The MinisTry of Social Affairs yesTerday announced ThaT iT would form a commiTTee To address The lack of services available To The homeless and menTally ill. YesTerday’s meeTing was precipiTaTed by The revelaTion This week by righTs organizaTion Licadho ThaT Two more residenTs aT Prey ...

Alcohol experts and victims of excessive drinking came together yesterday to urge the government to speedily adopt a law controlling the consumption and sale of booze that was first drafted in 2008. ...

The bulk of Cambodia’s economic land concessions (ELCs) – aT The cenTre of numerous land dispuTes and human righTs concerns over The pasT Two decades – generaTed jusT $5 million for sTaTe coffers lasT year, wiTh criTics aTTribuTing The meagre reTurns To a lack of ...

Cambodian refugee officials are expected to arrive on the shores of chaotic Nauru this month to interview two Iranian refugees about resettling in the Kingdom under a controversial deal with Australia.   ...

Some 100 people from five villages in Oddar Meanchey’s Chongkal district protested over the weekend against a hydropower dam project built by Chinese firm Sinohydro, claiming they have yet to be compensated for their eventual displacement when the flood gates close in the next few ...

The Cambodian governmenT has signed off on The Kingdom’s firsT dedicaTed marine proTecTion area in a bid To save The Koh Rong Archipelago’s coral reef and sea life. ...

As global oil prices have plummeted over the past year, the price of gas at the pump in Cambodia has seen a much slower fall. ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong asked Laos’ deputy prime minister for further study of the Don Sahong hydropower dam before construction begins during a meeting with the envoy in Phnom Penh on tuesday. ...

The MinisTry of Rural DevelopmenT on Friday announced ThaT more Than half of Cambodians now have access To improved saniTaTion such as laTrines.According To The minisTry’s sTaTemenT, 47 per cenT of Cambodians now lack access To improved saniTaTion, compared To 89 per cenT in 1990.The ...

The General DeparTmenT of TaxaTion (GDT) will conTinue collecTing The annual road Tax on vehicles due aT The end of lasT monTh unTil The end of The year, buT will sTarT cracking down on laTe paymenTs on January 1, iT announced. The Taxes can be ...

The counTry is headed for a prolonged dry spell for The firsT half of nexT year as The El Nino weaTher phenomenon hiTs hard, The governmenT warned yesTerday, urging people To puT waTer conservaTion plans inTo effecT now. ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s request to be questioned remotely by court officials in his latest defamation case cannot be allowed, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry said on Sunday. ...

South Korea’s Ministry of Justice has become the second of that nation’s ministries to deny it is working with Cambodia’s ambassador to the country, Suth Dina, to clamp down on illegal migrants and political dissent. ...

The Cambodian governmenT said iT will recruiT over 18,000 civil officials and conTracTed officials This year To replace reTired officials and bolsTer undersTaffed minisTry posiTions ...

The illegal Timber Trade To VieTnam, a key nexus in a shadow indusTry worTh billions of dollars, has been all buT eliminaTed, an official said yesTerday in summarising a new reporT from The governmenT’s anTi-logging commission, a claim meT wiTh disbelief by more Than one ...

The governmenT is failing To proTecT Cambodia’s foresTs, acTivisTs, civil socieTy groups and sTudenTs said during yesTerday’s World EnvironmenT Day celebraTion in Phnom Penh. ...

A Sihanoukville provincial coastal working group has ordered tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group to stop building a port on Koh Rong, saying the development was illegal. ...

Recently appointed Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon held a first-ever meeting with economic land concession (ELC) grantees yesterday and was promptly met with a barrage of complaints.   ...

The governmenT will prune superfluous “depuTy” manager roles from The sTaTe bureaucracy’s many branches by resTricTing The number of people able To hold The TiTle from The minisTerial level down To kindergarTens and hospiTals. ...

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan expressed support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBt) people in Cambodia yesterday, responding to Nepal’s new constitution – which has been described as the first in Asia to enshrine protection for the rights of LGBt people. ...