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At 11:30 a.m. Saturday, municipal Security guardS and men in plainclotheS, wielding Steel barS, metal pipeS, batonS, StickS and axeS, forcibly cleared hundredS of demonStratorS from Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Freedom Park, where the oppoSition CNRP haS been proteSting againSt the government of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups on Monday urged the government to drop its incitement charges against four people arrested last week and accused of plotting to topple the government by handing out yellow roses to security forces and urging them to turn their guns against Prime Minister Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven NGOS have raiSed their concernS that the government iS uSing the law, media and Internet to further Stifle freedom of expreSSion, ahead of Cambodia Submitting itS firSt UniverSal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rightS to the U.N. The UPR iS the proceSS through which Geneva&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

Seven NGOS have raiSed their concernS that the government iS uSing the law, media and Internet to further Stifle freedom of expreSSion, ahead of Cambodia Submitting itS firSt UniverSal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rightS to the U.N. The UPR iS the proceSS through which Geneva&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

While fears have been raised over the imminent construction of the Don sahong dam in Laos, environmentalists on Monday said Cambodia should not forget that it has a project of its own that would be equally as disastrous to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands ss='cambodia-color'>...

Declaring that it has “zero tolerance” towards land grabbing, Coca-Cola has agreed to investigate a long running case in Cambodia where villagers are seeking court action against a company accused of seizing their land to make way for plantations linked to the supply of sugar ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior announced Tuesday in a last minute meeting that it would allow the opposition CNRP to take 1,000 people through the streets of Phnom Penh to deliver a petition to the U.N. and eight foreign embassies during its three-day mass demonstration that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just weeks after the country’s only independent teachers’ association staged a strike for higher wages, Phnom Penh’s education chief told teachers this week that they must stop taking bribes to comply with the government’s promised reform agenda. speaking to about 500 educators, mainly school directors, from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Briefing on Investment Law (Khmer)Briefing on Investment Law (English)Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just released a new briefing page, in both Khmer and English languages, on Cambodian Investment Law which it mainly provides the insight of Cambodia’s legal framework on investment sector. (Please visit: http://archive.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/briefing/briefing-on-investment-law/)This ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that the rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways will not be at the expense of those who live along the lines and has pledged to address the issue. Resettlement has been a problem for the rehabilitation but a new plan ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vattanac Properties Ltd’s president has denied ownership of a building site where construction has damaged the surrounding block of historic French Colonial era buildings. Chhung Leang who is also a cofounder of Vattanac Bank has said that the site is owned by an individual but ss='cambodia-color'>...

A week after government officials ordered Vattanac Properties to halt work on a construction site causing damage to a string of colonial-era building along Phnom Penh’s sIsowath Quay, representatives from the company arrived at the scene yesterday to inspect the affected buildings. Three Vattanac employees, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Bank of India will move to a larger location on Norodom Boulevard, aiming to attract increased business from both Cambodian and Indian clients, said Chief Manager sripada Rao. The Mumbai, India-based bank first opened in the Kingdom in 2009 headquartered on the capital’s Monivong ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 workers collapsed at the Anful Garments Factory in Kampong speu yesterday after the cloth they were working with was sprayed with insecticide on sunday, a senior provincial health official said. Or Vanthen, director of the Kampong speu provincial health department, said 144 workers ss='cambodia-color'>...

TWO activists involved in last month’s Prey Lang forest protest against illegal logging fled their houses yesterday in sandan district in an attempt to evade local authorities, villagers reported. Roeun sopheap, village representative in sandan commune, said he fled his home yesterday after finding several police ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan’s second-largest bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, officially opened a representative office in Phnom Penh on Friday. The office would serve as an information centre for potential investors and hoped to attract more Japanese companies, Masato Miyachi, general manager of the bank’s Asia and China division, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four former workers at the Angkor Villa Hotel and Resort appeared in the Appeal Court yesterday for questioning in relation to allegations that they ransacked the hotel during a strike last year. Korng Kimlean, union president of the Cambodian Tourism and service Workers’ Federation and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 high-ranking Cambodian People’s Party and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officials were named and shamed by a Cambodian election monitoring organisation yesterday at a workshop on misuse of state property. The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) distributed a detailed list ss='cambodia-color'>...