Seventeen people who were arrested last weekend in Phnom Penh during a Korean-language test could face six months in prison after being charged with impersonating prospective migrants hoping to work in South Korea, a police official said Thursday. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Health Department has closed more than 200 illegal dental clinics in the capital in the first six months of the year, and has filed complaints against their owners to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, health officials said yesterday. ...

Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand have been granted an extension until March 2016 to register and remain in the country legally, following an official visit to Thailand from Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong. ...

Facing an opposition boycott and a European Union threat over foreign aid, the government plans to vote into law today a controversial draft law restricting NGOs. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed reports that Lao PDR has commenced construction of the giant 360MW Don Sahong Hydro Dam project. ...

With CPP lawmakers expected to pass a highly controversial law regulating NGOs and associations Monday, City Hall said Sunday that it would use “many measures” to ensure that protesters are not able to rally outside the National Assembly. ...

One decade ago, villagers celebrated when a 10,000 hectare Economic Land Concession here was awarded to a prominent Phnom Penh tycoon. ...

Seventy families in Ratanakkiri province have agreed to accept a 100-hectare plot of land, bringing an end to their four-year dispute with a Vietnamese rubber company, but 156 other families refused to settle, officials said Thursday. ...

On a walkthrough visit of Phnom Penh’s Prey Speu social affairs center on Friday, municipal governor Pa Socheatvong pledged to send 10 new caretakers to work at the center, which has been the subject of claims of serious abuse at the hands of staff. ...

Six ethnic Montagnard Christians who fled Vietnam and illegally entered Cambodia to seek refugee status have arrived safely in the capital Phnom Penh, an official from a local human rights group said Monday. ...

Phnom Penh authorities have issued a notice to evict residents of a run-down historical building in the middle of the city. ...

Energy is a basic human need that must be fulfilled to achieve sustainable development. This kind of development is not possible without energy and policies to meet energy demand. ...

Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol warned students at the elite Royal School of Administration on Tuesday: “We cannot live on a rich island in the middle of a poor ocean.” ...

The government is strengthening the quality of the civil service, warning that staff who fall short of standards will be let go and that so-called “ghost workers” will be eliminated, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday. ...

The Interior Ministry on Wednesday signed an agreement with a Chinese media company to launch its own radio and digital television stations next year, with the firm planning to invest more than $30 million into the joint venture. ...

More than 50 illegal Vietnamese migrant workers were arrested Wednesday while working on the construction site of luxury estates in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, police said. ...

Villages of Vietnamese people were set up in Ratanakiri Province of Cambodia in the 1960s, and Cambodian villages were built in Vietnam for people to flee from the Pol Pot regime the following decade. ...

Victims of sexual violence can often have difficulty reintegrating into society, but experts say the healing process from such assault can be a lifelong struggle. ...

A group of beer promoters plan to stage a demonstration Wednesday to demand payment for eight women who were fired by a beer company owned by a ruling party senator. ...

Eighty-two Cambodian students have been selected for a scholarship program to continue their master and doctoral degrees at France’s universities in the field of economics, law, medical studies, engineering, French-language teaching and tourism. ...