The three men arrested for the murder of 49-year-old journalist Taing Try in Kratie province on Sunday morning confessed to murdering the reporter after he threatened to tell authorities about their illegal logging activities, a police official said. ...

Attendees at a conference of a new political reform association called “Khmer for Khmer,” which met for the first time Sunday, hit back Monday at claims made by a CNRP public affairs officer that the group plans to form a new party to divide the ...

Police arrested a woman on suspicion of human trafficking in Tbong Khmum province’s Suong City on Monday, after the woman was found with a teenage girl whose parents had raised the alarm with local authorities once she went missing in Ratanakkiri province, officials said Tuesday. ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an $18 million loan to build a marine ferry terminal and other infrastructure in southern Cambodia to open up new opportunities for tourism beyond current popular destinations like the famous temples of Angkor. ...

The operator of Cambodia’s largest industrial park, the Phnom Penh SEZ, plans to list on the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX) next year in an attempt to raise $15 million to set up another economic zone in Poipet City, according to the company and media reports. ...

Brunei Crown Prince Haji Al- Muhtadee Billah will pay an official visit to Cambodia from March 2 to 4 in order to further enhance bilateral ties and cooperation, according to a statement from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. ...

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will lead a delegation to pay a working visit to Russia from March 2 to 4 in order to boost ties and cooperation, according to a news statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday. ...

Nhiek Bun Chhay, second vice president of the royalist Funcinpec party, held a press conference on Friday at his home in Phnom Penh to rail against the party’s president, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, for making decisions without consultation since returning to lead the party in January. ...

Seven South Korean nationals were arrested in Siem Reap province Monday on suspicion of attempting to extort money from foreigners through Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, after a further six were detained for allegedly committing the same crime last month, an immigration official said ...

The revised national election law—expected to come before parliament this month—includes a provision that allows National Assembly seats to be taken away from any political party that attempts to boycott parliament following an election, according to a draft of the law made public Thursday. ...

The World Bank said last week that Cambodia will likely graduate to a lower-middle-income nation in 2015, on the back of sustained poverty alleviation, stable economic growth and progress made on reducing inequality between the rich and poor. ...

Cambodia’s economy is expected to benefit from a strong recovery in the US markets and the fall of global oil prices, driving its high growth trend, according to the International Monetary Fund’s projection for the Asia-Pacific region. ...

The Anti-Corruption Unit met with visiting staff of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria last week to follow up on the Fund’s allegations that a former government health official had collected some $350,000 in bribes to manipulate mosquito net contracts. ...

Residents of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City have been warned to brace themselves for a major water shortage over the next two weeks as the company contracted to supply the border town’s clean water scrambles to build a new reservoir amid a localized drought. ...

With Phnom Penh’s parking situation in “disarray,” City Hall has agreed to allow a Cambodian-Japanese joint venture to test a paid-parking scheme next month in an effort to reduce the number of parked cars clogging the capital’s streets, according to company officials. ...

A man who entered a Phnom Penh high school and slapped a teenager who had been fighting with his daughter told the municipal court on Friday that he was mentally ill and had lied about working at the Council of Minis­ters, hoping it would protect ...

The Cambodian Agriculture Cooperative Insurance Company (CACIC), an initiative established by the Cambodia Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC), yesterday announced the start of an agriculture micro insurance service to help rice farmers better respond to climate change. ...

Capping a week in which footage emerged of a tycoon viciously beating a female entertainer and a man entering a Phnom Penh school to slap a teenage girl, some 160 security personnel marched down the riverside here on Friday chanting slogans to conclude the “Good ...

A loacal NGO director and a village chief in Battambang’s Samlot district were summoned for questioning by district police today over a complaint filed by six loggers, who claim the men attempted to extort $6,000 from them under the threat of violence. ...

More than 20 memorials have been built in Cambodian high schools since 2010, in an effort to educate young people about the Khmer Rouge. The aim of the project is to teach about genocide in order to prevent its return. ...