Suy Channe, at 34 years of age, is becoming a familiar face in Cambodia’s IT sector as a female coder and regional leader at Innovation Lab SEA (InSTEDD). ...

A Ratanakkiri provincial police officer was yesterday questioned over his alleged ownership of an illegal gold mine in Lumphat district, which was forced to close on Wednesday by the authorities. ...

The government has finished drafting a sub-decree that lays out the fines that will be levied against violators of the country’s new Land Traffic Law, officials said Tuesday. ...

Cambodia reported 66 landmine casualties in the first six months of 2015, a 35 percent drop, compared with 101 cases one year earlier, according to data released yesterday . ...

President of the opposition, Cambodia National Rescue Party Sam Rainsy said fund raising for its party’s own TV station reached nearly $1 million. ...

A total of 389,264 people have registered to take part in elections as voters since October 12. ...

Cambodian officials are pushing the country’s small- and medium-sized enterprises to prepare for a potential increase in demand expected with the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen told banned former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) politicians to request a restoration of their political rights or miss out on the 2022 commune elections. ...

Cambodia’s election organizers said on Monday they will investigate a complaint against about 30 former opposition party members for calling for a boycott of Sunday’s general election. ...

Several families in Kampot province yesterday had another standoff with military personnel who came to clear out a disputed piece of land, though violence did not ensue, observers said. ...

In efforts to improve conditions for its disabled citizens, the government yesterday announced that it plans to order the installation of ramps and access signs at all public places. ...

Temporary residents on state-owned plots in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district will receive land titles, according to an official letter from the Council of Ministers released Friday. ...

Cambodian democracy regressed last year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2015 Democracy Index, which indicates that the Kingdom is “on the cusp of the ‘authoritarian regime’ category”. ...

Thai makers of farm products and agricultural machinery should expand into Cambodia to capitalise on that country’s rising demand for such products, according to Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn. ...

E-Money, which operates under Metfone, and Pay&Go SEA (Cambodia), entered into a partnership for money transfers, mobile phone top-ups and the payment of utility bills. ...

A Vietnamese national was charged with smuggling animal parts Tuesday after he was caught with 43 kg of ivory at Siem Reap International Airport on Sunday night, officials said. ...

Ruling party lawmakers removed deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha as first vice president of the National Assembly on Friday morning in a legally dubious vote that was boycotted by the CNRP. ...

Thailand and China launched a railway project here Saturday, marking the beginning of bilateral cooperation to develop Thailand’s first standard-gauge double-track railway line. ...

Eight ethnic Jarai Montagnard Christians who fled alleged persecution in Vietnam and sought refuge in Cambodia are living in poor conditions, one of the refugees told Khmer Times yesterday.  ...

A dramatic hike in rent by the landlord of Phnom Penh’s Dey Thmey Boeung Kropeu Market saw 60 vendors turn out in protest at the site yesterday morning. ...