The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday acquitted Chan sophon of the 2007 murder of union leader Hy Vuthy, overturning a 2012 conviction and an 18-year jail sentence that rights groups and Mr. Vuthy’s own union believe was cover for the real perpetrators. The judge ss='cambodia-color'>...

A month after a call for civil servants to strike for higher pay, Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday ordered government ministries to ensure that staff are paid on time, and said that otherwise workers could air their grievances in the press. The prime minister’s remarks, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Finance Corporation’s compliance ombudsman has officially accepted a complaint filed by ethnic minority families in Ratanakkiri province against the IFC for investing in rubber plantations accused of stealing land and clearing forests. In a letter sent to the families on Monday, the ombudsman deems ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s announcement on Wednesday that companies looking to start rubber plantations could skirt a moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs) by taking over existing, dormant ones continued to make a good impression on prospective investors in town Thursday. Ly Phalla, who heads the Agriculture ss='cambodia-color'>...

Security guardS at the center of a yearlong land diSpute between familieS in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Boeng Kak community and the Khun Sear Import Export Company on WedneSday accuSed the familieS of attacking them during a late-night Khmer New Year drinking party. Nuon Sokhannara, one of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Officials with the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday spoke out for the first time against Australia’s plans to send some of the asylum seekers trying to reach its shores to Cambodia, saying the pending deal was not a “real ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 13 Vietnamese nationals were apprehended by Cambodian fishermen on sunday night while illegally fishing off the coast of Kampot province and are being held for repatriation, according to a village representative and the provincial governor. Neak sen, a representative of a fishing community ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen’s administration on Friday hit out at opposition leaders for accusing the government of ceding territory to Vietnam at a ceremony this week commemorating the 65th anniversary of loss of land belonging to the Khmer Krom ethnic minority to Hanoi. Government spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the development company 7NG completed the violent eviction of more than 1,400 families from Phnom Penh’s Dey Krahorm community in 2009, it set its sights on the adjacent White Building. The historic apartment block, which was built as a low-cost housing project under then Prince ss='cambodia-color'>...

Drive deep enough into Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district, and the rubber plantations that dot the roads fall away. Here, there is only mile after mile of lush, dark woodland: An ideal place to bury one’s dead and pay respects to the spirits that reside inside ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a rare moment of honesty a Cambodian official has admitted his doubts about his country’s ability to meet regional expectations in time for the launch of the much vaunted AsEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of 2015. “If you talk about short-term: Yes, we ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bank of China is in negotiations with Cambodia’s central bank on the promotion of business transactions in Chinese yuan. The official talks reflect rapid trade growth between the two countries at a time when several commercial banks in Cambodia have launched yuan remittance and trade-settlement products. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty anti-personnel mines and 60mm mortar tails found by residents in siem Reap province’s svay Loeu district and Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district have been destroyed by the Cambodian self Help Demining (CsHD) team. svay Loeu district police chief Colonel sun Eng said yesterday ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new study has determined that cost and space are the biggest constraints to setting up canteens in Cambodia’s garment factories. The findings were presented on Monday night at a cocktail party attended by Cambodia’s former ambassador to the Us, Roland Eng, the swedish Ambassador Anne ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Youth Resource Development Programme (YRDP) and a group of youths have asked the government to include students and monks in the government’s National social security Fund (NssF) so they can receive social protection services for free such as health examinations and treatment. The proposal ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the market for lower to middle income housing, the line between ‘public’ and ‘affordable’ has been blurred.Post Property AnalysisLocal property developer, WorldBridge Land, Co. Ltd., and singapore-based construction company, strait Construction Group Pte, Ltd, last week announced a $100 million Memorandum of Understanding on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia could see less preferential economic treatment by Europe in coming years, as it graduates as a more developed country, the EU’s ambassador to Cambodia says. In an interview with VOA Khmer in Phnom Penh, Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain said Cambodia currently enjoys tariff exemptions under a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Wages for Cambodian garment workers decreased by more than 20 percent in real terms between 2001 and 2011 despite the industry’s exponential increase in exports, which in 2012 were valued at more than $4 billion, according to a recent report by a U.s.-based workers advocacy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite being one of the earliest proponents of the U.N.-sponsored Convention on Cluster Munitions, Cambodia was still not ready to sign on, an official said on the eve of the fourth annual meeting of state parties to the treaty in Zambia. Heng Ratana, director-general of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in Cambodia’s capital on Wednesday ordered the country’s main opposition party to scale back plans for mass demonstrations aimed at backing mass demonstrations aimed at backing demands for an independent probe into election fraud charges. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), led by sam Rainsy, ss='cambodia-color'>...