Citing a lack of public confidence in the official post-election irregularity resolution process – namely, the Constitutional Council’s opening of vote packages – a coalition of leading civil society groups yesterday appealed to the two main political parties to swiftly come back to the negotiating ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP has sent a letter to municipal authorities informing them that a mass demonstration planned for Wednesday at Freedom Park to coincide with the anniversary of the 1991 signing of the Paris Peace Agreement will now be a three-day affair and include marches ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mangrove forests along Cambodia’s coast in Kampot support more than 100,000 families and create a diverse ecosystem that is home to hundreds of unique species. But coastal development projects, coupled with locals’ reliance on the forest for their livelihoods, threaten to decimate more than 1,000 hectares ss='cambodia-color'>...

Compared to the bustling tourist center of siem Reap, Phnom Penh has long stood in second place as an investment destination for international hotel operations. But as infrastructure slowly improves and the number of visitors to the capital continues to grow, international hotel chains are taking ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training released its 2013 annual report Monday, trumpeting a list of nine achievements it had reached in line with its five-year plan for the fourth government mandate, which ended last year. speaking to a crowd of about 100 officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng on Friday warned that a union-led public forum scheduled for Freedom Park on saturday morning would not be allowed to proceed, adding that a fresh wave of union marches next week are also banned. The security minister’s comments came during a talk ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Singapore-baSed firm whoSe SubSidiary planS to buy land in Phnom Penh from which thouSandS of familieS have been forcibly evicted Said WedneSday that the firm had no knowledge of the long-running land diSpute. The firm, HLH Group, alSo denied any official or financial tieS to SS='cambodia-color'>...

As property prices in Phnom Penh and siem Reap continue to push upwards, many investors are quickly being priced out of these first-tier markets. Looking at second-tier cities around the Kingdom, sihanoukville in particular stands out as an investment destination worth serious consideration. Named after the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday charged a man with committing violence under aggravating circumstances after he was detained by protesters at a demonstration in Phnom Penh on sunday and handed over to police on suspicion of instigating violence at the rally near Freedom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Tuesday that the opposition-aligned unions, inciting garment workers to stage strikes for higher wages, must take responsibilities for any future closures of factories. “The government has worked very hard to attract investors to build factories and has urged manufacturers to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police officials confirmed Tuesday that the villagers involved in a land dispute with a company allegedly owned by Pailin Governor Y Chhien were arrested late Monday and said that one more villager was detained Tuesday. sath sin, deputy police chief of Pailin province’s sala Krao district, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About half of the University of Health science’s class of 2014 risks not graduating this year, having refused to register for a new compulsory final exam. A 2007 sub-decree states that a national-level examination for medical students would be implemented from that academic year onwards. But ss='cambodia-color'>...

A teachers’ union has accused education officials in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district of stealing 21 million riel, or about $5,200, that had been slated as overtime payments for primary school teachers. In a letter sent to the Education Ministry on Monday, the Cambodia Independent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia vehemently denied that it has supported Japan‘s plan to enhance its military role, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. “The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation wishes to strongly reject the recent publications of Kyodo ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taking a markedly different approach from Monday’s violent breakup of a peaceful demonstration at Freedom Park, authorities yesterday stood back as about 100 activists marched around central Phnom Penh, delivering a petition to embassies and the United Nations. District security guards and riot police initially seemed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has granted 322 hectares of state-owned teak forest in the newly formed Tbong Khmum province to the Interior Ministry so that the land can be used to build a new provincial capital, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. “The government has decided to use more ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sinohydro Corporation haS taken over the conceSSion to build the Stung Cheay Areng dam in Koh Kong province and iS preparing for the early StageS of conStruction, according to a company repreSentative and government officialS. Ith Prang, Secretary of State at the MiniStry of MineS and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of workers at the Wing star shoes factory demonstrated Tuesday for the second day in a row outside the factory in Kom­pong speu province after a meeting between union and company officials failed to reach an agreement that would end an ongoing strike, worker ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kompong Cham authorities blocked several hundred activists from marching Monday to raise awareness about the environmental dangers raised by Don sahong dam, officials and activists said. Kompong Cham provincial governor Lun Limthai confirmed that he banned the campaign. “We did not allow them to hold this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Vihear provincial governor Oum Mara has sent a letter to inform Interior Minister sar Kheng that he is ordering an NGO to close its local offices, on the grounds that the organization is inciting villagers to destroy sugarcane farmed by a Chinese company. In the ss='cambodia-color'>...