A CNRP lawmaker’s lawyers asked the Kandal Provincial Court this week not to issue a verdict due Friday in their client’s aiding-and-abetting case, effectively urging the judges to drop the charge. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has called on citizens to report the illegal use of army, police and civil servant licence plates, while at the same time defending the government’s regulation of the plates – a response that an opposition parliamentarian said was insufficient to combat ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 160 families in Banteay Meanchey province’s O’Chrou district filed a complaint on Monday with local officials calling for the removal of their village chief, whom they blame for the loss of 835 hectares of farmland to a rubber plantation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A government official rejected calls from a pair of NGOs on Tuesday to do more for Phnom Penh’s slums amid what they described as an opaque land-titling system that has routinely failed poor communities. In a joint report, “The Exclusion of Urban Poor Communities From systematic ss='cambodia-color'>...

The widow of Ung Meng Chue, a tycoon who was gunned down outside a fruit store in Phnom Penh in November, was questioned by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for the first time on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The son of a wealthy property developer and police general was arrested Monday evening after attacking another rich, young businessman inside a Phnom Penh tattoo parlor, military police said Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will on Wednesday resume questioning Major General Thong sarath, who stands accused of orchestrating the murder of tycoon Ung Meng Chue and was apprehended last week after more than four months on the run. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko, who was jailed in March on fraud charges relating to a dispute with his former investment partner, sergei Polonsky, will on Monday receive a decision from the Appeal Court about his latest request to be freed on bail. ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s growing influence in Laos, marked by expanded investment and trade, has led some international agencies to warn Laos about an unhealthy financial dependence on China.  Analysts say Laos is looking to balance China’s influence by drawing support from longstanding backer Vietnam as well as ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lawyer for Russian developer sergei Polonsky has filed a complaint with the Preah sihanouk Provincial Court accusing the son of his former business partner of defamation for disseminating a letter that claims Mr. Polonsky paid officials $250,000 to imprison his father. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A couple was arrested and sent to court yesterday after attempting to sell $38,000 in fake diamond jewellery to a gold vendor in Preah sihanouk province, according to provincial military police.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30,000 people are expected to turn out for CPP President Chea sim’s funeral procession in Phnom Penh on Friday, with security around the city to be ramped up accordingly, a festival official said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand has invested $100 million in Cambodia’s construction sector, according to the latest figures issued by the Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy returned from an extended trip abroad Wednesday saying that he would accept Prime Minister Hun sen’s challenge to swear on his life that the July 2013 national election was “stolen” by the CPP, adding that a systematic vote recount could be ss='cambodia-color'>...

The city will close traffic on a few main roads during the funeral procession for former president of the senate Chea sim on Friday morning from 6 am to 12 pm, according to a City Hall press release.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30,000 people are expected to turn out for CPP President Chea sim’s funeral procession in Phnom Penh on Friday, with security around the city to be ramped up accordingly, a festival official said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following the first case of the potentially deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome being confirmed in Thailand on Thursday, government officials in Cambodia said entry points into the country were already equipped to prevent the disease from spreading here. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Russian expatriate accused of shooting a man during a fight between two groups of foreigners at a sihanoukville casino in February was charged with intentional violence Tuesday and sent to prison to await trial, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Roads built with low-interest policy loans from south Korea have opened to traffic in Cambodia, the finance ministry said Monday. The roads near the Vietnamese border in the southern part of Cambodia, are part of a broader infrastructure project undertaken by Phnom Penh to meet ss='cambodia-color'>...

China is the Kingdom’s top rice importer, and is also bringing in Cambodian cassava, rubber, cashews, peppers and a small amount of corn. But experts say efforts to increase export shipments and open Asia’s biggest market to new products will fall short unless Cambodia addresses ss='cambodia-color'>...