More than 200 families filed a complaint with the Preah Vihear provincial court yesterday against two employees of logging tycoon Try Pheap who allegedly cleared 15 hectares of community forest late last year before being stopped by villagers. Huon Kino, 39, a representative of the 203 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of Chinese company Tianjin Union Development Group, backed by soldiers, annihilated crops and burned the homes of 29 families in Koh Kong’s Botum sakor district last week, rights groups say. According to a report given to the Post yesterday, a two-day fact-finding mission spearheaded by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the Ministry of Interior will meet tomorrow to review the results of an investigation into a crackdown that left four dead on Veng sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh last month, a police spokesman said. After saying on Tuesday that a report on the investigation’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy iS preparing a letter to Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to Seek negotiation between the Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National ReScue Party (CNRP), an oppoSition official told The Cambodia Herald on WedneSday. The political deadlock in Cambodia haS been laSting for SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two union leaders were summonsed and questioned by a municipal court prosecutor yesterday over allegations they illegally detained the boss of a packaging factory in Por sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune during a strike. According to Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Ek Chheng Huoth, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy yesterday called on residents in the northeast provinces to defend their land lest the area be turned into a Vietnamese “colony”. Rainsy’s comments were quickly condemned by both the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments. speaking to hundreds of people in Mondulkiri ss='cambodia-color'>...

Surya Subedi, the UN Special rapporteur on human rightS in Cambodia, added hiS voice yeSterday to the growing choruS of criticiSm aimed at three draft lawS on Cambodia&rSquo;S judiciary that Sailed through the National ASSembly laSt week. Subedi &ndaSh; who had previouSly championed the lawS aS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The new province of Tbong Khmum, which has been carved out of Kompong Cham, was officially launched Monday at a ceremony presided over by Interior Minister sar Kheng. The ceremony was held at the new provincial capital of suong City and also announced the appointments of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Wednesday posted to its website a four-page document giving Public Works and Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek’s response to complaints of corruption within his ministry, including that the minister had awarded himself exorbitant bonuses. The ACU said in the document that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s business community is anticipating keen interest from overseas investors as registration for the country’s international investment conference opens this week. The International Business Chamber (IBC) of Cambodia investment conference will take place on October 6th and 7th at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court imprisoned a prominent businesswoman who has exclusive rights to collect taxes at a number of Phnom Penh markets Monday over breach of trust charges related to a subcontracting agreement, signed in 2008, to let a business partner collect fees at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Wednesday that he could not appoint his children in the cabinet posts even though they were qualified. “I have five children and five children-in-law. All of them have possessed degrees ranging from bachelor’s degrees to doctorate’s degrees, but I cannot ss='cambodia-color'>...

Immigration officials from the Interior Ministry and Pursat province today are to begin a census of all foreigners living in the Kingdom, though it is expected to focus primarily on those of Vietnamese descent. Following a meeting in Pursat yesterday afternoon, Major General Khun sambor, chief ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local stock brokerage company sonatra securities has announced it will completely dilute its books and put a halt on all business activities from October 1. In a press release posted on sonatra’s website last week, the firm stated without an explanation that it was suspending all ss='cambodia-color'>...

A torrential downpour that lasted over three hours yesterday morning has left many in the capital struggling with flooded houses, businesses and travel conditions, sparking outcry that authorities have not done enough to manage the rain’s effects. Flooding took place in virtually every district in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The risk of Ebola coming into Cambodia remains low despite a recent Ebola scare in Thailand, officials from the Ministry of Health’s Communicable Diseases Control said at a conference yesterday, while still noting that the Kingdom remains vulnerable to other, lesser-known diseases. CDC head Ly ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal government on Monday rejected a request from protesters to stage a one-month demonstration in the city’s Freedom Park for the release of 10 jailed activists and refused to receive their latest petition demanding a solution to their long-running land disputes. About 100 ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha hit out for the firSt time yeSterday at reportS that he claimS to draw inSpiration from Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, arguing that hiS commentS were miSinterpreted. During an annual meeting of Phnom Penh&rSquo;S military police on ThurSday, local media reported SS='cambodia-color'>...

After more than six years of construction, the sokha Phnom Penh Hotel and Residence officially opened its doors to the public yesterday, with Prime Minister Hun sen on hand to inaugurate the city’s newest hotel. speaking at the launch, Hun sen said the sokha Hotel will ss='cambodia-color'>...

The barren land near Cambodian villager Ren Meas’ home used to yield cashew nut and root vegetable crops. Now the vast expanse lies bare and dry, levelled by bulldozers and set to become yet another rubber tree plantation. Australians are helping to combat the so-called land ss='cambodia-color'>...