The U.N.’s eNvoy for freedom of as­sembly oN Tuesday preseNted a report to the U.N. GeNeral Assem­bly that calls for aN approach to electioN moNitoriNg that looks be­yoNd polliNg day to assess wheth­er electioNs iN couNtries such as Cambodia are “free aNd fair.” The report, compiled ...

Rhona Smith, the U.n.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, on Tuesday addressed the U.n. Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva for the first time, telling the body that she planned to focus on marginalized people in the country. ...

Health officials from Cambodia and Vietnam met on Monday in an effort to cooperate on avian influenza. ...

The portion of the Cambodian population that is undernourished has been reduced by half since 1990, meeting a U.n. Millennium Development Goal ahead of the deadline at the end of the year, according to a report released Thursday. ...

Health Minister Mam Bun Heng yesterday announced the Kingdom has detected its first novel Coronavirus infection in Preah Sihanouk province. He said in a press conference yesterday evening the infection was detected by the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia yesterday on 60-year-old Chinese national Jia Jianhua, ...

Journalists in Cambodia are facing increasing threats and being prevented from doing their jobs amid growing restrictions on press freedom and civic and political rights, the U.n human rights office there said this week. The U.n. agency’s report, issued August 3, describes press freedom in ...

Cambodia’s human rights record was assessed Tuesday by the U.n. Human Rights Council’s 47 member states in Geneva, many of which cited concerns about the recent violent suppression of protests by the government, and a judiciary beholden to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling CPP. The U.n. ...

Cambodia failed Monday to make its deadline to submit a key human rights report—known as the universal period review (UPR)—to the U.n., said Mak Sambath, deputy chairman of the government’s Human Rights Committee. Having missed the submission deadline, the government is now hoping to get its ...

Teenage pregnancies are hindering Cambodia’s development as young mothers are unlikely to finish school and therefore lack job opportunities, government and U.n. officials said at the launch of a global report on adolescent pregnancies on Wednesday. “The Ministry of Women’s Affairs acknowledges that adolescent pregnancies have ...

Cambodia signed an agreement with Vietnam and Laos during a meeting on Thursday to enhance efforts to fight human trafficking—with Vietnam reporting at the meeting that police discovered nearly 90 human trafficking rings along its border with Cambodia last year. ...

Vietnamese police visited a group of Montagnards in Phnom Penh on Tuesday in an effort to persuade them to return to Vietnam, where the asylum-seekers claim to have fled systematic government persecution, a member of the group said on Wednesday. ...

After eight years in the works, the Agriculture Ministry on Monday circulated the framework for Cambodia’s first law regulating the quality of domestic and imported meat products and livestock. ...

With rain finally starting to fall across the country, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday declared an end to the relief campaign he launched last month to counter the worst drought in decades, calling the devastating dry spell an opportunity for “lessons” in governance. ...

Health officials in Svay Rieng province, which was hit by an outbreak of bird flu (H5n1) early this month, said the virus has been stopped and there was no sign of a continuing outbreak.   ...

U.N. humaN rights eNvoy Surya Subedi oN WedNesday wrapped up his appearaNce before the HumaN Rights CouNcil iN GeNeva with a vow to coNtiNue assistiNg Cambodia iN improviNg its judicial system as NGOs provided witheriNg testimoNy of the situatioN of rights iN the couNtry. A dialogue ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has warned that some garment factories in Cambodia may be forced to shut down temporarily or lay off workers next month due to a shortage of raw materials. As the 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) continues to spread across ...

With the new coronavirus claiming its 17th life in China, the Cambodian Ministry of Health on Thursday said it is taking measures to ensure the disease does not enter the Kingdom, including inspecting all flights from Wuhan City, the outbreak’s epicentre. Ministry secretary of state ...

Cambodia has been the country regionally worst affected by bird flu in humans this year—with 23 cases compared to just two in Vietnam and none in Thailand—largely due to the difference in poultry farming, an official with the U.n.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said ...

Cambodia has not seen any case of H7n9 bird flu virus and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, a senior health official said Monday. Speaking at a seminar on the awareness of H7n9 and MERS coronavirus, Dr. Ly Sovann, director of the health ministry’s communicable ...

Thaneakea Srov (Kampuchea) Plc, the recipient of a low-interest $15 million loan from the state-run Rural Development Bank, inked contracts yesterday with three companies to build and outfit its massive 200,000-tonne capacity silo and warehouse facility in Battambang province. ...