Okhna Try Pheap’s ballooning empire of exclusive natural resource licences and concessions has been expanded even further with the granting of a special economic zone (sEZ) in Ratanakkiri province. The May 27 issue of the Royal Gazette reveals Pheap was granted a 136-hectare sEZ in O’Yadav ss='cambodia-color'>...

Welcome to CPP country. On the roads snaking up from Banlung through Ratanakkiri’s lush mountain passes up to O’Yadav district, samdechs peer down from billboards and farmers in dirt-streaked party shirts speed past on dilapidated motorbikes. It is perhaps a measure of how successful the ruling ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has denied any agreement was signed to send women to Qatar to work as domestic workers, an official from the Labour Ministry said this week. The denial comes after a report late last month by Qatari newspaper Gulf Times – which said an ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of a new report from environmental rights group Global Witness rebuking the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank for investing in rubber plantations accused of illegal logging and forced evictions, both institutions have denied responsibility and deflected the blame ss='cambodia-color'>...

Gambia’s recent announcement that it would ban rice imports in about three years to spur local demand will only have a small impact on Cambodia, which sends a portion of its annual output to the west African country and other nations on the continent, data ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea will Soon give a four year loan package worth $200 million for dam and road projectS, according to Cambodian MiniStry of Foreign AffairS on Friday. The loan will be utilized to repair three national road lineS aS well aS rural roadS in nine SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy’s request to have his parliamentary immunity restored before sunday’s national election was refused yesterday by the National Assembly permanent committee — which consists wholly of ruling Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers. “The permanent committee has unanimously decided that because [Rainsy] has become a ss='cambodia-color'>...

When opposition leader sam Rainsy last touched down at Phnom Penh International Airport, he was greeted by some 100,000 supporters in what was the largest opposition rally in Cambodia’s 20 years of democracy. When he returns on Friday from the U.s., where he has been at­tending ss='cambodia-color'>...

Diminishing populations of hoofed animals in southeast Asia have hit Cambodia hard, with numbers of one of the Kingdom’s indigenous species dropping by 90 per cent. The current banteng census shows an 80 per cent drop in the world’s banteng population and a 90 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

Flooding is a perennial pain in Cambodia, the low-lying, deeply impoverished nation squeezed between Thailand and Vietnam. About this time each year, rivers swell, lakes expand and villages sink beneath soupy brown waters. But this year’s flooding woes are proving particularly miserable. More than 100 are dead, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the first nine months of the year, Cambodia’s tax revenue increased more than 17.3 per cent from the corresponding period in 2012, data from the General Department of Taxation show. Total tax revenue rose to $678.1 million from $578 million. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The value of Cambodian exports to Thailand reached $163 million in the first half this year, an increase of about 21 per cent compared to the same period in 2012. Despite the rise, the number is minuscule next to imports from Thailand, because the Cambodian products ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Pursat Provincial Court has issued a summons to a soldier based on the Thai border for allegedly clearing protected land in Veal Veng district, a move the man believes was orchestrated by a company owned by tycoon Try Pheap, which is embroiled in an ss='cambodia-color'>...

Over the past three days, the CNRP conducted one of the most significant campaigns of mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun sen’s government in years. For three days, more than 20,000 people packed into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for daily appearances from opposition leaders sam Rainsy ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal has reduced to six months the original three-and-a-half-year prison term handed to the son of a wealthy businessman for pistol-whipping a man and damaging restaurant property. Duong Udomchorvin, 24, was sentenced in May, along with his 17-year-old brother, Duong Kimlong, who was ss='cambodia-color'>...

A day of peaceful demonstrations gave way to an evening of unrest last night as a handful of protesters were removed from a small patch of land across from the United states embassy and a grup of uninvolved people threw Molotov cocktails towards riot police ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen is scheduled to pay a three-day visit to Vietnam later this week, a move criticized by opposition officials who say the premier should stay in Cambodia to deal with the country’s ongoing political deadlock. “What is necessary at this time is to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Apsara National Authority, which manages Angkor Archaeological Park, will this week unveil a “revolutionary” new concept for Angkor’s management that will vastly decentralize responsibility for the preservation of the temple complex, according to Anne Lemaistre, Unesco representative in Cambodia. The new Angkor Heritage Management Framework, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Credit SuiSSe, a financial ServiceS firm baSed in Switzerland, haS been accuSed of aiding land grabbing in Cambodia by becoming a major Shareholder in VietnameSe rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group. In a Statement releaSed today, Global WitneSS (GW), an NGO baSed in England, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Sok Sokan, Son of Deputy Prime MiniSter Sok An, haS been officially named deputy Secretary general within the Council of MiniSterS &ndaSh; a rank equal to Secretary of State &ndaSh; according to November&rSquo;S Royal AffairS publication releaSed laSt month. Ek Tha, a SpokeSman for the Council SS='cambodia-color'>...