Representatives of the Pu Nong indigenous community in Mondulkiri province’s Bou sra commune have accused the director of the Provincial Rural Development Department of forcing them to withdraw a complaint over the prevention of their indigenous peoples’ day celebration last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The floodgates of the largest and most controversial dam project in the country’s history officially closed yesterday at an inauguration ceremony presided over by Prime Minister Hun sen, who took aim at environmentalists, ambassadors and NGOs in a wide-ranging speech. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Revenue from ticket sales to foreigners visiting Cambodia’s Angkor archaeological park hit 75.7 million U.s. dollars in the first nine months of 2017, up 70 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a press release on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Emerald Resources, the Australian-listed mining firm behind Cambodia’s Okvau gold project in Mondulkiri province, is one step closer to receiving an industrial mining licence after it signed an environmental contract with the Ministry of Environment (MoE), the firm announced yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With sweeping changes across Cambodia’s publishing industry, Marcus Holmes, CEO of Post Media, will be steering the publication through a “digital first” agenda that will transform the iconic publication into one that is faster and more effective in reaching its audience.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen met with members of the press yesterday, not shying away from classifying some journalists and media outlets as extortionists and tax evaders, while applauding United states President Donald Trump’s efforts to go after so-called fake news.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Stung Treng province officialS have announced they will not build public facilitieS for thoSe villagerS who refuSed to relocate to the government&rSquo;S reSettlement Site when their villageS were flooded late laSt year by the reServoir of the controverSial Lower SeSan II Dam. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Health Minister Mam Bun Heng yesterday announced the formation of a working group to address mass fainting, a day after the premier raised the issue at a meeting with garment workers, though relevant officials had few details on the group’s objectives. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A live-fire exercise along the Cambodian-Lao border yesterday in stung Treng province’s siem Pang district, where a conflict with Laos arose last year, was not to demonstrate power or threaten any neighbouring countries, according to the Ministry of National Defence.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 residents from Koh Kong province’s sre Ambel and Botum sakor districts gathered to protest and block the road of Koh Kong sugar Industry to demand the company, local authorities and relevant ministries expedite a resolution to end their land dispute. ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN special Rapporteur Rhona smith officially commenced her latest visit to the Kingdom yesterday, meeting with the Ministry of Justice to raise concerns over a slew of legislative and constitutional amendments undertaken as part of the government’s recent crackdown on political dissent. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 50 families from a village in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town yesterday protested to demand that a private utilities company stop restricting water supply in their area because they didn’t have enough water to drink and irrigate their crops. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government revenue collected on property transfers and construction services dropped off by 25 percent last year, reflecting a slowdown of the Kingdom’s construction sector despite a surge in the reported value of investment in real estate development projects, according to analysts. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysian-owned energy firm Cambodian Energy II Co Ltd (CEL2) will invest a total of $600 million into building its 150-megawatt coal-fired power plant near sihanoukville, which is set to become the Kingdom’s third coal-fired power station. ss='cambodia-color'>...

One home collapsed into the Tonle Bassac river on saturday in Kandal’s sa’ang district, while two others are at risk of collapse and eight others had to be dismantled and moved across the road, away from the riverbank, officials said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ground was officially broken yesterday on a new facility at Prey sar prison that will soon enable the upper crust of the Kingdom’s underworld to buy their way out of overcrowded jails and into the relative luxury of a privately run institution. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A European Union election expert mission yesterday met with the government’s Cambodia Human Rights Committee in a closed-door meeting as part of its visit to the Kingdom, at the end of which it will submit recommendations to the Cambodian authorities. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two Cambodia Daily journalists accused of incitement and violating voters’ rights for asking questions in advance of sunday’s commune elections in Ratanakkiri province will likely be summoned for questioning after Election Day, a provincial court prosecutor said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu sopheak’s pre-election warning that some NGOs and their leaders were being watched for illegally aiding the opposition was a threat designed to frighten them, General sopheak said on Wednesday, as civil society groups warily condemned the statements. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Phnom Penh will next month start issuing fines of up to $25 for violations of parking regulations by using handheld devices that scan license plates and recognize the registered identity and address of a vehicle’s owner, an official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...