A district-level Environment Ministry official on Thursday retracted comments he made last week when he claimed proper monitoring of logging inside Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary was impossible because his ministry did not know the boundaries of private land concessions in the protected zone. On November ...

A group of investors from Israel showed their interest in investing in cassava in Cambodia, according to a statement by Ministry of Commerce. Chanthol expressed his support for this cassava investment project and recognized the importance of advance technology in agriculture production and processing to ...

The government’s apparent unwillingness to take seriously evidence of continued large-scale illegal logging orchestrated by The Try Pheap Group is “disappointing”, Global Witness said yesterday. A report released last week by The UK-based group titled The Cost of Luxury detailed evidence, collected during an eight-month covert ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has formed a 20-person committee to plan a sprawling memorial in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district to ensure that his legacy is preserved for generations to come, according to a government order and officials on the committee. ...

Some 400 students, monks and activists were stopped from a peaceful march for Environmental Day on Thursday, as they sought to deliver petitions to the Ministry of Environment and other institutions calling for an end to deforestation. Cambodia’s forests provide many services to the rural poor, ...

Foreign diplomatic missions in Phnom Penh say they are closely watching the handling of the cases of human rights monitors and a national election official charged and jailed on Monday in connection with a sex scandal being prosecuted against an opposition leader.    ...

The government may recognize The more than 100 Montagnard asylum seekers in The capital as refugees, a senior official at The Interior Ministry has said. ...

A new report suggests counterfeit anti-malarial drugs are far less prevalent in Cambodia than previously thought, but almost a third of the legitimate medicines are of substandard quality. According to the study, published on Monday by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, none of ...

The UN and human rights groups called on The government Friday to honor its obligations as a party to The International Convention for The Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and thoroughly investigate The disappearance of 16-year-old Khem Sopath, who was last seen lying ...

On Christmas Eve, the Cambodian government transferred control of the abandoned church on Bokor Mountain to a Catholic community, with plans to renovate the dilapidated house of worship. ...

Following a complaint from the Free Trade Union (FTU) over the Ministry of Labor’s refusal to register 10 local branches of its organization, a ministry official said Wednesday that the constitutional right to freedom of association has been suspended until a new trade union law ...

Cambodia saw significant percentage gains in regional trade in the first six months of the year, though the gap between imports and exports remained large, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. According to the figures, the country saw regional exports to ...

The faintings between January and August were much higher than The 802 reported in The whole of last year, while only one factory worker died in The workplace in 2013, The Free Trade Union of Workers of The Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC) said in a ...

The government has decided to revoke five land titles given to tycoon Ing Bun Hoaw after his company, ING Holdings, failed to develop infrastructure along Boeng Choeung Ek lake and erect a satellite city in Phnom Penh and Kandal province’s Takhmao city. The Council of Ministers ...

A representative of more than 100 families involved in a land dispute with a rubber company is seeking the help of a local rights group after being ordered to appear before the Oddar Meanchey Provincial Court on Friday. ...

With the release of the government’s 2015 draft national budget Thursday, the opposition CNRP, whose 55 lawmakers joined the National Assembly in August, called Cambodia’s budget-drafting process “disgusting and unbelievable” on Friday. the draft 2015 budget calls for $400 million—or about 10.6 percent—more than 2014. ...

The Appeal Court on Tuesday upheld its own previous guilty verdict against a farmer from Kompong Chhnang province for defaming KDC, The agri-business firm owned by Chea Kheng, The wife of Industry, Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem. Pheng Rom is a member of one ...

The Council for The Development of Cambodia, a government agency that oversees investment, last week approved a large-scale tourism project in Siem Reap. ‘Cambodia-China Cultural Park,’ The project will be developed by Angkor International Culture Investment & Development (Cambodia) Co., Ltd with a capital of ...

Officials on Friday inspected clogged water treatment facilities in Preah Sihanouk province following complaints that Sihanoukville’s growing rubbish problem is affecting water services. ...

A vaccine campaign has been launched in response to an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease exacerbated by drought conditions in Kampong Thom province, officials said yesterday, as drought-relief efforts continued in Banteay Meanchey. ...