Two construction workers were crushed to death on saturday in Phnom Penh when a concrete wall collapsed on them as they were digging a building’s foundation. Boeung Tompun commune police identified the victims as Touch Chorm, 17, from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district, and, Yung Yangthor, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district, locked in an ongoing land dispute with local tycoon Try Pheap’s MDs Import Export Co Ltd, claimed yesterday that security forces and environmental officers opened fire and tried to burn down their houses and plantations on Tuesday after ss='cambodia-color'>...

Responding to reported fears among staff that the destruction of a wall at Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute could herald the piecemeal sale of the grounds to adjacent casino operator NagaCorp, the government yesterday chalked the alarm up to a simple misunderstanding. According to the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Thom’s sambor Prei Kuk temple complex will be the next Cambodian site nominated for inclusion on UNEsCO’s World Heritage List, Deputy Prime Minister sok An announced yesterday at the 20th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA). The seventh-century complex, which predates Angkor Wat by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information asked Mam sonando, owner of the independent Beehive Radio station, to meet Friday after repeatedly rejecting a request he has made since 2005 for the expansion of his station’s reach into provincial areas. Mr. sonando’s assistant, Huon Pannary, said that Buth Bou ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s largest financial institution, Acleda Bank, has been adopted into the World Economic Forum’s group of Global Growth Companies (GGC), an exclusive club made up of some of the world’s fastest-growing medium-size firms. The WEF yesterday announced that 20 companies from the Asia-Pacific region had been ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of some 250 families who lost their land to a company in Kampong speu province filed a complaint with Adhoc yesterday, saying they have yet to receive compensation, even after land measurement volunteers allegedly promised a resolution if villagers voted for the ruling party ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environment Minister say sam Al on Wednesday lauded the country’s controversial sugar industry and the jobs it has created, saying that companies operating in the sector need to be defended against the widespread criticism they have been receiving. Rights groups and the opposition CNRP have undertaken ss='cambodia-color'>...

A six-month standoff that eventually halted a box factory’s production ended on Friday, when managers of the factory in the capital’s Por sen Chey district paid seniority bonuses to almost 150 former employees. Harta Packaging Industries paid bonuses of between $500 and $4,000 to a total ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s military coup has reoriented Thai-Cambodian relations with surprising effects. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen’s overt enmity and confrontation towards Thailand over the past several years have become conciliatory and accommodating for the time being. Whether this new pattern of bilateral ties is solidified depends ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australians are among donors to a school charity in Cambodia where the director has been charged with arranging for foreign volunteers to sexually abuse teenage students. The scandal has focused new attention on the management of Cambodia’s orphanages and children’s charities and the deception used by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal government issued a warning to those operating unlicensed sand quarries after a military helicopter plunged into one killing four people on Monday, but some questioned City Hall’s motives and commitment. The statement, dated Tuesday and signed by Governor Pa socheatvong, came a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The latest case of scores of villagers from Kratie province tied up in a land dispute with an ag­ribusiness firm has once again highlighted failures in the 2012 land-titling scheme launched by Prime Minister Hun sen to settle unresolved land disputes and distribute hundreds of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Property investors with inside information may have bought up land across the Mekong River in Kandal province before the announcement of new bridges, a real estate agent claims. Land in areas like Akrei Khsatr commune in Kandal’s Lvea Em district is set to become more valuable ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile service provider smart has outperformed its fellow Axiata Group subsidiaries in the first half of the year, according to the Malaysian conglomerate’s latest financial report. Driven by a 115 per cent increase in data traffic revenue, Axiata’s results show smart’s gross revenue totalled 270 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three men embroiled in a land dispute with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem were arrested Tuesday while marching with about 50 fellow villagers from Kompong Chhnang province’s Lor Peang village to Phnom Penh. The villagers planned to walk ss='cambodia-color'>...

Last month, Prime Minister Hun sen was mocked for claiming in a speech on August 18 that he was unaware of a land dispute in Kratie province’s snuol district over which villagers had repeatedly petitioned his cabinet. But Mr. Hun sen’s admission that he was unaware ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 ethnic families in Mondulkiri’s sen Monorom town filed complaints to Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet and the provincial court yesterday, asking for the cancellation of Villa Development’s land concession and demanding $500 million for allegedly destroying their resin trees. The complaint is the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmakers said they will demand that Prime Minister Hun sen halt ongoing efforts to demarcate Cambodia’s border with Vietnam until after the 2018 election to guarantee a consensus on the controversial boundary. This came as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday again moved to ss='cambodia-color'>...

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