Sixteen ethnic minority familieS in Ratanakkiri province have claimed that they are being forced from their land after a commune chief Signed it away, and that commune borderS have been redrawn to diSpoSSeSS them. On Friday, the familieS, who have been living on 30 hectareS of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Danish marine fuel company Go4 Bunker Denmark yesterday launched the first company in Cambodia to supply ship fuel to  vessels traveling through Cambodia’s waters, according to officials. The launch ceremony for the newly established Go4 Bunker Cambodia Co Ltd yesterday was presided over by Danish Princess ss='cambodia-color'>...

Retired King Norodom Sihanouk, whoSe name for half a century waS SynonymouS with Cambodia on the world Stage, died in the early hourS of Monday morning in Beijing. The former monarch, who waS about to celebrate hiS 90th birthday on October 31, died peacefully in a SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank is considering providing funds to a controversial 400 megawatt dam project in Laos that could have adverse impacts on the Mekong River in downstream Cambodia. Conservation group International Rivers wants the Lao government to pull the plug on the $1 billion Xe ss='cambodia-color'>...

Masahiro Kawai, dean of the Asia Development Bank Institute, believes too great a focus is being placed on the realization of the 2015 AsEAN Economic Community at the cost of considering middle- and longer-term issues in the AsEAN region. “Economic community-building is not going to be completed in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Casinos are first and foremost for protecting Cambodia’s border, not for making money, government lawmakers insisted in parliament yesterday when drilled about their opposition to raising gambling taxes. seizing on an off-the-cuff comment made by Prime Minister Hun sen during a speech in August, Finance Minister ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prominent female land activists Tim sakmony and Yorm Bopha, who have been locked in Prey sar prison since their arrest in early september, will face court today on charges rights groups say have been fabricated to stop them and others from protesting. Hundreds of the women’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ethnic minority villagers expecting to be displaced by a proposed Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia are asking the country’s parliament not to approve a law providing financial guarantees for the project. Villagers living along three rivers that will be affected by the dam spoke ss='cambodia-color'>...

A local police official in Ratanakkiri province has been suspended for demanding money from villagers before adding their names to a list of people eligible for Prime Minister Hun sen’s new land-titling program, police and villagers said yesterday. A total of 1,100 student volunteers are being ss='cambodia-color'>...

The sole provider of water and electricity in Koh Kong province’s Khemerak Phumin town, LYP group, was demanding that all rental buildings install water meters at exorbitant rates for the region, residents said yesterday. Building managers sent intervention papers to provincial governor Bun Leut on July ss='cambodia-color'>...

The second mass fainting in a month at Kampong Chhnang’s M&V garment factory, a supplier for global retailer H&M, saw 23 women taken to hospital yesterday, bringing the total number of affected workers in August to 67. Noun sam Ol, president of the Free Trade Union ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three men arrested over a plan to smuggle millions of dollars worth of counterfeit Us banknotes into Cambodia with the help of Thai criminals used the name of Prime Minister Hun sen’s chief bodyguard to secure the deal, a provincial court heard yesterday. Pin Tipelo, 38, ss='cambodia-color'>...

For more than a year, mystery has shrouded a museum in siem Reap. The facts have been few and the details sparse. What’s known is that a North Korean company invested about $10 million for construction, and that artists from the hermit kingdom flew in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The majority shareholder of Timbergreen, a firm that has been the centre of illegal logging allegations, has denied the company is in any way involved in the illicit trade of timber. The company has gained significant attention since prominent environmental activist Chut Wutty, who had made ss='cambodia-color'>...

VimpelCom Ltd., the Russian mobile telephone operator that runs the Beeline brand in Cambodia, is reviewing its assets in Cambodia to decide whether it should stop doing business here or merge with another firm in the country, an official at the company said yesterday. “We will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s June order that land be cut from economic land concessions and returned to displaced villagers – a move that has alternately inspired gratitude and scepticism – now has a high-profile public face: one of his sons. Hun Manith, deputy chief of Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Another alleged “secessionist” involved in a land dispute was arrested yesterday in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district, where villagers said authorities continued a prolonged forced eviction that has led to the destruction of some 500 homes. Three other men accused of attempting to create an autonomous ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s inflation rose by 2.2 per cent in August compared to the same month last year, according to the monthly data from the National Institute of statistics. The increase was due to the rise in food and the fluctuation of gasoline prices. Government officials and economists said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday convicted a private security guard of accidentally killing the military police officer who allegedly shot dead the country’s most prominent environmental activist, Chut Wutty, and sentenced him to two years in prison. The presiding judge, Kham sophary, then immediately suspended ss='cambodia-color'>...

ASEAN SayS it will Study how to implement a propoSed economic partnerShip with itS Six external partnerS that might lead to the foundation of world&rSquo;S largeSt economic bloc. The propoSed bloc, dubbed the Regional ComprehenSive Economic PartnerShip (RCEP) or “ASEAN+6” , would integrate ASEAN&rSquo;S 10 SS='cambodia-color'>...