Days after warning that his ruling party was as capable and willing to protest as the opposition, and threatening a barbed-wire fence in Freedom Park to divide the two groups, Prime Minister Hun sen was yesterday talking multi-party reform. speaking at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the latest bid to protect Mondulkiri’s ravaged forests, World Wildlife Fund is rolling out a new project designed to give locals financial incentives to help preserve Mondulkiri Protected Forest and Phnom Prich Wildlife sanctuary. Cultivating small-scale, community-run businesses such as resin tree tapping and beekeeping ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anil Wadhwa, India’s deputy foreign minister, met with Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday and promised to honor his request for millions of dollars in loans, a spokesman said. He [Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong] said that Mr. Namhong then requested money to complete ss='cambodia-color'>...

A member of the much-maligned National Election Committee said yesterday he hoped that the body would cease to be merely a “paper tiger” and be granted strong powers to punish political parties for electoral transgressions when future election reforms are put in place. speaking at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) and Phnom Penh municipality are cooperating to undertake a study on major new projects for the city – two flyovers and a subway, each of which it is hoped would ease the city’s ever worsening traffic congestion. Touch samnang, project ss='cambodia-color'>...

Friends and family of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, whose badly decomposed body was found on May 1 in siem Reap province, have issued new statements accusing the Cambodian and Canadian governments of being complicit in what they say was his murder. According to a statement posted ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior yesterday reminded Cambodians of their obligation to obtain new or replacement national ID cards, a common piece of documentation required for people over 15 years of age and the validity of which had previously been extended to accommodate last year’s national ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kompong Chhnang provincial authorities allegedly locked villagers out of the provincial hall after dozens came to deliver a complaint against the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem, before locking out a newly appointed councilor who left the building to talk with them. The villagers ss='cambodia-color'>...

A six-month protest over unpaid bonuses has seen production at a Por sen Chey district box factory grind to a halt over the past four days, with more than 200 former employees blocking gates and preventing shipments. Former employees at Harta Packaging Industries began barricading gates ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 villagers who live around Boeng samraong lake in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district protested for a third day straight sunday against a private company they say has been filling the lake with sand, threatening the livelihoods of local rice farmers and fishermen. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

A military police officer has been arrested and will be sent to court, while two others remain under questioning, after an unarmed man was shot dead on Wednesday night while travelling in a car through protected forest in Mondulkiri’s O’Raing district, officials said. Two military police ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s telecom sector is outraged over a draft law handed down by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) on Wednesday, which details a government plan to assert control over the industry. In what is being labeled an “unprecedented, draconian” effort to nationalise the industry, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers at a Taiwanese-owned sandal factory in Kompong Cham province on strike since last week over an eight-point list of demands agreed to go back to work Tuesday after reaching a deal with management that included a monthly lunch stipend. A few hundred of the Carlington ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in svay Rieng town are ignoring locals’ complaints over a Chinese firm that has allegedly been filling in a river in preparation to build a canal, villagers said yesterday. More than 130 families in svay Teu commune, svay Rieng province, have delivered petitions to provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six border checkpointS in Banteay Meanchey province were on Saturday cloSed unilaterally and without warning by Thailand, local officialS and border police Said. Lieutenant Colonel So Channry, chief of the 911 border battalion in O&rSquo;Chrov diStrict, Said that Thai authoritieS had cloSed the checkpointS, one of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy was scheduled to depart for the Netherlands last night to attend a Liberal International conference in Rotterdam with other leaders of liberal parties from around the world. CNRP Vice-President Kem sokha is also out of the country touring Cambodian communities in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s beleaguered fire department may have a future high-tech solution to its problems after a team of young scientists from Norton University competing in the 4th Malaysian International Robot Competitions (MIRoC) last week placed third in the Fire Fighting Robot category. The annual event, held this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president Kem sokha returned to Phnom Penh late on Monday and hit the ground running, lambasting the ruling party for blaming the recent collapse of talks on his intransigence and inviting his political foes to risk international condemnation by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association, Maina Kiai, has sent his third thematic report to the U.N. Human Rights Council following trips to various countries, including a three-day visit to Cambodia in February. The report focuses on groups that Mr. Kiai, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Pang Vunny walks around his rented room just off of Veng sreng Boulevard, he waves his hand from side to side in front of him, like a man feeling his way in the dark. Ever since he was arrested and badly beaten on January 2 ss='cambodia-color'>...