Representatives of more than 400 families who watched as their homes were burned during an eviction this month in Kratie’s snuol district were blocked by authorities yesterday as they attempted to take their grievance to Prime Minister Hun sen’s doorstep. Though tensions initially ran high, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

In many restaurants in Phnom Penh, wild meat is readily available. Walk into one of these, and you’ll be able to order deer, wild pig or even monitor lizards. some places sell even rarer meat, from endangered animals like the pangolin. Wildlife conservation officials say the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 villagers in Kompong Thom province blocked a funeral procession in stung sen City on saturday to prevent the burial of a recently deceased ethnic Vietnamese man on land he owned in the vicinity of a local primary school, villagers and an officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Defense’s account that an alleged kidney trafficking ring at its Preah Ket Mealea military hospital was in fact a fully legal training program in partnership with China’s Defense Ministry was met with questions and confusion Tuesday. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered a 0.3% decline in June according to the country’s statistics and tourist Information Department. The country attracted 300,454 visits compared to 301,412 during the same month last year. Released officially by the Ministry of Tourism, last week, data showed Vietnam led the field ss='cambodia-color'>...

Like many developing countries, Cambodia’s mainly agricultural society is changing fast, driven by urbanization and falling fertility rates. As young workers move to the cities, older people are staying back in the villages, where they have little support. Although former civil servants and soldiers get ss='cambodia-color'>...

An illicit cross-border rubber trade is thriving in Cambodia amid plummeting global prices and is threatening legitimate processing operations in the country, according to business owners and industry experts. And while Cambodia’s natural rubber export tariffs are set at between 2 and 10 percent, Vietnam ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy on Friday agreed that no member of an overhauled National Election Committee could have multiple nationalities, it remains unclear whether rights activist and triple national Pung Chhiv Kek is out of the running for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 workers at a Takeo province garment factory who have been on strike since Monday are due to return to work today after negotiations between union representatives and the factory wrapped up successfully Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Many visit siem Reap province’s Angkorian-era temples for the views and the atmosphere, but the Apsara Authority wants to find out if that atmosphere is toxic. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An opposition lawmaker probing alleged irregularities in Angkor Archaeological Park’s ticket revenues says he’s sceptical about figures released yesterday by the site’s managers showing a boost in sales last month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After breaking the conditions of their bail last month, causing public outrage from Prime Minster Hun sen, the parents of fugitive businessman Thong sarath are attempting to use their son’s lucrative development company to secure bail for the second time, their lawyer said yesterday.​ . ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...

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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'>...