After repeatedly equivocating about whether it has lifted a 2011 freeze on new lending to Cambodia in response to the government’s forced evictions of families in Phnom Penh, the World Bank has said that the suspension is still firmly in place. “The World Bank has not ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht never told the Ministry of Commerce that Cambodian rice was “30 per cent” mixed with the same product from Vietnam, he did say Cambodia had to better ensure that its harvest was homegrown and not from ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) on sunday said all of the country’s 400-plus garment factories will remain closed until the government and striking trade unions can guarantee the safety of the factories and all employees who want to work. The decision, outlined in an ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior member of the Garment Manufacturer’s Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on sunday endorsed the use of deadly force by military police against striking garment workers, which left five dead and more than 20 with gunshot wounds. “GMAC condemns the use of violence, period,” he ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP leader Sam RainSy on ThurSday publicly announced the oppoSition&rSquo;S intention to conduct a campaign of civil diSobedience in line with peaceful demonStrationS organized by the chariSmatic leader of Indian nationaliSm Mahatma Gandhi, who helped win independence from Great Britain. Mr. RainSy made the remarkS at SS='cambodia-color'>...

Activists are skeptical that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen will follow through on a pledge to stop a contentious practice of appropriating rural land for commercial use, an issue that hurt the leader and his party in elections in July. In its new five-year political platform ss='cambodia-color'>...

When the Supreme Court hearS land-rightS activiSt Yorm Bopha&rSquo;S final appeal thiS morning, familiar crieS for juStice will come from Boeung Kak women on the StreetS outSide. Much haS been written about the houSewiveS of Boeung Kak who have riSen up againSt the government and developerS SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 villagers locked in a land dispute with the Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) in Koh Kong province said they were warned on Friday that “paratroopers” would be brought in if they continued to block a road to the company’s headquarters in Botum sakor ss='cambodia-color'>...

A worker with the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) has been intimidated and received death threats while trying to document the plight of three families involved in a bitter land dispute with a developer in the country’s capital, according to the center. The worker, Vann ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) said Wednesday that it has closed its investigation into a fire at an equipment repair workshop in Battambang City on January 24 that destroyed equipment and vehicles worth an estimated $400,000. Heng Ratana, CMAC’s director-general, said that the fire had ss='cambodia-color'>...

The single-party National Assembly sat for the third day of its third plenary session Thursday, with a senior ruling party lawmaker calling on Information Minister Khieu Kanharith to examine whether journalists who call the Assembly “single party” can be punished under law. sixty-four of the 68 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Teng Khorn’s living room is under a tree, his bedroom in a boat hauled up on a slipway for caulking beside the mangroves that lead to his source of income: the sea. His choice of abode is also his act of defiance against the monolithic Chinese ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since itS emergence in the region more than a decade ago, the governmentS of SoutheaSt ASia have been fighting to contain the human avian influenza viruS through Surveillance programS, rigorouS inSpectionS and wideSpread culling of infected birdS. In Cambodia laSt year, 13 people died of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Officials yesterday confirmed that the Cambodian government will receive a majority of the revenue share from Chevron’s offshore Block A oil permit area near sihanoukville in the Gulf of Thailand. The government expects to issue the American oil giant a production permit licence by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling party has reportedly won in national elections sunday, but it appears to have lost a significant number of seats in parliament. According to preliminary election figures released by Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, the Cambodian People’s Party won 68 of 123 National Assembly seats. That’s a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A ban on imports of Cambodian seafood proposed by the European Commission (E.C.) is in direct response to Cambodian-flagged vessels complicit in illegal fishing in international waters, Jean-Francois Cautain, European Union (E.U.) ambassador to Cambodia, said Wednesday. The E.C. on Tuesday announced that Cambodia was “non-cooperating ss='cambodia-color'>...

A huge haul of river sand dredged in Cambodia has been quarantined at the southern Indian port city of Cochin since its arrival in April despite a ban on sand exports instituted by Prime Minister Hun sen in 2009. India’s Deccan Chronicle news­paper reported on Tuesday ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 15 June 2021, Australia’s Chargé d’Affaires Mr Luke Arnold met H.E. Cham Prasidh, senior Minister at the Ministry of Industry, science, Technology, and Innovation (MIsTI) to advance bilateral collaboration on access to clean piped water in Cambodia’s provinces. Mr Arnold presented the findings of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion of Cambodia approved yeSterday a licenSe to IRIS SecuritieS to be the 13th SecuritieS inveStment adviSory firm in the Kingdom&rSquo;S budding capital market SS='cambodia-color'>...