The rehabilitation of Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network has encountered delays due to poor construction work and inappropriate surveying methods when making plans to lay down tracks, according to a draft review of the ongoing $140 million project conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ss='cambodia-color'>...

SoldierS Should not have been deployed in Support of a warrant to arreSt land diSpute proteSterS in Kratie province in May&mdaSh;an operation that led to the killing of a 14-year-old girl by armed forceS, a JapaneSe human rightS group Said in a new report. The report SS='cambodia-color'>...

The homes of nearly 200 families living in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district were demolished yesterday and Monday after officials accused the residents of being involved in a secessionist plot, local officials and villagers said. District governor Chhe Chhiv said that authorities had demolished 191 homes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite growing exports, freight companies say profits are being hit because most firms still use old, inefficient trucks and are often forced to pay custom officials informal fees at border checkpoints and ports. Transportation costs in Cambodia are already some of the highest in the region, ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 120 families in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district sent a letter on Monday to the district governor asking for his help in addressing the flooding problem that has seen some of their homes collapse and has forced many to seek temporary accommodation elsewhere, villagers ss='cambodia-color'>...

An Australia-based firm that announced a plan to explore for gold in Ratanakkiri province insisted Monday that its Cambodian venture is still on track, despite allegations made in an Australian newspaper that it has garnered investment based on false information. Astra Resources, which has companies incorporated ss='cambodia-color'>...

SA&rSquo;ANG DISTRICT, Kandal province &ndaSh; Liv Yang Bin, 66, haS voted four timeS, but on Sunday he could not make it a fifth. Three timeS on Sunday, Mr. Yang Bin went to hiS local polling Station at a School here in Kandal province, but each time SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian lawmakers have passed a new law on agriculture, but critics say the law does not go far enough to protect the country’s farmers. The law passed on Thursday evening, but not before debate at the National Assembly. During the debate opposition representatives called on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has seen a sharp rise in the exports of milled rice in the first six months of this year thanks to increasing demand on international markets, an official said Wednesday. The figures, from the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, showed that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from more than 90 Cambodian businesses gathered yesterday at the Council of Ministers building in Phnom Penh to hear about a new initiative that aims to encourage private sector investment in agriculture. The $55.6 million project is an extension of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has denounced a recording posted on Facebook of Prime Minister Hun sen saying that his CPP had lost in last month’s fifth parliamentary election. someone had edited and re-recorded a speech he had performed a few weeks ago, said authorities. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of business owners occupying more than 8,000 square meters of prime real estate behind Phnom Penh’s Wat Ounalom have been ordered to vacate their premises by the local conglomerate sokimex Group, an official from the firm said Wednesday. Though the firm declined to say what ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP announced Wednesday that it will hold a mass demonstration on september 7 against the preliminary results of what it claims was a rigged national election, one day before final results are expected to be released by the Constitutional Council of Cambodia. Unless the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three families involved in a land dispute with a private company filed a complaint Monday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing the company’s owner, businessman Khun sear, of waging an ongoing campaign of intimidation as he tries to force the families from their homes ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TuberculoSiS and Malaria on ThurSday denied reportS that itS SuSpenSion of all contractS with two major moSquito net SupplierS found to have bribed Cambodian officialS would cauSe a Shortage in the worldwide Supply of the critical malaria deterrent, but SS='cambodia-color'>...

Unemployment rate in Cambodia stood at 2.7 percent in equivalent to 202,300 persons aged 15 or older in 2012, according to the first-ever Cambodia Labor Force survey Report released on Thursday. Conducted by the National Institute of statistics and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the survey ss='cambodia-color'>...

In areas where electoral irregularities were the most pronounced during July’s national election, the ruling CPP saw a significant increase in its share of votes compared to that of the opposition CNRP, according to a report compiled by a coalition of human rights NGOs known ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP has written to the embassies of singapore and Malaysia requesting copies of draft agreements with the Cambodian government on sending migrant workers to the countries that they say they were not privy to. A Ministry of Labor official last month said the government ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 31,000 households were evacuated and 168 people died across 20 provinces during this year’s rainy-season flooding, according to the Humanitarian Response Forum (HRF), which released its final report on the flooding Monday. In general, flooding did not affect Cambodia as badly as in 2011, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior sar Kheng yesterday called on authorities in each province and municipality to ease demonstrations in the capital by creating a site for non-violent protests ahead of a planned opposition rally on saturday. In a two-page letter sent to provincial officials, Kheng – who ss='cambodia-color'>...