The controversial Don sahong hydropower dam, which Laos says it will soon build just a kilometre from the Cambodian border, will not have significant effects on the Mekong River, according to an environmental impact assessment paid for by the dam’s builder. Obtained yesterday, the report – ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the vast majority of rural Cambodians still lacking access to a toilet, and suffering the incumbent health risks, Ministry of Rural Development officials on Monday renewed long-standing intentions to improve the country’s sanitation infrastructure. Just days after World Toilet Day, the officials surveyed villages ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Oddar Meanchey province’s samroang town filed a complaint to Adhoc yesterday after local authorities repeatedly failed to budge a nearby military unit, which the villagers say has stationed six tanks on their farmland and refused to grant residents access to their crops, or ss='cambodia-color'>...

Geopacific Resources (AsX: GPR) is in pre-open following the AsX granting the company a trading halt, pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising in the form of a placement to sophisticated investors. Geopacific is focused on the highly prospective Kou sa copper project in Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leaders have given the ruling party an ultimatum: Agree to our demands by the end of the year or the talks are over. Kem sokha, Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president, said yesterday that after discussing the matter with party president sam Rainsy, they had ss='cambodia-color'>...

The long journey on foot from the provinces to Phnom Penh began yesterday for hundreds of villagers and monks who intend to mark December 10’s International Human Rights Day by protesting outside the National Assembly. Parades of people, expected to grow in size the closer they ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of local journalists in Preah Vihear province allege, in a complaint filed with a rights group, that authorities are involved in the sale of illegally logged timber. seven journalists, who asked that their names and respective outlets not be identified for fear of retribution ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven police officerS and an NGO Staffer in Mondulkiri province eScaped a potentially violent confrontation with illegal loggerS on WedneSday, while a Soldier who waS accompanying the group claimed he received death threatS from military police connected to the logging operation. Khleuv Krak, 40, a Royal SS='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni haS not declared a State of emergency in Cambodia. But that haSn&rSquo;t Stopped the CPP government of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen from diSregarding the ConStitution in itS effort to Stamp out demonStrationS and political diSSent in Phnom Penh. Facing maSS rallieS calling for SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s rice exports roughly doubled in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period in 2012, according to government data released yesterday. But the figures aren’t big enough to meet official goals for 2013. The numbers show that exports of fragrant rice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has scored a late political victory in his whirlwind two-week tour to Europe and the United states to try and ramp up international pressure on the newly formed Cambodian government ahead of his return Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a prominent Republican Party senator, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government should construct an effective annual review system for the minimum wage to ease worker unrest, according to clothing retail giant H&M. The swedish company’s comments came after CEO Karl-Johan Persson visited the country in mid-October, meeting Cambodia Prime Minister Hun sen and other ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prisons across the country will soon be referred to only as “correctional centres” to change a public perception that they are places where people are simply locked up, the Ministry of Interior announced yesterday. Nuth sa An, secretary of state at the ministry, said the change ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia ranked third worst in “global suffering” last year—behind Bulgaria and Armenia—a significant increase from 2011, when it ranked 14th worst, ac-cording to the worldwide polling group Gallup. A poll released last week on Gallup’s website says 34 percent of Cambodian respondents rated their lives as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of Borey Kuch Asia say the company has injected millions of dollars into an apartment and villa complex in sihanoukville, and that the project will be completed in 2017, despite political uncertainties. Borey Kuch Asia project manager Tous sapheoun said the company spent two years ss='cambodia-color'>...

Corruption is weighing on businesses, and the avenues to address it are limited, according to Cambodia’s leading employer association. At a joint conference with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Cambodian Federation of Employers (CAMFEBA) in Phnom Penh yesterday, the employer representative called on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Freedom Park will remain off limits indefinitely for protesters, authorities said yesterday, despite Prime Minister Hun sen suggesting last month that a ban on public assembly was being lifted. Pich saroeun, chief of Russey Keo district’s Chroy Changva commune, said Phnom Penh Governor Pa socheatvong had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun sen and an elected lawmaker in Kampong speu province, has defended his party against allegations of nepotism, corruption and election irregularities in a foreign TV interview. In a wide-ranging Channel News Asia interview that aired on Friday, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-two families who have been locked in a bitter, seven-year dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem claim they were illegally pressured into accepting compensation and filed a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers aligned with the Collective Union of Movement of Workers locked three officials from the Free Trade Union inside the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh for eight hours Tuesday after the two unions argued over who would represent workers in a wage dispute. Ocean’s approximately ss='cambodia-color'>...