At least three local NGOs have been called for questioning by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s Taxation Department to clarify their tax payments, amid an aggressive tax collection campaign that has recently gone after media outlets the Cambodia Daily, Voice of America and Radio ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday told United Nations special Rapporteur Rhona smith that election monitoring coalition the “situation Room” will have to register with the Interior Ministry if it wants to deploy observers for next year’s elections – despite there being no such requirement ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has asked the European Union to send observers to monitor next year’s general election. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Chum sounry announced the move to the media yesterday after a meeting between Foreign Affairs Minister Prak sokhonn and Werner Langen, head of a delegation from ss='cambodia-color'>...

In 2017 the local financial sector continued the strong growth that has characterised the industry in recent times, with commercial banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) seeing a robust expansion in loans and deposits throughout the year, according to the National Bank of Cambodia’s (NBC) annual ss='cambodia-color'>...

An ethnic Phnong community in Kratie province’s snuol district has accused local officials and soldiers of grabbing over 1,000 hectares of community forest and threatening the lives of local villagers for years, with the rights group Adhoc yesterday saying they would take the case to ss='cambodia-color'>...

A military lieutenant who sued 13 families in Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district for allegedly grabbing his land is now demanding $20,000 in compensation, though villagers deny the accusation and it remains unclear as to how the official initially came to own the ostensibly protected ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ruling party lawmaker Pen Panha gave a lecture yesterday at the Royal school of Administration to students on the opposition’s alleged attempt at “colour revolution” – an allegation used to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party in November, with virtually no evidence presented to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN’s special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia yesterday asked the Interior Minister to justify the dissolution of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. Rhona smith is on a 10-day mission to the Kingdom and yesterday held a closed-door meeting with Interior Minister sar ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two protected wildlife sanctuaries – snuol Wildlife sanctuary in Kratie province and Roneam Daun sam Wildlife sanctuary in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey provinces – have been dissolved under a royal decree, with at least one conservationist on sunday saying the move illustrated the government’s failure ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 Cambodian migrant workers were discovered in rented houses this week near Rong Kleu market in Thailand’s sakaeo province, officials said yesterday. Banteay Meanchey provincial spokesman Ouk Keo Ratanak said Thai authorites found the workers on Wednesday crammed into two houses, and sent them ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Laos government will continue to allow what it has dubbed “preparatory work” on the controversial Xayaburi dam, including the resettlement of villagers, despite promising to suspend the project at last week’s AsEAN Regional Forum, according to a media report in Laos. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 60 workers at the Anful Garment factory in Kampong speu’s samrong Tong district reported feeling dizzy yesterday, while three fainted, officials said. The union president also said she did not think the incident was caused by the factory environment, but rather, by the health ss='cambodia-color'>...

Land issues will continue to be a serious problem for Cambodia’s government, given the high number of continued crackdowns, arrests and violence, analysts say. “If an issue is covered and unsolved, one day it will explode,” Lao Monghay, an independent political analyst, told “Hello VOA,” in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday temporarily suspended the operations of Vietnamese rubber concessionaire Day Dong Yoeung, which has clashed with Jarai ethnic minorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district since late last year, after its previous manager was jailed on fraud charges, district governor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three brokers were arrested last Friday after allegedly attempting to illegally smuggle nine Cambodians, including an infant, across the Thai border. Lured with promises of employment in Thailand, the group was attempting to illegally cross the border on motos when they were stopped by police ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 1,000 workers from the Maru Chuen garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district blocked the Veng sreng road on the outskirts of Phnom Penh for half an hour yesterday, burning about 20 tyres and demanding a monthly minimum wage increase from $61 to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Spending in NagaCorp&rSquo;S caSino haS dropped by about 4.4 per cent in the firSt quarter of the year compared with the Same period laSt year. Some $1.17 billion waS gambled in the caSino from January to March thiS year, Said a company quarterly report releaSed laSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG) on Thursday signed to lend 10 million U.s. dollars to a leading Cambodian microfinance institution Hattha Kaksekar. The loan deal was inked here between Herbert Jaeger, Vice President of DEG Representative Office in Bangkok, and Hout Ieng Tong, President and ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 30 residents from Phnom Penh’s srah Chak commune protested in front of their Russian Boulevard houses Monday, demanding that City Hall issue them land titles. some of the protesters wore CPP T-shirts while others held banners with pictures of Prime Minister Hun sen and his ss='cambodia-color'>...

Soft-drinkS giant PepSiCo haS pledged to take a “zero-tolerance” approach to land grabS by itS Sugar SupplierS. In a Statement poSted on the company&rSquo;S webSite on TueSday, it Said the move came in reSponSe to a campaign by Oxfam, which targeted Coca-Cola and PepSiCo. SS='cambodia-color'>...