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The real estate market in the BKK1 area appears to be beginning to slow after years of accelerated growth as local investors look for more affordable alternatives within Phnom Penh.Seng Bunna, CEO of Bunna Realty Group, said that while the history of BKK1’s foreign-oriented growth ...

About 100 garment workers from a factory in Takeo province that supplies German sports brands Puma and Adidas protested in front of the Labor Ministry Wednesday to demand the reinstatement of about 1,600 staff fired last month for striking over inadequate benefits. ...

Six men suspected of involvement in the weekend murder of a local police officer and a forest ranger in Preah Vihear province were charged Wednesday with illegal logging, while authorities continue to search for evidence linking them to the double homicide, a court official said. ...

Now that the roads to Mondulkiri are better and driving to the province is much cheaper, provincial officials have found a new use for the dilapidated airport. ...

Sihanoukville has long been a part of the government’s plan to develop the Southern coast as Cambodia’s next tourism hotspot after Siem Reap, and if recent arrival numbers are anything to go by it seems to be growing in appeal. However, as new property developers ...

Despite repeated threats of strikes, a coalition of garment sector unions is still waiting on a response from the Ministry of Labour for the wide-ranging reforms it called for last month, with plans to seek help from overseas. ...

Despite recent announcements of large development projects throughout Cambodia focusing on so-called “affordable housing” for the emerging middle class, there remains a massive gap in the market for quality affordable housing for the poor; especially the urban poor as more rural Cambodians flock to cities ...

The Ministry of Public Function has begun conducting a census of teachers in Cambodia ahead of a planned salary increase, officials said yesterday. ...

A newly formed NGO is challenging lawmakers and government officials to publish details of their personal assets and income in advance of forthcoming elections, a challenge several NGO heads plan to take up as an example to their public sector counterparts.Accountability Cambodia, which says it ...

Testing of a new electronic voter registration system is “running smoothly”, with more than 14,000 people registered across 24 provinces since the pilot project began on November 1, the National Election Committee announced yesterday. ...

In the current state of relative political stability and strong economic growth while the earning potential of Cambodians increases, the overall supply of Borey housing has risen by 15 per cent compared to the same time last year, a recent study has found. ...

Fleeing strict new laws at home, surrogacy companies are moving their “wombs for rent” services from Thailand to Cambodia, causing some analysts to raise concerns that would-be parents could be swindled by the little-regulated industry. ...

A local expert has said that with the absence of a master plan for Phnom Penh or a comprehensive construction code, collusion with corrupt officials has led to illegal construction in the city.This claim was solidified last week when the government warned that it would ...

A hand-painted sign nailed to a tree at the entrance of Sre Ko village along the southern banks of the Se San River in Stung Treng province greets visitors with a disturbing message – one made even more alarming by the seemingly tranquil environment and ...

With the rainy season petering out, mining companies are gearing up to resume full operations on prospects in northern and eastern Cambodia, with investors keeping a close watch as firms push to expand their resource estimates and the country prepares to open its first royalty-bearing ...

A court complaint lodged by the vice president of charismatic radio station owner Mam Sonando’s political party seeking its eventual dissolution has been thrown out of court. ...

Evidence of illegal logging perpetrated by Vietnamese lumberjacks in collusion with local authorities in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district was submitted to a local rights group by an ethnic Jarai community yesterday. ...

At a small food shop in Phnom Penh recently, customers crowded in, eating hotdogs and meatballs. These kinds of processed meats are widely popular in Cambodia, and business was brisk. Few here seem to be concerned by new warnings from the World Health Organization that ...

Over 1.6 million foreign tourists visited Angkor temples for the first ten months of 2015– an increase compared to the same period in the previous year, States News Agency reported. ...

Australia’s refugee policies were condemned during a review by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Australia automatically detains asylum-seekers who arrive in the country without visas. Hundreds of detainees are sent for processing to offshore camps in the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea and ...

Two opposition lawmakers who were attacked outside the National Assembly last month have filed a complaint of attempted murder against their assailants. ...

Myanmar President Thein Sein has congratulated opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy Party (NLD) for their apparent landslide victory in this week’s parliamentary elections over the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). ...

Officials registered 326,620 vehicles for the first ten months of 2015, reflecting an increase of about 18 percent for the same period last year, according to State News Agency-AKP. ...

Vietnam and Cambodia have pledged to deepen cooperation in joint sea patrol to solve maritime disputes as well as foster their friendship. ...