The Jan. 7 holiday marking the 1979 ouster of the Khmer Rouge is most often celebrated by supporters of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. On Monday Prime Minister Hun sen lashed out at the opposition, saying their lack of support for the day meant they ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of 163 families embroiled in a long-running land dispute in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district met with officials from the Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday to ask why the ministry issued a letter last week requesting that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court hold off on ss='cambodia-color'>...

After almost five years of alleged illegal logging in Preah Vihear province’s Preah Rokar community forest by a local businessman, more than 100 villagers yesterday petitioned the provincial authorities to shut down his handicrafts company. The villagers say that the woodworking operation, owned by businessman sar ss='cambodia-color'>...

The start of the school year has been delayed for a month due to flooding that has affected many of the country’s schools this month, the Ministry of Education said sunday. Ros salin, spokesman and cabinet chief for the ministry, said that the school year will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday said the pass rate of 25 percent in last month’s grade 12 national exam served as a warning that students could no longer pay their way through school and urged students who failed the exam to embrace their second ss='cambodia-color'>...

Businesses registered in Cambodia have until the end of the month to pay their annual property tax to the country’s General Department of Taxation (GDT). According to the GDT, business owners must pay by september 30 to avoid being fined. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 68,000 grade 12 students have signed up for a second and final shot at the high stakes national exam next Monday, the Ministry of Education, Youth and sport reported. That’s all of the students who failed – and most who failed to show ss='cambodia-color'>...

NGO workers interviewing evictees in Oddar Meanchey province said police pulled their car over without cause on saturday and tried to seize one of their cameras, the third reported case of authorities in the area harassing the group’s staff in the past month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights workers fear for the safety of Cambodia’s vulnerable children once Asean joins in an economic community next year. Children could also face more risk from economic pulls, experts warn. That includes families sending their children to work in other countries, where they will be ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday inaugurated a Thai-funded hospital, which targets middle- and high-class patients. The 50-million-U.s. dollar Royal Phnom Penh Hospital is a tertiary care hospital managed by Bangkok Dusit Medical services Public Company, Chairman of the Bangkok Dusit Medical services Prasert Prasatthong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty families living in stung Treng province’s Thala Barivat district have recently filed complaints to authorities demanding compensation from a Chinese firm, which allegedly plans to excavate their farmlands in search of marble. The villagers from the Chamkar Leu commune sent a total of seven complaints ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trading on Cambodia’s fledgling stock market will become easier after the bourse announced two new tools aimed at improving usability and access to the exchange platform. A January 14 statement released by the Cambodian securities Exchange (CsX) said two new trading methods, “continuous trading” and “trading ss='cambodia-color'>...

The newly formed Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) voted Monday to require its members pay an export fee of $0.50 per metric ton of long-grain white rice and $1 per ton of fragrant rice in order to raise money for educating farmers and marketing Cambodian rice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four of the 36 Jarai Montagnards deported last month have “disappeared” from their village in Vietnam’s central highlands, prompting fears among villagers that they may have been detained by the authorities. The group of 36 Montagnards was deported on the night of February 24 after attempting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following the fanfare surrounding the visit of First Lady Michelle Obama over the weekend, life in siem Reap returned to normal this week. Many here say they were not aware of the first lady’s visit, and some said even though they were, they aren’t sure ss='cambodia-color'>...

The oldest public school in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, is in a small courtyard downtown. The Tuan Hoa school has a Chinese temple and Mandarin language classes for its 2,000 students. But in Phnom Penh, Chinese usage is still behind English. This is true although ss='cambodia-color'>...

AEON Mall, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest retailer AEON Group, recently launched its first shopping mall in Indonesia. The Japanese government has also decided to provide Overseas Development Assistance to the country. It includes renovation of aging signal equipments for the Myanmar railways. ss='cambodia-color'>...

It is no secret that Cambodia’s condominium market has largely focused on attracting international developers and investors looking to jump into a growing market by offering expensive upscale units, but, as the standard of living in Cambodia is on the rise, many projects are shifting ss='cambodia-color'>...

A construction worker died and two others were injured yesterday after part of a Phnom Penh supermarket development collapsed, the latest incident highlighting the dangers plaguing Cambodia’s booming construction sector.The dead man was identified as Va sok, 52, while his injured companions are siblings Un ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnam-Cambodia joint working group on Thursday made a field inspection in the area between border marker 202 and 203 at Binh Bac village, Binh Hoa Tay commune, Moc Hoa district in Vietnam’s Long An province where a violent incident caused by some Cambodian extremists ss='cambodia-color'>...