<p>Kong Korm, one of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue party’s top advisers, on Thursday criticised his former colleague Sam Rainsy for calling on voters to boycott the July 29 national elections. He said the people should honour the King and head to the polls. ...p>

<p>A farmer stumbled upon a case containing 100 rounds of Soviet-designed RpK bullets for machine guns while ploughing his land in Battambang province’s Banan district on Sunday. Officials with the Cambodian Mine Action Centre were called in to take the ammunition for destruction yesterday. ...p>

<p>Health Minister Mam Bun Heng said on Tuesday that not many people in the Kingdom go abroad for medical treatment. He was replying to a statement that said Cambodians tended to go to hospitals in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, India, China, and other countries for the ...p>

<p>Nearly 100 families in two villages affected by flooding from the controversial Lower Sesan 2 hydropower mega-dam in northeastern Cambodia’s Stung Treng province said Tuesday that authorities have failed to honor promises they made to rebuild submerged communities and provide much-needed supplies and services.​ ...p>

<p>The National Election Committee yesterday said that more than 8.5 million people have been officially registered on the 2018 voter list. According to an NEC press release, there were 195,385 new voters registered in 2018, while 56,941 people were removed from the voter list. ...p>

<p>The Women’s Affairs Ministry last week launched the Nokor Tep hospital in Dangkor district in a bid to provide female reproductive services to those less fortunate. Women’s Affairs Minister Ing Kantha phavi said the hospital’s first task is to secure equipment and human resources. ...p>

<p>Cambodia will buy 200 megawatts from Laos to feed rising demand for power in the Kingdom. Electricite du Cambodge has signed an agreement to purchase 200 MW from Laos from 2019 to 2021. The tariff at which the power will be sold has not been ...p>

<p>Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Cambodian authorities to immediately reveal the whereabouts of a land activist who was “forcibly disappeared” in preah Vihear province. It said it was the first time such a thing had occurred since the country was ruled by a single ...p>

<p>More than 30 new footwear and travel goods factories were opened in Cambodia during the first half of this year. This comes despite the Kingdom facing the possible withdrawal of the EU’s preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) ...p>

<p>The National Committee of Maritime Security is researching a sunken ship found early this month at the bottom of the sea in Koh Kong province. Admiral Tea Sokha, deputy commander of the Royal Cambodian Navy, said the sunken ship was found by a Cambodian scuba ...p>

<p>More than 100 pieces of unexploded ordnance were discovered and collected in preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday before being handed over to bomb disposal experts. provincial police chief Choun Narin said 136 UXOs were found in places such as Sihanoukville, prey Nob district and Stung ...p>

<p>The Interior Ministry has authorised the Khmer-Vietnamese Association to register on its list of organisations, Vietnamese media have reported. The association was established to bring together Khmer people of Vietnamese origin and other Vietnamese in Cambodia for humanitarian work and to spread information about the ...p>

<p>The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) on Friday incorporated more than 250 retired and disabled officers and staff into the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). It also announced a 10-year (2016-2025) demining project that requires around $100 million in funds for the first five years. ...p>

<p>Ratanakkiri police and forestry administration officials yesterday raided a house and seized a large pile of various types of timber in O’Yadav district’s pork Nhai commune. District police chief Mao Sann said the seizure was made during a crackdown on illegal logging in the area. ...p>

<p>Cambodia started the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, with the aim of driving more action into critically important areas in the country. The country has set targets for 109 SDGs out of a total of 169 goals identified under the ...p>

<p>The phnom penh municipal government has announced a plan to provide limited free bus services along national roads during the pchum Benh week. The plan will see 120 buses deployed to “ease people’s travels during the holiday”, the capital’s City Hall said in a statement. ...p>

<p>Opposition figure Sam Rainsy has been invited to speak at the General Assembly of the Inter-parliamentary Union (IpU) in Geneva, according to a former Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRp) lawmaker. A government delegation is also set to attend the meeting, a National Assembly press release ...p>

<p>Foresty crimes continue unabated in the Kingdom. This week alone, two crackdowns on illegal logging took place in Ratanakkiri and Oddar Meanchey provinces. Authorities on Wednesday uncovered and seized dozens of timber from illegally-felled first-grade woods in Ratanakkiri province, following a tip from the locals. ...p>

<p>The government has agreed to allow a Chinese company to develop more than 11 hectares of state land in por Senchey district on condition that it constructs four new buildings and five warehouses for the Transport Ministry on nearly four hectares of land in Russey ...p>

<p>The municipal Department of public Works and Transport said on Thursday that it planned to remove tonnes of waste disorderly disposed of in the capital’s sewage canal next week. The move followed widespread criticism of mass floating rubbish and the municipal authority’s alleged inaction. ...p>