After being delayed twice, construction of the New siem Reap International Airport (NsRIA) is expected to start in early 2014, a senior government official said yesterday. Tek Reth samrach, chairman of the NsRIA steering committee, said a detailed plan must be completed by the airport’s two ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-logging activists wrote to the United Nations yesterday to call for the monitoring of a lawsuit in which they accuse hundreds of officials in Kampong speu province’s Phnom Oral Wildlife sanctuary of illegal deforestation. The Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization (NRWPO) listed 241 officials it ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death toll from Mekong River and flash floods in Cambodia has risen to 122 in the past four weeks, a senior disaster control official said Monday. “To date, the floods have killed 122 people and affected some 1.5 million people,” Nhim Vanda, vice-president of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun on Wednesday lauded the economic and social benefits of the widespread clearing of Cambodia’s forests for development projects. speaking to reporters at the National Assembly after a meeting with the Vietnamese Ambassador Ngo Anh Dzung, Mr. Vun, who is also the spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia reported 74 landmine casualties in the first seven months of this year, down 36 percent from the 115 casualties over the same period last year, the figures of the Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) said Tuesday. During the January-July period this year, 12 people were ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council on Thursday ordered the National Election Committee to discipline staff members at seven voting stations in siem Reap province for irregularities in July’s national election. The Council, which acts as the appeals body for election complaints, said in its decision that disciplinary action ss='cambodia-color'>...

Accelerating the mapping and titling of rural farmland should be an “urgent” priority of the government and civil society, particularly when it comes to protecting indigenous peoples’ and women’s rights, Oxfam representatives said yesterday. The remarks followed the release of an EU-funded survey of rural communities’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Returning to a long-time party priority, opposition lawmakers yesterday said they will travel to Kampong Cham’s Memot district today to investigate claims that Vietnamese troops were forcing farmers off land that rightfully belongs to Cambodia. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Mao Monyvan, who ran in Kampong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Piles of waste stinking up siem Reap’s Chreav commune are causing serious health problems and making the area unlivable, according to local residents. The site in Knar village, which is run by refuse company Global Action for Environment Awareness (GAEA), is plagued with flies and a ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai haS aSked the government of Cambodia to lift a ban on public gathering that haS been in force for a month. A Statement alSo Said Kiai met and raiSed the iSSue of the blanket proteSt ban with Secretary of State for SS='cambodia-color'>...

The offices of commune officials along the Tonle sap basin will soon be solar-powered as part of a poverty-reduction project backed by the Asian Development Bank. some 123 off-the-grid commune council offices in Banteay Meanchey, siem Reap, Kampong Thom and Kampong Cham provinces will be fitted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Desperate ethnic minority villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley have blocked a road that was to be used to transport heavy machinery onto their lands to start construction of the highly controversial stung Cheay Areng dam, according to villagers and officials. Three Chinese employees of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police raided a guesthouse in Poipet City on Monday and arrested 23 men as they waited to be paid for illegally logging rosewood across Cambodia’s border with Thailand, police officials said. Um sophal, Poipet City police chief, said the men were arrested Monday following a tip-off ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a first for Phnom Penh, south Korean condominium developer Nury D&C has teamed up with sBI Royal securities to offer condominium buyers a leaseback arrangement on the remaining condo-miniums and condo-minium blocks for sale at De Castle Royal. The 32-storey De Castle Royal has a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall once again rejected the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party’s bid to hold campaigns for the coming council elections in Freedom Park yesterday but said the final decision is beyond its reach. After its first request was rejected on Tuesday for going against ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights groups and other members of civil society on Tuesday submitted a letter to senate President Chea sim, requesting a meeting over their concerns for three draft judicial reform laws passed last month in the National Assembly. The three drafts must be approved by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall plans to expand a section of sothearos Boulevard outside a main entrance to the new Aeon Mall to help ease traffic congestion when the four-floor shopping center officially opens on Monday, officials said Wednesday. “We have a plan to expand the street ss='cambodia-color'>...

A company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem, with the backing of a mounting police force, pushed ahead Tuesday with walling off a swath of land in Kompong Chhnang province that has been at the center of a seven-year land ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers from the beleaguered Ocean Garment Factory on Monday came to an agreement with management over furlough pay, following more than a month of protests. “All the workers at Ocean Garment Factory have accepted the offer from the factory and the strikes are finished now,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eight opposition members have been called back to court, facing lingering charges of insurrection and incitement as Cambodia’s dueling political parties continue to fine tune details of an agreement last month. The seven lawmakers and one assistant for the Cambodia National Rescue Party were released on ss='cambodia-color'>...