About 40,000 Battambang rice-farming families already suffering steep losses from a severe drought are at risk of seeing their crops wiped out entirely by devastating floods as late seasonal rains start to kick in. A drought that meteorologists have blamed on the tail-end of an ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday threatened legal action against anyone who touted claims of irregularities in the voter lists during the 2013 election, telling reporters yesterday that if this year’s round of voter registration finishes and the final tally of voters compiled is similar to ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 people representing 540 families from the Prek Takong 1 and Kva communities in the capital’s Meanchey and Dangkao districts gathered in front of the Land Management Ministry for the fourth time yesterday, asking to receive titles from land cut from the ING City ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government of India announced yesterday that it will give $50,000 to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), the tribunal tasked with the prosecution of the country’s former Khmer Rouge commanders. “On behalf of the ECCC we would like to express our gratitude ss='cambodia-color'>...

Falling demand for land in Svay Rieng province&rSquo;S Bavet City haS enSured that land priceS have remained Stable in the firSt eight monthS of the year, according to induStry inSiderS.&nbSp;Relatively Stable property SaleS and a few induStrial development projectS have helped to enSure that land SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday responded to calls from acting opposition leader Kem sokha for Cambodia’s “political family” to unite for the upcoming Pchum Ben festival, saying he would observe a “ceasefire” amid the escalating war of words between himself and the opposition. speaking at a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three members of the dissident Khmer People Power Movement (KPPM) serving sentences at Banteay Meanchey Provincial Prison have been pardoned, just days ahead of the scheduled return of the group’s self-exiled leader.The pardon for serey Bunlong, 29; seng sokmeng, 31; and Um Phirun, 27, which ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia lost 10 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) last year to the negative effect of climate change, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In announcing a $96 million package to help the Kingdom cope with the loss of livelihoods and income due to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Prak sokhon on Tuesday met with Us Ambassador William Heidt to discuss a pair of upcoming meetings of mutual interest: the AsEAN summit and the East Asia summit (EAs). The events will be held in Laos on september 3-8, and will ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s general taxation department plan to jointly operate an online business tax registration system in a bid to strengthen tax collection in the country and root out corruption. sok sopheak, under-secretary of state of the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of environmental NGOs working to protect the Prey Lang forest called on the Us Agency for International Development (UsAID) to intervene and protect the region’s resin trees, or they will all be logged within six months, they claimed in a joint-statement issued yesterday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Having established a foothold in the capital, Burger King is pushing into Cambodia’s provinces and will launch its first branch in siem Reap next month, a company official said yesterday.In all, the Us fast-food giant plans to open four branches outside the capital by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The arrest on saturday of a registered British sex offender, employed at a Phnom Penh school for the past year, has cast doubt on the screening of foreign nationals working with children in Cambodia.With wanted sex offender Paul Prestige’s extradition pending, the British Embassy yesterday ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem sokha on saturday drew a positive message from Prime Minister Hun sen’s recent warnings that an opposition election victory could lead to civil war, trumpeting it as acceptance from the premier that he could be defeated. Among the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee’s $1 million pilot project last month to test its new computerized voter registration system revealed that the registration process is inefficient and needs to be sped up, a group of NGOs calling itself the Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) said at a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment and footwear industry stakeholders yesterday converged in Phnom Penh to discuss how to develop the sector to be sustainable and competitive.Run by the French Development Agency (AFD), the textiles conference at the capital’s sunway Hotel heard that improving employees’ living and working standards, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s badly overcrowded prison population leapt by nearly 20 per cent in the first 10 months of this year, government data show, raising serious health concerns.The figures, released by the Interior Ministry’s general department of prisons yesterday, show that there were 17,522 prisoners in jails ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Agriculture Ministry yesterday launched a strategy for the developing the sector, aiming to expand exports of agricultural products to spur economic growth through sustainable farming practices.Agriculture Minister Ouk Rabun said the government has implemented many strategies and development plans to boost the agriculture sector ss='cambodia-color'>...

The nearly 1 million hectares of newly protected forests the Environment Ministry wants to create by the end of the year will add nearly a third more land to the portfolio of an agency already struggling to manage the 3.2 million hectares it has. And ss='cambodia-color'>...

The controversial Union Law, which was passed and put into force after dozens of debates and protests, is expected to build confidence among garment and textile buyers as well as employers and workers, experts said. sandra D’Amico, vice president of the Cambodian Federation of Employers ss='cambodia-color'>...