The Thai owners of a pair of sugar plantations in Koh Kong province accused of forcing hundreds of farmers off their land will give the land back if it can be proved that those evicted legally own the land, rights workers and a village representative ss='cambodia-color'>...

A rights worker and forestry official yesterday contradicted a local newspaper report claiming that more than $100 million worth of timber had been illegally extracted from Ratanakirri province’s Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary. Adhoc’s provincial coordinator for Ratanakirri, Chhay Thy, denied having said a total of 16,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday that the rapid growth of Phnom Penh’s population coupled with the rampant construction of new property projects means that there would always be a shortage of water and electricity in the capital. speaking to a crowd of thousands who had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of a Vietnamese rubber firm that has been accused of contributing to the illegal deforestation of vast tracts of land in northeast Cambodia joined local CPP-aligned government officials in Ratanakkiri province on Friday to hand out rice, salt and sugar to more than 400 ss='cambodia-color'>...

SaleS of Cambodia&rSquo;S World Trade Organization-certified palm Sugar from Kampong Speu province dipped to 12 tonneS at the end of the harveSt SeaSon thiS year, about a 30 per cent decline from 2012. Two diStrictS with palm treeS in Kampong Speu province were granted geographical indication SS='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) said Wednesday it will release final election results by september 8, while political parties and local authorities have filed a total of 14 reports on election-day irregularities since Friday. An NEC subcommittee will investigate the 14 reports, which include accusations of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Not enough priority is given to research in Cambodia, threatening its long term development, economists and other experts say. Larry strange, executive director of the Cambodian Development Research Institute, says the country cannot plan for major reform, build its economy, or reduce poverty without proper analysis ss='cambodia-color'>...

Several dayS of rain have finally brought relief to hundredS of familieS in Koh Kong province&rSquo;S Khemara Phoumint City who had been without water for two weekS becauSe the reServoir that provideS their Supply dried up during hot SeaSon. LYP Group, a company owned by SS='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh families being pushed to the city’s outskirts to make way for a $142.6 million railway renovation project funded by Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are falling into debt and finding it harder to earn money and access healthcare according to a ss='cambodia-color'>...

As tensions subside between Thailand and Cambodia over the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple, site officials are welcoming a steady increase of international tourists. At 5,240, foreign visits are up 56 per cent in the first six months of the year, compared to the same period ss='cambodia-color'>...

Executives at some of the telecommunication firms indebted to bankrupt mobile operator Mfone said Thursday they owe much less than claimed by the company, and will negotiate with Mfone’s administrator to find a resolution before a complaint is filed in court. “We do owe Mfone money, ss='cambodia-color'>...

When the garment factory that employs her opened its doors yesterday for the first time since sunday’s election, Chan Neoun was about 130 kilometres away, at home in svay Rieng province. Intense rioting and a military crackdown were just some of the rumours flying around ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 1,500 Cambodian People’s Party supporters in Kandal province’s sa’ang district were summonsed by party officials yesterday to be thanked for voting for the party, during a meeting one villager claimed was tacit intimidation. According to a villager speaking on the condition of anonymity, invited ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian National Election Committee (NEC) on Wednesday received more than 10 reports documenting irregularities in last month’s national elections. International and local rights groups and observers have called for further investigation into the allegations of irregularities, which presents a potential roadblock to the formation of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Their work is far from over, but Jarai minority villagers in Ratanakkiri province took another important step forward yesterday in their quest for communal land titles. More than 200 residents of O’Yadav district’s Pate commune signed declarations outlining the ways in which they make use of ss='cambodia-color'>...

By 8 p.m. on the day of the July 28 election, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith was declaring victory for Prime Minister Hun sen’s CPP with 68 seats to the opposition’s 55. In the days that followed, preliminary results released by the National Election Committee (NEC) arrived ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered a 19.9% growth in February according to the country’s statistics and tourist Information Department. The country welcomed 385,760 visits compared to 321,870 during the same month in 2012. Released by the Ministry of Tourism, Monday, data showed neighbouring Vietnam was the top supplier ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal on Friday upheld the guilty verdict for anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha, but reduced her sentence from three-to two-years imprisonment, of which one year was suspended. The ruling means that Ms. Bopha will not be released until late 2014. supporters and human rights groups ss='cambodia-color'>...

Breaking into a medium almost universally controlled by the ruling party, acting opposition president Kem sokha squared off yesterday against rival legislators during the filming of what may well have been Cambodia’s first televised national election debate. The debate at the state-run TVK studios, which featured ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 villagers from Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district who are involved in a long-running land dispute with two businessmen gathered outside the Court of Appeal on Tuesday, waiting to hear the verdict in their case—which was ultimately delayed. The villagers are representatives of 320 families in ss='cambodia-color'>...