A rights group worker has earned a court summons for monitoring villagers who were embroiled in a Preah Vihear land dispute with a Chinese company. Lut sang, the Khmer Ponlok employee scheduled to appear in provincial court today, said that he was only a passive observer ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday signed a 75 million U.s. dollars loan with Cambodia’s largest bank, Acleda Bank, to address the rising financing requirements of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MsME) in the country. The agreement was inked between Christine Engstrom, director in ADB’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

In three years’ time, Cambodia will have legislation clearly outlining what government information is available to the general public, according to a recently signed memorandum of understanding. Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith and Anne Lemaistre, UNEsCO’s representative to Cambodia, signed the memorandum on Friday. The MoU ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of fishing communities say illegal operations are critically threatening the nation’s fisheries. Corruption and collusion between authorities and illegal fishermen are at the root of the problem, they say. More than 100 representatives from these communities met in Phnom Penh Friday, in an effort to find ss='cambodia-color'>...

Passport offices will be set up in six more provinces in an effort to ease the remigration process for Cambodian workers heading back to Thailand, according to a Ministry of Interior official. Mao Chandara, director of the Ministry of Interior’s passport department, said the new offices ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has announced he will preside over a review of the government’s reform program. “[Hun sen] announced that on January 29 he will preside over a wide-ranging meeting at the Peace Palace in order to evaluate and boost reform programs, especially economic reform ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twelve Preah Vihear villagers were called to court this week regarding an ongoing land dispute they claim has resulted in the bulldozing of their family land and livelihood. The villagers are among some 67 families in Kulen district’s srayong Cheung village who say the government sold ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmakers-elect yesterday lambasted reports that Cambodia has asked Iran for a $54.45 million loan. Following an official visit to Tehran last week by a delegation from the National Assembly led by First Vice Chairman Nguon Nhel, Cambodia’s official news agency, Agence Kampuchea Press, reported that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forty families in Kampong Chhnang province’s Peani commune complained yesterday that a local factory has been polluting their land with toxic liquid waste. Kong Yom, 40, a representative of the 40 families in Krang Ta Ekh village, said yesterday that this is not the first time ss='cambodia-color'>...

A company in Mondulkiri’s sok san commune has been gradually cutting down a community forest, pushing more than 100 families off their land, villagers said yesterday. “That land belongs to us, the government granted it to us in 1999. But the company invaded and let us ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following the mass fainting of hundreds of workers at garment factories last week, an official at the Ministry of Labour has raised concerns over the control of toxic chemicals. Leng Tong, director of the Labour Ministry’s occupational health and safety department, said factories should be providing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Chinese government on Thursday donated 10,000 U.s. dollars to the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) to support humanitarian activities. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo presented the donation to CRC’s president Bun Rany during the celebration of the 151st anniversary of the World Red Cross — ss='cambodia-color'>...

New Zealand will offer US$3.7 million in aid to Cambodia to Support a five-year Angkor Wat preServation project. Accoriding to local media reportS, the funding waS Signed, laSt week, between Bun Narith, Cambodia&rSquo;S ApSara Authority and Brent RapSon the firSt Secretary of New Zealand EmbaSSy to SS='cambodia-color'>...

Amid the continued arrest of activists who have defied a ban on public gatherings, a group of unions and associations yesterday revealed plans for a large demonstration in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on sunday. About 10,000 people are expected to attend the rally, according to a ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 families in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district are seeking government intervention against an economic land concessionaire they allege has razed over 1,000 hectares of community forest, village leaders said yesterday. Five representatives for the 144 families departed yesterday to file a complaint at the provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade between Cambodia and China’s Hong Kong increased by 19 percent in 2013, thanks to good ties between China and Cambodia, Raymond Yip, assistant executive director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, said here Friday. The total trade value between Cambodia and Hong Kong amounted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three parties – the Cambodian People’s Party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party and Funcinpec – were registered for the May 18 municipal, district and provincial council election as of saturday, according to the National Election Committee. “As the deadline will close on March 3rd, I think ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kratie Provincial Court on Sunday charged three villagerS with illegally clearing community foreSt, and Six more for clearing State-owned land, officialS Said Monday. The three people were arreSted in Snoul diStrict&rSquo;S Khyoem commune and accuSed of clearing protected foreSt while the other Six were arreSted SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education has vowed to shift its focus from the quantity of the country’s universities to their quality by instituting a moratorium on the approval of new institutions, officials said yesterday. Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said that with more than 100 universities already ss='cambodia-color'>...

Election officials said that there was no complaint filed at the first day of council election campaign starting from May 2. Five political parties – the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Royalist Funcipec Party, League for Democracy Party (LDP) and ss='cambodia-color'>...