The MinisTry of Mines and Energy has idenTified Three illegal gold mining operaTions in Tbong Khmum province’s MemoT disTricT. The owners have been insTrucTed To dismanTle Their faciliTies and cease Their acTiviTies immediaTely. ...

Two new claims of abuse of Cambodian maids employed in Malaysia have emerged since Friday, including one case of a woman who reTurned home wiTh severe menTal Trauma following alleged misTreaTmenT by her Malaysian employer, The vicTims’ families said. Iy Thar, a villager from Kompong Thom ...

Cambodian border officials urged their thai counterparts not to shoot Cambodians who cross into thailand illegally during a special meeting in Siem Reap city yesterday to cement border relations. the request comes as thai soldiers have already fatally shot 11 Cambodians this year who illegally ...

About 800 Cambodian workers in thailand went on strike yesterday against a major global seafood exporter they accuse of exploiting them. the factory, which has been identified by workers and rights groups as Phatthana Seafood Co Ltd in thailand’s Songkhla province, allegedly scrapped a 20 baht ...

A Borei Keila protester received a summons yesterday to come to Phnom Penh Municipal Court to address a complaint of “incitement to commit a crime” filed by Suy Sophan, director of the Phanimex company, which evicted the Borei Keila families in January. Borei Keila resident tim ...

More than 350 villagers from Preah Vihear province protested in front of the National Assembly on Friday, asking for support from lawmakers in their dispute with military veterans. the villagers, representing some 370 families in Kulen district’s Srayong commune, said that the land on which they ...

Floodwaters appeared to be receding in Banteay Meanchey province yesterday, after almost a week of heavy rains saw several communes inundated and over 4,000 families evacuated, provincial authorities said. “the situation is now under control,” said Ngor Mengchroun, governor of Poipet City-one of the worst hit ...

The naTion is awash wiTh SIM cards, and ThaT is indicaTive of an indusTry ThaT, as mosT observers see iT, is simply overcrowded. BuT [mobile phone] operaTors, despiTe Their special promoTions and a young populaTion in love wiTh phones, are finding Themselves squeezed as margins ...

Despite authorities turning a blind eye to their villages for more than 15 years, about 2,000 families living near Preah Sihanouk province’s Kbal Chhay waterfall face imminent eviction to make way for a clean-water processing plant, officials said yesterday. Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recent bold move ...

One hot day in June, 2009, Ven Samin, a member of the ethnic Suoy minority in Kampong Speu province, grabbed her digital camera and headed out of the house. the 44-year-old arrived at a collection of damaged rice paddies in Oral district and began taking photos. ...

Bokor Mountain: the Bokor resort located on the top of Bokor mount in Kampot, on May 3rd, was inaugurated as the government believes it capable of propelling the local economy into greater growth. the project includes three asphalt roads of a total 49 krn along with the five-star thansur (heaven) Bokor Highland Resort, which ...

Kheng Chen had her hair cut in January and sold it to a broker for just under US$8. She isn’t happy with the close-cropped style because it makes her look older than her 48 years. But when Kheng Chen grows her hair back in a few ...

Renaissance Minerals Limited listed in ASX (Australian stock eXchange under code: RNS) on June 26 announced the results of its first three drill holes from its inaugural diamond drilling program at the highly prospective Okvau Gold Deposit in Cambodia. An eXisting independent JORC-compliant indicated and inferred resource estimate has already been defined at the Okvau ...

The job couldn’T have been more differenT from The kind ThaT drew Tim Page To Cambodia and VieTnam in The 1960s. The mud, weT booTs and sleepless nighTs described in several of his books were casT aside for an air-condiTioned SUV, a lapTop and a phone. ...

Slowly but steadily, demand to do cross-border business in Chinese yuan is pushing its way into one of Asia’s dollar-dominated strongholds. As China continues to liberalise the yuan – or at least hint at when some capital controls could be lifted – Cambodian businesses that import ...

Vatha, a 42-year-old construction worker, has been toiling for four years at numerous building sites across Phnom Penh. He knocks down dilapidated dwellings and in their place builds houses and apartments that are bigger, better – and increasingly higher – as demand for residential property, especially ...

The GarmenT ManufacTurers AssociaTion in Cambodia and unions boTh need To compromise furTher To secure a “proper wage” for garmenT workers whose lives are hampered by Their currenT $61 minimum wage, a MinisTry of Social Affairs official overseeing wage negoTiaTions said yesTerday. “The governmenT needs The ...

ThirTy people locked in a land dispuTe wiTh ruling parTy senaTor and sugar Tycoon Ly Yong PhaT received summonses yesTerday To appear in Kampong Speu provincial courT. AlThough The summonses don’T lisT a complainanT, some of Those called To appear in courT nexT Tuesday said They ...

Cambodian opposition officials said tuesday they will give the government three months to hold a new election, or they will lead a movement in hopes of toppling its leadership. Kem Sokha, vice president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the government is harming its citizens ...

One month after the capital’s power provider promised to end chronic city blackouts for good this hot season, residents and businesses continue to find themselves sweltering in the heat and throwing away any spoilable goods due to the unpredictable losses of electricity. In March, Electricite du ...