The government has slashed about 250,000 hectares of land from 79 economic land concessions (ELCs), forest concessions and wildlife protection concessions and will return it, replete with land titles, to “poor people”, January’s Royal Book says. The publication, issued on January 17 and obtained yesterday, says ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the past four years, families in Anlong Chrey village, in Kampong speu provinces’s Thpong district, have watched a small multipurpose dam being built at their back doors. For village chief soung Pao, 59, who gave up two hectares for the dam – one of ss='cambodia-color'>...

As night falls in Phonm Penh, thousands of weary workers stream from textile factories, reflecting the abundance of jobs created by the clothing industry’s desire for cheap labor. However, as the number of international clothes companies tapping into Cambodia’s workforce grows, so does anger at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The British chairman of a Biofuel firm is facing up to 15 years in jail after he was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in Phnom Penh on saturday and charged with forgery, a court official said yesterday. Gregg Fryett’s company, sustainable Agro Energy, has been ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 70 ethnic minority Banong families from two separate villages in Moldolkirri province’s Keo seima district received communal titles to a combined 1,031 hectares of ancestral land from the Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim on saturday. Communal land titles were established under the 2001 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The hunt for oil around northwestern Cambodia has unearthed “positive” results for Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), which intends to continue exploring the area in a project that could last at least six more years, a government spokesman said. JOGMEC’s survey on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers (FTU) warned Tuesday to stage a protest if the authority does not release its eight members who were arrested by police on Monday during a demonstration at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory, a union leader said. FTU’s president Chea Mony ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) haS Seen Slow progreSS in itS firSt year of operationS becauSe there haS been only one liSted firm and public knowledge about the Stock market remainS low, officialS Said ThurSday. The CSX waS officially launched trading on April 18 laSt year SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said Wednesday that he hoped land being registered to rural families as part of the government’s nationwide land-titling program would be used to cultivate rubber trees in order to help the country compete with Vietnam as the world’s third-largest rubber exporter. ss='cambodia-color'>...

While exports of Cambodian rice have been booming, analysts are predicting that new competition from Myanmar could eventually rain on the parade. Cambodia exported nearly 176,000 tonnes of rice in the first six months of the year, a 125 per cent increase from the same period ss='cambodia-color'>...

An international group that promotes the ethical sourcing of sugar for the food and energy industries has suspended the membership of U.K. sugar giant Tate & Lyle for failing to answer complaints that it was buying from Cambodian plantations accused of stealing land from local ss='cambodia-color'>...

Revenue generated by the country’s insurance firms increased 25 percent to $22 million in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to data released Tuesday by the General Insurance Association of Cambodia (GIAC). Engineering insurance has become the ss='cambodia-color'>...

What had been a relatively subdued gathering at Freedom Park yesterday became a jubilant celebration as opposition leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha delivered the news of fruitful discussions with the government to party faithful. Despite much-diminished crowds – and the sobering events of sunday night ss='cambodia-color'>...

Flouting a government order, representatives of sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd yesterday refused to rehire 19 union representatives and activists during a meeting with the Ministry of Labour. Rehiring the 19 has been the key sticking point in ending the three-month-old strike, which erupted into violence ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the dispute over July’s national election enters its fourth month, a civil society umbrella organization, the Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA), is due to release a comprehensive report on widespread irregularities recorded during the ballot. The report will be followed by the drafting of a proposed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is requesting that $15 million be allocated to Cambodia from a new $100 million grant to stop the spread of resistance to the best available drugs currently used to fight malaria. Eva Christophel, the WHO’s regional malaria adviser in Manila, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Locals and rights groups on Wednesday said dozens of farmers in a village in Preah Vihear province have been singled out for eviction after supporting the opposition CNRP in last month’s vote, a claim their village chief denied. Residents of Choam Ksan district’s Kom Prak village ss='cambodia-color'>...

Enterprises in Cambodia’s biggest tourism hub have called on Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy to quickly resolve a festering election dispute that they say is threatening business prospects as tensions rise ahead of mass opposition protests next week. Travel companies ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP on Wednesday held its second and last day of training for party supporters ahead of its mass demonstrations planned for saturday driving home its message of peace and nonviolence. Amid persistent and ominous warnings from the government that the demonstrations may turn violent, ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than two weeks since some 850 inmates were evacuated from Banteay Meanchey prison after floodwater caused a wall to collapse, the move is illuminating just how overcrowded their destinations are, an NGO worker has said. sharon Critoph, a prison consultant for rights group Licadho, said ss='cambodia-color'>...