A five-year pilot program is being created to integrate arts and culture into public schools throughout the country, and may help Cambodians develop a better understanding of their roots and the creative ability to take on global challenges. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police have summoned the CNRP’s top party boss in Phnom Penh to appear for questioning today about a clash between a motorbike driver and a group of opposition supporters campaigning earlier this week in the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Massive deforestation is playing a crucial role in the droughts that have devastated Cambodia. But despite an official ban on timber exports, forests continue to be cut down at a record rate.The Cambodian government awarded between 30 and 40 logging concessions to private companies during ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling CPP is losing votes in remote provinces while making up ground on the opposition CNRP in Phnom Penh and surrounding areas, according to election data showing the two major parties cutting into each other’s leads in traditional strongholds. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Senate PreSident Say Chhum Signed controverSial amendmentS to the Law on Political PartieS on Friday, effectively preventing former CNRP PreSident Sam RainSy from Supporting hiS former party from overSeaS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Stung Treng provincial authoritieS held a meeting with the MineS and Energy MiniStry on WedneSday to find wayS to convince people refuSing to leave their homeS near the Lower SeSan II hydropower dam to accept compenSation and vacate their land before Prime MiniSter Hun Sen SS='cambodia-color'>...

On Friday, all the pieces fell into place. The Ministry of Interior, a day prior, had primed the media, instructing them on how to report the day’s events. The government’s investigation and filing to the supreme Court that called for the main opposition party to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economic freedom score dropped seven ranks in the annual Economic Freedom Index released by the Heritage Foundation, a Us-based, conservative-leaning think tank. The 0.8 point dip in the score from last year put Cambodia’s economy in the “Mostly Unfree” category, ranking 101 out of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The cities of Battambang, Kampot, sihanoukville, siem Reap, Kep, Kampong Cham, in addition to Doun Penh, a district of Phnom Penh, all received the top accolade, three romdul flowers, in the second edition of the country’s Clean City Contest. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is preparing to construct the longest wooden boat to break a world record currently held by China by making a boat about 85 metres long that can hold nearly 200 people. sar sokha, vice president of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Watching the premiere of Angelina Jolie’s new film “First They Killed My Father” in the shadows of the ancient ruins of Angkor on saturday night, Riem Vet was transported back to his teenage years living under the Pol Pot regime. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Illegal miners in the remote reaches of Cambodia are repelling government inspectors with armed middlemen, the Mines and Energy Ministry said on Wednesday as it hosted its annual meeting in Phnom Penh.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts yesterday announced that they have submitted the Khmer martial art Bokator, as well as Lakhon Khol – the traditional masked dance theatre – to be considered for recognition on UNEsCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government is preparing legislation aimed at ensuring tighter control over the nation’s pawnshops to ensure professionalism in a sector that has grown rapidly and lacks a supervisory framework. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Commission has announced it is investigating the potential laundering of Chinese shipments of citric acid through Cambodia, allowing Chinese manufacturers to flout export restrictions. The European Commission (EC) imposed duties on Chinese citric acid in early 2015 after determining that the chemical was being ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Australian Parliament is considering a motion to condemn Cambodia’s political crackdown, with lawmaker Mark Butler declaring Australia has “a solemn duty” to take action to defend Cambodia’s “fledgling democracy”.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The German Ambassador to Cambodia supports the government giving land titles to indigenous groups in Mondulkiri province as a means of protecting natural resources. According to a press release from the German embassy, German Ambassador Ingo Karsten and Math Mara, secretary of state at the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH: There are about a hundred Singapore-owned buSineSSeS in Cambodia, mainly located in the capital, Phnom Penh. Many, who Set up Shop there, feel the numberS have Stayed low becauSe there iS a perception that the country iS not Safe. In 2011, Singapore inveSted cloSe SS='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials are finally letting Ros sokhet publish his newspaper, and he only had to change the name – twice. The Khmer Nation, called Revelation-Corruption News in a former life, and Anti-Corruption News in the life before that one, is supposed to hit newsstands today in ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official at the Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port yeSterday Said the State-owned firm would miSS itS target of regiStering with the SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion of Cambodia (SECC) next month, a key Step before liSting on the country&rSquo;S naScent bourSe. Ho HongSik, director of SBI Royal SS='cambodia-color'>...