The Cambodia Herald

Sihanoukville authorities bulldozed homes in the Steung Hav district on Tuesday following a verdict made by Sihanoukville Provincial Court. In the demolition, authorities had used about 100 police officers and several machines to bulldoze around 18 houses. The land had been a topic of ...

Cambodia will earn about $50 million a year from exports of dried cassava to China through Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chhay Ly said Thursday. Cambodia’s agricultural exports previously went through Vietnam and Thailand, amounting to between 7,000 and 8,000 tons a year. ...

Cambodia’s exports to Malaysia almost doubled from $55.5 million a year earlier to $101 million in 2012, the Malaysian Embassy said. Exports were led by crude rubber at $69.1 million followed by milled rice at $24.3 million, up sharply from $9.5 million in 2011 and ...

The government launched Thursday a $200 million project to divert water from the Mekong River to irrigate 300,000 hectares of rice fields in Prey Veng, Svay Rieng and Kampong Cham provinces. Under the first phase, estimated to cost $100 million, canals will be restored between ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that all Cambodian villages would have electricity by 2020 while 70 percent of households would have power by 2030. Hun Sen said average per capita consumption of electricity rose at an annual rate of seven percent over the past ...

Workers in the border town of Bavet continued a week-long strike Monday after a meeting to discuss wage increases was delayed for a second time to next week. Sources said all workers left the Tai Seng and Manhattan special economic zones after working for an hour. ...

The number of people arrested over land disputes jumped 144 percent from a year earlier to 232 in 2012, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (Adhoc) said Thursday. Speaking at a news conference, he [Adhoc president Thun Saray] said Adhoc last year received 70 ...

Civil society groups urged the National Assembly Thursday to delay the adoption of a bill on the construction of a $780 million dam on the Sesan River in northeast Cambodia. Chhit Sam Ath, executive director of NGO Forum, told a news conference that estimates of ...

Almost 85,000 visitors traveled to Kampot over the first three days of the Lunar New Year. The 84,917 visitors included 1,252 foreigners with the Bokor Mountain resort alone attracting 67,548 visitors including 1,004 foreigners, [a tourism official] said. ...

A court official on Friday agreed to implement an injunction to freeze the assets of bankrupt telecommunications firm Mfone Co. Ltd., according to a lawyer in the case. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued the injunction against Mfone on January 17, after Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen presented land titles Monday to 513 families in Thmorbang district, an official said. The land titles cover 1,504 hectares in Tropang Cheurtrav and Korki villages in Russey Chrum commune. The official said Monday’s ceremony marked the completion of a land-titling mission launched ...

The Cambodian Confederation of Unions warned Thursday of a general strike if proposed increases in monthly salaries are too small. “Cambodia will have a big strike exploding across all clothing and footwear factories if minimum wages are raised by only 10 percent from the basic $61,” ...

Factory workers complain that their low salaries are not keeping track with the price of goods and services. Phoeun Sreyleak, 20, said she gets $70 a month including bonuses for health care and rent. “My basic wage is only $58,” she said. “My friend gets 2,000 riel ...

Free Trade Union of Workers of Cambodia said Tuesday it had sued the director of Thailand’s Mfone Co Ltd for not respecting local labor laws. In a letter issued Tuesday to the Department of Labor Disputes, the union’s deputy secretary general Sam Srey Mom accused Mfone ...

Thirty residents of Banteay Meanchey province gathered in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house Friday to seek intervention over a land dispute. The residents, representing 51 families in Ou Chrov district, said they had sued provincial authorities for seizing their land. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) will never tax farmland. “It would burden our farmers,” he said in Takeo Sunday. “Although national revenue that comes from land taxes is spent on building roads, water systems, hospitals and  schools, we still ...

Residents of property development site Boeung Kok gathered Monday in front of Phnom Penh Municipal Court to put a curse on court officials. Representative Heng Mom asked the court to review the case of Youm Bopha, sentenced to three years in prison for attempted violence on ...

The government was to resume rail services between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville Friday in collaboration with Toll Royal Co, Richz Electronic Services and the Asian Development Bank, sources said. ...

Free Trade Union of Workers President Chea Mony has announced plans to protest the dropping of charges against former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith. The former governor was accused of seriously injuring three women when he opened fire on striking workers in Bavet in February. ...

A strike by 2,000 workers at a bankrupt US-owned company entered its third day Thursday, sources said. The sources said the workers at Svay Rieng (Cambodia) Garment Co Ltd, a manufacturer of hospital gowns, had a list of five demands. ...

Prices for the highly-prized fish known as pa sa-see (Mekongina erythrospila) have more than doubled to $50 a kilogram, sources said. ...

The garments and handicrafts sector currently employs about 700,000 workers, a government official said. The official said Cambodia now had about 890 factories and 40,000 small businesses producing handicrafts with annual output of about $6 billion. ...

South Korea’s LG Electronics said the grand opening of its new outlet on Monivong Boulevard would take place on Saturday. ...

Viettel (Cambodia) Co Ltd expects earnings to rise almost 10 percent to about $280 million in 2012, deputy chief Tran Le Phong said. The Vietnamese operator of the Metfone network expects to pay $60 million in taxes this year, up from $52 million last year ...