After promising in early september to settle a land dispute between farmers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of a government minister within a week, the National Assembly’s human rights commission has yet to find common ground between the two ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court yeSterday upheld the murder convictionS of former Phnom Penh Municipal Police chief Heng Pov and three otherS in the caSe of the 2003 killing of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamoni. DefendantS Pov, Ly RaSy, Hang Vutha and Prum Sophearith have been SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 demonstrators continued to stage an anti-eviction protest in front of Koh Kong province’s city hall after a jailed community leader was denied bail yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen plans to visit seoul next week for talks with south Korean President Park Geun-hye on furthering their economic partnership, Park’s office said Friday. The two leaders are set to hold talks on saturday on how to boost bilateral cooperation in such ss='cambodia-color'>...

Staff at the Phnom Penh Municipal Referral HoSpital Said TueSday that they had no record of a recent viSit from a man who died late laSt month at the Prey Speu Social affairS center, contradicting claimS made by a city official. Both a file Search by SS='cambodia-color'>...

A day after the Appeal Court denied bail to the parents of fugitive defense ministry official Thong sarath, municipal police and court officials Wednesday searched three residences belonging to the family and seized three AK-47 rifles at one of the homes.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local authorities investigating a house in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district confiscated more than 260 containers of fertilizer and insecticide Wednesday morning after neighbors of a Chinese man complained of a noxious smell emanating from his house, which they feared might have been a dangerous ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Thoy Kimsean, the wife of Takhmao town Governor Eam samay, over allegations she issued a fake cheque worth $185,000 in 2013. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was imprisoned Wednesday evening after being arrested at his family’s snake House restaurant in sihanoukville for failing to appear in court to be questioned over fraud charges related to a dispute with his rival, fugitive developer sergei Polonsky. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday delayed the trial of fugitive Defense Ministry official Thong sarath’s parents, who are facing charges of possessing illegal firearms. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An NGO partnered with Phnom Penh’s municipal government in a scheme to help poor children get off the street Wednesday blasted the city’s ongoing catch-and-release strategy. In June, City Hall partnered up with two NGOs in a campaign to remove beggars from Phnom Penh’s streets. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dy Vichea – son of the late National Police chief Hok Lundy and son-in-law to Prime Minister Hun sen – has been appointed director of the Central security Department at the Ministry of Interior, the National Police said yesterday. National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy told supporters Friday that the goal of his party remains the same: to change the current regime. The president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party has worked to assure his supporters that the party is working for change, following a political deal ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some Say City Hall&rSquo;S Scheme to improve public tranSport with a buS line iS failing. One architect haS a new plan, tried and teSted throughout the developing world With the capital growing and incomeS on the riSe, ruSh hour in Phnom Penh iS only getting worSe SS='cambodia-color'>...

A livestock industry representative has called on the government to cap Cambodia’s only live pig export company’s trade with Laos, citing shortages in the local market. CP Cambodia, a subsidiary of the Thai conglomerate CP Global, exported some 25,000 head of live swine – boars, sows ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vorn Pao was re-elected president on Thursday of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), a labor group comprised mostly of tuk-tuk drivers and moto-dops, in an uncontested ballot after his vice president withdrew from the race over allegations of irregularities. sok Chhun Oeung, who ss='cambodia-color'>...

The lawyer of a 70-year-old widow whose land was stolen by a cousin of Prime Minister Hun sen, Dy Proem, has filed a letter to the National Assembly’s human rights committee asking the body to help speed up the long-stalled case. Dy Proem was sentenced ss='cambodia-color'>...