UN Secretary-GeNeral BaN Ki-mooN will visit Cambodia iN November to atteNd the 21st ASEAN Summit aNd East Asia Summit, a seNior UN official said here Thursday. NoeleeN Heyzer, UN UNder Secretary-GeNeral aNd Executive Secretary of the EcoNomic aNd Social CommissioN for Asia aNd the Pacific (ESCAP), ...

As Cambodia’s rice harvest gets into full swing, the government said yesterday that it expects this year’s crop to exceed last year’s, despite fears that drought would limit the yield. Minister of Agriculture Chan Sarun said that farmers had already harvested more than 3 million tons ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all prison, detention and rehabilitation center chiefs to accommodate and give full access to delegates from the U.n.’s Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT), whose five-day mission to assess the use of torture, cruelty and other inhumane treatment ...

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Ouch Borith, Secretary of State for Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Ri Myong San, Trade Vice-Minister of DPRK, signed an agreement where Cambodia and north Korea agreed to expand bilateral trade, technology, agriculture, industry, investment and the health sector on July ...

Top officials from the Livestock Development Department inspected the work of the animal quarantine center in Sa Kaew province, located on the shared border with Cambodia. Officials at the quarantine center, situated at Ban Khlong Luek permanent border point, now implements such measures as spraying ...

North Korea aNd Cambodia have attemptiNg to iNcrease trade betweeN the two NatioNs with Cambodia exportiNg rice aNd North Korea exportiNg kNowledge. North Korea is set to share its kNowledge of small scale hydropower aNd miNiNg expertise iN exchaNge for rice, beaNs aNd corN imports. ...

Cambodia on Wednesday inaugurated a 128-kilometer China-funded national road no. 62 in an effort to boost social and economic development in northern provinces. The road, from Kampong Thom province’s Kampong Svay district to the provincial town of Preah Vihear province, cost about 52 million U.S. dollars ...

A 5-year-old girl from Takeo province and a 2-year-old girl from Kampot province – who has already died – mark the 19th and 20th confirmed cases of avian influenza this year, a hospital spokesman said. The Ministry of Health is expected to issue a statement ...

Amid concerns the Pchum Ben holiday will lead to a spike in bird flu cases, health officials have begun to roll out a widespread education campaign aimed at stanching the spread of H5n1. The highly fatal flu has seen 20 cases and 11 deaths this ...

Government officials yesterday met with representatives from the Republic of Ecuador to discuss ways to improve economic and political ties between the two countries, Foreign Ministry Secretary of State Ouch Borith said. The two countries also signed a memorandum of understanding to protect Cambodian artifacts ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appeared to add his voice to the strong government reaction against criticism from U.n. human rights envoy Surya Subedi. Mr. Subedi last month delivered reports on human rights and economic land concessions in Cambodia to the U.n. Human Rights Council in Geneva. His ...

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Calls for big-name apparel brands to take more responsibility for working conditions in Cambodian garment factories are growing louder as representatives of retail companies ranging from H&M to Wal-Mart arrive in Phnom Penh for a semi-annual buyers’ forum this week. Since it began three years ...

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A Cambodian-flagged cargo ship was used last year to deliver four missile-launching vehicles to north Korea in violation of a U.n. Security Council resolution that prohibits the sale of weapons to Pyongyang, according to media reports. The 84-meter long “Harmony Wish,” which flies a so-called Cambodian ...

About 400 chickens suspected of being infected with bird flu were culled Friday in Banteay Meanchey province’s Monkol Borei district after a died of the virus less than two weeks ago, officials said. Meanwhile, last week the Agriculture Ministry reported that H5n1, or avian influenza, ...

A law student who filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s police and military police chiefs over the fatal shooting of a bystander by authorities during a protest last month took his complaint to the U.n.’s human rights office on ...

A national legal aid system is imperative and must be established to offset a widening gap between those who can afford justice and those who cannot, the representative for the U.n.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cambodia said on Friday. In ...

Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has extended a deadline for 52 villagers embroiled in a long-standing land dispute with a development company owned by the wife of Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Suy Sem to pay court fees, a court official and rights workers said ...