First, agricultural company DM group displaced them, now a recently arrived commercial farmer has threatened their lives and chased them off their new land, said representatives of 12 families engaged in a long-standing land dispute in Ratanakkiri province. On Wednesday, the 12 Tampuon ethnic minority families ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s transition from export-led to domestic-led growth, combined with the rising costs of production, could provide opportunities for Cambodian growth and diversity, analysts say. Faisal Ahmed, the IMF representative for Cambodia, said the Kingdom was already experiencing an increase in trade activity as a result of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ongoing story of garment workers left jobless by company closures in late December is fast becoming A Tale of Two Factories: one group of workers has everything before it, the other has nothing. It’s this widening gulf between workers at Yung Wah Industrial and Kingsland ss='cambodia-color'>...

Labour-rights groups are lauding a “historic” deal that will result in about $200,000 in wages and benefits being paid to workers who were stranded when the Kingsland Garment factory in Phnom Penh closed unannounced in December. In a meeting on Friday that took place as more ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 residents from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community rallied in front of the National Assembly yesterday to demand the release of 13 women sentenced to jail last week and two others now in pretrial detention for opposing evictions resulting from a real estate project ss='cambodia-color'>...

In what’s believed to be an unprecedented move, the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has ordered two companies holding economic land concessions to face court questioning on accusations of illegal logging and land clearing. Deputy prosecutor Ros saram said he summonsed Vietnamese-owned Company 72 last week and will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia achieved a GDP growth rate of 7.3 percent last year, Prime Minister Hun sen said Wednesday, forecasting that the growth would be higher than 7 percent this year. Addressing a conference on 2013 Cambodia Outlook, he said the growth last year came from strong growth ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday issued a moratorium on economic land concessions, temporarily halting a long-standing policy of granting land to private companies and those with powerful political connections that has sparked growing concerns from national and international human rights groups. The prime minister’s announcement comes ss='cambodia-color'>...

HIDDEN in the labyrinth of Stung Meanchey province&rSquo;S factorieS, the SuStainable Green Fuel EnterpriSe (SGFE) found a cleaner way to produce charcoal: from coconut ShellS and induStry leftoverS. It iS Still one of the principal SourceS of energy for cooking in urban areaS. Chief Executive Carlo SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 employees of Telecom Cambodia demonstrated yesterday morning, demanding the company’s general director step down and that the Anti-Corruption Unit investigate the company. The strikers claimed general director Lao saroeun had been involved in large-scale embezzlement, other forms of corruption and disrespect ss='cambodia-color'>...

Initial mapping of three ethnic minority Banong communities in Mondolkiri province got underway yesterday, a critical step in their plans to gain much coveted communal titles to their ancestral land. Established by the 2001 Land Law, communal land titles were designed specifically to protect the ancestral ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 former employees of bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone traveled from three provinces yesterday to protest outside the firm’s shuttered office on Phnom Penh’s Monivong Boulevard demanding their severance pay. sok samphorn, an engineer who was employed by Mfone, said employees from Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In diversifing its holiday attractions, Cambodia’s tourism industry should focus on three key areas – the country’s northeastern region, the coasts and the vicinity around siem Reap – but efforts to promote these destinations are still lacking, an industry leader says. statistics from the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

At Chak Angre Krom Primary School in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Meanchey diStrict on Sunday, 82-year-old Kat Om Slowly made hiS way out of one of the claSSroomS, hiS forefinger darkened with ink. Mr. Om iS a SeaSoned voter, having thrown hiS Support behind the ruling CPP&mdaSh;which claimS SS='cambodia-color'>...

ambodia has suspended international military co-operation programs with the United states and others following that country’s recent, disputed election, the state Department said Monday. The reason for Cambodia’s action was not immediately clear. state Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that Cambodia’s Defence Ministry has postponed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has imported 871,000 tons of petroleum in the first six months of the year, a 5.6 percent decline compared with the 922,800 tons at the same period last year, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Monday. During the January-June period this year, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s main opposition party accused long-serving Prime Minister Hun sen of a ‘constitutional coup’ on Wednesday and said it could call a general strike as it steps up protests over its complaints of vote-rigging in July’s general election. “We condemn this National Assembly, this government ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two monks living a remote pagoda in Kampong speu province’s Oral district said yesterday that a shot had been fired at their living quarters last Tuesday in what they suspected was a threat motivated by their conservation efforts and participation in an opposition rally. Venerables sam ss='cambodia-color'>...

Canadia Bank PLC and Cambodia’s postal service are expected to open a commercial bank next month with financial backing from one of singapore’s largest financial institutions, officials and sources with knowledge of the venture said Thursday. The bank, known as Cambodia Post Bank PLC, will provide ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30 families in the capital’s Boeung Kak community are still waiting for official land titles six weeks after City Hall officials measured ground at the site of a years-long land dispute, villagers have said. The Phnom Penh Municipality began measuring land in villages 6, ss='cambodia-color'>...