The NGO Forum on Cambodia and indigenous communities have called for stronger efforts on the conservation of indigenous languages and the development of indigenous peoples in the Kingdom. The request was made as more than 300 million indigenous people in over 90 countries around the world ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng told provincial security forces in Kratie on Thursday to remain vigilant for any opposition activity in the run-up to July’s national elections, while also warning that a popular opposition movement would only come about from the government’s failure to cater to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Delivering a campaign speech from his home via Facebook Live on Thursday, caretaker Prime Minister Hun sen said his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) had carried the country through danger in its latest mandate. He was specifically referring to the threat of a “colour revolution” from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forestry officials in Preah Vihear province confiscated more than 1,100 kg of valuable rosewood early on Tuesday morning, while the two men suspected of transporting the wood were on the run, officials said.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of international tourists visiting siem Reap fell 9 per cent last year compared with 2014, largely on a decline in European visitor arrivals, a tourism official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Reversing a statement he made on sunday, CPP lawmaker and spokesman sok Eysan said a tentatively scheduled meeting between party leaders, including Interior Minister and senior CPP official sar Kheng and CNRP acting president Kem sokha, set for either yesterday or today had been cancelled ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of villagers in Mondolkiri province filed a lawsuit this week against three local border police officers and a forestry official accusing them of allowing Vietnamese loggers to sneak across the nearby border and illegally log the forests they depend on for a living. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The disgraced former director of Koh Kong’s provincial agriculture department will not be prosecuted despite admitting to profiting from the illegal sale of state land, Agriculture Minister Veng sakhon said on Monday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two measles cases investigated by the government in recent weeks have been confirmed positive, bringing the total number to five this year and causing concern among health officials about a possible outbreak after the World Health Organization declared the country measles-free just last year.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

As border controls ease among AsEAN nations, Interior Minister sar Kheng warned Tuesday the downside could be a freer flow of criminals and illegal immigrants. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ending their almost two-month boycott of parliament, opposition lawmakers yesterday joined their ruling party counterparts at the National Assembly in unanimously passing three laws.The plenary session, attended by 68 Cambodian People’s Party parliamentarians and 34 from the opposition Cambodia Nation Rescue Party, was by and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Military police in Phnom Penh on Wednesday arrested a seventh suspect in the kidnapping of three Chinese men freed on Monday from their captors, who had detained them for two months in a bid to make them pay back loans with the help of their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday hit back at opposition critics of his efforts to seek French expert help in modernising old colonial maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, rejecting their claims that such an effort would require a constitutional amendment. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The growing number of foreign visitors arriving by sea represents a promising source of tourism revenue for Cambodia, though limited port and tourism infrastructure has hampered its realisation, tourism stakeholders said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 26-year-old disabled man who was struggling to find work and was featured in Khmer Times in July has passed an exam to become an official at the Information Department in Battambang province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Grassroots Democracy Party, co-founded by slain political analyst Kem Ley, has announced it will compete in the national elections next year in all provinces, though analysts yesterday doubted that it would be able to mount a serious challenge to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation will start dispensing pensions for former civil servants and veterans at select ATMs starting in April. Minister Vong soth issued a notice yesterday stating that pensioners will be able to withdraw their monthly allocations from Canadia Bank ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five Cambodians expelled from the U.s. arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, a U.s. Embassy spokesman said, as Cambodia continued to call for revisions to the 2002 agreement with the U.s. that allowed their deportation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After leading the legal team that won the widely condemned dissolution of the CNRP at the supreme Court in November, Ky Tech, lawyer for the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Hun sen, has been given a rank equivalent to minister just weeks after he ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday again ordered Kandal provincial authorities to stop residents from leasing land to Vietnamese farmers, repeating a similar demand from in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...