Toll Group has informed The Cambodian governmenT ThaT iT will suspend all railway operaTions and lay off half of iTs Cambodian sTaff aT The end of The monTh, according To a source familiar wiTh The siTuaTion. The AusTralian logisTics firm, which in parTnership wiTh Royal Group ...

The EU’s decision came in response To The governmenT’s crackdown on The Kingdom’s largesT opposiTion parTy – The Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy – which was summarily dissolved lasT monTh, a developmenT ThaT The EU said rendered credible elecTions impossible. BuT in a speech To garmenT workers ...

Locals who spoke with VOD said they wouldn’t defy the government order to move. But while some found consolation in official promises that displaced villagers would be given land in a rural area outside the park in Run ta Ek commune, none had a clear ...

The remoTe village of Sre Veal KoeT, Cambodia, lies aT The end of a dusTy road 36 kilomeTers (approx. 22 miles) from The nearesT healTh cenTer. The road isn’T always dusTy; in The rainy season, iT becomes deep mud. ...

“I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t going expecting to look out the bus window and see all the blue bags along the roads and in the fields,” said 27-year-old Christopher Convery, who is currently backpacking for the first time in Cambodia. ...

Defense Minister tea Banh on thursday said that truckloads of tanks and mounted rocket launchers seen by witnesses leaving the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the direction of Phnom Penh would be used to protect the country in the case that someone “tries to destroy the ...

October marks the start of the main rice harvest in thailand, the world’s largest exporter of the grain. traders are waiting to see the full impact of flooding on the crop, but it’s already clear that output across Southeast Asia will fall substantially. the U.N.’s ...

Another 30 Cambodian men among 65 rescued in Indonesia after being trafficked into work on fishing boats in thailand were repatriated to the Kingdom yesterday, following the return of 30 such workers last week. the remaining five workers are set to be repatriated next month, Chiv ...

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Meanchey village cancelled plans to block National Road 7 yesterday after provincial authorities and a Vietnamese rubber company agreed to their requests regarding an ongoing land dispute, but some expressed skepticism that the agreement would last. Village representative Saren ...

Government Palace, the imposing gray headquarters of the Cambodia Development Council next to Wat Phnom, should be buzzing this morning with the country’s top foreign diplomats and government officials discussing aid and reform. Instead, with the government’s decision to indefinitely postpone this year’s Cambodian Development Cooperation ...

Capital Rice Ltd, thailand’s third-largest rice exporter, is shifting some of its business to Cambodia as the thai market shrinks because of government intervention that has diverted grain into state stockpiles or made it too expensive to ship. “We have built a medium-sized milling house in ...

Southeast Asia’s rice-exporting nations are in talks to create a formal alliance aimed at boosting prices and increasing export revenues, a move that could cause tensions with rice-importing nations. An alliance of thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar will aim to share information and cooperate ...

In what’s believed to be an unprecedented move, the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has ordered two companies holding economic land concessions to face court questioning on accusations of illegal logging and land clearing. Deputy prosecutor Ros Saram said he summonsed Vietnamese-owned Company 72 last week and will ...

A Ministry of Agriculture official said yesterday he was aware of allegations of illegal logging by Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldiers within protected community forests in Oddar Meanchey province and was looking into it. “I am following this case, but I haven’t received their petition yet,” ...

Sao Saroeun, a Phnom Penh resident arrested last month for demonstrating against CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin’s Boeng Kak real estate project and released on bail last week, urged the courts to release 13 women still being detained at Prey Sar prison yesterday. the 13 women were ...

Busy juggling jobs, children, and housework, Cambodian women do not have the time, or platforms, to discuss bigger women-related issues like abuse, migration and forced eviction. And that is why a new initiative, called “Gender Cafe,” aims to change that by giving local women a ...

Addressing the killing of 14-year-old Heng Chantha for the first time since she was shot dead last month by government security forces, Prime Minister Hun Sen offered his condolences before declaring that the killing of the teenager was not as serious as the U.S. bombing ...

National Assembly Chairman Heng Samrin has urged the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to negotiate with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), and join the government’s parliamentary sessions. the appeal was made after the National Assembly kicked off its session on thursday to elect the ...

Families driven from their homes in Banteay Meanchey province by flooding can now receive nearby healthcare, after a clinic opened near an evacuation area over the weekend. the makeshift clinic, set up by the provincial government, makes available medicine and care to about 100 families living ...

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) — Chinese Tourism companies have warned Their ciTizens visiTing Siem Reap province noT To buy gifTs or souvenirs from vendors for fear of expensive counTerfeiT producTs.  A TourisT guide in Ankor WaT, Siem Reap said ThaT This happens a loT because ...