The disgraced former director of Koh Kong’s provincial agriculture department will not be prosecuted despite admitting to profiting from the illegal sale of state land, Agriculture Minister Veng sakhon said on Monday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two measles cases investigated by the government in recent weeks have been confirmed positive, bringing the total number to five this year and causing concern among health officials about a possible outbreak after the World Health Organization declared the country measles-free just last year.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

As border controls ease among AsEAN nations, Interior Minister sar Kheng warned Tuesday the downside could be a freer flow of criminals and illegal immigrants. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new set of standards for orphanages that the Ministry of social Affairs plans to enforce over the coming months, combined with a global move toward community-based care, has at least one organization worried it will be forced to close down. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ending their almost two-month boycott of parliament, opposition lawmakers yesterday joined their ruling party counterparts at the National Assembly in unanimously passing three laws.The plenary session, attended by 68 Cambodian People’s Party parliamentarians and 34 from the opposition Cambodia Nation Rescue Party, was by and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Military police in Phnom Penh on Wednesday arrested a seventh suspect in the kidnapping of three Chinese men freed on Monday from their captors, who had detained them for two months in a bid to make them pay back loans with the help of their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday hit back at opposition critics of his efforts to seek French expert help in modernising old colonial maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, rejecting their claims that such an effort would require a constitutional amendment. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The growing number of foreign visitors arriving by sea represents a promising source of tourism revenue for Cambodia, though limited port and tourism infrastructure has hampered its realisation, tourism stakeholders said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Former opposition leader sam Rainsy met with government officials in Australia and New Zealand this week, requesting that the two nations issue visa bans against Cambodian People’s Party officials and their families in response to the arrest of opposition head Kem sokha for treason. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 26-year-old disabled man who was struggling to find work and was featured in Khmer Times in July has passed an exam to become an official at the Information Department in Battambang province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Grassroots Democracy Party, co-founded by slain political analyst Kem Ley, has announced it will compete in the national elections next year in all provinces, though analysts yesterday doubted that it would be able to mount a serious challenge to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. ss='cambodia-color'>...

On January 28, Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh reportedly confirmed that China would provide Cambodia with a new round of military aid. The report comes as the two countries are looking to boost their defense ties in 2018 as they commemorate 60 years of their ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation will start dispensing pensions for former civil servants and veterans at select ATMs starting in April. Minister Vong soth issued a notice yesterday stating that pensioners will be able to withdraw their monthly allocations from Canadia Bank ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five Cambodians expelled from the U.s. arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, a U.s. Embassy spokesman said, as Cambodia continued to call for revisions to the 2002 agreement with the U.s. that allowed their deportation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. MiSSion to Vietnam and the ReSource Center for Community Development (RCCD), An Giang UniverSity Seek candidateS for the 2018 YSEALI Regional WorkShop: Protecting The Mekong Delta Environment which will be being held from June 4-9, 2018.ASEAN citizenS between the ageS of 18 and SS='cambodia-color'>...

After leading the legal team that won the widely condemned dissolution of the CNRP at the supreme Court in November, Ky Tech, lawyer for the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Hun sen, has been given a rank equivalent to minister just weeks after he ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday again ordered Kandal provincial authorities to stop residents from leasing land to Vietnamese farmers, repeating a similar demand from in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The senators say they wrote as friends of Cambodia, who wish to see a strong relationship between the two countries but who are troubled by the increased social and political turmoil in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Global credit rating agency Moody’s Investors services said yesterday that while it has retained Cambodia’s B2/stable sovereign rating alongside Vietnam’s B1/positive rating, the Kingdom’s low diversification of exports has put it at higher risk from external shocks than its eastern neighbour. ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly President Heng samrin’s native village is, as map lines go, technically inside of Vietnam, the head of Cambodia’s Royal Academy said at a recent press conference. ss='cambodia-color'>...