Prime Minister Hun sen has offered to pay back the lost salaries of opposition lawmakers who were stripped of their parliamentary posts in June by the then CPP-led National Assembly, a CNRP official said. The offer to back-pay the 27 lawmakers from the sam Rainsy Party ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Laos pushes toward its goal of becoming the “battery of Asia” through hydropower, its newfound claim that the location for the proposed Don sahong dam is not on the Mekong River’s main stream is provoking incredulity from some observers. Less than two kilometres north of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Challenging the ban on demonstrations in Phnom Penh, activists rallied Friday at the U.s. Embassy, the Japanese Embassy, the Australian Embassy and the German Embassy before stopping for lunch and rallying again, in the afternoon, at the British Embassy, the European Union and World Bank ss='cambodia-color'>...

The deputy prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has laid provisional charges against a military general arrested in Takeo province on Thursday, according to a senior military police official, in a high-profile case linked to corruption claims that led to the sacking this week ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than one year after the government passed legislation to bring in a pension for people with disabilities living in poverty, a preliminary committee to workshop how to locate such disabled people has still not been formed, officials said yesterday. In June last year, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US ambaSSador at large for Global Women&rSquo;S ISSueS &ndaSh; an office in the US State Department &ndaSh; met with five of the Boeung Kak lake female activiStS on Saturday in a SidelineS meeting of a Lower Mekong gender policy dialogue. “It waS a full SS='cambodia-color'>...

Along the Phnom Penh waterfront the city’s landmark flags have been raised and the street children and beggars are being removed – an unwanted sight for a government out to impress the biggest gathering of world leaders this country has ever seen. At the center of this will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tradition of silk production is one that dates back as far as the 13th century. A long-standing symbol of status for the rich and the country, ancient Angkorian silk producing Cambodia bore unique weaving and reeling techniques that have been passed down from generation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hard Rock Cafe, the iconic U.S. reStaurant franchiSe known for itS collectionS of rock &lSquo;n&rSquo; roll memorabilia, will open reStaurantS in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, in a deal with a local firm owned by the niece of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen, company repreSentativeS Said SS='cambodia-color'>...

An online trading firm based in the tax haven of Cyprus is planning to open a subsidiary in Cambodia, an account manager at IronFX’s headquarters in Cyprus said yesterday. “We are on the planning stage in Cambodia. We are now studying law and regulations in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

“From my view, I don’t want to have it, but it is development, we can’t stop them,” says srekor’s village chief, Leang saroeurn. Cambodia’s impressive yearly GDP growth rates of 7 percent for the last decade have come, in part, through a ravenous consumption of the countries ss='cambodia-color'>...

Protecting human rights, especially those of Cambodian migrant workers traversing borders to countries such as Malaysia, dominated discussions at yesterday’s AsEAN Peoples’ Forum, one of two competing pre-summit forums that claim to be giving a voice to Cambodians. speaking at yesterday’s forum, seng sakda, director-general ss='cambodia-color'>...

Members of the Asean People’s Forum, a coalition of NGOs that convened in Phnom Penh last week, declared yesterday that their rights had been violated after four workshops on sensitive issues were canceled by the venue where they met. In a statement representing more than 1,200 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups say families being forced off their land by development projects recently revealed to have World Bank Group backing could probably file successful complaints against the institution, effectively forcing it to help the families save their homes or at least win better compensation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia ranked 112 out of 113 countries surveyed globally and dead last in the East Asia and Pacific region when it comes to the perceived rule of law, a new report released today states. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Airports will invest $100 million next year to expand the size of its airports in siem Reap City and Phnom Penh and double the number of passengers that can pass through its two main hubs in the country, an official airport operator said yesterday. Emmanuel ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the past decade, Cambodia’s economy has steadily grown with GDP growth surpassing 5% on a compounded annual basis for the past twelve years. Nearly 58% of the populace is engaged in agriculture, while the service sector employs 26% and industry accounts for the remaining ss='cambodia-color'>...

The bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and the United StateS waS worth about 499 million U.S. dollarS in the firSt two monthS of thiS year, down 2 percent compared with 510 million U.S. dollarS at the Same period laSt year, the StatiSticS of the U.S. SS='cambodia-color'>...

RATANAKIRI PROVINCE, Cambodia – “I prefer the dam to the fish,” says middle-aged farmer Ton Noun, when asked his opinion on a proposed 400 megawatt dam on the sesan river near his home in northeastern Cambodia. Then he chuckles and asks, “What fish?” That’s because ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. AmbaSSador William Todd on ThurSday Said that deSpite hiS effortS to promote Cambodia aS an attractive deStination for buSineSS, major American companieS are reluctant to inveSt here aS they Still perceive the country aS indelibly corrupt. “I believe now iS the time for big U.S. SS='cambodia-color'>...