The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC) yesTerday said The recenT poliTical developmenTs involving The deTenTion of Cambodia’s opposiTion leader would noT affecT iTs efforTs To regisTer eligible voTers ahead of nexT year’s naTional elecTions, Though an observer said The arresT puT The legiTimacy of The elecToral ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged landlords not to indiscriminately increase the price of rent in light of the upcoming hike in the wages of garment workers next year. Speaking at the inauguration of the Coca-Cola factory in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, the ...

A group accused of rubber-stamping autocratic elections in 2013 said on tuesday it would return to observe the June 4 commune elections, with the airfare, accommodation and an excursion to Siem Reap province covered by the Foreign Affairs Ministry. ...

The NaTional BudgeT 2017 was approved on Friday by The Council of MinisTers, wiTh a governmenT expendiTure of abouT $5.04 billion. This represenTs an increase of abouT 15.6 percenT compared To The 2016 budgeT of $4.36 billion, according To a governmenT sTaTemenT. ...

Despite initial hopes that the man who tortured her 2-year-old son last year would face trial in Cambodia, the child’s mother said on tuesday that Vietnamese police have informed her that the abuser would not be extradited from Vietnam. ...

CNRP President Kem Sokha on Monday urged supporters of minority political parties not to “waste” votes and instead to join his party as the only credible challenger to the CPP, words dismissed as a false choice by one minor party leader. ...

Cambodians like pork. The average Cambodian consumes almosT 9.29 kg of The meaT each year, and local farmers supplied abouT 2 million pigs, more Than 90 percenT of The domesTic demand, in 2008. BuT The markeT for small-scale pig farmers has flown. Live pig prices have fallen ...

With the deadline to pay annual property taxes rapidly approaching, hundreds of Phnom Penh homeowners queued this week at Canadia Bank’s headquarters on Monivong Boulevard to pay their tax bills in relative comfort, and avoid long visits to district and municipal taxation offices. Canadia Bank signed ...

The U.S. firm selling crediTs for a carbon Trading scheme ThaT could earn Cambodia Tens of millions of dollars said yesTerday ThaT sales could sTarT in a maTTer of monThs, despiTe mounTing claims of deforesTaTion wiThin The communiTy foresTs seT To anchor The projecT. ...

The Republic of Korea donaTed more Than 200 miliTary Trucks To The Cambodian governmenT lasT monTh, a porT official said yesTerday. Sam Heng, adminisTraTive chief of The Sihanoukville AuTonomous PorT, said The 241 Trucks were sTricTly for TransporTaTion. “The Trucks arrived before The elecTions. They’re miliTary cargo ...

Cambodia approved a total of $479.68 million in new investment projects between January and June with more than 70 new ventures in the pipeline, according to date released yesterday by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). Investments in the garment sector continued to dominate new investments, comprising 49 of ...

The new lisT of reforms approved by The governmenT aT a high-level meeTing wiTh iTs foreign donors on Wednesday offer a mixed bag of TargeTs, wiTh some secTors, such as educaTion, given more ambiTious goals Than before, while oThers had Their ambiTions scaled back and old goals ...

Ninety-one NGOs put their names to a statement yesterday condemning the government’s escalating use of armed force against peaceful protesters and urged the authorities to engage with them to “break the current cycle of violence and impunity.” Joined by local human rights groups such as Adhoc ...

Hundreds of indigenous people called on government to pick up the pace in granting them communal land titles at a ceremony marking the U.N.-sponsored International Day of the World’s Indigenous People in Kompong thom province yesterday. “the gathering today is to mark the 8th anniversary of Indigenous Day ...

The Trade commissioner and foreign affairs represenTaTive of The European Union (E.U.) have Turned down a requesT from 13 members of The European Parlia­menT ThaT They immediaTely invesTigaTe Cambodia’s much criTicized economic land concessions, buT said They were moniToring The issue closely. In a March leTTer ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday defended that his newly-formed government was ” legitimate” since the nation’s King Norodom Sihamoni had given endorsement. “this government is a legitimate government, which was born from the election and was endorsed by the king,” the premier said during ...

The governmenT affirmed iTs commiTmenT To bilingual educaTion for eThnic minoriTy children in Cambodia’s norThern provinces aT a UNESCO conference in Bangkok lasT week. Speaking aT The fourTh InTernaTional Conference on Language and EducaTion: MulTilingual EducaTion for all in Asia and The Pacific, Ton Sa Im, ...

The governmenT yesTerday warned ciTizens To respecT King Norodom Sihamoni in social media commenTary. The warning Then backpedals, acknowledging The governmenT recognises The righTs of expression and freedom of The press ouTlined in The consTiTuTion and The Universal DeclaraTion of Human RighTs. ...

An organisation made up of current and former elected representatives from across Southeast Asia has called on the United Nations to investigate the deaths of two people shot by police during protests over the past three months. In a statement released yesterday, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human ...

A military court may pursue legal action against a Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect and newspaper publisher after the Council of Ministers yesterday filed a complaint against him. Dam Sith, editor-in-chief of the pro-CNRP Moneaksekar Khmer newspaper, published the text of a speech given by CNRP ...