Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said that the implementation of the safe village-commune policy in 2022 had reduced the crime rate by nine per cent, while the nationwide rate of conviction for those arrested for criminal offences was at 92 per cent. ...

រThe plan to attract two million Chinese tourists by 2020 will succeed, the tourism minister said yesterday during an MoU signing ceremony with the Confucius Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia. ...

Cambodia could see massive investments as a result of China’s latest pledge to funnel an enormous sum into developing infrastructure as part of its New Silk Road initiative, an analyst said yesterday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday expressed his condolences for the family of a 14-year-old girl shot dead by government security forces in Kratie last month, but stopped short of calling for an investigation. ...

Breaking from a history of boasting about the potential longevity of his tenure as Cambodia’s leader, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that he would likely have to retire sometime before he turns 90. ...

A vote at the National Assembly to officially select the nine members of the new National Election Committee (NEC) was on Wednesday rescheduled for Thursday, hours after the names of the presumptive candidates were leaked. ...

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party is pushing for the campaign period of the next national election to be cut to just 14 days, less than half of the 30-day period currently allocated for campaigning.​ ...

Newly appointed election monitor Rong Chhun has come out swinging ahead of today’s official swearing in of the nine new National Election Committee members, saying he is “sharpening his spurs” for a potential showdown. ...

Three people in Oddar Meanchey province will be questioned today over the alleged premeditated murder of a “gentle” 60-year-old woman accused by a local family of practising sorcery, police said yesterday. ...

Dozens of independent bungalows at one of Cambodia’s most unspoiled beaches are to be bulldozed with weeks, raising fears that a “soulless” mega-resort will replace them. ...

In the wake of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) clearing him of any wrongdoing, a Phnom Penh commune police chief yesterday refuted allegations that he had accepted protection pay-offs from neighbourhood drug dealers. ...

The recent outbreak of “blue-ear pig disease” in two districts of Siem Reap province has been successfully contained, but consumer demand for pork in the province has not recovered, a senior official said. ...

Stung Treng provincial authorities say they have warned villagers living upstream of the Lower Sesan II dam to expect floods in September as one of the dam’s 50-megawatt turbines goes into operation. ...

In what one observer said was simply an act of politicking, the opposition CNRP on Thursday said it would push its campaign pledge of giving $500,000 to every commune in the National Assembly. ...

Provincial authorities here are closely monitoring the movements of the Ka­zantip festival’s organizers to ensure that no replica parties are in the pipeline after the cancellation of the famously debauched rave earlier this week. ...

Ten members of the blacklisted Khmer National Liberation Front were tried yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on treason charges brought on by allegations they had distributed anti-Vietnamese propaganda ahead of a demonstration last year. ...

The Laos government has announced plans for a fourth major dam on the Mekong mainstream just months after the feasibility of another of its hydroelectric projects was thrown into question by a delayed power deal. ...

Malaysia-based retailer Giant, one of the largest players in Asia, has launched its first store in Cambodia, opening in Phnom Penh’s Grand City Mall as part of a major expansion into the Kingdom. ...

Construction of the $2 billion, 133-story twin tower skyscrapers planned to rise opposite NagaWorld will start in the middle of this year, an official who helped design the project told Khmer Times yesterday. ...

The son-in-law of Senator Kok An has rejected accusations the tycoon is attempting to grab six hectares of land from a plot he sold to a South Korean development company 10 years ago. ...