A plantation company with its sights set on a community forest long used by local ethnic minority Jarai in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district arranged a meeting with more than 200 villagers this week to try to persuade them to sign over the woodland. Representatives of the Heng ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Commerce official said in a speech last week that the controversial draft cybercrime law was almost ready to appear before the National Assembly, though another government official dismissed this yesterday. At a conference on cybersecurity attended by representatives of the public and private ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of employees at Grand Twins International, Cambodia’s only publicly listed garment factory, will be back at the assembly line today after nearly two weeks on strike, accepting a court order to return to work. Workers will follow the order the Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has dismissed without any explanation a lawsuit filed by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) after one of its reporters was viciously attacked by Daun Penh district security guards in May. Lay samean, a 27-year-old reporter for CCIM’s Voice of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Abuse, discrimination, exploitation and corruption are endemic in Cambodia’s prisons, spurred on by judicial and penal systems “driven by nepotism”, according to a new report from local rights group Licadho. The report, Rights at a Price: Life Inside Cambodia’s Prisons, which was released yesterday, details a ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a move seemingly incongruent with the government’s plans to offer clemency to a number of female inmates on International Women’s Day on sunday, a local rights group announced yesterday that new restrictions introduced by authorities have forced them to cancel prison activities marking the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today is scheduled to hear the trial of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party activist Meach sovannara, who was charged with leading a violent “insurrection” after an opposition demonstration turned violent last July. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Meach Sovannara, the CNRP lawmaker who waS let out of jail on bail in May, waS involved in a car accident on National Road 5 on ThurSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ended a long-running land dispute and dropped charges against four Boeung Chhouk community representatives, after the court found no evidence that residents committed violence against local businessman and developer Lao Tonmey. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Aiming to one day become a major manufacturing base in Cambodia, sihanoukville faces an uphill battle in attracting workers, provincial officials said yesterday.Yow Khemara, director of the Department of Labour and Vocational Training at Preah sihanouk province, said sihanoukville currently lacks about 4,000 workers in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Sen&rSquo;S Cambodia haS been Shaped by the collection of illegal timber dollarS, profiting a politically connected elite and in turn enSuring the ruling party&rSquo;S grip on the State apparatuS, a leading AuStralian reSearcher haS Said. Sarah Milne, a reSearch fellow at the AuStralian National UniverSity, SS='cambodia-color'>...

The director of Cambodia’s election reform movement asked the U.s. government on Wednesday to make any financial aid to the country conditional on the implementation of planned electoral reforms. The request by Koul Panha, director of the Committee on Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court decided to detain two activists of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) in prison after finishing the questioning process. ss='cambodia-color'>...

US companieS will re-eStabliSh their commitment to Cambodia and the region today at the US-ASEAN BuSineSS Forum in Siem Reap, a high-profile meeting involving Several headS of State and Some of the biggeSt companieS in the world. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the SS='cambodia-color'>...

“Singapore will booSt Singaporean companieS to Seek opportunitieS to inveSt in Cambodia, eSpecially in the agro-induStry,” H.E. Hor Namhong, Deputy Prime MiniSter and MiniSter of Foreign AffairS and International Cooperation, announced on WedneSday morning after bilateral talkS with hiS Singaporean counterpart Excellency Mr. K. Shanmugam, SS='cambodia-color'>...

A new report on land grabbing around the world highlights Cambodia as a prime example of the ill effect of the growing global appetite for farmland by industrial scale operations. Released Wednesday in stockholm by three swedish NGOs, The Race for Land offers Cambodia as one ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Vietnam Agriculture and Forestry Investment and Development Company in Hanoi is one of the two enterprises that signed a contract on importing 20,000 cubic meters of wood from Cambodia. Cambodian authorities approved the export of the volume of wood to Vietnam in 2011-2012. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced yesterday that it will provide technical support for Cambodian small and medium-size enterprises (sMEs), strengthening their capacities through the establishment of a national policy, officials said. Meng saktheara, director-general of the General Department of Industry at the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has failed to improve transparency of its finances, according to a global report released yesterday, which ranks Cambodia among the worst countries in the world for openness over budgets. The Washington-based International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget survey 2012- conducted in Cambodia by NGO Forum- ss='cambodia-color'>...

Further comprehensive economic co-operation and expansion among AsEAN’s member states, East Asia and its development partners was imperative for managing risks and impacts from the fragile global economy, Prime Minister and AsEAN chairman Hun sen said during the AsEAN Global Dialogue yesterday. The dialogue brought together ss='cambodia-color'>...