At least a dozen companies including some of Cambodia’s most prominent developers have been illegally logging and transporting rosewood since the election without any action from authorities, a pair of local NGOs alleged. In a report released yesterday, the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education on Tuesday again publicly accused the Ministry of Finance of not injecting enough funds into the education sector in order to bring Cambodia in line with the rest of southeast Asia. speaking at the close of a two-day workshop to formulate the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipal Hall yesterday defended the actions of police and security guards who blocked protesters as they tried to leave the capital’s Boeung Kak area before they stopped and searched an NGO’s vehicle. Dozens of Daun Penh district police, security guards and military police blockaded ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official from Battambang province’s department of agriculture who was charged last Monday with embezzling $200,000 from the illegal sale of fertilizer donated to the poor by Japan has implicated four other officials in the case, including the son of senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 20 leprosy patients have been treated at a rehabilitated and expanded wing of the Battambang Provincial Referral Hospital, the second hospital to offer professional treatment for leprosy patients in Cambodia. “We have two doctors and one nurse who specialize in leprosy treatment, and in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prominent activist monk But Buntenh, head of the Independent Monk Network for social Justice, was arrested in Preah Vihear province on Thursday, along with another monk and three NGO staffers who had traveled to the province to support a group of ethnic Kuoy villagers protesting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police maintained a subtle, and mostly unarmed, presence at a rowdy opposition rally that filled Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Monday, despite persistent tensions over last month’s contested national election and a beefed-up security presence around the city. Even as the crowd swelled to well over ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party has said it plans to expand the mass demonstration already slated for Tuesday in siem Reap to include another large rally in the capital. The CNRP announced late last month it was moving its first in a series of new rallies ss='cambodia-color'>...

The minister of posts and telecommunications on Monday insisted an edict ordering the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum prices for calls is only temporary. Prak sokhon, the newly-appointed posts and telecommunications minister, said the order was necessary because ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new set of prakases tacked onto a law that regulates overseas employment recruitment agencies is a “step in the right direction” towards protecting some of Cambodia’s most vulnerable citizens from scams and abuse, local and international NGOs said yesterday. But some remain unconvinced that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong warned monkS ThurSday that if they do not follow orderS to keep out of politicS, they could create a rift within the monkhood that could threaten the very exiStence of BuddhiSm in the country. Mr. Socheatvong alSo Said that if monkS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government can’t seem to agree on whether or not Prime Minister Hun sen has lifted the ban on the constitutional right to freedom of assembly. Last week, Mr. Hun sen said in a speech: “I will not prevent [demonstrations] because everyone has equal rights,” which ss='cambodia-color'>...

A team of disabled security guards hired to protect the embattled sL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh is seeking the formalization of their employment and an end to what they claim is the factory’s exploitation of their impairments. In November—at the height of an occasionally violent, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government now requires union leaders to prove that they have no criminal record before registering new branches of their organization, according to a statement from the Ministry of Labor, a decision that comes less than a week before planned nationwide strikes in the garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

A few thousand opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters marched through central Phnom Penh yesterday as the party held its largest public gathering in the capital since protesters were chased out of Freedom Park in early January. Although Prime Minister Hun sen suggested in late February ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two men died and another was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident on Friday night in Phnom Penh when a Range Rover plowed into a motorbike in Toek Thla commune, police said sunday, add­ing to a recent spate of fatal—and of­ten high-profile—hit-and-runs. Thang Ratha, 23, died ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sheltering under a blue tarpaulin amid denSe woodland in Cambodia&rSquo;S Cardamom MountainS, Nhean* SitS and waitS for night to fall after a long day Scouring the protected foreSt for luxury timber. He SayS he workS for a broker who iS a Supplier to one of Cambodia&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

Tri of Can Tho University’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources Management answering questions about water resources changes in the Mekong DeltaThe PPMM #17 was a success. We had two every engaging presenters and thirty six participants, ten of which are students. The ODC Team ss='cambodia-color'>...

Threats, intimidation and, in extreme cases, even murder were endangering freedom of expression in Cambodia and leaving human rights at the crossroads, activists and NGO representatives said during a round-table meeting yesterday. The slaying of environmental activist Chut Wutty, the arrest of Beehive radio director Mam ss='cambodia-color'>...

Political activists and watchdog organisations say Cambodia’s Us$13 million revenue from the mining sector over the last five years is exceedingly low and that the government must be more transparent. The claims come after the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy (MIME) released its figures on the mining ss='cambodia-color'>...