A draft agricultural land law threatens to eliminate property rights and effectively remove all limitations on the size of economic land concessions, a coalition of civil society groups said in a statement released.The draft of The Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land, ss='cambodia-color'>...

For Meach Mean, a veteran campaigner against hydropower dams in Cambodia’s northeast, this year has brought a double dose of bad news. First, he says, two Chinese hydropower companies have begun feasibility studies into a pair of dams planned for tributaries of the Mekong River ss='cambodia-color'>...

WASHINGTON DC &ndaSh; Seven oppoSition lawmakerS Say they have found new wayS to reduce the national debt and are requeSting that the National ASSembly&rSquo;S finance committee meet with them before drafting the 2013 national budget. The lawmakerS, from the Sam RainSy and Human RightS partieS, Say SS='cambodia-color'>...

Less than two weeks after being released from prison, the 13 women convicted in May for protesting evictions at Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community staged their first public action yesterday. The women, joined by about as many neighbors, submitted petitions to the Australian, French, U.K. and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is being considered as a site for halal food production and rice milling by the United Arab Emirates, according to the UAE’s Foreign Trade Minister sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi yesterday. speaking during an official meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen at the Peace ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rating agency Standard & Poor&rSquo;S (S&P) on Friday reaffirmed Cambodia&rSquo;S long-term Sovereign credit rating of “B” due to the country&rSquo;S poSitive growth outlook, but again warned of riSkS related to the country&rSquo;S narrow economic baSe. “Economic output growth iS vulnerable due to the Still large SS='cambodia-color'>...

Global coffee-chain giant StarbuckS will enter itS 12th ASian market next month when it openS an outlet in Vietnam&rSquo;S Ho Chi Minh City. RMA Cambodia CEO Rami Sharaf Said the expanSion into Vietnam did not automatically mean StarbuckS would enter Cambodia. “I don&rSquo;t think there iS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Arrivals at the Kingdom’s two main international airports rose more than 20 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2013, according to data from Cambodia Airports. Officials said the rise reflects the normalisation of the world economy and the country’s political stability. According ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russian sailor Andrey Mantula plans to build what he is calling Cambodia’s first marina off the beaches of Preah sihanouk province. Mantula, who has lived in Cambodia for one year, is heading up the project. He expects construction to start on October 1 of this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

BANGKOK: Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned Thursday. Forests are being cleared for commodities such as rubber and rice while illegal logging is decimating ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s total insurance premiums rose sharply in the first quarter of the year, compared with the same period the previous year, thanks largely to the growth of the economy and an influx of foreign direct investment, industry insiders said. Official data from the General Insurance ss='cambodia-color'>...

A move by the International Labour Organization to name and shame garment producers in Cambodia that flout workers’ rights and safety standards could damage the industry’s reputation and result in a drastic reduction in orders from buyers abroad, according to a senior manufacturing official. Last week, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mr S ISwaran MiniSter in the Prime MiniSter&rSquo;S Office and Second MiniSter for Home AffairS and Trade and InduStry will be making an official viSit to Cambodia on 21 July 2014. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia needed to invest in women to aid its development and integration into the AsEAN economic community, United Nations Under secretary-General Noeleen Heyzer said yesterday. Heyzer, executive secretary of the Economic and social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(EsCAP), met with Minister of Women’s Affairs Ing Kantha ss='cambodia-color'>...

With Cambodia currently seen as a country where the laundering of illicit cash may be going undetected, an international expert yesterday warned that economic growth and more international trade could leave the country open to financial crime. Gert Demmink, a former head of supervision at ss='cambodia-color'>...

SiameSe RoSewood, which iS illegally logged and exported from Cambodia in large quantitieS, will be protected internally aS a threatened SpecieS following a deciSion taken in Bangkok yeSterday. A meeting of the 177 countrieS party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered SpecieS of Wild SS='cambodia-color'>...

The parent company behind a firm constructing the Lower sesan 2 dam in stung Treng has repeatedly violated Chinese law by building “massive” power projects without prior approval, China’s national auditor has found. state-owned China Huaneng Group, of which Lower sesan 2 partner Hydrolancang International Energy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s exports to the European Union (E.U.) grew to $2.32 billion in 2012, a 23 percent increase compared to the previous year, according to the E.U.’s latest trade figures. The figures, released this week by the European Commission’s trade office, testify to the region’s growing role ss='cambodia-color'>...

MORE than 4,000 workers at M&V Manufacturing International’s garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province continued to strike for a fourth day yesterday, as a union president urged Prime Minister Hun sen to force the company to reinstate 20 fired workers. Free Trade Union president Chea Mony ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six people were arreSted in three Separate incidentS for trying to Send 236 CambodianS into Thailand where they were to work illegally, police Said yeSterday. Prak Saony, Kompong Chhnang provincial anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection bureau police chief, Said that police arreSted five people in a SS='cambodia-color'>...