U.S. and JapaneSe companieS are intereSted in proSpecting for oil and natural gaS in Cambodia. According to Phai Siphan, State Secretary and SpokeSman of the Council of MiniSterS Office, in the provinceS of Preah Vihear, Siemreab, and Kampong Thom there are 17 oil blocS covering SS='cambodia-color'>...

Government and police officials were at a loss yesterday to pinpoint the whereabouts of the Bavet town governor, who has been identified as a suspect in the shooting of three women at a protest two weeks ago. An arrest warrant had still not been issued for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Most Cambodian university students have heard of their country’s fledging extractive industry. But with little access to information, few are aware of how revenue from this industry is being managed. Most of this information remains unavailable, and some are now voicing their concerns about corruption ss='cambodia-color'>...

Welcome to Cambodia’s lone silkworm Egg Production Center, and to the techniques that are being used to prevent and monitor diseases that are currently killing off more than 50 percent of all silkworm production in the country. Established by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), ss='cambodia-color'>...

Relatives and neighbors sang, cried and pleaded outside the Ministry of Justice yesterday for the release of the 14 women and one man arrested last week for protesting against CPP senator Lao Meng Khin’s controversial Boeng Kak real estate project. Worried by reports that the World ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,500 representatives of military families in Oddar Meanchey province are planning to file a complaint directly to Prime Minister Hun sen’s office accusing a high-ranking Royal Cambodian Armed Forces general of selling a large chunk of their land to two Vietnamese rubber companies. The soldiers, ss='cambodia-color'>...

It has been more than two years since the Cambodian government issued a rice export policy in June 2010, aiming to export a million tonnes of milled rice by 2015. However, a shortage of capital to buy unmilled rice, known as “paddy”, together with high ss='cambodia-color'>...

It has been just over a year since Vancouver-based Angkor Gold (ANK-V) went public with its stable of Cambodian exploration projects, and it is looking like the company’s early mover strategy in the developing southeast Asian nation might be poised to pay off. To kick ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian migrant worker has alleged that he and dozens of fellow migrants were arrested, beaten, stripped naked and shaved bald by Thai police, who then extorted money from them just because they did not have the correct location on their working visas. The allegation is ss='cambodia-color'>...

At Cambodia’s first ever international motor show over the weekend, top-end car manufactures including Mercedez-Benz, BMW and Ford presented their luxury range of sUV’s, sedans pickup trucks and motorbikes. Vehicle imports to Cambodia, which include cars, trucks and motorcycles, more than doubled to 1.9 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three men locked in a land dispute with Phnom Penh authorities were questioned both by the police and the municipal court Wednesday after they were accused of destroying property on land the government has swapped with a private firm. Ly Bun Heang, said that he, his ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.K. sugar firm Tate & Lyle on Wednesday said it was looking into recent allegations of child labor on two plantations in Koh Kong province it has been buying sugar from since 2010, but rebuked NGOs for not bringing the claims to its attention sooner. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia’s southeastern province of Kampong speu is nothing short of picturesque. But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region’s natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, ss='cambodia-color'>...

It is barely dawn in the quiet suburb of Phnom Penh Thmey, but already the silence has been pierced by the cacophony of generators. On some streets, nearly every household has one of the machines burning through diesel in a bid to fill their basic electricity ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the apparent spontaneity of a protest against U.N. human rights envoy surya subedi at a university in Phnom Penh on Tuesday night, it emerged Wednesday that one of the apparent leaders of the demonstration is associated with a youth organization aligned with the ruling ss='cambodia-color'>...

The family of a worker who was killed when a ceiling collapsed at Kompong spue province footwear factory lasts week has accepted 9,000 in compensation, and in return has agreed not file a complaint against the company, the deceased’s wife said yesterday. Rim sarouen, 22, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nineteen NagaWorld casino employees were detained Tuesday afternoon as police attempted to break up a protest of more than 500 workers who had picketed in front of the casino for the past six days, demanding the company increase their salaries.  The workers had been striking non-violently ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local charter carrier Tonle Sap AirlineS haS SuSpended flightS until June, in what appearS to be the lateSt of a SerieS of diSruptionS affecting the airline, which haS alSo recently encountered financial turbulence. The airline, which operateS chartered flightS from Siem Reap to China, Taipei, and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Some 300 familieS from Bantey Meanchey province&rSquo;S Preah Netr Preah diStrict-embroiled in two Separate long-running diSputeS with Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS (RCAF)-yeSterday Submitted complaintS to the provincial governor aSking for permiSSion to temporarily farm on the land until the ownerShip diSpute iS reSolved, villagerS and SS='cambodia-color'>...

In a first step toward clearing villagers from land intended for a planned Koh Kong provincial hydroelectric dam, a Chinese development firm has blocked a road leading to plots where villagers have continued to harvest rice. Officials from Tianjin Union Development Group, which was awarded a ss='cambodia-color'>...