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Several of the oppoSition-led commiSSionS in the National ASSembly have planS to Summon three miniSterS to clarify Several ongoing iSSueS, including the Sand exportS to Singapore and the murder of political analySt Kem Ley.&nbSp;During a TueSday evening preSS conference at the Cambodia National ReScue Party SS='cambodia-color'>...

One of four new mining exploration permits, advertised publicly this week, is within the Prey Lang Wildlife sanctuary map, coordinates reveal, sparking concern among activists and community members about the strength of the forest’s recently-acquired protected status.In the first public tender of fresh exploration licenses ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 27 June 2017, the Embassy of Japan and the Council of Ministers are going to hold the inauguration of the Legal Documentation Centre (LDC) relating to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Japan has contributed about 2.354 million Us dollars through the Japanese ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union will be funding conservation efforts in Mondulkiri’s srepok and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries to the tune of $3.3 million over the next five years, according to a press release yesterday. The project, Advancing CsOs Capacity to Ensure sustainability solutions (ACCEss), will be ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ngin Chhay, the director-general of the General Directorate of Agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, on Thursday urged the private sector to set up more mango packaging plants that comply with south Korea and China’s hygiene and quality standards. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tyre manufacturer MRF Ltd was looking at acquiring rubber estates to meet the company’s long-term raw material requirements and to bring down costs, a top official said. “We are scouting for acquisitions of estates abroad to meet long-term rubber needs,” said Koshy Varghese, executive vice-president, marketing, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Canadian Trade Minister Ed Fast yesterday said he would urge Canadians to invest in Cambodia as opportunies become more viable to potential foreign direct investment from countries that have thus far played a small role in the Kingdom. Fast attended a ceremony recognising the first ss='cambodia-color'>...

WHEN he introduced his novel rice production method to Cambodian farmers more than a decade ago, Yang saing Koma had to battle sceptics who laughed at his idea. How could less irrigation and shallower planting result in higher yield? But Koma, founder of the Cambo­dian centre ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was not her degree in finance and banking that encouraged Keo sopheap to start her own business. It was her sister’s marriage to an American that introduced her to foreign fast food. Now sopheap owns a sandwich shop in Phnom Penh. sopheap, a Norton ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had exported 89,800 tons of milled rice in the first seven months of this year, a 2.6 percent drop from 92,200 tons at the same period in a year ago, showed the statistics from the Ministry of Commerce’s Camcontrol Department on Thursday. However, the revenues ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 450 Cambodians who were illegally working in Thailand were repatriated across the Battambang province border on saturday in one of the largest one-day operations along that border, officials said yesterday. Thai authorities had rounded up the 447 workers, who were busted without the required paperwork, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Families in the capital’s Por sen Chey district face a tense morning as they prepare for the familiar sound of authorities moving in to evict them. Nineteen families in Andong village were told in a letter from district authorities that today was the deadline for them ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven SellerS of fake Shampoo have been detained for queStioning at the Kampong Speu provincial police Station after being arreSted thiS week while plying their Sub-par wareS at the Chbar Mon town market. Seoung Savuth, deputy police chief of anti-economic crime in the province, Said police SS='cambodia-color'>...

Union leaders representing workers on strike at the Tropicana Casino and Resort were served with a summons by the Banteay Meanchey provincial court yesterday after a complaint by the casino’s management. The court summons came around the time sum sam Ith, the Tropicana representative, sent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has again ordered local officials to step up their efforts to stop illegal timber being cut down and transported from Cambodia’s forest’s in response to an apparent rise in forest crimes. Thousands of cubic meters of luxury wood, as well as ss='cambodia-color'>...

This year marks the 60th anniversary since the start of diplomatic relations between Cambodia and Japan – the country’s largest bilateral donor – and to celebrate, the Japanese Embassy is planning an array of cultural events. speaking at a ceremony to mark the anniversary, Japanese Ambassador ss='cambodia-color'>...

Land prices in Bavet town in svay Rieng province have been “stable” despite a great deal of purchasing seen in early 2013, property experts said. Nuon Rithy, general manager at the Bonna Realty Group, said there have been lots of land trading in Bavet so ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 70 villagers in Pursat province’s Krakor district held a daylong prayer ceremony yesterday to request help from spirits to curse the powerful Pheapimex company for destroying their farmland, villagers said. Pheapimex, owned by the wife of CPP senator Lao Meng Khin, has maintained a 316,000-hectare ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia, surya subedi, was in Ratanakkiri province yesterday as part of his weeklong visit to the country to investigate the impact land concessions have on local communities. some rights groups have singled out land concessions as the premier human rights ss='cambodia-color'>...