Twelve years after being ousted as president of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) amid a bitter dispute with the prime minister’s attorney, human rights lawyer suon Visal has been voted back into the lawyer association’s top position. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Siem Reap Provincial Court charged the director of a recruitment agency with fraud for allegedly taking money from victimS in exchange for promiSing jobS in the U.S., a court official Said yeSterday. “Bich Bunara, head of the recruitment agency, waS charged with fraud and another SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) will never tax farmland. “It would burden our farmers,” he said in Takeo sunday. “Although national revenue that comes from land taxes is spent on building roads, water systems, hospitals and  schools, we still ss='cambodia-color'>...

Airports of Thailand (AOT) regards possible co-operation with Myanmar’s Airport Authority as a first step for engaging in airport operations and investment in Laos and Cambodia, the Bangkok Post reported AOT’s acting president, somchai sawas-deepon, as saying. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three ethnic minority communities in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district are drafting a petition to send to provincial authorities in an attempt to resolve a land dispute in which part of their communal land has been granted to other communities and private landowners. In June, officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday appointed incumbent Prime MiniSter Hun Sen aS the prime miniSter for the new five-year-term government after hiS ruling party won the July 28 election, according to a royal decree. “The Prime MiniSter of Cambodia haS dutieS to prepare the memberS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Finance said that Asian Development Bank (ADB) would provide UsD773 million in loan for implementation of economic development projects from 2014-2016 in Cambodia. Of the loan, UsD573 million would be provided by ADB, while another UsD200 million would be lended by another partner through ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 30 residents of a planned community on the eastern outskirts of Phnom Penh gathered around the picturesque lake that forms the center of their neighborhood Monday to prevent its developer, a former opposition lawmaker, from reclaiming the land to construct condos. The residents, many of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Starting later thiS month, 10,000 Small and medium-Sized buSineSSeS will be queried aS part of a JapaneSe government-backed economic cenSuS intended to take a SnapShot of activity acroSS the private Sector. Beginning on February 23 and running through to March 31, Cambodia&rSquo;S National InStitute of StatiSticS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is forecast to receive 4.7 million foreign visitors in 2014, an estimated rise of 12 percent from 4.2 million in 2013, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said Wednesday. Last year, the country’s tourism generated 2.5 billion U.s. dollars, contributing about 16 percent to the GDP, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank has not yet reached a decision on whether to lift a ban on loans to Cambodia, a Bank official has said, contradicting local media reports that the international financing institution would resume loans suspended three years ago over allegations of violent land ss='cambodia-color'>...

The mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts—which has the second-largest population of Cambodian-Americans in the U.s.—on Friday visited 10 anti-eviction activists inside Phnom Penh’s Prey sar prison, emerging to announce that he would lobby the government for their release. Wrapping up a five-day visit to Phnom Penh, Rodney ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police arrested two Russian men at a rented villa in sihanoukville on saturday after a Moldovan man was injured in a fight that began when one side allegedly demanded a portion of the profits from the upcoming Kazantip music festival, officials said on sunday.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new group of six Montagnards from Vietnam have arrived in northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province to seek political refuge, as a United Nations team tries to locate and assist other refugees in hiding, a villager who provided shelter to the Montagnards said. The villager, who declined ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was imprisoned Wednesday evening after being arrested at his family’s snake House restaurant in sihanoukville for failing to appear in court to be questioned over fraud charges related to a dispute with his rival, fugitive developer sergei Polonsky. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Standing inSide her Shop behind a heavy glaSS door Secured with an electronic lock, it would be eaSy to miStake Nguon Chorda for a jewelry boutique owner, not the manager of a Store that SellS dried bird Saliva. Mr. Sothy Said once the CBNF getS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Media experts are asking the government to consider granting citizen journalists the same safeguards as professional journalists under Cambodia’s Press Law. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Funcinpec party president Prince Norodom Ranariddh has called on the opposition and ruling parties to form a tripartite coalition with the royalists after Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun sen embarked on a “honeymoon” after years spent at each others’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official at the National Committee for Disaster Management said Monday that abnormal weather conditions this year could lead to food shortages and that El Nino could be to blame. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Advocates for the disabled yesterday criticised the slow implementation of Cambodia’s six-year-old disability law and urged the government to hasten the process by starting the distribution of the monthly $5 pension that people with disabilities were promised in 2011 through a separate sub-decree. ss='cambodia-color'>...