Over the past three weeks, a standoff between the long-ruling CPP and newly strengthened opposition CNRP has made for an increasingly tense political environment. But almost entirely missing from the equation has been Prime Minister Hun sen, whose last public appearance was 18 days ago when ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Vietnamese Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) company, the majority shareholder of several economic land concessions in Ratanakkiri province, on Friday rebuffed accusations that it had logged forests and forced evictions, claiming that its activities improved the environment and the livelihoods of locals. Through several companies, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Monks and their supporters marching to Phnom Penh on a 10-day “Peace Walk,” as part of International Human Rights Day, said Wednesday that pagodas along the way have repeatedly tried to shut them out, and they have scuffled with police on at least one occasion. About ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 50 villagers from Kompong Cham province gathered in front of Prime Minister Hun sen’s home in Phnom Penh yesterday morning to ask for his intervention in their ongoing land dispute with the Memot Rubber Plantation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers from all five communes of Kratie province’s snuol district began patrolling the snuol Wildlife sanctuary yesterday in a bid to protect the area from illegal loggers, in the second multiday crackdown undertaken by residents this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of the Kingdom’s private sector this week urged the European Union not to cancel the Everything-but-arms (EBA) scheme in response to a perceived deterioration of human rights and democracy in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pursat provincial police and fishery administration officials cracked down on a large scale illegal fishing operation along Tonle sap lake and seized equipment including over 5,300 fishing nets in Kandieng district’s Raing Til commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Poutil ethnic community members from Busra commune in Mondulkiri province’s Pichreada district handed two men to district police for further action on Thursday, after they allegedly cleared many hectares of forest in their community. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training issued an announcement on Wednesday indicating that 81 per cent of garment and footwear factories have implemented the government’s new requirement to pay workers’ wages twice a month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has warned that increasing industrial action is harming the investment climate as the threat of the Kingdom losing access to the EU’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement looms. ss='cambodia-color'>...

KrisEnergy plans to produce oil from Cambodia’s offshore Block A oil deposit next year and forecasted an investment of more than $30 million in the country this year, according to its 2017 annual report. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday ordered village and commune chiefs across Cambodia to not abuse their position, and the resources that come with it, by campaigning ahead of the Kingdom’s July 29 national elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seventy conStruction workerS in Svay Rieng province&rSquo;S Bavet Staged a proteSt yeSterday after the labour agency that found them jobS failed to pay their SalarieS, totaling more than $30,000 over four monthS, aS agreed. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly five cubic feet of highly priced wood was confiscated in Battambang province’s samlot district after Military Police in Kampong Lapov commune stopped a truck on Wednesday, said Meas sovan, the provincial Military Police commander. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry’s Counter Counterfeit Committee has suspended a company operating a tobacco factory in sen sok district in Phnom Penh after officials found that it was involved in the illegal production of tobacco products. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has been removed from the United Nation’s list of states not complying with Article 17 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). ss='cambodia-color'>...

Families in Preah sihanouk province’s Muoy commune are withdrawing their request for the Land Management Ministry to intervene in a land dispute with sihanoukville Autonomous Port official Chan Kang as the matter has been resolved. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin yesterday joined representatives of 16 political parties to draft a royal decree that would cement the supreme Consultative Council’s government adviser status, an adviser to Prime Minister Hun sen said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) has warned the public to be cautious when crossing the stung samrong Bridge in Preah sihanouk province’s Kampong seila district as rising water levels threatened to flood it. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The director of Kampong Speu&rSquo;S protected Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary and hiS predeceSSor have been charged with illegally clearing foreSt in a caSe dating back to 2013, and have been Summoned to court for queStioning. SS='cambodia-color'>...