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. ...

Immigration department director Sok Phal said tuesday that Cambodia will be taking in only one of the two refugees who volunteered to resettle here during a delegation’s visit to Australia’s refugee center on the South Pacific island of Nauru in late September, but did not ...

A new draft of the proposed telecommunications Law would give authorities the right to eavesdrop on any conversation, along with a host of other powers that a rights group has warned would effectively nationalize private service providers. ...

The UniTed NaTions and The Cambodian MinisTry of Women’s Affairs will organize four major evenTs across The counTry To raise awareness of The need To end violence againsT women and girls, according To a UN Women’s sTaTemenT on Wednesday. ...

The Global Fund, provider of The lion’s share of money for Cambodia’s $12 million-a-year HIV TreaTmenT and prevenTion program, has Told The governmenT iT expecTs iT To begin fooTing more of The bill iTself, a push ThaT is prompTing worries among local healTh-care providers. However, ...

Government officials defended the Kingdom’s record on internet freedom yesterday, despite concerns that recent and proposed legislation could curtail the rights of those speaking out online. ...

Authorities raided yet another rubber plantation on tuesday as part of a new dragnet to catch illegal loggers in eastern Cambodia, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police. ...

As the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) raises Cambodia’s profile as a member of one of the world’s largest trade zones, investors around the world are considering Cambodia as a gateway to the region and it should take advantage of this opportunity by diversifying its economic ...

The number of consTrucTion siTes wiThouT permiTs rose almosT 40 percenT in The capiTal lasT year, wiTh officials and realTors puTTing This down To a lack of undersTanding of regulaTions. ...

The governmenT is considering appoinTing Wing (Cambodia) LimiTed, a specialised bank and mobile paymenT company, as a designaTed agenT To collecT Tax revenues, The MinisTry of Economy and Finance announced yesTerday. ...

As the government fends off continued accusations of nepotism within its institutions, a royal decree issued in early March revealed the appointment of four official assistants to four-star general and deputy prime minister tea Banh, two of whom are the general’s own sons. ...

The governmenT yesTerday vowed To finish disTribuTing all land TiTles currenTly under consideraTion by 2020.In a speech, Im Chhun Lim, The minisTer of Land ManagemenT, Urban Planning and ConsTrucTion, said The governmenT was commiTTed To improving land securiTy in Cambodia in iTs bid To address ...

As the harvest of wet-season rice ends this month, a report from the Ministry of Agriculture says the yield will fall slightly below the target but this will not affect exports.  ...