after the inauguration of its new headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Tompun district yesterday. Representatives from the National Bank of Cambodia  and Prasac expect the new 10-storey building to enhance ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 60 families will have their homes destroyed to make way for a new overpass in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district once construction begins in June, according to a statement posted saturday on the city’s website. The overpass spanning Monireth Boulevard will displace 66 families and ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 villagers involved in a land dispute with an import-export company in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district protested sunday against the firm’s alleged attempts to stop them from farming the area, officials and villagers said. Meas sarin, one of the protesters, said that about ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of businesses registered with the Ministry of Commerce climbed by more than 10 per cent year on year during the first half of 2012, ministry data showed. Officials credited the government’s piecemeal efforts to institute a transparent investment policy and gross domestic product growth, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S.-liSted gaming company iS Set to open itS Second caSino in Cambodia next month, the company Said aS it announced itS revenueS had grown to more than $20 million in 2012. Entertainment Gaming ASia Inc. (EGA), which iS backed by Macau-baSed Melco International Development Limited SS='cambodia-color'>...

CEDAC, a domestic agriculture development organisation and the Kingdom’s largest distributor of natural honey, will shrink its purchases of the commodity in the face of rising prices, the company’s president says. Yang saing Koma said the group would not reach its goal of buying 7,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

StrikerS from Kandal province&rSquo;S Tai Yang and Camwell factorieS, which Supply Levi&rSquo;S and Gap, will converge on the capital again today to keep preSSing for Seniority bonuSeS, Cambodian Confederation of UnionS preSident Rong Chhun Said. The 150 workerS who remain on Strikewill deliver a petition to SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy is projected to grow by 7 percent this year, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Keat Chhon said Friday. He said the growth still is contributed by garment exports, tourism, agriculture, real estate and construction. Last year, Cambodia’s GDP per capita was nearly 1,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank has revised its growth prediction for Cambodia upwards to 7 per cent for 2013, from its January prediction of 6.7 per cent, a revision it attributes to the performance of the Kingdom’s agriculture, tourism and garment sectors. Cambodia’s outlook is generally positive, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall has taken over the recently launched public bus route in Phnom Penh pending a review of the Chinese-owned firm that is contracted to run the fledgling service, a company official said yesterday. Lim Andre, Global (Cambodia) Trade Development’s manager in Phnom Penh, said yesterday ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc, claiming their village chief has threatened them with arrest over a petition accusing officials of illegally logging a community forest. sven Vev, 40, said he and three other representatives of the ethnic Tumpoun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s exports to the United states, the country’s biggest market, were valued at about $2.8 billion last year, a three per cent rise from $2.7 billion in 2012, according to fresh statistics from the Us Department of Commerce. Ken Ratha, a spokesman for Cambodia’s Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s European aid donors said Tuesday they are working on a new five-year “cooperation strategy” designed to increase the impact of the millions of dollars in loans and grants they give the country each year. With a combined $209 million in aid to Cambodia in 2012, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Media watchdogs on Wednesday expressed concern that the resignation on saturday of Kem Gunawadh, long-serving director-general of state broadcaster TVK, was due to the station’s airing of an opposition campaign spot showing violent government protest repressions. In a statement, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts will begin tests today on two barrels discovered in Mondulkiri province earlier this week, which are suspected to contain chemicals used by the Us in the 1970s in its war against the Viet Cong, officials said yesterday. Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Mine ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior government official has accused authorities involved in the construction and repair of the nation’s roads of embezzling a significant portion of the money budgeted to them. Nhim Vanda, the first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management, on Wednesday added his voice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Casualties from mines and unexploded ordnance are on track to outpace last year’s count, according to new government data. In the first five months of this year, 89 people were either killed or injured by the deadly remnants of war, Cambodian Mine Action Centre director-general ss='cambodia-color'>...