Following talks with indigenous villagers over the weekend, which saw promises of jobs and English language lessons, there are high hopes that a foreign company looking to extract gold in Ratanakkiri will be awarded the first-ever mining licence in the province. Representatives of Mesco Gold met ss='cambodia-color'>...

The trial of fugitive tycoon Thong Sarath&rSquo;S parentS on poSSeSSion of illegal weaponS chargeS will begin on Friday, officialS Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour has issued a prakas urging employers to follow existing regulations in the Labour Law that limit foreign workers to 10 per cent of the total workforce at any one company. It has warned that failure to stay within this limit – or ss='cambodia-color'>...

Noranarith Anandayath, the long-serving personal secretary of former First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said sunday that he has resigned from the prince’s newly formed political party and is considering joining the CPP. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seang VeaSna, the SuSpected gunman in the murder of Ung Meng Cheu allegedly orcheStrated by fugitive tycoon Thong Sarath, waS queStioned again at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yeSterday regarding hiS whereaboutS on the night of the November 2014 Shooting. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) lacks the resources to enforce regulatory standards and bail out underperforming banks during times of need, credit ratings agency standard & Poor’s says. Cambodia’s banking sector was labelled high-risk, with a score of nine out of 10 on s&P’s2014 Banking ss='cambodia-color'>...

As opposition grew yesterday over plans to remove Areng dam activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson from the country when his visa expires later this week, analysts said the government was hoping to clear the way to develop the valley. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the sudden, unannounced disappearance of their factory’s owner last Friday, more than 400 garment workers at DF Fashion Apparel (Cambodia) in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district gathered at the factory yesterday, demanding back wages. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 striking workers demonstrated in front of siko Phnom Penh Garment Factory in the capital’s Dangkor district yesterday after management fired an employee who founded a new labour union there, according to a union representative. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Female members of the National Assembly sat down with a representative of the UK Parliament yesterday to discuss female participation in politics, on the final day of a consultative meeting hosted by the British Embassy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A decorative gate erected in Siem Reap province&rSquo;S Angkor Archaeological Park for the upcoming Khmer New Year feStivitieS waS burned down in the early hourS of yeSterday morning, following a backlaSh againSt itS So-called VietnameSe deSign. Siem Reap Deputy Governor Bun Tharith Said the gate &ndaSh; SS='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee has created a pair of new commissions, with one aimed at keeping relevant stakeholders informed of the reformed body’s activities and another coordinating electoral activities with Provincial Election Committees. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government today dismissed as inaccurate information in a report released by global broadband speed test operator Ookla that the Internet speed in the country was worse than in Cambodia and Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Private donations to orphanages in Cambodia means the government is struggling to cope with their reform, with lack of transparency and lack of safety checks. Most of Cambodia’s orphanages are financed by private donations from abroad, but no one knows exactly how much money flows ss='cambodia-color'>...

The heavy rains forecast to wash over Phnom Penh this weekend will come too late for farmers in rice paddies here, 165 km north of the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Women representing dozens of civil society groups met yesterday to discuss Prime Minister Hun sen’s recent use of derogatory language when discussing a female protester accused of injuring a security guard. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Duong Otdom Chhorvin, aka Duong Chhay, was convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday of having beaten and threatened to kill the son of tycoon Try Pheap but walked free following the verdict after having his sentence reduced. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia’s three found-maps by UK in the British Library were published by services Geographique de l’Indochine are the maps printed in between 1933 and 1953. ​​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

A World Bank report released last month shows that as of 2011-2012 only 7.9 per cent of Cambodia’s arable land was irrigated, with the a Ministry of Water Resources official contesting these numbers as old data and that irrigated land figures were higher than reported. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Logistics firms saw a new level of diversity in Cambodian exports, a trend that would protect the economy from external shock, several shipping companies said. The Kingdom is on the right track to diversify and increase the export of agricultural products, while decreasing its reliance on ss='cambodia-color'>...