Government officials and armed police burnt down 25 homes in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district yesterday claiming they were in the protected Kulen Prumtep Wildlife sanctuary, villagers and a rights group investigator said yesterday.  The houses, which are part of larger community of about ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government last month granted four companies a total 23,000 hectares of land concessions for agro-industry projects and a special economic zone (sEZ), according to human rights groups, which said it obtained the information from government documents. An additional 500 hectares inside a wildlife sanctuary were ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment sector is in danger of losing its reputation for adherence to international labor standards because of the widespread use of “abusive temporary labor contracts,” according to a report released by Yale Law school on Wednesday. “Cambodian garment manufacturers have adopted the practice of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a decision in March to give land back to residents of 13 communes in Pursat province from a vast economic land concession belong to the conglomerate Pheapimex, boundaries have yet to be drawn, and ownership of the land still remains unclear, residents and a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government wants to beautify Cambodian cities and has launched a competition to encourage the country’s urban centres to clean up their act. speaking in front of a crowd of roughly 700 at the Peace Palace yesterday, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said that the “Clean ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 150 residents evicted from Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district to make way for a railway rehabilitation project filed a complaint yesterday with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) office in Phnom Penh, one of two principal financiers for the project, saying their relocation site ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just two days after dozens of workers fainted at a factory in Kompong speu province that manufactures clothing for Us sports brand Nike, another 300 workers at the same factory fainted on Friday. Chy sakla, a secretary for the Free Trade Union (FTU) at the sabrina ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has significantly benefited from its Association of southeast Asian Nations (Asean) membership, Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) secretary-general Yang Peou said on Thursday during a conference to mark the 52nd anniversary of Asean’s establishment and the 20th anniversary of the Kingdom’s membership in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s almost 10 in the morning in Battambang province’s Bavel district and the blazing sun would deter anyone from venturing too far from the cool comfort of their thatched huts in this rice-growing area. But for many families whose livelihoods depend on rice farming, braving the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction at Camko City, an unfinished, Us$2 billion satellite city in northwestern Phnom Penh, has resumed after at least one sentence connecting the mega-project’s chief executive with a Korean banking scandal was dropped. , the company behind Camko City, has resumed the construction of retail space ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five brokers saw their convictions upheld yesterday at Phnom Penh’s Court of Appeal for trafficking 20 Cambodian nationals into Thailand, but legal experts say such convictions for trafficking in Cambodia are still far too rare. While Judge Chan Madyna upheld the men’s 2010 convictions, he shaved ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a year in which more than a thousand Cambodian garment factory workers have fainted on the job, activists across Europe are demonstrating for higher wages and better working conditions in the Kingdom’s factories. Throughout the past week, demonstrators mimicked faintings by collapsing on the floors ss='cambodia-color'>...

China has become Cambodia’s biggest investor, putting some $8.8 billion into the country over nearly two decades, according to online data from the government’s lead investment agency. Those investment numbers, from the Council for the Development of Cambodia, from 1994 to 2011, do not take into ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...