About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s snuol district embroiled in a land dispute with a plantation owner are the latest evictees to take residence in Phnom Penh’s samakki Raingsey pagoda. A spokesman for City Hall, which has made repeated efforts in recent months to prevent the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Maina Kiai, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the freedom of assembly and association, met with a Foreign Affairs Ministry official Thursday and raised concerns about the government’s blanket ban on gatherings in Phnom Penh. His visit wraps up today, and a thematic report he will issue ss='cambodia-color'>...

A wildlife sanctuary in Takeo province may provide refuge for birds, but it’s a source of contention for 68 Khmer Krom families who stand to lose their livelihood. The local fisheries administration wants to evict villagers from the state-owned sanctuary in Borei Cholsar district, but the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, saw a 16 percent increase in exports in the first six months of 2014, according to a commerce ministry’s report on sunday. The country exported apparel and footwear products worth 2.92 billion U.s. dollars during the January-June period ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 190 workers at two separate garment factories fainted at work on Friday and saturday, both times after complaining of foul odors, union leaders and workers said. At the Chinese-owned sixplus Industry factory in Kandal province’s Mok Kampoul district, which makes sportswear for retail giant ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian delegation to the United Nations last week used the stage to shame the World Bank’s financial arm for failing to adequately monitor investments in a Vietnamese rubber giant accused of illegal logging, forced evictions and sexual harassment. Representing 17 indigenous communities in Ratanakkiri that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will join the bidding for the Philippine government’s latest rice import offer, a senior rice industry official says. The Philippine government’s National Food Authority (NFA) last week authorised the import of 500,000 tonnes of rice to the country. The bidding process, which is looking for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid a recent spate of riverbank collapses in Kampong Cham province that have so far damaged three properties, authorities are advising the owners of nearly 40 houses to move their structures. Yesterday’s collapse in the province’s Kampong Cham commune destroyed the Khyol Tonle restaurant in front ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries rose by 16 percent year on year in the first eleven months of 2014, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. The country exported products in equivalent to 7.05 billion U.s. dollars, up 12 percent year-on-year ss='cambodia-color'>...

Wah Seong Corporation Bhd&rSquo;S SubSidiary will be Selling 48,000 MW of power per annum over 10 yearS to Cambodia&rSquo;S power company. Wah Seong Said on Friday itS SubSidiary PMTI Energy (Cambodia) Co Ltd had Signed a power purchaSe deal with the Electricité Du Cambodge to Sell SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of monks are marching to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh to mark International Human Rights Day, defying the orders of their own leaders and police and military roadblocks, local media reported Monday. Accompanied by rights campaigners, some of the monks have been walking towards the city ss='cambodia-color'>...

Corruption watchdogs yesterday called on the Cambodian government to stamp out corrupt practices within the public procurement process during the first public forum on the Kingdom’s Budget Law. speaking at the forum at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the face of global economic fragility, the Cambodian government needs to review its fiscal policies and deepen its pockets – building a “buffer” for use in times of crisis, the World Bank has warned. The World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects 2015 report states that Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human Rights Watch says that 2014 was one of Cambodia’s worst years in recent history in terms of human rights violations, citing “killings by security forces, arrests of activists and opposition politicians, summary trials and crackdowns on peaceful protest”. The Cambodia section of its World Report ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Environment Minister say samal is a hybrid package. On one hand, he comes from a politically powerful family. This saturday, his father, say Chhum, is to be elected co-vice president of the ruling party. On the other hand, the 35-year-old Minister represents Cambodia’s rising, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling party suffered a dramatic drop in support during the country’s last election two years ago, and critics say lawmakers are now pushing through a spate of laws to ensure that does not happen again. In the past year, parliament has passed new regulations ss='cambodia-color'>...

Traffic cops will personally pocket 70 per cent of the fines they give out from January 2016 onwards, when the country’s new traffic law is implemented and penalties will rise five-fold.The incentive was announced yesterday by the deputy director of the Interior Ministry’s Public Order ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 92.68 percent, or 13,131 villages of Cambodia’s total villages, had access to electricity by the end of 2019, a Mines and Energy Ministry’s report showed on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s government is pushing for free-trade agreement (FTA) talks with potential partners while seeking Russian’s help for a Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) free trade agreement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

NBC’s Director-General has said that agriculture could potentially contribute to Cambodia’s economic growth as the workforce in the sector continues to increase while productivity remains high. ss='cambodia-color'>...