More than 60 police and military police informed 19 families farming on a plot of land in Pailin province’s sala Krao district on saturday that they would have to move as they were growing crops on state land. However, Prak sophima, provincial coordinator for rights group ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minster Hun sen ar­riv­ed back in Phnom Penh on sunday after a weeklong visit to Chi­na for an international summit during which Chinese Premier Xi Jinping pledged $145 million in aid and soft loans to Cambodia. On Monday, AKP reported that China promised to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six major retail, footwear and garment induStry aSSociationS whoSe memberS account for over 90 per cent of garment importS in the US and Canada have called on the Cambodian government, the Garment ManufacturerS ASSociation in Cambodia (GMAC) and unionS to reSume wage negotiationS. The open SS='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of ethnic minority Kreung villagers protested outside the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court on Monday, demanding the release of a fellow Kreung man presently in pretrial detention for setting fire to a pile of wood on land the community sold in 2007 but claims it was ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will spend more than $8 billion and take out $2 billion in foreign loans this year, according to the 2020 National Budget Law, which was made public on Tuesday after being signed off by King Norodom sihamoni. The government will spend some $8.196 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environmental technical teams and bird conservationists on sunday expressed concern for the biodiversity of birds in the wetlands due to the water shortage this year. The concern comes as this year’s ongoing crane census has so far recorded more than 170 of them in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group company received 9,968 hectares inside Botum sakor National park in Koh Kong province, according to a January 25 sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun sen and published earlier this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen ordered troops stationed along the border with Vietnam to start “shooting down” unidentified drones flying into Cambodia’s territory, in a Tuesday Facebook Live post. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After Cambodia’s elections, the Us announced it planned to impose further visa and funding restrictions, while China and Russia endorsed the electoral process and its outcome. ss='cambodia-color'>...

According to the [inter]national Monetary Fund (IMF), at the end of 2011, the stock of Cambodia’s external public debt, including arrears, stood at around Us 3.8 billion or 30 percent of GDP (24 percent in NPV terms). China remains the largest bilateral creditor, contributing to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Debt levels among the more than 1,000 families being evicted by a $142.6 million railway project bankrolled by Australia and the Asia Development Bank (ADB) have reached “crisis” proportions and require major intervention, according to a U.s resettlement expert who was hired by the ADB ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP lawmaker and de facto party spokesman Cheam Yeap said yesterday it was now “too late” to form an independent committee to investigate alleged irregularities during last month’s national election and that the opposition CNRP needs to be “more flexible” in its relationship with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

During an epic speech on Wednesday that lasted for more than six-and-a-half hours, Prime Minister Hun sen told his newly approved Cabinet that they would be subject to increased public scrutiny as part of a series of reforms to be undertaken by the CPP over ss='cambodia-color'>...

The prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS infectionS in Cambodia haS declined to 0.7 percent in 2013, down from 0.8 percent two yearS ago, a Senior government official Said Sunday. “According to Scientific eStimation, in 2013, HIV carrier rate among adultS aged between 15 and 49 yearS iS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Fund has threatened to suspend or reduce health grants to Cambodia totalling more than $100 million if the Ministry of Health, the National Center for HIV/AIDs, Dermatology and sTD (NCHADs) and NGO umbrella group MEDiCAM fail to meet a 30-day deadline to return ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday questioned two businessmen over allegations of fraud and using forged public documents, including claims they faked a signature from Prime Minister Hun sen in a mining transaction, court and police officials said. Deputy prosecutor Var sakada said Cambodian Al ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers have accused a CPP commune chief in Ratanakkiri province of threatening four ethnic minority Tampoun men after they filed a complaint against him for allegedly selling off community land to a local businessman. Rocham Norng, a Tampoun villager in Bakeo district, has alleged that soeung ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal government will today issue announcements to two property developers ordering them to partially demolish buildings near the Royal Palace in order to reduce their height to comply with the original planning agreements, an official said. The two buildings—one owned by Vattanac Properties ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Friday publicly opened 12 official polling records from siem Reap province, but seven of them had been either torn or improperly sealed, sparking fresh concerns from the opposition CNRP that they had been tampered with. The unsealed packages—known as “safety ss='cambodia-color'>...