A construction worker was struck dead and six others were injured on sunday in Oddar Meanchey’s Anglong Veng district, marking the second death by lightning in the area in the past three months, a commune police chief said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Swift Rubber Company demoliShed three homeS in Ratanakkiri province&rSquo;S O&rSquo;Chum diStrict laSt week without compenSation, telling about 120 familieS to leave immediately or face the deStruction of more houSeS, according to villagerS and rightS group Adhoc. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Eight huts were torn down and about 50 families were ordered to vacate land yesterday in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district as the couple whom police said illegally sold them the plots was arrested and sent to court. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five families among a community of 40 that have been fighting a powerful developer for land they live on in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district accepted compensation packages on Monday, the first cracks in a previously united community. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission submitted a letter to the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall last week requesting an update on the resolution of the long-running dispute between evicted Borei Keila villagers and development firm Phan Imex. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an 18-million-U.s. dollars loan to build a ferry terminal and other infrastructure in Cambodia’s southern Kampot province to open up new opportunities for tourism, the bank said on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The economic impact of climate change in Cambodia could be highly damaging to rural areas and worker productivity, according to a report from American development agency UsAID, which applied climate projections for 2050 to today’s Mekong Basin economies. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday personally backed the review of government contracts with private waste removal companies, two weeks after the Council of Ministers signed an order indicating they will review the capital’s contract with garbage collector Cintri. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen last week appointed 14 high-ranking officials to a working group that is now responsible for overseeing his bodyguard unit during all events that he and his wife attend, the unit’s commander said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers from Boeng Chhouk village in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district blocked officials and workers on Tuesday from bringing in heavy machinery to begin work on a road expansion that would destroy some of their homes.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Holiday travelers will get a preview of Phnom Penh’s new Cambodia-China Friendship bridge during the final days of the Pchum Ben festival, according to City Hall. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 500 villagers involved in a protracted land dispute with a rubber company blocked National Road 7 in Tbong Khmum province’s Memot district on Thursday to demand titles to land they say they have lived on since 1980. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s King Norodom sihamoni has signed off on a more robust traffic law, completing the final step for legislation that could hit the streets as early as next month, according to the government’s National Road safety Committee (NRsC). ss='cambodia-color'>...

A recently approved road project leading to the border with Vietnam in Mondulkiri would do irreversible damage to the province’s protected forest and threaten future attempts to reintroduce tigers to the Kingdom, according to the World Wildlife Fund. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition CNRP president sam Rainsy on Monday weighed in on behalf of environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, asking the Interior Ministry to reverse a decision to not renew the spanish national’s visa over a traffic incident from september. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three mothers say they fear their sons are being coerced into fabricating molestation accusations against a man they know as the patron saint of Phnom Penh’s riverside but who police and child-protection activists say is a predator. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US InStitute of Peace on WedneSday announced the completion of a program &ndaSh; conducted by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) &ndaSh; to train an additional 600 educatorS to teach Khmer Rouge hiStory in the Kingdom&rSquo;S Secondary SchoolS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

An environmental nongovernmental organization and young Cambodians opposed to sand dredging will petition the country’s parliament and relevant ministries to stop companies from digging up sand in a southwestern province, activists said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two more people have tested positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune this month, bringing the total number infected to 272 since an outbreak of the virus was first detected in December, a health official said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Developers are eagerly anticipating today’s auction of four licenses to dredge sand on a section of the Mekong River, the first bidding round for licenses since the government began a nationwide crackdown on illegal sand dredging in April. ss='cambodia-color'>...