Construction on a four-year, $150 million commercial and residential development that will transform 70,000 square metres of land on Koh Pich into Parisian-style apartments with a replica of the Arc de Triomphe at the centre is reportedly scheduled to commence in the coming months. The Élysée, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three NGOs on Wednesday called on ANZ Royal Bank to help the hundreds of families who have lost farmland to a sugar plantation that the bank helped to finance in Kompong speu province. The NGOs also made public a 2013 social and environmental impact assessment of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CPP government has established a 10-member inter-ministerial electoral reform commission headed by CPP Interior Minister sar Kheng, according to a sub-decree obtained Wednesday. The opposition CNRP and rights organizations have been calling for electoral reform since July’s national election was marred by widespread allegations of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The first meeting of a joint election-reform committee that was agreed to last week by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will meet for the first time on Thursday, officials from both sides said yesterday. Each side has appointed six ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a woman charged with defaming mining magnate and RCAF Lieutenant General Nim Meng in relation to a land dispute in Preah sihanouk province. Presiding Judge Kim Dany said that sok Neang Gek was being charged ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ruling party members continued to meet at the National Assembly on Wednesday, discussing a draft law on roadways despite a boycott by the opposition. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has refused to participate in the new government, following 2013 elections it says were marred by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith has pledged to meet with Daun Penh District Governor sok sambath to discuss the targeting of journalists by hired district security guards, said UNEsCO country representative Anne Lemaistre, who met with the minister on Friday. The minister is also keen on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy left for Europe yesterday evening to attend a UN Human Rights Council review on Cambodia in Geneva and to lobby European Union officials to take a stronger stance against the government, he said before departure. Rainsy plans on attending the Universal Periodic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando will not be granted a digital TV licence becauSe up to 80 channelS have been allocated to a ChineSe State televiSion network. Khieu Kanharith, the miniSter of information, Said in an interview on TVK on TueSday night that the allocation of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of youth activists have deployed to the provinces to collect signatures for a petition calling for an amendment to the election law that would allow direct elections for district, city and provincial councillors. The current system sees the Kingdom’s more than 11,000 sitting commune councillors ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s murder rate was halved in 2013 as compared with 2012, but the same could not be said for crime cases across the board, which jumped a whopping 62 per cent last year, municipal police announced yesterday. “There were a total of 775 cases of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Family members of two men slain by military police in violent suppression of a garment worker protest in January were questioned Wednesday at the Ministry of Interior, although the investigation into the killings was officially declared closed on March 16. soun Nara, the brother of Yean ss='cambodia-color'>...

The sole retailer of Mercedes-Benz cars into the country, Hung Hiep (Cambodia) Co., has suspended imports since January over what it claims is a new import duty on luxury cars coming into the country. Other luxury car importers including Porsche, Audi, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover, ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 striking workers at Cambodia’s largest brewer, Cambrew Ltd., resumed work on saturday after the company agreed to lift their monthly salary from $120 to $150 as they had been demanding. The workers at the company, which produces Angkor beer and Black Panther stout, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese embassy is reporting a $280 million drop in Japanese investment last year, but officials were quick to say that the numbers don’t necessarily reflect slumping investor confidence in Cambodia. Japanese investment in the Kingdom reached about $47.5 million in 2013, compared to $328 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the latest case involving illegal logging in Mondulkiri’s sen Monorom district, two indigenous communities filed a lawsuit against three unidentified illegal loggers after confiscating a truck laden with luxury wood on saturday, a rights monitor and villagers said yesterday. About 50 villagers turned over the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven people from the capital&rSquo;S Borei Keila community allegedly injured by baton-wielding Security forceS laSt month, a pregnant woman among them, filed a lawSuit againSt Prampi Makara diStrict authoritieS yeSterday. The Seven were among a group of dozenS of familieS violently removed from a building on SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 80 activists from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila and Boeng Kak communities protested outside City Hall on Monday morning, but were confronted by municipal security guards who prevented them from delivering a petition to the governor. sar soun, a representative of families from the Borei Keila ss='cambodia-color'>...

Accompanied by his wife, Bun Rany, Prime Minister Hun sen continued his trip to China on Tuesday evening by attending a dinner reception hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to state news agency Agence Kampuchea Press. Mr. Hun sen and his delegation of high-level officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fish and rice are staple foods for all Cambodians. Historical records show that Cambodia’s fisheries have been of major importance for centuries. Fish is a major source of nutritious food in the daily diet, a primary source of employment and income and has strong cultural ss='cambodia-color'>...