The world is facing challenges due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting all countries’ social and economic aspects over more than two years. ...

Six more countries have taken part in the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), raising this deal’s membership to 49. ...

Khieu Kanharith, Minister of Information, said that in order to fight against the spread of false information people must understand technology and the evolution of society. ...

When the National Election Committee (NEC) released its updated preliminary election results this Monday, confirming a narrow win by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), opposition leader Sam Rainsy posted his reaction to the announcement on his Facebook page.  Rainsy questioned the release of the ...

 Two former opposition activists were arrested Tuesday and charged with incitement and insulting the King for Facebook posts commenting on the relationship between King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Meanchey village cancelled plans to block National Road 7 yesterday after provincial authorities and a Vietnamese rubber company agreed to their requests regarding an ongoing land dispute, but some expressed skepticism that the agreement would last. Village representative Saren ...

Thailand has to revise its strategy concerning a regional single visa scheme, or it could lose millions of tourists to neighboring countries, which are kicking off the “CLMV Single Visa” next year without the Kingdom’s participation. Five countries – Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar – ...

Police in Stung Treng province on Tuesday arrested a Council of Ministers official and her husband for trying to cheat a land-titling program Prime Minister Hun Sen announced last month, according to local officials. It marks the second time this week that authorities arrested or detained ...

Riding a motorcycle with a cage, Pov Nat scours rural areas for dogs. He pays between 30,000 ($7.38) and 80,000 riel a head and sells the animals to a butcher in Siem Reap. The 21-year-old native of Kampong Cham province began buying dogs after coming to ...

A second Chinese garment factory manager was arrested yesterday for destroying a photograph of the late King Norodom Sihanouk, while the woman who destroyed pictures of the late monarch at the factory in Phnom Penh on Monday was convinced and given a one-year suspended sentence, officials said. Employed ...

On vibrantly patterned straw mats, crowded around small plastic hampers of food, children – some with balloons, others with neon-coloured fans – huddle against their parents under the noon sun. But the parents are unblinking; some of the children barely have a pulse. Families have travelled up ...

The American Center for International Labor Solidarity has set its sights on the Herculean task of unionizing Cambodia’s civil service, a move that, were it successful, could have profound implications for the country’s political landscape. The term civil service in Cambodia has unusually broad application, referring to bureaucrats, ...

The Constitutional Council yesterday said it has the power to order the National Election Committee to open the sealed documents monitors say could prove election irregularities, but stopped short of saying it would actually do so. Election monitors have called on the NEC to open documents ...

National Assembly Chairman Heng Samrin has urged the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to negotiate with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), and join the government’s parliamentary sessions. The appeal was made after the National Assembly kicked off its session on Thursday to elect the ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Police of Cambodia conducted a special training at the capital’s Freedom Park on Monday after the opposition set to stage a three-day mass protest from Wednesday against the results of the July’s election that handed victory to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ...

Opposition supporters in Ratanakkiri yesterday said that local authorities aligned with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party have actively obstructed their efforts to circulate petitions ahead of Wednesday’s planned rally in Freedom Park. After collecting more than 100 thumbprints, local government and police officials in Bakeo district ...

The Council of Ministers has approved two coal-fired power plant projects and a transmission line worth nearly $1.7 billion, a plenary meeting of the Council of Ministers heard on Friday. The project is in line with the government master plan for the development of additional ...

Cambodia exported a total of 2,936,992 tonnes of agricultural commodities and products to the international markets during the first quarter of the year. Increasing 20 percent from the same period last year, according to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries released ...

During a courtesy call at the Ministry of Interior on the afternoon of October 2, 2023, Brigadier General Lev Van Phuong, Director of the Vietnamese Ministry of Police in Cambodia, informed Dr. Sar Sokha, Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Interior of the commitment to ...

The number of monkeys living in Angkor resort area has increased and are becoming a risk to tourists. According to APSARA National Authority, the monkeys no longer enter the forest in search of food but instead wait for food from humans and sometimes snatch food ...