Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday clarified that Prime Minister Hun Sen did not express willingness to see international involvement in an independent investigation into election irregularities, after state media incorrectly reported to the contrary. State news service Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), which operates out of ...

A verdict in the brutal slaying last year of an investigative journalist in Ratanakkiri province is due to be handed down by the provincial court today following a reinvestigation into the case. Hang Serei Odom, 42, a reporter for the Virakchun Khmer Daily, was found hacked ...

The CPP on Monday quickly dismissed the latest proposal from nGOs aimed at breaking the political impasse over how to investigate irregularities surrounding last month’s contested national election. To break the deadlock, the nGOs, who have dubbed the group they formed to monitor the election ...

Cambodia will resume international adoptions in 2014, more than four years after suspending them over concerns about child exploitation, an official said Wednesday. Deputy Social Affairs Minister nim Thoth told reporters that foreigners interested in adopting Cambodian children would be able to make applications in the ...

Krousar Thmey, the country’s pre-eminent nGO working to educate disabled children, is in the process of being integrated into the Education Ministry, the company’s director and government officials confirmed Thursday. Speaking on the sidelines of the national Workshop on Inclusive Education, Herve Roqueplan, director of Krousar ...

While Cambodia is often touted as a regional success story in terms of HIV/AIDS prevention, the prevalence of the disease among men who have sex with men, sex workers and intravenous drug users remains a concern, according to a report by UnAIDS released Tuesday. Infections have ...

In a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen and 10 of the government’s highest-ranking officials in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, U.n. human rights envoy Surya Subedi called for the perpetrators of recent state-sanctioned killings to be held accountable for their actions. Mr. Subedi spent three-and-a-half hours ...

n a request signed by more than 500 organisations, civil society representatives on Monday petitioned the government to amend three laws on the judiciary. During the 4th Government-CSOs Partnership Forum, civil society organisations (CSOs) requested changes to improve the efficacy of the legal system and ...

The U.N. refugee ageNcy warNs the Number of people forcibly displaced from their homes is likely to exceed 60 millioN iN 2015.The UNHCR has released its Mid-Year TreNds 2015 report coveriNg global forced displacemeNt duriNg the first six moNths of this year. ...

Cambodia’s journey towards becoming a member of the Chinese central bank’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) will require more time due to the “stringent conditions” put forth by the central bank, according to national Bank of Cambodia (nBC) deputy governor Chea Serey. ...

NatioNal BaNk of Cambodia deputy goverNor Chea Serey clarified oN July 16 that a receNt memoraNdum of uNderstaNdiNg with ChiNa’s UNioNPay was Not aN agreemeNt to legalise the ChiNese yuaN iN the KiNgdom or the CambodiaN riel iN ChiNa. Rather, it permits mobile paymeNts usiNg ...

It’s a scene repeated endlessly at most of Southeast Asia’s main airports – planes forced to circle overhead or idle on the tarmac and travellers stuck in serpentine queues at immigration desks, security checkpoints and baggage carousels. And it’s likely to get worse in capitals like ...

Hundreds of indigenous people called on government to pick up the pace in granting them communal land titles at a ceremony marking the U.n.-sponsored International Day of the World’s Indigenous People in Kompong Thom province yesterday. “The gathering today is to mark the 8th anniversary of Indigenous Day ...

Rights groups on Wednesday called on authorities to stop circulating petitions asking people to support preliminary results from last month’s national election showing a win for the ruling CPP and promising not to join any demonstration called by the opposition. With both the CPP and opposition ...

At about 10 a.m. Thursday morning, during a press conference at the CnRP’s Phnom Penh headquarters, opposition leader Sam Rainsy dialed the phone number of CPP Interior Minister Sar Kheng and told a few dozen reporters in attendance that he would broadcast their conversation over ...

Traffic police across the country have still not resumed enforcing traffic laws after a pre-election enforcement moratorium that was meant to last just a few weeks ahead of the July 28 poll, according to government and U.n. officials. “The superiors ordered [police] to stop, for a ...

Cambodia’s opposition said Thursday it is prepared to hold talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party without any preconditions in a fresh bid to end a political deadlock three months after disputed national elections. The move signaled a shift by the Cambodia national Rescue Party (CnRP), which days earlier had said it ...

The U.N.’s humaN rights eNvoy to Cambodia, Surya Subedi, who begaN his 10th fact-fiNdiNg missioN to Cambodia oN SuNday, has beeN asked to iNvestigate issues faced by ethNic Khmer Krom people after five moNks were arrested for participatiNg iN garmeNt worker protests earlier this moNth. IN ...

Cambodia vehemently denied that it has supported Japan‘s plan to enhance its military role, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. “The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation wishes to strongly reject the recent publications of Kyodo ...

Officials with the office of the U.N. High CommissioNer for Refugees (UNHCR) oN Tuesday spoke out for the first time agaiNst Australia’s plaNs to seNd some of the asylum seekers tryiNg to reach its shores to Cambodia, sayiNg the peNdiNg deal was Not a “real ...