A group of roughly 100 anti-eviction protestors were blocked by riot police yesterday from marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s Peace Palace to appeal to U.s. President Barack Obama for help in reforming Cambodia’s land rights policy. The protest, which took place at the Boeng Kak ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s highly dollarized economy could benefit from a rush of foreign capital into Asia unleashed by the U.s. Federal Reserve’s latest economic stimulus, unlike some of its Asian neighbors, as it lifts demand for real estate and garment exports in the developing country, a senior ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bangkok–secretary General to the Foreign Minister Mr. Nawin Boonsert said the negotiation over the overlapping sea area between Thailand and Cambodia would be clarified once the Cabinet was clear on its agenda. Following Cambodia’s Petroleum Organization expressing intention to clarify the demarcation points in the sea ss='cambodia-color'>...

Camcontrol revenues for the first nine months of the year hit Us$7.9 million, surpassing the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s revenue goal of $6 million for the year. Kong Putheara, director of the Ministry of Commerce’s statistics department, this week said the unexpected growth came from ss='cambodia-color'>...

The fate of 70 million people rests on what happens to the Mekong river. With world leaders meeting in Paris next week for crucial UN climate talks, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway – a place that encapsulates some of the dilemmas they ss='cambodia-color'>...

News that Laos will move ahead with the proposed 912-megawatt Pak Beng dam, which would be the third mainstream dam in Laos’ Lower Mekong River, has sparked criticism from environmental groups who say downstream countries should decide the fate of potentially harmful development projects. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s parliament today passed a controversial provision that severely curtails the power of the country’s opposition parties and effectively bans former opposition leader sam Rainsy from returning to power.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

A mission to examine political rights in Cambodia has been increasingly overshadowed by the Kingdom’s dire land rights situation, the 2012 report from Cambodia’s UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights, published yesterday, shows. Cambodia’s rapporteur, surya subedi, conducted two fact-finding missions to Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

PAKISTAN iS looking to further improve itS trade, inveStment and touriSm tieS with Cambodia, officialS Said. Data from the EmbaSSy of PakiStan ShowS that bilateral trade between the two countrieS haS been good in recent yearS. In 2011, the total value of two-way trade reached $16 SS='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS Trade RepreSentative Ron Kirk, PreSident Obama&rSquo;S Chief Trade AdviSor, will be viSiting Cambodia&rSquo;S Siem Reap province on Aug. 30-31 to participate in the 44th ASEAN Economic MiniSterS&rSquo; meetingS and the ASEAN-U.S. BuSineSS Summit, according to a preSS releaSe from the U.S. EmbaSSy SS='cambodia-color'>...

International arrivals to Cambodia bounced back in October with a growth of 20% after a below average performance in the third quarter. Cambodia’s statistics and Tourist Information Department, Ministry of Tourism, reported arrivals increased 24.8% to 290,959 during October. The percentage increase for 10 months lifted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hong Kong has banned egg imports from Cambodia due to the country’s recent avian influenza outbreak, which claimed four lives last month. “Hong Kong does not import live poultry or poultry meat from Cambodia, but 170,000 poultry eggs were imported from there last year,” the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A colonel in the Royal Cambodian Navy yesterday denied accusations by the NGO Wildlife Alliance that naval officers opened fire on patrolling rangers on the Tatai River in Koh Kong province as they tried seizing an allegedly illegal shipment of rosewood. Colonel Tep Vuthy instead accused ss='cambodia-color'>...

Today, the United states Agency for International Development (UsAID) and the U.s. National Aeronautics and space Administration (NAsA) announced a five-year project that will promote the use of satellite imagery to help Asia’s Lower Mekong region better predict and cope with floods and other natural disasters ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six environmental organiSationS oppoSing LaoS&rSquo; controverSial Don Sahong hydropower dam yeSterday took their complaintS to a new level: The Human RightS CommiSSion of MalaySia. In a 23-page letter, the organiSationS from Cambodia, Thailand and the US collectively requeSted an inveStigation into the tranS-boundary impactS of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia increased the number of business enterprises it had to 513,759 companies at the end of March last year, up from the 463,363 enterprises accounted for in 2011, according to the final results of the 2014 Cambodia Inter-Censal Economic survey. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in stung Treng province displeased local authorities on saturday by holding a traditional ceremony calling upon a powerful local spirit to curse those behind the construction of the Lower sesan 2 dam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia received roughly $4 billion in foreign direct investment last year—roughly the same amount as in 2013, the secretary-general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said after a meeting with the National Assembly’s environment and rural development commission. ss='cambodia-color'>...

UK retailer Marks & spencer (M&s) is trialling a new campaign aimed at helping 14,000 garment workers in Cambodia deal with common health issues, as part of its Plan A ethical programme. The company, which aims to become the world’s most sustainable major retailer by 2015, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The former director of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, who was ousted last week amid allegations of serious corruption, gave a luxury sUV to his son—a local police official—after it was confiscated from a suspected drug trafficker, the National Police said in a statement sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...