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City officials have rejected the applications of 54 families to be resettled on a land development site at Boeung Kak lake. Phnom Penh authorities are in the process of assessing land titles for hundreds of families, who have been promised resettlement on 12 hectares of the 133-hectare site. Nearly 800 families sought to be resettled, following years of protests by residents who refused buy-out or off-site resettlement offers, officials said

City officials have rejected the applications of 54 families to be resettled on a land development site at Boeung Kak lake. Phnom Penh authorities are in the process of assessing land titles for hundreds of families, who have been promised resettlement on 12 hectares of the 133-hectare site

Activists working to protect the massive Prey Lang forest in northeastern Cambodia have delivered a petition to embassies, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank on Friday, urging the international community to help them. Villagers living near the forest say their livelihoods there are being threatened by continuous government concessions to private rubber and other companies. The petition follows a demonstration in Phnom Penh on Thursday, in which 100 villager were swept up by police for handing out fliers in public, in what authorities said was a threat to public security

Senior United Nations officials say countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region including Thailand, Cambodia and Laos are failing to apply existing laws aimed at combating human trafficking.  The conclusions come as a U.N.

Earlier this month the Cambodian government announced that as part of its anti-corruption drive, it had outlawed the payment of fees to civil servants.  But the move has opened a new set of problems that worry Western businesses that operate in the country. To the government, this was expected to be a minor announcement.  As of August 1, all corruption offenses contained in two separate laws were now in force. For Phnom Penh, this was another step on the road to combating corruption.

Phnom Penh officials met with representatives from the Beoung Kak lake area on Thursday, the first move toward dispensing land to some 800 families who had refused to make way for a massive development project.

Problems with worker health, work security and overtime continue to plague the garment sector, according to a new survey. The International Labor Organization’s “Better Factories Cambodia” survey of 186 factories found that the challenges in the sector will be “difficult” to resolve. Laborers in Cambodia’s main economic earner have long complained of poor conditions and long overtime, and in recent months, a spate of factory faintings have been reported

It ran for more than a year, a collection of Cambodian bronze sculptures from the Angkorian period. On loan from the National Museum of Cambodia, the collection drew thousands of museum-goers, first to the Arthur M

Development experts warn that the government’s draft law on NGOs remains restrictive and will hamper future development if it is not corrected.