Without more efforts to punish traffic violators, the government is all but certain to miss its 2020 goal of cutting traffic deaths by 20 percent and drunk driving deaths by 50 percent, road safety experts said at a forum tuesday. there were 1,910 deaths due to ...

Kem Gunawadh, the long-serving director-general of tVK who helped set up the state broadcaster in 1983, resigned abruptly on Saturday in what his successor said was a reaction to government criticism over his decision not to broadcast live that morning’s annual Royal Plowing Ceremony. the resignation ...

Cambodia on Tuesday revealed Two suspecTed hackers, who have aTTacked in large scales on The informaTion Technology neTworks of The naTional insTiTuTions, The NaTional Police announced in iTs websiTe. Bun Kingmongkol Panha, 21, and Chou Songheng, 21, boTh are The Third year informaTion Technology sTudenTs aT ...

Amnesty International on Friday lambasted a pending deal that would see people seeking asylum in Australia to be resettled in Cambodia. “Australia should be ending its offshore processing and detention of asylum seekers, not looking to outsource its refugee responsibilities to another, much poorer country,” ...

In the face of an increase in work-related injuries, government officials gathered in Phnom Penh on tuesday to start work on a new plan to reduce workplace accidents and to reflect on their achievements over the past five years. ...

The Labor MinisTry on Thursday launched a new Three-year policy for improving The loT of Cambodia’s more Than 700,000 migranT workers ThaT includes plans To sTep up moniToring of The counTry’s ofTen-abusive recruiTmenT agencies and add labor aTTach&eacuTe;s To more embassies. Nilim Baruah, a senior ...

The governmenT on Thursday formally accepTed a requesT from Cambodia’s Top BuddhisT monks To consider drafTing a law ThaT would ban The counTry’s more Than 50,000 monks from voTing. AT The end of The meeTing Thursday, DepuTy Prime MinisTer Men Sam An, The minisTer of ...

Less than a week after Prime Minister Hun Sen announced plans to reduce the price that migrant workers in Phnom Penh pay for electricity, the municipality hosted 12 public forums Monday to discuss a new payment scheme to be overseen by state operator Electricite du ...

The Cambodian Rice FederaTion (CRF) plans To borrow aT leasT $400,000 for inTernaTional markeTing campaigns if iT fails To meeT iTs goal of raising $777,000 for The plans Through imposing exporT fees on iTs members, The organizaTion’s presidenT said Friday aT CRF’s annual conference. ...

In the coming weeks, a task force composed of officials from the ministries of tourism, religion, culture and education will lead an expedition to a remote patch of forest on Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain where Vietnamese tourists pray, the education minister said Monday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen last week issued a directive ordering all government bodies to hold off on new hires for the rest of the year except to fill existing positions being vacated, in an apparent bid to keep spending in line with the current state ...

After almost five years of alleged illegal logging in Preah Vihear province’s Preah Rokar community forest by a local businessman, more than 100 villagers yesterday petitioned the provincial authorities to shut down his handicrafts company. the villagers say that the woodworking operation, owned by businessman Sar ...

A month after Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a directive ordering government bodies to put a halt on new hires—except to fill vacated positions—the Ministry of Public Function has authorized state institutions to hire 5,001 civil servants to replace those who had recently retired, quit ...

Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni has signed off on a more robust traffic law, completing the final step for legislation that could hit the streets as early as next month, according to the government’s National Road Safety Committee (NRSC). ...

As violence against women remains pervasive throughout the country, the government on tuesday launched a second action plan that it hopes will help give women greater protection. the National Action Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women 2014-2018 focuses on preventing gender-based violence and aims to provide ...

Ahead of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha’s scheduled court questioning on Wednesday, a television station controlled by the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen aired on Sunday night a film produced by the government that builds a case that Mr. Sokha plotted a coup d’etat. ...

Just two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen promised to resolve a 20-year-old land dispute in Siem Reap City, the government on Friday issued a subdecree that divides 115 hectares of the contested plot between more than 700 families. ...

The Tourism MinisTry has downgraded The one-year operaTing licenses of Two hoTels where children recenTly drowned in swimming pools in an efforT To make Them compensaTe The vicTims’ families and carry ouT safeTy upgrades. ...

A half-dozen villagers from Oddar Meanchey province traveled to Phnom Penh on Wednesday to ask the highest levels of government to return the farmland that thousands of families say they had stolen from them by a trio of thai-owned sugarcane plantations. ...

The InTernaTional JusTice Mission (IJM) yesTerday lauded Cambodia’s progress in Tackling The child sex Trade buT sTressed more needed To be done, including auThorising police To use undercover invesTigaTion Techniques. ...