A truck full of high-grade timber was seized in Kampong speu’s Oral district on Monday afternoon by District Military Police forces and the NGO WildAid’s crime interception team, but the driver remains at large. .. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s sole garbage hauler says it will need another week to collect thousands of tons of fetid garbage that piled up over the weekend when workers left the capital to vote in sunday’s commune elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Still more riverbank collapSeS have Struck a community in Kandal province&rSquo;S Sa&rSquo;ang diStrict where multiple houSeS have crumbled into the Tonle BaSSac river a Stone&rSquo;S throw from where four companieS are dredging the riverbed for Sand. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce has committed to joining up with the Thai Embassy in Cambodia to build a favourable business and investment climate between the Asean neighbours. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council yesterday approved four sets of controversial amendments to Cambodia’s election laws, greenlighting changes that will pave the way for the main opposition party’s parliamentary seats to be redistributed in the event of its dissolution. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Locals in siem Reap province’s Kralanh district and Banteay Meanchey’s Preah Netr Preah district yesterday alleged that a sand-dredging company is polluting a river that straddles the two districts and stoking fears of bank collapse. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two images on the back of the 500 riel banknote depict bridges, with the one on the left showing the Kingdom’s longest and most modern bridge, the Tsubasa (“Bird’s Wing”) Bridge linking Kandal and Prey Veng provinces. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 350-kg M117 aircraft bomb believed to have been dropped during the US&rSquo;S carpet bombing of Cambodia waS uncovered in Takeo province&rSquo;S Tram Kak diStrict yeSterday by local reSidentS, an official Said. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

Angry residents in Kratie town’s Krakor commune yesterday protested against a sand-mining company they accuse of damaging a local road. The protesters used their vehicles to block the company’s trucks from driving on the road. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The interim representative of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia met yesterday with the head of the Cambodian government’s rights body, voicing concerns about the threatened closure of a prominent outspoken local NGO. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The prime minister lashed out at journalists and analysts today for questioning the current government’s reform record, a seeming reference to a Post article from December about a speech in which he touted his administration’s progress. ss='cambodia-color'>...

One hundred and thirty-five ethnic Kouy families from the Brame, srae Preang and Bos Tom villages in Preah Vihear’s Tbeng Meanchey district gathered on saturday and yesterday to protest the Lan Feng Company’s alleged bulldozing of their farmland. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC), a rights group, is investigating a mother’s claim that her daughter is being abused and held against her will by her employers in Malaysia, Moeun Tola, head of CLEC’s labor program, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Woori Bank has decided to acquire Cambodia’s microfinance institution Malis Finance for 5 billion won ($4.9 million) to accelerate its global expansion. The Financial services Commission approved Woori Bank’s acquisition of Malis on Wednesday, according to bank officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Members of Cambodia’s Muslim community say they fear increased animosity across the Middle East, with the recent murder of a Jordanian pilot by militants and Jordan’s announcement it will execute two members of the group currently in prison. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of university students from Phnom Penh opposed to a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong province entered the project’s construction site on sunday for a 10-day study aiming to highlight the area’s alternative potential for ecotourism. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has postponed today’s scheduled hearing of 11 people, including senior CNRP official Meach sovannara, who were charged with insurrection and other crimes over a bloody scuffle at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park in July. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Former Singapore Prime MiniSter Lee Kuan Yew haS died early Monday. He waS 91 yearS old. Lee waS Singapore&rSquo;S leader from 1959 until 1990, but remained a highly influential figure and a StrategiSt on the city State&rSquo;S economy. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Ukrainian member of parliament sought by Cambodian authorities over allegations of child-rape was removed from Interpol’s most-wanted list on Tuesday night because, according to Cambodia’s Interpol office, “the case involves politics in Ukraine and Russia.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least 16 more families that have been locked in a bitter and lengthy dispute with the municipal government over land in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood accepted municipal governor Pa socheatvong’s offer of a land swap Thursday morning. ss='cambodia-color'>...