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Nine forest communities across Cambodia on Friday expressed concern about illegal land encroachment and logging operations as a European Union-funded sustainable forest management project which helped communities in wooded areas thrive comes to an end. ...

A survey of foreign direct investment by the National Bank of Cambodia due to be completed at the end of this month will help fill data gaps in the construction industry and could lead to new regulations in the property market that will pave the ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen will meet with the current United Nations Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith at Peace Palace on September 21, 2015. ...

International legal experts say a group of laws recently passed in Cambodia to reform the judiciary does little to ensure a balance of powers. ...

The greatest barrier to bringing solar power to Cambodia’s villages is not the cost, the lack of trained engineers, or the lack of equipment, analysts say. The SNV is only funded for the next three years. Mr. Barbian said he hopes the government will be ...

Floodwater in the region around the Kampot city and Toek Chhou district has been receding today, according to Kampot provincial authorities. ...

Cambodia attracted investment projects with a total capital of $3.3 billion in the first six months of this year, according to the figures of the Council for the Development of Cambodia on Friday. ...

The human rights wing of the International Bar Association has found Cambodia’s judiciary is riddled with problems that corrode citizens’ rights to a fair trial, including widespread graft.   ...

Most garment workers are expecting a new monthly minimum wage between $160 and $180, according to the results of a recent survey, far lower than the $207 some unions say they plan to seek in fast-approaching negotiations with the factories. ...

A pilot project in Cambodia to register new voters, set to begin in November, will meet difficulties because many villagers lack simple identification cards, officials say. ...

Eighteen Cambodian families whose land was confiscated for the construction of a Chinese hydropower dam in a northwestern province on Thursday requested that the local government and Chinese operator of the facility pay them compensation they are owed, said a local resident and an official ...

Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday signed two Memorandums of Understanding — on tourism, and on the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Initiative — with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen following a session of delegation-level talks. ...

Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to meet with deputy prime minister, and minister of interior Sar Kheng next week to discuss on a number of disagreement over the amendment of the commune/Sangakt election law. ...

More than 3,600 families and 1,500 hectares of farmland have been affected by flooding in ten communes, in Kampot province. ...

Arken Imirbaki, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress ( NPC), met separately with Cambodia’s acting-head of state Say Chhum and National Assembly President Heng Samrin on Thursday to discuss ways to further enhance ties and cooperation between the two countries.​ ...

Members of a community-based organization in Cambodia responsible for protecting local forest resources have confessed to illegally cutting down trees to sell to local businessmen, prompting the group’s leader to threaten to resign. ...

Cambodia’s Arbitration Council will share its experiences in settling labor disputes at a series of workshops in Myanmar, a nation with a growing garment industry. ...

A reporter for TV9 was sentenced to two years in prison by the Kampot Provincial Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of attempting to blackmail a deputy provincial governor last year, court officials said. ...

Union leaders representing some of the country’s 700,000 garment workers failed Wednesday in their first attempt to agree on how much of a raise they would ask for to the current minimum wage of $128 in coming negotiations. ...

A seminar scheduled by the opposition CNRP later this month on its “political image” will focus on convincing the party’s lawmakers and members to stick to a united message and keep debate inside the party, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Wednesday. ...

Cambodian environmental leaders came together yesterday to discuss the country’s contributions to the upcoming Paris Climate Conference in December. ...

A group of villagers from Svay Rieng province involved in a land dispute with the Forestry Administration said police officers attempted to block them from traveling to the provincial court Wednesday morning to protest against the trial of three community leaders. ...

More than 30 non-government groups have recently applied to register with the state or asked for changes to their current registration records, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry that hailed the requests as broad endorsement of Cambodia’s highly controversial new NGO law. ...

As Rhona Smith, the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, began her first official visit to the country Wednesday, leading human rights activists were at odds over how much her position could influence the situation on the ground. ...