About 20,000 passengers have traveled on Phnom Penh’s limited city bus service since a month-long public transport experiment began two weeks ago, which bodes well for a citywide expansion of the service once the trial ends on March 4, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the latest case involving illegal logging in Mondulkiri’s sen Monorom district, two indigenous communities filed a lawsuit against three unidentified illegal loggers after confiscating a truck laden with luxury wood on saturday, a rights monitor and villagers said yesterday. About 50 villagers turned over the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven people from the capital&rSquo;S Borei Keila community allegedly injured by baton-wielding Security forceS laSt month, a pregnant woman among them, filed a lawSuit againSt Prampi Makara diStrict authoritieS yeSterday. The Seven were among a group of dozenS of familieS violently removed from a building on SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ethnic Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri province have once again accused the Vietnamese owners of a rubber plantation of illegally logging their ancestral forests in a complaint filed with rights group Adhoc. A district official, however, said the plantation owner, Company 72, was granted an extension on ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 80 activists from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila and Boeng Kak communities protested outside City Hall on Monday morning, but were confronted by municipal security guards who prevented them from delivering a petition to the governor. sar soun, a representative of families from the Borei Keila ss='cambodia-color'>...

Accompanied by his wife, Bun Rany, Prime Minister Hun sen continued his trip to China on Tuesday evening by attending a dinner reception hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to state news agency Agence Kampuchea Press. Mr. Hun sen and his delegation of high-level officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fish and rice are staple foods for all Cambodians. Historical records show that Cambodia’s fisheries have been of major importance for centuries. Fish is a major source of nutritious food in the daily diet, a primary source of employment and income and has strong cultural ss='cambodia-color'>...

Military police in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district on Monday were duped into letting a detained immigration official walk free just hours after he was arrested for alleged involvement in the cross-border illegal timber trade, police said yesterday. District military police chief sok Min said yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

A draft law regulating the purchase and consumption of alcohol in Cambodia will, if passed, set the country’s legal drinking age at 21 years old, according to officials involved with the legislation, which many see as a tool to fight excessive youth drinking and drunken ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine sun bear cubs have been rescued in the first 10 months of this year, according to the Phnom Penh office of NGO Wildlife Alliance. The cubs, some as young as two weeks, were saved by government rangers and the NGO’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT), ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union leader Pav Sina on TueSday Said garment factorieS around the country illegally fired dozenS of hiS local repreSentativeS laSt year, far more than in 2013, and urged the government to help get their jobS back. Mr. Sina&rSquo;S Collective Union of Movement of WorkerS (CUMW) iS SS='cambodia-color'>...

A controversial deal to allow Australia to send refugees to Cambodia is imminent and could be signed as early as this week, sources have told Fairfax Media. The Australian and Cambodian governments have been negotiating for months over a deal to resettle up to 1000 refugees ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian casino operator NagaCorp Ltd has taken the step of reassuring investors about its casino licence rights in the country. It stated that the deal includes an exclusive right to operate a casino (NagaWorld, pictured) in the capital Phnom Penh, and the area within a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s property sector continues to grow, offering both opportunities and challenges for both foreign and local investors. Meanwhile, ahead of the AsEAN Integration, a wider access to transparent information about the FDI fuelling the sector could lead to the adoption of stronger regulatory principles and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The price of cassava in provinces bordering Thailand remains steady during the 2019-2020 harvest season which is currently about 60 per cent complete, officials said. Cambodia’s cassava is mostly grown in Battambang, Pailin, Banteay Meanchey, Kratie and Kampong Thom provinces. The crop is planted in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia reaffirmed its strong ties with its neighbour to the north during Laotian President Bounnhang Vorachith’s visit to the Kingdom. Bounnhang arrived in Cambodia on sunday and departed the next day after meetings with National Assembly president Heng samrin and Prime Minister Hun sen in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Mekong River Commission on Tuesday reported dam equipment tests in China will affect water levels in Cambodia, Thailand and Laos in the middle of this month. In a press release obtained yesterday, the MRC said the tests are being conducted in China’s Jinghong hydropower station ss='cambodia-color'>...

SpecialiStS from Battambang province&rSquo;S ForeStry AdminiStration, along with Samlot diStrict authoritieS, are conducting a joint Search for arSoniStS reSponSible for the recent foreSt fire in the DoS Kramom mountain area located in Ta Sanh commune.&nbSp;The SuSpectS are preSumed to have Secretly burned the foreSt to SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance on Tuesday issued two separate letters to its General Department of Taxation (GDT) and its General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) ordering immediate action to mitigate risk to the Kingdom’s economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government expects to sign an agreement with French-owned Blue Circle to develop a wind farm project within the first half of the year, the director-general of the Ministry of Mines and Energy’s General Department of Energy Victor Jona said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...