Transparency International Cambodia (TIC) on Thursday concluded in a report that official results of the July 28 national election released by the National Election Committee (NEC) do not reflect the will of the people due to widespread irregularities occurring both before and on election day. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

If opposition supporters are wearied by the CNRP’s continuing boycott of parliament, they refused to show it on Friday as an estimated 25,000 people turned out for the final day of a three-day protest that delivered petitions and letters to eight foreign embassies and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen signed off on a directive last week to trans­fer 11 government bodies, previously overseen by Cabinet Minister sok An, to relevant ministries and institutions, further cutting the expansive portfolio of the deputy prime minister in the wake of July’s national election. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and U.S. Senior officialS met here on Monday to further promote bilateral tieS and cooperation. The meeting waS made between Ouch Borith, Secretary of State at the Cambodian MiniStry of Foreign AffairS, and Scot Marciel, viSiting principal deputy aSSiStant to the United StateS Secretary of SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government is set to start re-deploying student volunteers to measure and demarcate plots of land across the country as part of Prime Minister Hun sen’s land-titling scheme, which was briefly suspended ahead of July’s national election. The program was announced by the prime minister in ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new open-air mall sporting high-end luxury shops and restaurants in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district is the latest expansion of the suburban neighborhood, though widespread commercialization of the area could still take years, property executives said Monday. The mall, called TK Avenue, opened Friday at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Phnom Penh on Wednesday expressed boredom and disbelief as Prime Minister Hun sen passed his previous record-breaking five-hour speech on border demarcation last year with a more than six-hour-long monologue on government reforms he says are planned. Evoking images of elaborate self-criticism sessions the ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 members of the Cambodian Grassroots People’s Assembly—a network of communities throughout the country that includes farmers as well as land and labor activists—will rally at Freedom Park on Monday to demand an end to the current political impasse. The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. denim giant Levi StrauSS continued to deny thiS week that itS productS are linked to the Strife-torn SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh, deSpite new photographS Showing Levi&rSquo;S trademark jeanS Stacked on bencheS at the plant in Meanchey diStrict. The Singaporean-owned factory, which alSo produceS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Heng, a Cambodian development company, has made a big surprise when introducing its self-modified electric car. The car, named Angkor EV 2014, is created by a local designer, manufactured by Heng Company which has set up a $20 million factory in Kandal province. The car, operated by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The long-awaited draft law on the Supreme Council of MagiStracy continueS the practice of Secret voteS and giveS JuStice MiniSter Ang Vong Vathana key powerS, according to excerptS from the document, but it would reduce the poSition of King Norodom Sihamoni if paSSed in itS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Talks between Cambodia’s ruling party and the opposition to resolve the impasse over last year’s election have been deadlocked for months. The two sides disagree on a number of issues, most significantly reform of the National Election Committee (NEC). But signs of a thaw have ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three people have filed separate complaints against a Phnom Penh district official, accusing him of ordering violence in a clash between security forces and bystanders near Freedom Park last week. At least 10 people were injured in clashes last Monday, as opposition member Mu sochua staged ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s supreme Court on Friday upheld a decision refusing bail to 21 people arrested during a deadly worker strike crackdown, a defense lawyer said, as dozens of supporters protested outside, calling the charges against them politically motivated and demanding their release. The top court upheld the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A long-simmering land dispute between a group of villagers and a high-ranking minister’s wife turned violent this weekend as 10 people were injured while trying to block the KDC company from building a warehouse on contested land in Kompong Chhnang province, villagers and police said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on Monday Slammed municipal waSte diSpoSal company Cintri for itS poor performance in collecting the city&rSquo;S garbage after a Strike by traSh collectorS laSt week once again left the StreetS a meSS. Cintri&rSquo;S traSh collectorS ended their Second Strike of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

The United states and Cambodian governments on Tuesday released an educational guide that will help Cambodian schools improve the way their students learn, according to a media statement from the U.s. Embassy. The Life skills Curriculum is the culmination of an extensive collaboration between the Cambodian Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. “I never thought I would get out. There was a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acting on direct orders from Prime Minister Hun sen, Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa socheatvong on Tuesday called on municipal officials to strictly monitor the companies that collect daily fees from the city’s market vendors. Mr. Hun sen called out the governor in a speech on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Many small and medium companies of Japan are showing their interest in doing business in Cambodia, according to an assistant of Prime Minister Hun sen. 99 percent of Japanese small and medium companies are interested in investing in Asia, especially in Cambodia, which is located ss='cambodia-color'>...