The allocation of two new seats to Preah sihanouk province and absence of seats for Phnom Penh in the recently distributed draft law on electoral reform has prompted concerns that attempts are being made to manipulate the playing field ahead of the 2018 election. Ou Virak, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Filthy trucks loaded with luxury timber rule the red-earth roads in this heavily deforested district. Each day, dozens of 10-wheelers bounce along the pot-holed roads, carting logs of the much-sought Thnong timber. And while some of the cargo is legal, much of it is not. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday stressed that ethnic Vietnamese have been living in Cambodia since the French colonial period and did not arrive only during his premiership. speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new road in Tbong Khmum province, the prime minister said it was ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni uSed the opening of parliament on WedneSday morning to call for “Strong national Solidarity baSed on the Spirit of national unity” aS he inaugurated the Sixth mandate of the National ASSembly in a ceremony that waS devoid of repreSentativeS from major WeStern SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling party is preparing for local elections to be held in May, but few Cambodians appear to be paying much attention to what has become largely a sideshow after the Cambodian People’s Party banned the main opposition two years ago and handed their jobs ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the national elections approaching, a Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) spokesman said “many thousands” of former members of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) have joined it. However, watchdogs and ex-CNRP officials have voiced doubts about this, claiming the comment is merely an “old ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday told sar Kheng and other government officials not to respond to an unnamed group who he said had urged the Minister of Interior to stage a coup against the leader of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). He said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The outlook of local farmer’s remained dismal even as the price of pigs doubled during the second quarter, with many of them pointing to a lack of government regulation as a factor that is sowing market unreliability. Rising to $2.20 per kilogram from just over ss='cambodia-color'>...

A year after the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), the fate of the former main opposition party remains unclear. While its senior officials claim the supreme Court-dissolution of their party is a “death knell for democracy” in Cambodia, Council of Ministers spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday denied a “rift” among top leaders of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), and rejected claims that senate president say Chhum and Interior Minister sar Kheng were set to be removed from their positions as rumours spread by “gangsters”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four people were arrested and more than 1,000 pieces of illegally logged timber seized in Mondolkiri province during a coordinated series of raids on three warehouses over the past three days, an official said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the draft union law due to be debated during a public forum on Wednesday, a group of 21 unions and NGOs released a statement yesterday calling on the National Assembly to allow more time to discuss the legislation before it is passed.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

A man in Kampong Speu&rSquo;S Oral diStrict waS briefly placed under houSe arreSt yeSterday, following hiS public criticiSm of the government and prime miniSter at a town hall meeting.Ung Ny, Cambodian National ReScue Party (CNRP) Oral diStrict executive director, Said that 45-year-old Hay Hoeun, a SS='cambodia-color'>...

The first graduates of a special training program for elite forest rangers began work this month in Preah Vihear’s protected forest.The 29 newly-minted rangers will be responsible for leading efforts to stop illegal logging, land clearance, and poaching in a forest that is home to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Criminal loggers and land snatchers are committing more murders around the world, but they almost always escape justice. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A bipartisan commission of National Assembly lawmakers arrived in Battambang province yesterday to investigate three unresolved land disputes before going on to Banteay Meanchey to investigate six more over the next two days. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After eight years in the works, the Agriculture Ministry on Monday circulated the framework for Cambodia’s first law regulating the quality of domestic and imported meat products and livestock. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A former employee of a microfinance institution (MFI) was Tuesday jailed on charges of embezzling some $300,000 from the company, a court official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and Australian officials on sunday denied claims made by a Rohingya refugee from Burma over the weekend that he was being poorly treated in Phnom Penh, with the Interior Ministry’s refugee director calling the man “a liar.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

A high-speed police chase across stung Treng province early Monday morning led to the confiscation of more than 1.5 tons of rosewood, but only after an sUV plowed into a police truck blocking the road, with two suspects eventually fleeing on foot. ss='cambodia-color'>...