As the harvest season of Cambodia’s most important crop kicks off, a crisis is looming as both rice farmers and millers face crippling capital shortages and a promised industry lifeline has yet to materialise. Industry experts said yesterday that these small farmers desperate to pay their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Under Cambodian law, the right to organize is supposed to be ironclad. No employer, government agent or citizen may impede union activity. Inside the walls of Cambodia’s largest special economic zones (sEZs), however, In These Times’ reporters saw a system designed to tightly control the workforce by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Commune offices around the country are bracing for a surge in voter registrations over the Pchum Ben holiday that could become a make-or-miss moment in building the foundation for upcoming elections. After nearly a month of registrations, the National Election Committee reported on Tuesday that 3.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on the United Nations to join an investigation into the beating of two CNRP parliamentarians last Monday, expressing serious doubts the Cambodian People’s Party-led government could conduct an independent inquiry into an incident it was almost immediately ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 150 villagers, enraged by the conviction and imprisonment of three of their community representatives, yesterday destroyed the gates of Ratanakkiri Provincial Court, bursting into the courtroom only to find that the three men had already been sent to jail.The representatives – Chroeung Touch, Em ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a milestone for Cambodia’s nascent mining industry, the government has issued the first commercial mining licence to Mesco Gold, giving the Indian mining firm a green light to extract and process ore at its gold project in Ratanakkiri province, industry sources said yesterday. The landmark ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has announced plans to upgrade a sub-decree on torture prevention to the status of royal decree in order to comply with its international obligations, but observers said yesterday that the proposed changes will do little to bolster the body’s impartiality.The decision was confirmed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fishing communities along two of Cambodia’s principle rivers say their livelihoods are threatened by droughts that have reduced water levels and devastated fish numbers.“The Tonle sap is 3 metres lower than last year,” Long sochhet, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Fishing Communities, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After two deaths to flooding in as many rainy seasons and another close call on Monday, villagers from Khva Village in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor District are demanding action. They say that the cause of the flooding is the extraction of soil nearby by a company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts are warning that the Lower Mekong Basin may soon face depleting fish stocks, further erosion of the coastline and rising salinity that will make rice fields uncultivable. An extensive, government- funded study by the Vietnam National Mekong Committee estimates the value of fish from ss='cambodia-color'>...

China and Cambodia agreed to boost their military ties following a meeting between their defense ministers on November 6 in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Though specifics of the assistance remain unclear, Banh, who is also a deputy prime minister, indicated that it includes telecommunications ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ), the private firm that operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S moSt developed induStrial park, will hold a bookbuild for inveStorS later thiS month for an initial public offering it hopeS will raiSe up to $11.6 million for expanSion and debt repayment, according to SS='cambodia-color'>...

In a bid to increase tourist arrivals and promote sihanoukville as a beach destination, Cambodia Airports, the private company that manages the Kingdom’s three international airports, announced yesterday that it will provide monetary incentives to airlines that bring in foreign visitors to the coastal city.speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Stanford UniverSity Study conducted in Cambodia haS Shed new light on the natural introduction of the poiSon arSenic into groundwater &ndaSh; an eStabliShed problem in Cambodia that could be exacerbated by hydrological development, particularly damS, reSearcherS Say.According to a report on their findingS, publiShed SS='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall yesterday announced the preparation of infrastructure for a controversial road construction project in the Boeung Kak area near the Alserkal Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in the Kingdom, to avoid traffic jams and flooding in the area. The pilot project, inveiled in 2012, plans ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rhona Smith, the UN Special rapporteur for human rightS in Cambodia, will Start her 10-day viSit to the Kingdom today, with planS to meet government officialS, oppoSition party activiStS and civil Society workerS.&nbSp;Am Sam Ath, a Senior coordinator for rightS group Licadho, Said he waS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Education Ministry officials said yesterday that there will be greater participation by disabled children in schools, announcing a plan that would allow disabled youngsters to attend schools with the rest of the country’s children by early next year. Im Koch, a secretary of state for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The chairman of the National Assembly’s corruption commission says a technical explanation from the Mines and Energy Minister over alleged irregularities in sand exported to singapore is not clear enough. The controversy over the sand exports emerged after about 50 NGOs asked the Ministry of Mines ss='cambodia-color'>...

After ignoring summonses for two months, a prominent timber tycoon accused of illegally trading luxury-grade wood in Mondulkiri province appeared at court to deny his involvement in the case.​ sam Ol was summonsed on October 12 to testify after the authorities’ anti-logging task force found ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. oil giant Chevron haS claShed with the former oppoSition leader of Cambodia over a requeSt to releaSe footage of the murder of prominent political analySt Kem Ley at one of itS gaS StationS in Phnom Penh laSt year, court documentS reveal.Chevron iS Seeking to SS='cambodia-color'>...