During a cabinet meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced a “vision” to shrink the country’s cabinet by excluding secretaries and undersecretaries of state from the body, and to be given the right to bypass the National Assembly by appointing them directly, according to lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) issued a prakas, or directive, last week instructing commercial banks and microfinance institutions to make out more riel loans to their customers, in a bid to promote the use of the national currency. The prakas, which took effect on Thursday, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader Kem Sokha on Wednesday maintained that a majority of Cambodians are yearning for political change, a claim a ruling party spokesman branded a lie.In a three-minute video uploaded to his Facebook page ahead of Khmer New Year, Mr. Sokha said he believed the lass='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP will meet on Monday to discuss the validity of their three vice-presidents after the Interior Ministry insisted the appointments were invalid.“Our president Kem Sokha is abroad, but we will invite him to a video conference for the meeting,” Pol Ham, one of lass='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) yesterday appeared to lay the blame for the delayed establishment of an independent rights body at the feet of civil society. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Economists on Tuesday lambasted the CNRP’s proposal to eliminate the use of U.S. dollars for transactions in the country within one year of a victory in next year’s national elections, saying the policy would be “a disaster” and “impossible.” lass='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Cham provincial authorities have ordered a newly-elected commune chief to repair a road he had begun excavating to irrigate water away from villagers’ rice fields in Cheung Prey commune. lass='cambodia-color'>...

About 4,500 observers will be deployed for this year’s National Exam to prevent cheating and to continue reforms to the Education Ministry, the Anti-Corruption Unit said yesterday. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry is investigating how hackers got into the Facebook page of the National Election Committee (NEC) spokesman and controlled it for weeks, preventing the public dissemination of election-related information. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Provinces nationwide – particularly those along the Cambodia-Thailand border – are likely to experience more flooding as a result of a low-pressure system that is expected to bring rain across the country, according to a forecast from the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council yesterday approved four sets of controversial amendments to Cambodia’s election laws, greenlighting changes that will pave the way for the main opposition party’s parliamentary seats to be redistributed in the event of its dissolution. lass='cambodia-color'>...

More than 700 houses and three schools have been affected by storms over the past three days in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nob district. District governor Sar Kakada said the storms took place from Monday to yesterday across three communes. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Three people, representing 112 migrant families, on Monday submitted a letter to Ratanakkiri province authorities from the National Assembly asking them to investigate and resolve a longstanding land dispute involving a Ministry of Interior official. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee has released the official voter list for July’s general election, containing nearly 85 percent of eligible voters. The voter list contains 8,380,217 names out of 9,882,746 eligible voters, or 84.8 percent of those aged 18 and over. There will be 22,967 polling stations lass='cambodia-color'>...

The first day of campaigning for Senate elections began on Saturday, with only the ruling CPP having a large march in Takeo province, according to the National Election Committee.The NEC said the march was attended by more than 1,000 people, about 300 cars and about lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos are joining forces to boost their fight against human trafficking in the region, the kingdom’s NationaL PoLice chief said yesterday. Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

A quarter of Cambodian students want more access to books and other reading materials, a study by World Vision revealed yesterday. Of the 4,000 students surveyed by the global NGO, 25 percent said they sought “more amount and variety” of books, while 12 percent wanted “better lass='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 homes have been destroyed, another person killed and several people injured as storms continue to cut a swathe through Cambodia. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC), in an effort to avoid complaints that dogged past elections, has issued specific rules allowing political parties to distribute leaflets inside markets during the commune election campaign period. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Rainstorms and lightning strikes killed a combined 43 people and injured 79, while damaging 2,735 homes in the first five months of the year, according to a report by the National Committee for Disaster Management. lass='cambodia-color'>...