The Takeo provincial Environment Department on Monday warned authorites would take legal action against a senior police official in Koh Andet district who tried to use a vehicle to clear land illegally in The protected lake Boeung Prek Lapouv. ...

The government has lashed out at a European Parliament resolution passed last week that calls for former opposition leader Kem Sokha’s treason charges to be dropped and human rights to be restored, arguing The resolution was biased. ...

Cambodia’s economic health remains strong at about 6 or 7 percent annual growth, but the country needs to harness its young population and invest in training and skills to ensure this trend continues, the World Bank said. ...

Around 1,500 protesters marked World Habitat Day on Monday by marching through Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh and calling on the government to put a stop to forced evictions in the Southeast Asian nation. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that the soldiers who violently attacked two CNRP lawmakers last week were only reacting to racial insults, while Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said he would have “used a gun” against the lawmakers. ...

East China’s Jiangsu province on Wednesday opened a trade and economic representative office in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) in southwest Cambodia, aiming to further boost trade and investment ties between the two countries. ...

National Election Committee (NEC) Secretary-General Tep Nytha said on Thursday that next year’s crucial commune council elections would likely be held in June but that the decision must ultimately come from the government.   ...

The national carrier, Cambodia Angkor Air, officially launched on Friday its scheduled flight services connecting Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to The Kingdom’s coastal resort in Sihanoukville, in a move that could furTher boost tourist arrivals. ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh said on Friday that he hoped the royalist Funcinpec party, which he has promised to revitalize since again becoming its president in January, would win 26 seats in the 2018 national election, up from zero in 2013. ...

CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha said on Saturday that he is so confident the opposition party will win a majority in Kompong Cham province at the 2018 national election that he will quit politics if they do not. ...

Index Creative Village, the country’s leading event management company, will expand its business into Cambodia next year by organising trade fairs in response to its clients’ need to capitalise on the Asean economic integration. ...

More than 5,000 competent forces will deploy for security and public order during the 8thCongress on the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) that will be held in Phnom Penh next Monday. ...

Six prominent conservation groups yesterday vowed to help a military police task force fight illegal logging near the eastern border yesterday. However, scepticism persists that the highly publicised operation, which has resulted in few arrests, is merely for show. ...

Two unionists jailed since February 2 have been released on bail by the Kompong Speu Provincial Court, although they remain charged with incitement and intentional violence in connection with a protest outside the Cerie garment factory, officials said Thursday. ...

With the inaugural Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) leaders’ meeting scheduled to open next week in China, Cambodia said the LMC is important for all Lancang-Mekong countries to maintain regional peace and stability and to boost economic development. ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared to rebuke Cambodia’s position on the South China Sea dispute over the weekend, saying that an international tribunal’s ruling on China’s territorial claims should be respected.   ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said here this morning at a graduation ceremony that in the democratic countries, power cannot be transferred from a father to his child, according to the state news agency-AKP.   ...

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) has signed an agreement with a Singaporean clean energy firm to install and operate a solar panel system inside the 357-hectare industrial park, the company said yesterday in a press release. ...

Cambodia’s civil servants and security forces must be politically neutral, and will be if the Cambodia National Rescue Party takes power after the 2018 election, acting opposition leader Kem Sokha told supporters in Banteay Meanchey on Saturday. ...

In what one commentator described as “a bold step”, the Interior Ministry’s prisons department has seemingly admitted it has a drug problem, and last week sent a letter requesting the Health Ministry’s assistance in tackling it. ...