<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>

<p>The German Ambassador to Cambodia supports the government giving land titles to indigenous groups in Mondulkiri province as a means of protecting natural resources.&nbsp;According to a press release from the German embassy, German Ambassador Ingo Karsten and Math Mara, secretary of state at the Ministry ...p>

<p>The Cambodian Mine Action Center has been incorporated into the “framework” of the Cambodian military, ostensibly to allow CMAC employees to receive government pensions. “Officials and staff of [CMAC] would like to deeply thank [Hun Sen] for offering officials and staff of CMAC official framework ...p>

<p>The United States Senate has passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that looks to cut funding for Cambodia unless it releases all political prisoners and reinstates the opposition Cambodia National Rescue party. The passage of the omnibus bill on Friday, which averts a US government ...p>

<p>police in Siem Reap province have handed over 14 unexploded ordnances left over from the war to an NGO tasked with demining.&nbsp;Svay Leu commune police chief Hout Sopanha said yesterday that villagers found the unexploded ordnance while clearing land for farming and then contacted his ...p>

<p>The government has called on private sector partnership for investment in Cambodia’s infrastructure; a move officials say will help funnel more foreign funds into the country. Speaking at a seminar on public private partnership (ppp), the Minister of Commerce, Cham prasidh, conceded that help was needed ...p>