More than 16,000 hectares of rice paddies are currently being affected by drought across the country, officials said yesterday. “there wasn’t enough rain for the rice this year, ” said Nhep Srorn, director of takeo province’s agriculture department. Pich Sokhin, governor of Oddar Meanchey province, said ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday lashed out at critics of the Mam Sonando verdict, saying outsiders shouldn’t be seeking the release of a prisoner. Speaking to hundreds of villagers at a land title ceremony held in Chhuok district of Kampot province, Hun Sen defended the guilty verdict handed ...

Anti-nuclear activists have called on the thai government to clarify its involvement in Cambodia’s controversial plan to construct a nuclear power plant in the border province of Koh Kong. the activists doubted Phnom Penh’s capacity to single-handedly build and manage such a vast and risky project. Santi ...

Forestry administration officials in Battambang province have stepped in to stop the destruction of a community forest area by military and police, officials said yesterday. Over two past months, soldiers, police and military police have destroyed part of the 1,335-hectare Prey tralach forest in Rokha Kiri district, which ...

The presidenT of The Cambodian ConfederaTion of Unions Rong Chhun appeared in Kandal Provincial CourT for nearly Three hours yesTerday, fielding quesTions sTemming from accusaTions of inciTemenT and defamaTion, The union boss said. According To Chhun, his appearance was relaTed To a complainT alleging ThaT he had inciTed ...

One week after the shooting deaths of forestry activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana, a suspect was sent to the Koh Kong Provincial Court for questioning late yesterday evening before being remanded to military police custody, a court official said. “the prosecutor hasn’t ...

With a looming deadline to move still two days away, police yesterday stormed tiny Rayum commune in Mondulkiri province, dismantling and burning at least 50 homes belonging to villagers embroiled in a land dispute with a Vietnamese rubber company. Seng Channy, a villager representative who escaped ...

Although costs can be high for borrowing and it can be difficult to pay regularly every month, the trend of borrowing from banks by Cambodian people to buy property is still steadily increasing, according to experts. Keuk Narin, vice president of Asia Real Estate Cambodia, said ...

A CPP lawmaker said yesterday the government has signed 13 payment guarantees to companies constructing coal-fired power plants and hydropower dams in the country, a move that an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official reiterated was risky for the country’s fiscal future. CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap said ...

Many restaurants, shops, supermarkets and tourist sites in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap will operate at a limited capacity or close entirely this Sunday as Cambodians line up at voting stations to elect a new government. Despite the closures, Ang Kim Eang, president of the ...

A village chief in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district has been accused by 40 villagers of threatening to evict members of Yeang commune who voted for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. “He threatened to dismiss us from the village, because he found the names of ...

A year to the day since armed soldiers stormed into the remote village of Pro Mar in Kratie province, killing a 14-year-old girl, arresting her husband and evicting hundreds of families, Sreng Pho still has nightmares. “I’m really scared when I think back to that day ...

Proper accounting and auditing help promote business opportunity and development, finance experts say. Socheat Chum, a senior associate auditor for KPMG, a professional accounting service, told “New Voices” on Monday that companies with “solid” financial statements will “attract more business partners and be able to borrow ...

Cambodia needs to build new leaders to take over the country in the next generation, a leading rights activist says. “this means the party is ready to let their children take over, family style,” he [Cambodian Center for Human Rights head Ou Virak]. “But this younger ...

Say Sam Al, Minister of Environment, on thursday called for construction of plastic recycle plants in Bavet and Sihanoukville. Speaking at the meeting, the minister said that in the last 20 years Ministry of Environment as well as Cambodian government didn’t allow trash recycle in ...

Senior official from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party called on authorities to take action against CNRP senior member whose vehicles still use fourth mandate number plates, which are invalid. the National Assembly was ready to deliver the new number plates to the CNRP’s elected lawmakers ...

Less than a year after all refurbishments were completed on Hongkong Land’s Central Mansions – formerly Colonial Mansions – the classic residential units in the heart of Phnom Penh’s burgeoning financial, government and office-rental district are enjoying occupancy rates of close to 100 per cent, ...

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suspend protests against Vietnam over a territorial dispute as Phnom Penh expressed “regret” to Hanoi over the burning of a Vietnamese flag during the demonstrations last week. Horn Nam Hong met at his office with the head of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, thach Setha, who agreed ...