Two men, including a village chief, were arrested on Friday for allegedly grabbing and clearing 10ha of forest land in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district. Krasaing Pnov village chief Penh sarorn, 49, and Vong Phalla, 50, were arrested on the orders of Pursat provincial governor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Floods and droughts destroyed some 67,000ha of paddy fields in the Kingdom last year, resulting in minimal declines to yields and land available for cultivation, the Ministry of Agriculture reported on Monday. Ministry spokesman srey Vuthy joined a government press unit briefing on Monday to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and sport has set goals for its fourth phase of action plans to meet sustainable Development Goals based on the principles of quality, equity, inclusiveness and lifelong learning by 2030. Ministry spokesman Dy Kamboly spoke of the goals during a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Preah Sihanouk provincial adminiStration will take StepS next week to diSmantle vendorS&rSquo; StallS along OtreS Beach in the province&rSquo;S Commune I, Stung Hav diStrict. The Stall ownerS, who have been making a living there for Some 20 yearS had earlier aSked the provincial governor SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry is looking to improve One Window services in three provinces and the capital to better manage issues surrounding land ahead of its official launch at the end of this month. Prak sam Oeuen, director-general of the Interior Ministry’s general administration department, yesterday ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inspection specialists from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction are probing a land dispute in Preah sihanouk’s Bit Traing commune, in Prey Nop district, involving 19 families and CHsN Transportation Co Ltd. The company is owned by Hun Chea, a nephew of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The construction of a shoe factory in Kampong speu province’s Kong Pisei district has been suspended after local authorities ruled it has not been following technical standards. Officials in the Kingdom are scrambling to inspect completed and under-construction buildings to avoid collapses similar to what ss='cambodia-color'>...

Security will be heightened acroSS the Kingdom on WedneSday, eSpecially in the capital and around the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, in preparation for Kem Sokha&rSquo;S treaSon trial. The former preSident of the Supreme Court-diSSolved Cambodia National ReScue Party (CNRP) waS arreSted in September 2017 and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rangers removed 266 snares from the Chhay Areng protected area in Koh Kong province’s Thma Bang district last week, saving wild boars that are most vulnerable to them and many other animals, said Wildlife Alliance Cambodia. Posting on its Facebook page on Tuesday, it said: ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Thursday slammed a report that described the Kingdom as highly corrupt. Government spokesperson Phay siphan dismissed the latest Transparency International (TI) report as “just an advertisement of NGOs to promote their own interests”. Released on Thursday, the report puts Cambodia near the bottom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mondulkiri Provincial Court on Tuesday charged a man who allegedly set traps resulting in the deaths of several species of wild animals in srepok Wildlife sanctuary. Deputy prosecutor Mam Vanda yesterday identified the accused as Hok Vann, 19, from Koh Nhek district’s Nang Khy lik ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights said that a number of provisions in the Kingdom’s legal framework do not fully comply with international human rights standards and fundamental freedoms.​​ The 50-page report entitled “Protecting Fundamental Freedoms: A desk review of domestic legislation and its compliance ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s exports to the Us were worth more than $5 billion last year, a sharp year-on-year increase. The latest data from the Us trade office shows that Cambodian exports to the world’s largest economy skyrocketed last year, growing by 40 per cent to reach $5.36 billion. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Switzerland will donate $6 million to Support demining work in Cambodia and clear all mineS in the country by 2025, itS ambaSSador announced on WedneSday.&nbSp;During a meeting with MiniSter of Foreign AffairS and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, SwiSS AmbaSSador to Cambodia Helene Budliger Artieda Said SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia representative for the world’s largest shipping company said exports from Cambodia to Europe grew by more than 60 per cent during 2011, but have since weakened. “Rice exports grew a lot during 2011 and a lot of it went to Poland and France,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

The private sector and industry professionals were engaged yesterday in the first consultation with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government in an effort to understand the factors affecting Cambodia’s economy, and ultimately determined that human capital, infrastructure, innovation and regulatory issues as the key areas ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang Community Network, which works to protect Cambodian forests, has been selected by UNDP for an Equator Prize, for outstanding community organizing. In an interview with VOA Khmer, the group’s spokesman, seng sok Heng, says the government is “inactive” in protecting Cambodian forests, some ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new inter-ministry prakas is planned that controls and ensures the safety of bus passengers using the Kingdom’s growing bus network, and may include monitoring the behaviour of drivers and companies prior to granting licences, Cambodian officials said. Bus companies are now controlled by Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The lack of consultative process on three draft laws has set a worrying precedent for future key legislation, according to the United Nations special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, surya P. subedi. “For many years in my capacity as the special RapporteurI ss='cambodia-color'>...