Cambodia came under the spotlight in Europe recently as its project was bestowed with a prestigious honour in Rome. At the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) ’s annual Governing Council, the Tonle sap smallholder Development Project – Additional Financing (TssD-AF) – co-financed by IFAD ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ms sam On, 37, has already lost her house. It was one of three homes razed in April by Kratie provincial military police, environment officials and workers of the sovannvuthy rubber company, after a tense stand-off with about 100 villagers that villagers said ended with ss='cambodia-color'>...

They’ve wept, they’ve yelled and they’ve prayed as they watched excavators tear down their homes, so perhaps it’s understandable that the residents of Boeung Kak lake are now turning to song. “Mom goes to protest, the children cry and sleep on the ground,” go the lyrics ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Minister backtracked yesterday after previously declaring officials knew the identity of the person who shot three protesters outside a shoe factory in svay Rieng province last week and refused to quash rumours that Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith was a suspect. Rushing to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki yesterday said he hoped the government arrests the gunman behind the Feb. 20 triple shooting of protesting workers in svay Rieng province, and that safety must be ensured for investors in the special economic zone (sEZ) where the incident took place. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than two dozen fisheries experts from across the world have sent a letter of concern to the prime minister and Council of Ministers warning that if construction of the Lower sesan 2 dam goes ahead as planned, it would negatively impact hundreds of thousands ss='cambodia-color'>...

Leng Sopheap uSed to wake up before the crack of dawn and walk with crateS of vegetableS from her farm to the nearby market underneath a blanket So her neighborS wouldn&rSquo;t know they were buying produce from Someone infected with HIV/AIDS. Not long after her SS='cambodia-color'>...

The court prosecutor investigating last month’s shooting of three female factory workers at a special economic zone (sEZ) denied a newspaper report claiming the chief suspect, former Bavet City Governor Chhouk Bundith, had confessed to shooting the women. svay Rieng Provincial Court prosecutor Hing Bunchea said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kompong Thom province yesterday forced a pagoda to withdraw its invitation to host a workshop about forest protection, continuing their pressure on two NGOs that provide community legal education in the province, a monk and NGO worker said. Chin Neth, chief monk at ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 60 Cambodian and international human rights groups and trade unions yesterday called on Cambodia and Malaysia to reach a bilateral agreement that would guarantee strong labor rights and working conditions for Cambodian maids employed in Malaysia. “The time is ripe for the Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of migrant workers abused by their foreign employers abroad more than doubled in 2011, rights group Adhoc announced yesterday before calling on the government to improve its efforts to protect both migrant and repatriated workers. “It’s a dangerous sign,” said Adhoc president Thun saray ss='cambodia-color'>...

Free Trade Union president Chea Mony yesterday rejected a charge in court that he and two other FTU members incited workers to damage property during a mass strike last year at the M&V garment factory. During nearly two hours of questioning at the Kampong Chhnang provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union has launched a $4.5 million program aimed at increasing food security among indigenous minorities in Ratanakkiri province, including those whose land has been affected by the growing number of economic land concessions in the area. speaking on the sidelines of the launch in ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Justice spokesman and Cambodia’s Permanent Mission to the UN Office at Geneva (Unog) have described demands for the treason charge against Kem sokha to be dropped as tantamount to interference in the judiciary. Rhona smith, the UN special Rapporteur on the situation ss='cambodia-color'>...

The 22nd Asean Banking Conference and the 49th Asean Banking Council Meeting kicks off on Monday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is the Kingdom’s first time hosting the conference and the second time for the council meeting. The event is organised by the Association of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen left recommendations for the Veterans Confederation of Asean Countries (Veconac) to help it attain new achievements in the interest of the general welfare of veterans in each member-nation. The recommendations were made on Tuesday at the 19th General Assembly of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS and Cambodia have agreed to begin diScuSSionS on a bilateral inveStment treaty (BIT) in a bid to Spur trade and inveStment between the two countrieS, officialS Said on Friday following the end of the ASEAN-US BuSineSS Summit in Siem Reap. “A bilateral inveStment SS='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, has waded in to the furor surrounding the imprisonment this week of two anti-eviction activists from Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities, posing with a poster calling for the release of the two women. Yorm Bopha, 32, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In parts of rural Cambodia, farmers’ primary source of income comes from harvesting rice — once a year. This is a poor outcome compared to other AsEAN countries which harvest twice or thrice a year. To help increase farmers’ income, Victor Combal-Weiss and Guillaume Virag founded ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni began a 3-day State viSit to Vietnam Starting on Monday at the invitation of VietnameSe PreSident Truong Tan Sang, local media reported. The viSit, the fourth made by Cambodian king Since he came to the throne in 2004, will likely elevate further SS='cambodia-color'>...