Cambodia’s GDP growth was projected to reach 7 percent in equivalent to 15.65 billion U.s. dollars in 2013 despite a challenging global economic environment, the World Bank said Monday. Overall macroeconomic outlook remains positive, having sustained agricultural growth, continued strong performance of the tourism sector, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

With pant legs rolled up to his knees, Hoeuy Mon trudges through a brown and green patchwork of rice fields. His four hectares are in Tkov village, Prey Veng province, about 300 metres from his home. On most of the journey, walkways enclosing each square plot ss='cambodia-color'>...

Shelving any thoughtS that 14 monthS in priSon had deterred her from proteSting, Yorm Bopha ruShed to the capital&rSquo;S Borei Keila community yeSterday morning to try to Stop authoritieS from forcing evicteeS from an abandoned building. Bopha waS one of about 10 Boeung Kak activiStS called SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks ago, Kandal erupted. skirmishes broke out at multiple polling stations where voters were left off the list, and at least one was forced to shut down as locals blocked what they claimed were outsiders from voting. In the end, this hotly contested province swung ss='cambodia-color'>...

Of the nearly 800,000 forms issued to voters without identification for use in the July 28 election, about 270,000 were issued between the end of the voter registration period and the election itself, raising concerns among observers they could have been used fraudulently. According to National ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh will face flooding in certain areas in the coming days as the level of the Mekong River surpasses emergency level, while heavy rainfall from tropical storm Wutip, which made landfall in Laos from the south China sea on Friday, prompted the government to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Motion Picture As­sociation of Cambodia (MPAC), an independent body that aims to protect intellectual property, officially opened its doors Wednesday, vowing to put an end to the sale of pirated DVDs in Phnom Penh as its first order of business. “We are goingto serve everybody ss='cambodia-color'>...

A coalition of international human rights groups on Wednesday issued a petition to press opposition CNRP leader sam Rainsy and senior members of the government to publicly condemn and investigate the death threats against local rights group leader Ou Virak, following his criticism of comments ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Svay Rieng province on TueSday arreSted a garment worker for allegedly breaking a car window during a Strike that turned violent in Bavet City the day before, and have filed complaintS to the provincial court againSt two union repreSentativeS accuSed of defamation. The arreSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

A group of about 200 farmers from Kratie province refused on Thursday to leave a pagoda in Phnom Penh—their home base for protests against their eviction at the hands of a Vietnamese rubber company—as the city’s deputy governor warned them that the municipal government would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Among the exotic wildlife that prowls Cambodia’s forests are large furry creatures that may be far more familiar to European and North American visitors than the ever-dwindling populations of large cats and beastly elephants. The Kingdom’s bears climb trees and devour honey just like their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of some of the 3,000 families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in recent years said Thursday that municipal government officials, who were ultimately responsible for the mass evictions, told them they would be inviting the World Bank and NGOs to help compensate ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in the capital yesterday arrested the alleged leader of a “secessionist plot”, Beehive Radio station director Mam sonando, who had already been abroad for two months when hundreds of security personnel stormed a Kratie province village in May. Khieu sopheak, a spokesman for the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Calls for big-name apparel brands to take more responsibility for working conditions in Cambodian garment factories are growing louder as representatives of retail companies ranging from H&M to Wal-Mart arrive in Phnom Penh for a semi-annual buyers’ forum this week. since it began three years ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang community patrol network faced threats from illegal loggers after reporting the loggers’ names to authorities, along with the discovery of more than 120 cubic metres of illegally felled timber and seven chainsaws, a patrol representative said yesterday. Chheang Vuthy, a community representative from Kampong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Well-known timber magnate Try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. The Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ss='cambodia-color'>...

An enormous sand dredging operation in Koh Kong province has escalated, a resort owner said yesterday, with boat crews allegedly trespassing onto private land and digging sand within hundreds of metres of the complex. Janet Newman, the owner of the Rainbow Lodge eco-tourism resort, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions said yesterday that he would defy a municipal order banning employees from June Textile Factory from marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s house to seek resolution in a labour dispute. According to a report from a City ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin waS joined by hiS wife aS they broke ground on the controverSial project taking place at Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Boeng Kak Lake. They unveiled the architectural renderingS of the towerS to be built on what uSed to be the Site of SS='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union has said that it has no plans to suspend Cambodia’s duty-free trade access even though there have been concerns over land evictions as a result of economic land concessions. The EU is seeking that human rights are not the cost of trade ss='cambodia-color'>...