<p>Less than a month before Cambodia goes to the polls, the country’s top election body on Wednesday acknowledged it had paid nearly $800,000 for indelible ink that its own tests showed could be removed using hair care products, an issue one opposition leader called a ...p>

<p>police yesterday confronted more than 200 villagers in Svay Rieng province as they tried to occupy land at the centre of a long-running dispute with a development company.&nbsp;The villagers are unhappy because the government granted NK Venture special permission to build a sugar plantation on ...p>

<p>The minister of foreign affairs maintained yesterday that Cambodia is not allied with China, stating that the Kingdom is “neutral”, despite an apparent diplomatic shift towards the nascent superpower and away from the West.&nbsp;Minister prak Sokhonn told a crowd of over 200 students at the ...p>

<p>Nagacorp Ltd, the operator of phnom penh’s NagaWorld hotel and casino complex, announced that the company’s chief executive, Chen Lip Keong, has submitted a proposal to shareholders and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that would allow him to divest his personal investment of $369 million ...p>

<p>Two police officials – one the deputy police chief of Kandal’s Takhmao town and the son of provincial police Chief Eav Chamroeun – are the subject of a complaint filed with the Ministry of Interior by three people who allege they might have colluded to ...p>

<p>Disgraced former phnom penh Municipal police Chief Heng pov yesterday called for a speedy appeal trial before the Supreme Court in two of his cases – which relate to the possession of fake currency and to the illegal detention of a suspect – despite lamenting ...p>

<p>China will fund a restoration project, slated to start in mid-2018, at an ancient royal palace complex within the Angkor Thom archaeological site in Siem Reap province, officials said yesterday. Long Kosal, spokesman for the Apsara Authority, said the palace is centuries old, and while ...p>

<p>A task force made up of preah Vihear provincial and district officials is set to begin a five-day investigation today into a slew of sawmills thought to be illegally milling and transporting timber from the protected preah Roka forest after villagers and NGOs accused local ...p>

<p>The Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) will host a competition on November 1 to determine the finest rice in Cambodia, with the winning brand representing the kingdom at the ninth edition of the World’s Best Rice Competition program, which will take place a few days later ...p>

<p>Despite the widely condemned pre-election dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue party, the country’s only major opposition party, by the Supreme Court earlier this month, the heightened risk of political instability is expected to have limited short-term economic spill-over effects, according to an assessment from ...p>

<p>Cabinet chief phat Sikan was elected as the new president of the Beehive Social Democratic party after the party held a congress on Sunday in Kandal province.&nbsp;Mr Sikan, 64, was elected to lead BSDp at the congress in Kien Svay district’s Koki commune, attended by ...p>

<p>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.&nbsp;The European Commission (EC) imposed duties on Chinese citric acid in early 2015 after determining that the chemical was being ...p>

<p>A delegation of some of China’s biggest companies in the food-processing industry is scouring the local market for investment opportunities in the agriculture sector. Headed by He Jianxiang, the deputy director-general of the Bureau of product processing at China’s Ministry of Agriculture, the delegation met ...p>

<p>Ratankkiri provincial authorities are trying to resolve a border dispute with Vietnam, urging the Vietnamese to reopen four recently blocked border crossings, according to National police spokesman Kirth Chantharith.&nbsp;The conflict originated when Cambodia rejected Vietnam’s proposal to build four new, formal border checkpoints, only accepting ...p>

<p>China-based Digital Agriculture Exchange has revealed plans to build an agricultural research centre in the kingdom to improve production and packaging standards of local fruit and vegetables.&nbsp;Officially dubbed a “multifunctional centre”, its aim is to up quality standards to make Cambodian produce more desirable abroad, ...p>

<p>About 175 families locked in a land dispute with sugarcane plantation companies in Koh Kong province have asked an inter-ministerial group and provincial authorities to speed up the resolution process and end the conflict.&nbsp;The inter-ministerial working group responded saying they would settle the land dispute ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s tourism sector earned $3.63 billion in revenue last year, an increase of 13.3 percent, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Tourism. Last year, international travellers visiting the kingdom spent 5.6 million, 11.8 percent more than in 2016, according to Kong Sophearak, ...p>

<p>The King has signed off on promotions for more than 300 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officers in December and January, including at least six generals who recently joined the ruling Cpp’s Central Committee.&nbsp;The mass military promotion – the second so far this year – brings ...p>

<p>The new rail line between phnom penh International Airport and the railway station on Monivong Boulevard is scheduled to open on April 10, according to government and Royal Railways officials.&nbsp;Hoeurn Somnieng, deputy director of the cabinet at the Ministry of public Works and Transport, said ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on monks to join hands in educating people to respect traffic laws and avoid drug use in order to reduce traffic deaths and drug problems.&nbsp;During a building inauguration at Chey Mongkul pagoda in Kampong Cham province, Mr Hun Sen ...p>