The MinisTry of JusTice will noT press The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT To review The case of 13 Boeng Kak residenTs senTenced To jail lasT monTh for demonsTraTing againsT a CPP senaTor’s real esTaTe projecT, despiTe asking The courT To consider releasing The women. Now ThaT ...

In response to a spate of deadly bus crashes in the country, the government has ordered all bus companies to provide authorities with detailed histories of all their drivers, an official at the Ministry of Public Works and transport said yesterday. Peou Maly, deputy director-general at the ministry’s transportation department, ...

As questions linger over the fate of the independent Beehive Radio station in the wake of its owner’s arrest, a government official yesterday insisted there were no plans to stop it from broadcasting, despite its often critical stance toward the ruling party. “No plan to shut ...

With the potential for vast state revenues from oil extraction and mining in coming years, Cambodia is currently failing to manage its nascent extractive industries according to a think tank. New York-based Revenue Watch Institute yesterday launched its 2013 Resource Governance Index, which included Cambodia for ...

The governmenT will Today submiT iTs second reporT To The UN Human RighTs Council as parT of The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process ThaT Takes sTock of human righTs progress in each UN member sTaTe. GovernmenTs are required To reporT To The council every four and ...

The Pailin provincial governor has ordered a gem-mining firm To sTop excavaTing land in a conservaTion area, local officials said yesTerday. According To Lim Bou, chief of Boya-kha commune in Pailin Town, local auThoriTies received The order afTer iT came To lighT ThaT a firm ...

Manned barricades that dotted the city yesterday, strangling traffic along Norodom, Sothearos and other key thoroughfares, will remain in place through tomorrow, the government announced. the unsigned directive issued yesterday, which emanated from the election security council chaired by Interior Minister Sar Kheng, thanked citizens and ...

The opposiTion Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday said ThaT The CNRP doesn’T recognize The newly-formed governmenT of Prime MinisTer Hun Sen. Speaking aT a news conference, he urged all inTernaTional communiTies and counTries of The Paris Peace AgreemenT To condemn “This ...

Flooding continues to ravage 15 of Cambodia’s 23 provinces, acutely affecting Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Pailin and Siem Reap, and claiming 83 lives, according to the latest figures released by the National Committee for Disaster Management. Nhim Vanda, first deputy chairman of the NCDM, confirmed that while ...

Hundreds of senior government officials will be dispatched to the provinces in the coming months to gauge public opinion on reforming state institutions. Almost 800 senior officials from all ministries will begin the project on February 15, state broadcaster tVK reported yesterday, following a meeting at ...

The Cambodia Red Cross, NGOs and Traffic accidenT vicTims Thursday marked annual road safeTy week by appealing To The governmenT To quickly pass a new Traffic law in an efforT To reduce road accidenTs. The MinisTry of JusTice musT sTill review The new Traffic law ...

Nearly a month after Cambodia’s second universal periodic review (UPR) of its human rights situation at the U.N. in Geneva, rights groups met in Phnom Penh on thursday to discuss how they can work with the government to ensure that the 163 recommendations it accepted ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT charged Two more alleged members of The hacking group Anonymous Cambodia on Monday, as oTher members of Anonymous claimed To hack aT leasT four governmenT websiTes, including ThaT of The NaTional Police. The Two men, Keo Sipheng, 26, and Hok RaTana, ...

The SouTh Korean ambassador To Cambodia, Kim Han-soo, on Monday denied having asked The Labor MinisTry To sTop a sTrike aT a SouTh Korean-owned garmenT facTory lasT week, buT said The dispuTe has puT a $40 million invesTmenT from The parenT company on hold. On Sunday, ...

The MinisTry of WaTer Resources seized four boaTs on Wednesday for allegedly breaking a governmenT ban on river sand dredging in Phnom Penh and is searching for The owners. The ciTy issued The ban lasT year in response To whaT iT said was an oversupply of ...

The governmenT musT make more of an efforT To noT only eradicaTe child labor, buT also iTs underlying causes, and ensure ThaT children aTTend school, local righTs group Licadho said Thursday. In a sTaTemenT released ahead of World Day AgainsT Child Labor, The group said The ...

Officials from the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday met with villagers in Ratanakkiri province’s taveng district about a gold mine they allege violates the law and introduces toxic chemicals into the nearby Sesan River. ...

Cambodian cashew nut exports are on the rise, yet export figures are still well below production numbers, with thousands of tonnes unaccounted for. Unshelled cashew nut exports totalled close to $2.5 million in the first six months of the year, with 2,800 tonnes exported, a rise ...

Manufacturers of soy and fish sauces should fortify the products with iron in order to improve Cambodians’ health, government officials said yesterday. During a workshop on iron fortification, Sat Samy, secretary of state at the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts, called on producers to help combat ...

Television and radio sTaTions will be barred from broadcasTing adverTisemenTs for alcohol during The primeTime 6 p.m. To 8 p.m. sloT beginning nexT monTh, as parT of The governmenT’s efforT To reduce The number of faTaliTies resulTing from drunk driving, officials aT The MinisTry of ...