In the highest-profile sacking since Prime Minister Hun sen promised to rid the government of corruption after the CPP’s shock losses in the July 2013 election, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s chief judge was removed this week amid claims that millions of dollars had reversed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the newly elected president of the royalist Funcinpec party, and Nhiek Bun Chhay, its new second vice president, continued to spar Tuesday over the validity of former Preah sihanouk provincial governor say Hak’s appointment as the party’s secretary-general. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian political commentators and a civil society group have criticized a deal between the ruling and opposition parties which finalized a draft national electoral reform law, as being nontransparent and only serving the two parties themselves. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday sided with real estate tycoon Khun sear and his eponymous company in a longstanding land dispute with a family living adjacent to an apartment block he obtained in a land swap, the family’s lawyer said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The son of a high-ranking customs official suspected in a nightclub shooting that left one man injured was questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday but has yet to be charged, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy Party (SRP) leader Kong Korm haS rebuked the party&rSquo;S former leader and nameSake Sam RainSy for annulling a deciSion to replace Senator Thak Lany midway through her term. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rice exporter Cambodia-Vietnam Food Company said joint venture partner and Vietnamese state-owned Vinafood 2’s possible bankruptcy over $40 million of debt will not hurt its business prospects in the Kingdom.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week into the role, Preah sihanouk’s new police chief, Chuon Narin, has announced the early results of a crackdown on crimes involving foreigners, calling them the “main problem” facing the coastal city.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm from Kratie province were blocked from marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s house Tuesday by hundreds of military police and municipal security guards after walking from Phnom Penh’s samakki Raingsey pagoda. The villagers, who ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Royal Decree signed by acting head of state Chea sim has approved the appointment of 63 advisers and assistants to National Assembly second Vice President Nguon Nhel, according to a copy of the document obtained Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The wife of political activist Ouk Pich samnang, who was charged with intentional violence and causing damage to public property after smashing his tuk-tuk through a barricade during a protest in Phnom Penh last week, said Monday she felt the opposition CNRP had “turned a ss='cambodia-color'>...

After months of negative publicity surrounding its disgraced founder somaly Mam, anti-trafficking NGO Afesip has taken the first tangible steps to resurrect itself, with a handful of remaining international donors traveling to Cambodia over the past week for “future strategy meetings.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Casino property Grand Dragon Resorts (pictured), located in Cambodia, has partnered with live dealer gaming system provider Ezugi to offer proxy betting. The agreement will see Ezugi using its casino streaming technology to broadcast live table action direct from the casino floor, including baccarat tables and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Kandal province on Tuesday confiscated a haul of wood, including a few pieces of precious rosewood, that was being unlawfully transported to Phnom Penh by the military for the construction of a Brigade 90 commander’s office. The commander has appealed to Royal Cambodian Armed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday heard the case of a couple charged with defrauding the daughter of a high-ranking military official out of $2.5 million in a property deal. The plaintiff, Meas sopheary, 35, the daughter of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Deputy Commander-in-Chief Meas ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei was removed from his position on Tuesday pending an investigation into rampant corruption at the court since he became its chief judge less than a year ago. The decision was made public hours after Prime Minister Hun sen criticized ss='cambodia-color'>...

FUNCINPEC heavyweight Nhek Bun Chhay has made his internal feud with party president Prince Norodom Ranariddh personal. ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...