Six people died last week in Cambodia’s eastern Kratie province after they drank locally made rice wine, which is suspected of being contaminated with poisonous substance, a senior police officer said on Monday. ...

Phnom Penh’s only working elephant was blessed by a crowd of chanting Buddhist monks on Tuesday (Nov 25) as she prepared for a life of comfortable jungle retirement after three decades of giving rides to tourists. Sambo’s new home will be an ecotourism venture – ...

Two ethnic Jarai Montagnards claiming to have fled religious persecution in Vietnam may have been arrested by local police in Ratanakkiri province, a rights worker has said. The UN is seeking to intervene in the case and has requested government cooperation while several more Christian Montagnards ...

Fifteen policemen in Kandal province have been sacked by the provincial police chief for not turning up to work while still collecting their salaries. In a letter signed by Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Wednesday, the absentee officers were laid off and had all benefits ...

A team from the United Nations refugee agency traveled to northeast Cambodia Wednesday to meet with 13 ethnic Montagnards seeking asylum in the country after fleeing alleged persecution in Vietnam, according to an agency spokesperson and a member of a local rights group. United Nations High ...

Cambodia is managing here today the recovery of missing ancient heritage objects that might be in a cache of relics confiscated from a Thai general arrested for various offenses. About a thousand objects of different types were taken a month ago from the high officer in ...

Trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Thailand amounted to 4.18 billion U.S. dollars in the first ten months of 2014, a 12 percent rise over the same period last year, the figures of the Thai Embassy here showed Friday. ...

Vietnam and Cambodia have plenty of rooms to further their ties, President Truong Tan Sang told Rasmei Kampuchea, the largest daily in Khmer language in Cambodia ahead of his visit to the country on December 23-24. The front page of the daily published on December 21 ...

Cambodia’s growing condominium sector shows no signs of slowing down, with construction on two new condominiums set to begin in the first quarter of this year. According to real estate firm CB Richard Ellis’ December market view report, released Wednesday, work will begin on Sky Villa ...

Villagers in Kampot town have filed a complaint against a businessman who has allegedly ordered the filling in of a pond dug during the French protectorate, which they rely on for their water supply. ...

Officials in Preah Sihanouk province last week moved to bar prominent Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko from selling Sihanoukville’s Victory Beach after the Appeal Court ruled that he had violated a contract to transfer the property to fugitive Russian oligarch Sergei Polonsky, court officials said Wednesday. ...

Three Cambodian men who were arrested in Thailand more than a year ago after venturing across the border to illegally log rosewood were on Monday released from prison and sent back home, border officials said. You Sothearith, chief of the immigration police at the checkpoint, ...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) says it has opened an investigation into a suspected extortion case but urged the media to refrain from reporting on it after a list of the suspects and their phone numbers was posted online by a number of news outlets. ...

Six union organizers were arrested in Svay Rieng province Wednesday while distributing letters to workers in an attempt to refute rumors that their union had taken cash in exchange for not protesting over the firing of eight of their members, according to the union and ...

Nine more Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri on Tuesday, bringing the total number hiding in the province’s O’Yadaw district to 32, a police official said Wednesday. ...

Vietnamese businesses invested more than US$1.78 billion abroad last year, according to the Planning and Investment Ministry’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA). Among them, Tanzania was the leading investment destination for Vietnamese investors, in terms of registered capital and accounted for 34 per cent of Viet ...

Two major US beverage companies say they are mindful of alleged human rights abuses amid sugar plantations in Cambodia and will not do business with those proven to be involved in them. Representatives from Coca-Cola and Pepsi both said in emails to VOA Khmer that they ...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that his government will seek the pardon and release of female convicts who are pregnant or have children living with them inside prisons, following a report by a human rights group which took authorities to task for neglecting ...

Trade between Cambodia and France increased to 520 million U.S. dollars last year, up 29 percent year-on-year, according to figures released by the French Embassy here on Wednesday. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that the country’s economy is predicted to grow by 7 percent this year–the same growth rate as last year. ...