The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) released a report yesterday showing that only $356 million was spent on the restoration of infrastructure destroyed by last year’s floods – far below the $500 million in damage estimated beforehand. Nhim Vanda, vice chairman of the NCDM, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF) will scrap customs fees for rice exporters from May 1 in an effort to reduce production costs and boost Cambodia’s competitiveness in the sector, according to a letter obtained by the Post. “[The ministry] has agreed to eliminate charges ss='cambodia-color'>...

A deputy district governor and a land tycoon are allegedly attempting to seize land deemed sacred by about 700 monks and residents who gathered yesterday in protest outside the unfinished Wat Kohbodhivong in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district. Banner-wielding participants said that tycoon Chheang Paksour and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fourteen families evicted from Boeung Kak were left disappointed again yesterday when Phnom Penh’s governor ignored their calls to increase the size of land plots authorities had offered them. During a three-hour meeting, Governor Pa socheatvong held firm on a 2011 decision that the families would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have never been higher, but Association of southeast Asian Nations member countries are still failing to curb emissions created by heavy deforestation, according to a new report. Forest land in AsEAN countries declined by more than 6 per cent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) will partner with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) to bolSter technical knowledge and potential inveStment into Cambodia&rSquo;S naScent Stock market. An agreement between the two financial inStitutionS waS Signed in Phnom Penh yeSterday at the CSX office, a deal that will SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 villagers in Battambang province’s sangke district whose rice crops are threatened by drought protested twice last week, calling on local authorities to force the Chinese company building an irrigation dam in the area to open the sluice gate to flood the parched ss='cambodia-color'>...

Independent radio broadcaster Mam sonando says he will go forward with a planned demonstration Jan. 27, in protest of the government’s refusal to allow him to expand his radio reach and open a television station. The Minister of Information denied permission for the expansion, but Mam ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid a continually rising rate of industrial accidents and deaths, the Ministry of Labour introduced a campaign focused on identifying workplace hazards before tragedy strikes. since the ministry began keeping track of 960 Cambodian factories in 2009, workplace accidents have risen by nearly 375 per cent, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite Vietnamese state-owned companies withdrawing funding from projects outside of their core business, the $20 million expansion of the Vietnamese-backed Cho Ray Phnom Penh Hospital remains on track, the hospital’s head said yesterday. In July 2012 the Vietnamese government requested that state-owned enterprises withdraw investment in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court summoned two former Phnom Penh sorya Transportation bus drivers for questioning Tuesday after the court received a complaint from the bus company accusing the drivers of intimidation and defamation. The drivers, Yim Kuyba and Phon Visal, were asked to appear in ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 600 workers have fainted on factory floors so far this year, compared with about 800 such incidents over the whole of 2013, a Labour Ministry official said yesterday. Pok Vanthat, deputy director of the ministry’s labour health department and head of a committee that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Water Resources seized four boats on Wednesday for allegedly breaking a government ban on river sand dredging in Phnom Penh and is searching for the owners. The city issued the ban last year in response to what it said was an oversupply of ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a rare display of solidarity outside of Phnom Penh, more than 1,000 people with varied land-related grievances across siem Reap province gathered in front of the provincial governor’s office on Tuesday to demand action, and left with a promise from the governor to help. Activist ss='cambodia-color'>...

As part of a trio of long-awaited judicial laws passed last month by the National Assembly, the country’s judicial system is set to integrate a number of new provincial appeal courts, expanding access to the appeal process to people imprisoned outside Phnom Penh. But the only ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid promises reiterated by the government yesterday that it will take a tougher stance on economic land concessions, logging tycoon Try Pheap minimally reduced his sweeping natural resource empire, returning more than 20,000 hectares of undeveloped forestry. It was unclear what kind of arrangement prompted Pheap ss='cambodia-color'>...

An immigration official at the Ministry of Interior’s office in Ratanakkiri province was arrested yesterday, accused of illegal logging, district police said. O’Yadav police chief sok Min said provincial court prosecutor Liv sreng led military and police officials on a car chase that ended with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Monks and nationalist protesters burned a Vietnamese flag in front of the Vietnamese Embassy on Tuesday as the embassy continued to ignore calls to apologize for comments made by a diplomat in July. About 600 protesters gathered at the embassy once again to press for a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sixteen Cambodian border traderS were impriSoned by the Thai military over the weekend after they were caught Smuggling ShoeS and clothing illicitly bearing regiStered trademarkS acroSS the Poipet City border croSSing on Saturday. The traderS, who Supply the Rong Kluea border market in Thailand&rSquo;S Sa Kaeo SS='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s City Hall warned tobacco companies at a meeting yesterday to stop flouting a sub-decree that prohibits all forms of tobacco advertising, or else face closure or fines. The municipality said some companies were skirting the 2011 sub-decree by using more creative ways to sell ss='cambodia-color'>...