Commune authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district have allegedly banished a local resident for persisting with a lawsuit that accuses them of selling 500 hectares of community forest to two Cambodian developers for $300,000. Romas svang, who is a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, filed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Newly established Wat Phnom Airlines completed its maiden flight to Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport on July 10. But its predecessor, grounded Tonlesap Airlines, is said to owe the same airport more than $50,000 in landing fees. The local chartered carrier “is officially in business after it ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 4,000 employees at one of Asia’s largest garment-processing factories have stopped work, as union workers demand the company sever ties with a shareholder who ordered a military police presence there. Workers at sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd began demonstrating on Monday, about two weeks after ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) yesterday said a recent exodus of workers from factories in Phnom Penh to the provinces over concerns related to a recent military build up in the capital would not threaten stability in the sector. Ken Loo, secretary-general of GMAC, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Blinded, bloodied and barely conscious, two unionists who were nearly beaten to death after passing out pro-union literature in front of a Phnom Penh garment factory remained in their hospital beds yesterday, awaiting a possible transferral to Vietnam. The vicious attack in front of Dayup ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a five-year break, Lao Airlines will revive the Phnom Penh-Vientiane route with direct flights three times a week starting in November, the company’s representative said yesterday. Ek Narun, assistant to the general manager of Lao Airlines in Phnom Penh, said tickets will be available for ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 10 families in Pailin province are claiming that flood aid proffered by Cambodia Red Cross officials is being unfairly distributed by commune and village authorities. Kim san, 61, a member of one of 16 severely flood-affected families in sala Krao district’s stung Trang commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s taken years of waiting – and protesting – but families in the capital’s Boeung Kak community yesterday saw City Hall officials measure land in their villages. Representatives of the city were deployed yesterday to villages 24, 22 and 6 to demarcate land as a step ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-logging activists wrote to the United Nations yesterday to call for the monitoring of a lawsuit in which they accuse hundreds of officials in Kampong speu province’s Phnom Oral Wildlife sanctuary of illegal deforestation. The Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization (NRWPO) listed 241 officials it ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun on Wednesday lauded the economic and social benefits of the widespread clearing of Cambodia’s forests for development projects. speaking to reporters at the National Assembly after a meeting with the Vietnamese Ambassador Ngo Anh Dzung, Mr. Vun, who is also the spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council on Thursday ordered the National Election Committee to discipline staff members at seven voting stations in siem Reap province for irregularities in July’s national election. The Council, which acts as the appeals body for election complaints, said in its decision that disciplinary action ss='cambodia-color'>...

Accelerating the mapping and titling of rural farmland should be an “urgent” priority of the government and civil society, particularly when it comes to protecting indigenous peoples’ and women’s rights, Oxfam representatives said yesterday. The remarks followed the release of an EU-funded survey of rural communities’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Returning to a long-time party priority, opposition lawmakers yesterday said they will travel to Kampong Cham’s Memot district today to investigate claims that Vietnamese troops were forcing farmers off land that rightfully belongs to Cambodia. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Mao Monyvan, who ran in Kampong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Piles of waste stinking up siem Reap’s Chreav commune are causing serious health problems and making the area unlivable, according to local residents. The site in Knar village, which is run by refuse company Global Action for Environment Awareness (GAEA), is plagued with flies and a ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai haS aSked the government of Cambodia to lift a ban on public gathering that haS been in force for a month. A Statement alSo Said Kiai met and raiSed the iSSue of the blanket proteSt ban with Secretary of State for SS='cambodia-color'>...

Desperate ethnic minority villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley have blocked a road that was to be used to transport heavy machinery onto their lands to start construction of the highly controversial stung Cheay Areng dam, according to villagers and officials. Three Chinese employees of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police raided a guesthouse in Poipet City on Monday and arrested 23 men as they waited to be paid for illegally logging rosewood across Cambodia’s border with Thailand, police officials said. Um sophal, Poipet City police chief, said the men were arrested Monday following a tip-off ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a first for Phnom Penh, south Korean condominium developer Nury D&C has teamed up with sBI Royal securities to offer condominium buyers a leaseback arrangement on the remaining condo-miniums and condo-minium blocks for sale at De Castle Royal. The 32-storey De Castle Royal has a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall once again rejected the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party’s bid to hold campaigns for the coming council elections in Freedom Park yesterday but said the final decision is beyond its reach. After its first request was rejected on Tuesday for going against ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights groups and other members of civil society on Tuesday submitted a letter to senate President Chea sim, requesting a meeting over their concerns for three draft judicial reform laws passed last month in the National Assembly. The three drafts must be approved by ss='cambodia-color'>...