The government of Japan will donate about $9.13 million to the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) to further their efforts in clearing Battambang province’s Bavel and Ratanak Mondol districts, two of the most heavily mined areas nationwide, officials said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four witnesses appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday to testify on behalf of 13 of the 23 men detained in Kampong Cham’s Correctional Centre 3 since crackdowns on striking garment workers at the beginning of this month, a lawyer representing the 13 said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Beehive Radio president Mam sonando has said he and his supporters will defy the capital’s ban on demonstrations at the Ministry of Interior this morning after the government refused to issue his station a licence for increased bandwidth. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A member of Interior Minister sar Kheng’s cabinet was on Tuesday sentenced to one year in jail for fraud after he was found guilty of accepting $38,000 in 2011 from a Taiwanese-Canadian national in exchange for citizenship documents that were never delivered. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two artisanal miners died and one was seriously injured in two separate accidents on saturday, police said yesterday. One man was killed and one sustained serious injuries while working for a Chinese mining company at Kbal Damrei commune in Kratie province’s sambor district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh officials met on Thursday with representatives from a Thai company proposing to build an underground parking lot and market adjacent to Daun Penh district’s Phsar Chas. Deputy municipal governor Chreang sophann said the proposal by the company, Trade International, was under consideration. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 people in Kampong Speu&rSquo;S Oral diStrict gathered yeSterday to Submit a Second petition to HLH Company &ndaSh; an agro-buSineSS linked to Hun Seng Ny, the SiSter of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen &ndaSh; demanding the return of their land, community repreSentativeS Said. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union (EU) said this week that it has hired a pair of consultants to help the government design a system for compensating the thousands of families believed to have had their homes or farms illegally confiscated by the country’s private sugar plantations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ministers expect AsEAN’s economy to improve in 2015 to 5.1% – above the 3.5% global growth projection – based on the stronger demand in advanced economies, energised by the robust Us recovery and several policy stimulus measures in the Eurozone and Japan. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the coming weeks, a task force composed of officials from the ministries of tourism, religion, culture and education will lead an expedition to a remote patch of forest on Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain where Vietnamese tourists pray, the education minister said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysians have been flocking to Cambodia since the 1990s and for some years, they were the largest investors, with official data showing that from 1994 to 2001, Malaysian investments comprised nearly a third of all investments and nearly 80% of total Asean investments. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Families living on contested land on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula were on Wednesday given a choice by municipal governor Pa socheatvong: give up 90 percent of your land and live on the remainder or sell it all at $40 per square meter. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday called on his ruling party to give its staffers a base salary on par with the country’s lowest paid teachers plus 30 percent, roughly matching the raises teachers, nurses, police and soldiers will be seeing this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Mondolkiri Provincial Court on Friday charged six Vietnamese nationals with illegally logging in the province’s O’Reang district, where they were caught felling first-grade sokrom trees after allegedly crossing into Cambodia with the help of a local military officer, officials said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen warned yesterday that people who instigate and commit acts of violence will face the full force of the law. In characteristically cryptic language, he told thousands of students on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich that his government would not tolerate violence. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S. baSed agriculture conSultancy firm haS urged Cambodia rice exporterS to focuS on promoting their exportS to the ChineSe market aS it haS a huge untapped potential for more importS in the future, according to local SourceS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Minority villagers from Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district climbed up a mountain to a community forest yesterday morning to challenge a company they claim is illegally felling their trees. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some of the unionS that have been demanding a hefty $77 raiSe to the current monthly minimum wage of $100 for the country&rSquo;S garment workerS Said ThurSday they were willing to go aS low aS a $35 increaSe, though otherS refuSed to budge. SS='cambodia-color'>...

One of the country’s largest unions on sunday came out in favor of a new minimum wage for garment workers far lower than what many of its counterparts have been agitating for over the past several months, bolstering prospects for a compromise with factories. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday ordered that Cambodian-American businessman Richer san be released from prison, where he was being held on serious fraud charges, overturning the Appeal Court’s decision to reject his bail request a week earlier, court officials said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...