The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday charged a man with committing violence under aggravating circumstances after he was detained by protesters at a demonstration in Phnom Penh on sunday and handed over to police on suspicion of instigating violence at the rally near Freedom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Tuesday that the opposition-aligned unions, inciting garment workers to stage strikes for higher wages, must take responsibilities for any future closures of factories. “The government has worked very hard to attract investors to build factories and has urged manufacturers to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police officials confirmed Tuesday that the villagers involved in a land dispute with a company allegedly owned by Pailin Governor Y Chhien were arrested late Monday and said that one more villager was detained Tuesday. sath sin, deputy police chief of Pailin province’s sala Krao district, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About half of the University of Health science’s class of 2014 risks not graduating this year, having refused to register for a new compulsory final exam. A 2007 sub-decree states that a national-level examination for medical students would be implemented from that academic year onwards. But ss='cambodia-color'>...

A teachers’ union has accused education officials in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district of stealing 21 million riel, or about $5,200, that had been slated as overtime payments for primary school teachers. In a letter sent to the Education Ministry on Monday, the Cambodia Independent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taking a markedly different approach from Monday’s violent breakup of a peaceful demonstration at Freedom Park, authorities yesterday stood back as about 100 activists marched around central Phnom Penh, delivering a petition to embassies and the United Nations. District security guards and riot police initially seemed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has granted 322 hectares of state-owned teak forest in the newly formed Tbong Khmum province to the Interior Ministry so that the land can be used to build a new provincial capital, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. “The government has decided to use more ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sinohydro Corporation haS taken over the conceSSion to build the Stung Cheay Areng dam in Koh Kong province and iS preparing for the early StageS of conStruction, according to a company repreSentative and government officialS. Ith Prang, Secretary of State at the MiniStry of MineS and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of workers at the Wing star shoes factory demonstrated Tuesday for the second day in a row outside the factory in Kom­pong speu province after a meeting between union and company officials failed to reach an agreement that would end an ongoing strike, worker ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kompong Cham authorities blocked several hundred activists from marching Monday to raise awareness about the environmental dangers raised by Don sahong dam, officials and activists said. Kompong Cham provincial governor Lun Limthai confirmed that he banned the campaign. “We did not allow them to hold this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Vihear provincial governor Oum Mara has sent a letter to inform Interior Minister sar Kheng that he is ordering an NGO to close its local offices, on the grounds that the organization is inciting villagers to destroy sugarcane farmed by a Chinese company. In the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of representatives from at least 100 recently evicted families accused of illegally occupying state land in Kratie province traveled to Phnom Penh on Monday morning to petition Prime Minister Hun sen for his help getting their land back. The families say local authorities have been ss='cambodia-color'>...

A deputy commune chief in Battambang City filed a complaint Monday with the provincial election committee (PEC), accusing the CNRP of failing to inform him when they publicly screened a political video in his commune on May 6 and 7. “I have received this complaint,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two NGOs on Monday launched an online campaign to galvanize public support for providing students with free textbooks after a survey found that 85 percent of high-school pupils lack the necessary books for their studies. The Khmer Institute for National Development (KIND) and the Affiliated Network ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Koh Kong Provincial Court has temporarily suspended the business of two-star major general Tun Dieth and ordered him to dig out the soil with which he had filled in a canal in Khemarak Phoumin city’s smach Meanchey commune after he was accused of land ss='cambodia-color'>...

With incidents of costly human-caused forest fires continuing to occur every year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has issued an instruction outlining that those responsible for such blazes face three to 10 years in prison. signed by Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three of five land dispute victims, representing 150 families in Banteay Meanchey province’s slakram commune, on Tuesday sued provincial governor Um Reatrey and five others for manslaughter, and the use of intentional violence against them while they were detained for protesting outside the provincial hall ss='cambodia-color'>...

Now new research, as part of a project led by University of southampton, has shown sand mining is causing river beds to lower, leading to riverbank instability and increasing the likelihood of dangerous river bank collapse, damaging infrastructure and housing and putting lives at risk. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sub-national officialS and communitieS in the province are concerned about the impact of LaoS&rSquo; Don Sahong hydropower dam on the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin population in the downStream Mekong River. According to ReuterS, the dam began operationS and connected itS power grid to the Kingdom earlier SS='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng sakhon on Wednesday stressed the importance of forest resources and the need to protect them to boost the economy and livelihoods of forest communities while maintaining a sustainable environment. At the Forestry Administration’s annual review meeting, attended by ss='cambodia-color'>...