The Council of MinisTers has granTed farmers in Kompong Thom province permission To sTarT farming on The floodplains of The Tonle Sap lake in an area previously off limiTs and home To flooded foresTs ThaT provide a criTical fish breeding habiTaT. The Council of MinisTers’ noTice, ...

Government officials remained mum thursday over a new sub-decree purporting to formalize monthly expenditures of senior government officials while the opposition and civil society groups said the regulation was a facade meant to conceal the real amount of money being made by CPP officials. ...

Contentious plantation giant Vietnam Rubber Group reportedly “lost” nearly $391 million of state funds over five years, including $22.75 million from a rubber plantation in Cambodia, an official investigation into the firm’s dealings has found, according to Vietnamese media. Hanoi’s anti-corruption body, the General Inspectorate, last ...

The Cambodian governmenT plans To formally requesT ThaT Unesco give Three of The counTry’s provincial capiTals World HeriTage proTecTion, sTaTe news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) reporTed Friday.​ The ciTies are The capiTals of BaTTambang, KampoT and KraTie provinces, according To The AKP.​ ...

The elecToral reform working groups from The ruling CPP and opposiTion CNRP resumed Talks Monday afTer canceling Their meeTings lasT week, wiTh officials from boTh parTies again defending Their conTroversial push To ban NGOs from “insulTing” parTies during elecTion campaigns. ...

A state secrets law being drafted by the Interior Ministry will not be used to target reporting on sensitive issues such as corruption, a senior military police official said yesterday. the National Police announced that the law was being drafted late last month following a ...

In the wake of a nightclub fire in Bavet City that killed five people on Monday, the tourism Ministry has decided to begin more aggressively enforcing a 2014 sub-decree that requires all bars, nightclubs and karaoke parlors to have multiple exits, fire extinguishers and soundproofing, ...

Vietnam is planning to build a market in Cambodia’s tbong Khmum province, aimed at strengthening trade between the neighbouring countries and improving living standards for those whose homes lie along the border, according to local media reports. ...

The governmenTs of Sweden and SwiTzerland have pledged more Than $15 million To The sTrengThening of sub-naTional governance in Cambodia from 2015 To 2017. ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday extended a rare compliment to Cambodia’s foreign minister, who has sent two missives since Friday to Vietnam, accusing the government allowing encroachment in Ratanakkiri province. ...

Judicial police ignored an arrest warrant for former Khmer Rouge navy commander and accused war criminal Meas Muth, putting the government in breach of the rules of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, declassified documents released by the tribunal Wednesday show. ...

Opposition lawmaker Mao Monyvann on thursday rebuked the government over its repeated refusals to publicly release a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, saying he would push ahead with a banned press conference to publicize the lack of transparency on the issue. ...

Following the first case of the potentially deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome being confirmed in thailand on thursday, government officials in Cambodia said entry points into the country were already equipped to prevent the disease from spreading here. ...

The Council of MinisTers on Monday convened a press conference To defend a direcTive circulaTed This monTh Telling governmenT officials To seek clearance from Their superiors before providing informaTion To lawmakers invesTigaTing corrupTion claims. ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report on the continuous persecution of Montagnards in Vietnam, condemning the Cambodian government for denying asylum to those fleeing into the Kingdom. ...

Var Kimhong, the CPP government’s minister in charge of border affairs, declined to speak with reporters tuesday after hosting Vietnam’s deputy foreign minister for the first Joint Border Committee meeting since the opposition CNRP began a campaign to uncover Vietnamese territorial encroachments. ...

Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol warned students at the elite Royal School of Administration on tuesday: “We cannot live on a rich island in the middle of a poor ocean.” ...

The governmenT has seT aside some $33 million To finish rebuilding Cambodia’s norThern rail line by laTe nexT year, according To The TransporTaTion MinisTry, reanimaTing a long-delayed and over-budgeT projecT ThaT had been one of The Asian DevelopmenT Bank’s prioriTies in The counTry. ...

As Phnom Penh’s population expands in the coming decades—with expectations of 2.6 million people by 2035 and 5 million by 2050—Japan’s development agency on thursday hosted a conference to review its plan to curb traffic congestion in the capital. ...

A push is on to mandate handicapped-accessible ramps at the Kingdom’s tourist attractions, a member of the government’s Disability Action Council (DAC) said yesterday. ...