Four years after the forcible deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers from Cambodia to China, an advocacy group has said it remains “deeply concerned” about their fate and has called on China to lift a veil of secrecy surrounding their treatment. In a statement, the World ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech to the U.n. General Assembly on Saturday to call on developed nations to fulfill their pledges to commit at least 0.7 percent of their annual income to foreign aid.Speaking at a summit on the U.n.’s development goals, Mr. ...

Cambodia’s foreign minister last week launched a scathing attack on Western democracies, labeling them hypocritical and only interested in promoting human rights and democracy when it was in their own self-interest. ...

Ministry of Health has confirmed that Cambodia has no case of swine flu or H1n1, yet encouraged the public to take appropriate precaution to protect themselves and their families from the disease. ...

A study by the International Labor Organization, the U.n.’s labor body, shows most Cambodian garment workers do not eat enough nutritious food and that, as a result, many are anemic and even underweight. now, a pilot project will feed workers at five factories a free ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon to take action to prevent the spread of bird flu (H5n1) from Vietnam into the Kingdom as an outbreak of the disease plagues southern Vietnam. ...

A group of South Koreans and Cambodians employed by a Korean developer faced off with an excavator and a bulldozer clearing land for a wealthy local businessman in a dispute over 6 hectares of land in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on Wednesday. ...

American packaging firm Crown Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday it would build a new can manufacturing plant in Sihanoukville that will become operational in the second half of 2013. Although it did not say how much the project was worth, the factory will produce 725 million 33 ...

The Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control Department yesterday issued a statement urging citizens to be aware of the influenza strain H1n1 that has the potential to spread rapidly during the rainy season. ...

Cambodia has signed an international treaty designed to regulate the trade in conventional weapons, becoming the 114th country to formally pledge its support for the agreement, which was adopted by the U.n.’s General Assembly in April. Sea Kosal, Cambodia’s ambassador to the U.n. in new York, ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday called on all Cambodians to bump up precautions to avoid contracting the 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that has already killed more than 50 people in China. The prime minister told the public to remain calm but alert about the ...

The UN DevelopmeNt Programme (UNDP), with the support of the AustraliaN goverNmeNt, doNated 1,700 computer tablets aNd software packages to the MiNistry of PlaNNiNg oN WedNesday. ...

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. ...

Nasdaq-listed ENtertaiNmeNt GamiNg Asia INc, a compaNy liNked to Macau casiNo operator Melco CrowN ENtertaiNmeNt Ltd, is selliNg its assets iN Cambodia. The sale iNcludes all assets of Dreamworld Leisure with the exceptioN of all electroNic gamiNg machiNes, aNd prohibits aNy use of the Dreamworld ...