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Senior forest campaigner Jago Wadley discussing Vietnam's continued acceptance of Siamese rosewood imports from Cambodia despite the ban.

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CNRP lawmakers end boycott but can’t thwart budget’s passage

Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay speaks to reporters after the vote on the 2017 budget, which was passed over CNRP objections.

Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha was a no-show at the National Assembly yesterday as the ruling CPP passed the 2017 national budget against a slew of objections from the opposition CNRP, which said health and education spending remains too low.

A legal home for fowl play

A resident of Koh Kong’s Dang Tong commune holds one of his fighting cocks under his arm on Monday.

After nearly 10 minutes of pitched battle, both fighting cocks were clearly worn down. The handlers brought the birds back to the middle of the caged ring during a fight earlier this year on the grounds of CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s now largely deserted Safari Park.

Banned rosewood trade up

An illegal logger trims a felled rosewood tree with a chainsaw in northeast Cambodia in 2014.

Despite the presence of a blanket ban by the Cambodian government on all trade in Siamese rosewood since 2013, exports of the precious timber to Vietnam increased in the third quarter of this year, according to Vietnamese customs data compiled by US-based NGO Forest Trends.

Call for affordable electricity

Technicians work to repair power cables in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district earlier this year.

Cambodia's electricity sector needs to focus on adopting the latest technology to reap the full benefits of its coal-fired and hydropower plants if the government is to achieve its 2020 goal of nationwide electrification, visiting executives from the US-based energy giant General Electric (GE) said yesterday.

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Turkish Embassy calls for closure of Zaman schools

With an attempted coup against the government of President Recep Erdogan quashed only days ago and more than 7,000 alleged conspirators now under arrest, the Turkish ambassador to Cambodia yesterday pressed the govern

CNRP lawmakers beaten

Two opposition lawmakers, Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Sakphea were beaten unconscious during protests in Phnom Penh, as over a thousand protesters descended upon the National Assembly.

Student authors discuss "The Cambodian Economy"

Student authors discuss "The Cambodian Economy"

Students at Phnom Penh's Liger Learning Center have written and published a new book, "The Cambodian Economy".

Labour Ministry forms new body to monitor workplace safety

People inspect the damage to a garment  factory floor in Takeo’s Tonle Bati district in 2014 after it collapsed without warning.

A new National Committee on Occupational Safety and Health established under a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday will advise the government on all work-place safety issues – but excludes transportation accidents, which one observer said make up the majority of work-related injuries in the country.