Shelving any thoughtS that 14 monthS in priSon had deterred her from proteSting, Yorm Bopha ruShed to the capital&rSquo;S Borei Keila community yeSterday morning to try to Stop authoritieS from forcing evicteeS from an abandoned building. Bopha waS one of about 10 Boeung Kak activiStS called SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks ago, Kandal erupted. skirmishes broke out at multiple polling stations where voters were left off the list, and at least one was forced to shut down as locals blocked what they claimed were outsiders from voting. In the end, this hotly contested province swung ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh will face flooding in certain areas in the coming days as the level of the Mekong River surpasses emergency level, while heavy rainfall from tropical storm Wutip, which made landfall in Laos from the south China sea on Friday, prompted the government to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Motion Picture As­sociation of Cambodia (MPAC), an independent body that aims to protect intellectual property, officially opened its doors Wednesday, vowing to put an end to the sale of pirated DVDs in Phnom Penh as its first order of business. “We are goingto serve everybody ss='cambodia-color'>...

A coalition of international human rights groups on Wednesday issued a petition to press opposition CNRP leader sam Rainsy and senior members of the government to publicly condemn and investigate the death threats against local rights group leader Ou Virak, following his criticism of comments ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Svay Rieng province on TueSday arreSted a garment worker for allegedly breaking a car window during a Strike that turned violent in Bavet City the day before, and have filed complaintS to the provincial court againSt two union repreSentativeS accuSed of defamation. The arreSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

A group of about 200 farmers from Kratie province refused on Thursday to leave a pagoda in Phnom Penh—their home base for protests against their eviction at the hands of a Vietnamese rubber company—as the city’s deputy governor warned them that the municipal government would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in the capital yesterday arrested the alleged leader of a “secessionist plot”, Beehive Radio station director Mam sonando, who had already been abroad for two months when hundreds of security personnel stormed a Kratie province village in May. Khieu sopheak, a spokesman for the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Calls for big-name apparel brands to take more responsibility for working conditions in Cambodian garment factories are growing louder as representatives of retail companies ranging from H&M to Wal-Mart arrive in Phnom Penh for a semi-annual buyers’ forum this week. since it began three years ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang community patrol network faced threats from illegal loggers after reporting the loggers’ names to authorities, along with the discovery of more than 120 cubic metres of illegally felled timber and seven chainsaws, a patrol representative said yesterday. Chheang Vuthy, a community representative from Kampong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Well-known timber magnate Try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. The Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just added two new features​ of Prasat Bakan protected landscape and Phnom Thnout- Phnom Pok wildlife sanctuary to Natural protected areas​ profile page, thereby expanding the profile page to contain a total of 58 natural protected areas in Cambodia. Published ss='cambodia-color'>...

An enormous sand dredging operation in Koh Kong province has escalated, a resort owner said yesterday, with boat crews allegedly trespassing onto private land and digging sand within hundreds of metres of the complex. Janet Newman, the owner of the Rainbow Lodge eco-tourism resort, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions said yesterday that he would defy a municipal order banning employees from June Textile Factory from marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s house to seek resolution in a labour dispute. According to a report from a City ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union has said that it has no plans to suspend Cambodia’s duty-free trade access even though there have been concerns over land evictions as a result of economic land concessions. The EU is seeking that human rights are not the cost of trade ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese company FPT Telecom aims to extend operations to the Kingdom, after its attempted acquisition of Vietnam’s EVN Telecom fell through. FPT Telecom “has plans to expand business in Cambodia, but all is in discussion”, a spokesperson said late on Monday, declining to comment further. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministers from the six Mekong region nations concluded a two-day meeting yesterday in which they solidified plans for an economic strategy that would span a decade and require billions in investment. speaking at Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace at the annual ministerial meeting, Minister of Commerce ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s progress has been slow toward achieving the UN Millennium Development Goal of increasing rural access to sanitation to 30 percent by 2015, up from 8.6 percent in 1996, the World Bank said in a report released Wednesday. The World Bank report said that rural ss='cambodia-color'>...