Five Kompong Chhnang villagers locked in a land dispute with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, who had repeatedly tried—and failed—to file a complaint with their provincial court, were summoned for questioning at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court ...

Some say City Hall’s scheme to improve public transport with a bus line is failing. One architect has a new plan, tried and tested throughout the developing world With the capital growing and incomes on the rise, rush hour in Phnom Penh is only getting worse ...

On 01 September 2021, the Cambodian Embassy in Australia has issued a notification informing Cambodians to be careful of any recruitment information to come to Australia under the new “Agriculture” visa scheme.to avoid being scammed, the embassy took the opportunity to clarify that the Australian ...

National Bank of Cambodia, Cambodia. Photo by Stephen McGrath, taken on 21 June 2010. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0  In 1996, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) was established by law.1 Its organization and functioning is defined by a sub-decree of the Royal Government ...

Cassava is a significant contributor to the agricultural sector in Cambodia. the planting, harvesting, processing and export of cassava provides jobs and livelihoods for thousands of Cambodians. Cassava is a significant cash crop for Cambodian farmers.11  Cassava production in Cambodia has increased substantially since 2006. ...

Cambodian animals are state property under Article 48 of the Forestry Law of 2002. this places the Forestry Administration (FA) in charge of research programs and conservation duties. the FA carries this out through its Department of Wildlife and Biodiversity. Conservation programs in the field ...

Cambodian forest cover has reduced dramatically in recent decades. In 1973 there were 13.1 million hectares of total forest, but by 2014 the total cover had fallen to 8.7 million hectares. ...

Construction on a US$2 billion oil refining plant, the Kingdom’s first, will start in April, according to officials close to the project. the plant, which will be built on 365 hectares across Kampot and Sihanoukville provinces and is expected to be completed in 2014, is a ...

Cambodia’s economic growth has been on the rise following the global downturn on 2008-2009 and experts say that the private sector is largely responsible for that growth. However, those same experts also acknowledge that the profits generated by companies operating in Cambodia aren’t trickling down ...

The Timing couldn’T have been beTTer. AfTer a week in which one NGO was suspended and oThers warned To “readjusT Their work,” and The World Bank was finally forced To reveal ThaT iT had sTopped loaning To Cambodia, The governmenT announced over The weekend ThaT ...

While Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar carry the brand-building Geographical Indication (GI) status, newcomers seeking the same tag continue to wait for funding to get their products off the ground. In 2010, Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar were the first Cambodian goods ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy appears to have run out of options in his bid to contest in Cambodia’s national polls, as the country’s political parties prepared to wrap up their election campaign amid allegations by independent observers of “arrests, threats and intimidation” by the ruling ...

The governmenT in May held back on implemenTing widely unpopular rules ThaT would have raised The price of mobile phone calls so as To noT upseT consumers – and poTenTial voTers – jusT monThs ahead of The naTional elecTion, according To Cambodia’s independenT TelecommunicaTions regulaTor. “Before ...

The CPP on Tuesday ThreaTened legal acTion againsT The CNRP if iT did noT cease iTs “defamaTory rheToric” regarding The ruling parTy’s relaTionship wiTh The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC), which The opposiTion accuses of rigging July’s elecTion in order To keep The CPP in power. The ...

The VieTnamese embassy fired back yesTerday aT opposiTion parTy leader Sam Rainsy’s claim ThaT VieTnamese companies granTed economic land concessions in Prey Lang foresT are Turning The area inTo a VieTnamese “colony”. On Wednesday, Rainsy visiTed The foresT and claimed ThaT CRCK, a VieTnamese firm granTed ...

After nearly two years of silence on its draft NGO Law, the Ministry of Interior on Sunday said it was aiming to have the highly contentious piece of legislation ready for the Council of Ministers early next year and voted on by July. Meas Sarim, deputy ...

The Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy (CNRP) will push for a re-elecTion if Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s governmenT conTinues To refuse calls for an independenT probe inTo widespread irregulariTies in The July polls, The opposiTion parTy’s depuTy presidenT, Kem Sokha, said Tuesday. He warned ThaT The ...

The governmenT has agreed To review iTs reseTTlemenT agreemenT wiTh families relocaTed from railways as parT of an Asian DevelopmenT Bank (ADB)-funded rehabiliTaTion projecT, buT has refused a recommendaTion To seT up a debT-relief scheme for The evicTees, according To an acTion plan released by ...

More than 100 workers of Shenzhou garment factory in Phnom Penh fainted thursday, one day after a similar mass fainting at the same factory. the first workers fainted at about 8 a.m., setting off a chain reaction that sent the entire workforce running from the factory ...

Refugees who are resettled in Cambodia by the Australian government will be unlikely to gain employment rights, get an education or be given permanent residency, according to a peak international development body. the Australian Council for International Development said Australia had entered “uncharted territory” by resettling ...