With the national elections approaching, a Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) spokesman said “many thousands” of former members of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) have joined it. However, watchdogs and ex-CNRP officials have voiced doubts about this, claiming the comment is merely an “old ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday told sar Kheng and other government officials not to respond to an unnamed group who he said had urged the Minister of Interior to stage a coup against the leader of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). He said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The outlook of local farmer’s remained dismal even as the price of pigs doubled during the second quarter, with many of them pointing to a lack of government regulation as a factor that is sowing market unreliability. Rising to $2.20 per kilogram from just over ss='cambodia-color'>...

A year after the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), the fate of the former main opposition party remains unclear. While its senior officials claim the supreme Court-dissolution of their party is a “death knell for democracy” in Cambodia, Council of Ministers spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday denied a “rift” among top leaders of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), and rejected claims that senate president say Chhum and Interior Minister sar Kheng were set to be removed from their positions as rumours spread by “gangsters”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four people were arrested and more than 1,000 pieces of illegally logged timber seized in Mondolkiri province during a coordinated series of raids on three warehouses over the past three days, an official said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the draft union law due to be debated during a public forum on Wednesday, a group of 21 unions and NGOs released a statement yesterday calling on the National Assembly to allow more time to discuss the legislation before it is passed.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

A man in Kampong Speu&rSquo;S Oral diStrict waS briefly placed under houSe arreSt yeSterday, following hiS public criticiSm of the government and prime miniSter at a town hall meeting.Ung Ny, Cambodian National ReScue Party (CNRP) Oral diStrict executive director, Said that 45-year-old Hay Hoeun, a SS='cambodia-color'>...

The first graduates of a special training program for elite forest rangers began work this month in Preah Vihear’s protected forest.The 29 newly-minted rangers will be responsible for leading efforts to stop illegal logging, land clearance, and poaching in a forest that is home to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Criminal loggers and land snatchers are committing more murders around the world, but they almost always escape justice. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A bipartisan commission of National Assembly lawmakers arrived in Battambang province yesterday to investigate three unresolved land disputes before going on to Banteay Meanchey to investigate six more over the next two days. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After eight years in the works, the Agriculture Ministry on Monday circulated the framework for Cambodia’s first law regulating the quality of domestic and imported meat products and livestock. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A former employee of a microfinance institution (MFI) was Tuesday jailed on charges of embezzling some $300,000 from the company, a court official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and Australian officials on sunday denied claims made by a Rohingya refugee from Burma over the weekend that he was being poorly treated in Phnom Penh, with the Interior Ministry’s refugee director calling the man “a liar.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

A high-speed police chase across stung Treng province early Monday morning led to the confiscation of more than 1.5 tons of rosewood, but only after an sUV plowed into a police truck blocking the road, with two suspects eventually fleeing on foot. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Museum will undergo a massive expansion, but this will not include removing the Royal University of Fine Arts which sits behind it, officials at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts told a public forum yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A man in Kampong Speu&rSquo;S Oral diStrict waS briefly placed under houSe arreSt yeSterday, following hiS public criticiSm of the government and prime miniSter at a town hall meeting.Ung Ny, Cambodian National ReScue Party (CNRP) Oral diStrict executive director, Said that 45-year-old Hay Hoeun, a SS='cambodia-color'>...

The third and final tranche of 1.8 million shares in Phnom Penh Autonomous Port’s (PPAP) recent initial public offering (IPO) sold out by the middle of last month, according to Hei Bavy, director general of the state-owned enterprise. ​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of over 50 protesters gathered in front of Takeo Provincial Court on Monday demanding government intervention after allegedly being scammed out of $160,000 by a provincial savings association, 30 of whom were summoned to provincial court yesterday in response to their case being ss='cambodia-color'>...

As many as 60,000 Cambodian deportees from Thailand are expected to cross back into Cambodia this year, according to samaritan’s Purse, an international NGO that works with deportees and migrants along the border with Thailand. ss='cambodia-color'>...