The National Museum will undergo a massive expansion, but this will not include removing the Royal University of Fine Arts which sits behind it, officials at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts told a public forum yesterday. 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 third and final tranche of 1.8 million shares in Phnom Penh Autonomous Port’s (PPAP) recent initial public offering (IPO) sold out by the middle of last month, according to Hei Bavy, director general of the state-owned enterprise. ​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of over 50 protesters gathered in front of Takeo Provincial Court on Monday demanding government intervention after allegedly being scammed out of $160,000 by a provincial savings association, 30 of whom were summoned to provincial court yesterday in response to their case being ss='cambodia-color'>...

As many as 60,000 Cambodian deportees from Thailand are expected to cross back into Cambodia this year, according to samaritan’s Purse, an international NGO that works with deportees and migrants along the border with Thailand. 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'>...

In what one commentator described as “a bold step”, the Interior Ministry’s prisons department has seemingly admitted it has a drug problem, and last week sent a letter requesting the Health Ministry’s assistance in tackling it. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A police official from Takeo province was arrested in Vietnam on saturday night after fatally shooting one man and injuring a second at a restaurant just across the border, officials said on sunday.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and China reached here yesterday six memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in order to further tighten and expand the cooperation between the two countries. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Cambodian Prime Minister samdech Akka Moha sena Padei Techo Hun sen and visiting H.E. Liu Yunshan, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has said he believes Prime Minister Hun sen’s recent push to convert the maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam to a scale of 1:50,000 and a UTM-style map projection would not require a constitutional amendment. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A newly elected opposition commune chief who allowed constituents to put a donation box in his office to fund commune services has found himself under fire by ruling party peers and higher-ups. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party is poised to sweep every single elected senate seat in upcoming elections in February, despite its assurances that multiparty democracy is thriving after the dissolution of the main opposition party. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Interior directive requiring provincial approval for work done on commune halls prompted a thinly veiled threat from a ministry spokesman yesterday that a popular opposition commune chief could be arrested if she didn’t comply. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s top monastic leader, supreme Patriarch Tep Vong, urged the nation’s monks yesterday to vote for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, explaining that the outcome of the 2018 national election has been “arranged already”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Human Rights Party closed yesterday of its own accord, officially removing itself from any conversation about potential challengers to the ruling party in the absence of the CNRP. The move was met with mixed responses yesterday – with some lamenting the loss of a “back-up” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade between Cambodia and the United StateS waS valued at 2.55 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt ten monthS of 2013, up 2 percent from 2.49 billion U.S. dollarS over the Same period laSt year, the figureS of the U.S. Department of Commerce Showed Friday. Cambodia&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

SIEM Reap in Cambodia, Fort Lauderdale in Florida and the Greek iSland of MykonoS will be the world&rSquo;S top holiday hotSpotS of 2015, according to a report. Siem Reap in the north-weSt of Cambodia topS the liSt with a 33 per cent increaSe in SearcheS SS='cambodia-color'>...

A senior U.s. diplomat says the country is looking to strengthen ties with Cambodia following an end to the nation’s yearlong political stalemate. scot Marciel, the state Department’s leading diplomat for southeast Asia, told VOA Khmer in an interview Wednesday that Washington wants to have a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong addressed the UN’s General Assembly on Monday, in a speech that focused more on the threat of the Islamic state and international conflicts than it did on Cambodian issues. Hor Namhong told the Assembly that Cambodia supports joint international efforts to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong met with David McKean, director of Policy Planning Office at the U.s. state Department here on Wednesday and the two sides discussed a number of issues ranging from bilateral ties to regional matters. ss='cambodia-color'>...