A track of land once farmed by 1,000 families in Kratie province — families violently evicted amid claims they were part of a separatist movement — is now home to a military base. Unit 9 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces base, which will be finished later this ...

Kim Hyun-joong is looking at you. From a poster outside of a hair salon, from a shop window, in a tV commercial or on local social media sites, the South Korean singer and actor decorates various advertisements in Phnom Penh. But it isn’t just about his ...

A mid [sic] global economic fragility, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia grew a whopping 73 per cent in 2012 from the year before, a huge increase helping to fuel a record-setting amount of money pouring into least developed countries, according to the United Nations ...

Nearly a decade ago, Meng Chor inherited a rooftop rental agreement with a telecommunications firm after buying a property on Mao tse toung Boulevard. For $300 a month over a 10-year lease, the contract allowed the company that later became Mfone to keep the cell tower ...

A move by the International Labour Organization to name and shame garment producers in Cambodia that flout workers’ rights and safety standards could damage the industry’s reputation and result in a drastic reduction in orders from buyers abroad, according to a senior manufacturing official. Last week, ...

The World Wildlife Fund, one of The biggesT conservaTion groups, has called for an emergency meeTing wiTh The Mekong River Commission (MRC) in The wake of Laos’ decision To proceed wiTh a second dam on The river. There are fears ThaT This move will seriously undermine ...

Thailand’s second-largesT cemenT company has suspended a cemenT-planT projecT valued aT abouT $200 million in KampoT province because of poliTical uncerTainTy and beTTer invesTmenT opporTuniTies in Myanmar, according To a senior execuTive. Philippe ArTo, The managing direcTor of Siam CiTy CemenT Public Company LimiTed (SCCC), said ...

For Cambodians aspiring to a career in aviation, this weekend looks promising. Almost seven months after its formal establishment, Cambodia Airlines is hosting a career fair in Phnom Penh. the airline is moving forward by looking for staff – from captains, first officers and cabin crew ...

The momenTum Toward large-scale dams on The Mekong River may be unsToppable, buT governmenTs musT work fasT To miTigaTe Their effecTs on fisheries and biodiversiTy or risk long-Term food insecuriTy for millions of people whose lives depend on The river and iTs TribuTaries, leading academics ...

About 100 people, including 20 monks, held a ceremony in Phnom Penh on Friday in memory of the five people killed a week beforehand when military police opened fire on protesting garment workers, and demanded that the government introduce a mandatory, sector-wide standard minimum wage. In ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday announced his new government’s five-year strategy, vowing to deepen reforms in all fields to ensure sustainable growth and poverty reduction. “Reforms are the top priority for Cambodia and the country will continue deepening reforms in all fields in order ...

The opposiTion CNRP announced Tuesday ThaT iT had engaged lawyer Richard Rogers, former head of The Khmer Rouge Tribunal’s Defense SupporT SecTion, To analyze evidence of alleged crimes commiTTed by The CPP governmenT and decide wheTher They jusTify filing a complainT wiTh The InTernaTional Criminal ...

Residents of Phnom Penh on Wednesday expressed boredom and disbelief as Prime Minister Hun Sen passed his previous record-breaking five-hour speech on border demarcation last year with a more than six-hour-long monologue on government reforms he says are planned. Evoking images of elaborate self-criticism sessions the ...

The NaTional Assembly will hold iTs firsT plenary session meeTing on Thursday since Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s 68 members of parliamenT lasT monTh approved an Assembly presidenT and chairpersons To head The body’s nine commiTTees, and despiTe The opposiTion CNRP sTill refusing To Take Their ...

Cambodian authorities have charged nearly half as many villagers in land dispute cases in the first three months of this year as they did in all of 2013, a local rights group said thursday, adding that most of the rows stemmed from government-granted land concessions. Following ...

Cambodia is nearing a deal that would open a pipeline of workers to Saudi Arabia, a country where Southeast Asian migrants have in the past been abused and even executed for crimes that include “sorcery”. Following a meeting in Hanoi last week with Saudi Ambassador Salah ...

Looking out from his house, held up by three-meter stilts on a peninsula that juts into Boeng tompun lake, Chan Sokhom can see the sand inching closer to him every day. Within a few years, the sand will likely reach his doorstep. By then, Mr. Sokhom ...

A leopard appears healthy and strong as it paces the walls of its cage with a confident swagger and muffled growl that hints at its ferocity. It’s a welcome sight at Kampot province’s much-maligned teuk Chhou zoo, which less than one year ago was struggling to ...

SAMRAONG TONG DISTRICT, Kompong Speu Province – Laughing, Ouch Samnang jumped back and forTh over a skipping rope held by his classmaTes. The 13-year-old goes To school in a small village in Kom­pong Speu province, he has friends, five siblings and loving parenTs. Overall, he ...

This small SouTheasT Asian counTry was supposed To become a model for The world apparel indusTry, wiTh Tough facTory moniToring and sTrong worker proTecTions. BuT a dozen years afTer The UniTed NaTions’ InTernaTional Labour OrganizaTion launched a program To manage Cambodia’s booming garmenT Trade—The firsT of ...