15 new projects worth a total of $110 million have been approved by Cambodia’s investment board in May. The Council for Development of Cambodia has approved two rubber plantations worth $60 million. Cin Qian Investment Co, a Chinese firm, has been approved for developing a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Farmers who on sunday said they had been shot at by Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers for trying to cultivate 390 hectares of disputed land in Battambang province’s samlot district were granted permission yesterday to plant on some parts of the land, villagers and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities are monitoring a rogue wild elephant following a day in pursuit of the pachyderm after she trampled a number of villagers’ farmland. The female elephant was spotted on sunday morning in Oddar Meanchey’s Dangrek Mountains – a rare sighting, according to Banteay Ampil ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee is to print more than ten million ballot papers for July’s national election, despite a civil society group raising fears about irregularities. NEC spokesman Dim sovannarom said the organisation would print 10,525,650 papers soon, including 329,200 to be used as examples. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Total of 117,062 students sat for their high school examinations nationwide on Monday, braving incessant rains and the marauding floods in some provinces, said the Ministry of Education. And the number of candidates this year was much higher compared to last year’s 103,112 students. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese-backed plan for Cambodia to build the Mekong River’s biggest dam would destroy fisheries that feed millions and worsen tensions with Vietnam, the downstream country with most to lose from dams on the waterway, according to a three-year study commissioned by the Cambodian government. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 500 families from Mondulkiri province’s Keo seima district protested on saturday in a renewed call to be allowed to mine for gold at depths of more than 20 metres. The families, rallying in Chong Plas commune, also accused a Chinese firm of destroying ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four suspects were jailed Thursday for illegally harvesting luxury timber from a protected forest in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district, a court official said yesterday. Morm Vanda, a provincial court spokesman, yesterday said the four were jailed after being suspected of illegal logging in a ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 workers from Prestige Garment Co Ltd in Kandal province’s Kandal stung district have petitioned the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training for an intervention after the factory owner refused to reinstate their sacked representative who stands accused of intending to form a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kandal province’s sa’ang district on Monday denied the claims of some 30 families in Roka Khpos commune that there are plans to confiscate their land to construct a wastewater treatment facility, saying that long-term local residents no longer own land in the area. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Exports of garment and footwear products achieved solid growth during the first half of the year, expanding by 9.3 percent. According to the Ministry of Commerce, exports from the country’s garment industry were valued at $3.7 billion during the first six months of the year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Labour Ministry will pay money to 257 garment workers today from the LIDA factory in Phnom Penh who rallied multiple times over missing wages after their employer fled. A ministry press release yesterday advised the workers to get the cash at the company’s office ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Hun sen heralded the continued strong bilateral ties between their nations in a meeting on Monday as part of the latter’s ongoing state visit to the Asian giant. In the meeting, China also committed $588 million in aid ss='cambodia-color'>...

A forest protection community in Pech Chreada district’s Bou sra commune in Mondulkiri province submitted a formal complaint on Tuesday against saroeun Mab, the owner of four illegal sawmills who allegedly threatened three activists after they had taken photographs of suspected illegal logging in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The three families – the last holdouts after hundreds of others have moved out – said Union Development Group (UDG) had built fences around their properties in Kiri sakor district’s Koh sdach commune, blocking their access, in an attempt to force them to give in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Agriculture Minister, Veng sakhon, last week urged officials to work harder in the implementation of the country’s new agriculture development policy. During a meeting last week, Mr sakhon told officials the goal of the agricultural development policy is to bolster the development of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since 2002, there have been 73 caSeS of “mob juStice”, leaving 57 people dead and 16 wounded, according to an Office of the UN High CommiSSioner for Human RightS (OHCHR) report releaSed on ThurSday on deathS, beatingS and abuSe carried out by the “people&rSquo;S court” SS='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights groups say the Foreign Affairs Minister was wrong to demand the incoming representative of Unicef not comment on controversial legislation to govern NGOs. In a statement Tuesday, the civil society groups said Minister Hor Namhong’s demands constitute a narrowing of democratic ideals. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Major global brands that source from Cambodia welcome the recent rise in the basic minimum wage for the country’s more than 700,000 garment workers, representatives of three brands told Khmer Times yesterday. They have no plans to shift sourcing to other countries where wages are ss='cambodia-color'>...

After roughly 300 garment workers from the starlight Apparel manufacturing Co. Ltd. in Kandal province’s Khsach Kandal district gathered in front of the Ministry of Labor yesterday, officials promised to meet today to address their demands, according to a representative of the workers. ss='cambodia-color'>...