The secretary-general of the National Assembly, who has been accused of allowing gross misspending and nepotism in parliament, spent two hours Tuesday refusing to answer questions over allegations from lawmakers on the Assembly’s commission on finance and audits, according to the commission’s vice chairman. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Mondolkiri Provincial Court on Saturday charged a man with having Sex with an underage girl, but a rightS worker and the girl&rSquo;S father Said Sunday that the allegationS were fabricated in retaliation for the man&rSquo;S involvement in recent proteStS againSt a VietnameSe rubber plantation. SS='cambodia-color'>...

At least 80 of the 306 new members of the CPP’s expanded central committee are members of the country’s military or security forces, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday in a statement, which says the promotions are meant to secure the loyalty of security forces. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chin Sarin haS been removed aS Sihanoukville&rSquo;S governor, according to the Interior MiniStry, leSS than four monthS after the city&rSquo;S police chief waS Sacked amid criticiSm that he waS Sleeping on the job aS a violent crime wave Swept through the SeaSide touriSt hub. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy is expected to benefit from a strong recovery in the Us markets and the fall of global oil prices, driving its high growth trend, according to the International Monetary Fund’s projection for the Asia-Pacific region. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of activists and villagers from southwestern Cambodia’s Koh Kong province petitioned outside the country’s parliament Thursday, calling on lawmakers to intervene against a sand dredging company they say is operating in the area without a license. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City have been warned to brace themselves for a major water shortage over the next two weeks as the company contracted to supply the border town’s clean water scrambles to build a new reservoir amid a localized drought. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With Phnom Penh’s parking situation in “disarray,” City Hall has agreed to allow a Cambodian-Japanese joint venture to test a paid-parking scheme next month in an effort to reduce the number of parked cars clogging the capital’s streets, according to company officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 100 Vietnamese laborers were detained for deportation Tuesday after they were found to be working in the country illegally during a sweep of construction sites on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island as part of the Interior Ministry’s seemingly arbitrary enforcement of the immigration law. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The nominee to be the next U.S. ambaSSador to Cambodia told the U.S. Senate foreign relationS committee thiS week that fair electionS would be hiS priority, while a Cambodian government SpokeSman Said he hoped the new ambaSSador would repair “bad” diplomatic relationS between the countrieS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

As concern about the MERs virus’s spread mounts in the region, the Ministry of Health has ordered health workers in siem Reap International Airport to use manual thermometers to screen passengers entering the Kingdom as the airport’s only Thermoscan unit is beyond repair. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the inaugural issue of its bulletin on Cambodia’s $5.8-billion garment industry, the International Labor Organization said Thursday that business remained strong on the back of rising exports despite a 28-percent hike to the sector’s minimum wage in January. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As outrage still reverberates among opposition supporters over Tuesday’s conviction of 11 Cambodia National Rescue Party activists on “insurrection” charges, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has warned that questioning the verdict will imperil the ongoing “culture of dialogue”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Vietnam and the European Union reach the final stages of negotiating a bilateral trade agreement, giving Cambodia’s neighbour zero-duty exports to the economic bloc, local rice millers and exporters have expressed concerns that the deal could hurt the Kingdom’s rice exports. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s ever-growing garbage problem is not going away, but on Friday its scope became clearer as the Asia Foundation presented two years of research into the city’s present and future solid waste generation, along with suggestions on how to cope with the mess. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The country’s anti-corruption czar on Tuesday said the former director of the National Malaria Center must pay back the $351,000 in bribes he took in exchange for mosquito net contracts—effectively admitting the ex-director’s guilt—but that he would not be prosecuted. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N. loaned maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam to the government Thursday, with Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong hailing the maps’ similarity to the government’s own as proof that it has not been demarcating the border using illegal maps drawn by Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmaker Um sam An on Tuesday denied claims by the government that he was inciting instability in a Facebook post last week in which he boasted about finding a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam at the U.s. Library of Congress. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s Tourism and sports Minister  Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said his ministry plans to implement travel bubbles this year along borders such as Trat province and Cambodia’s Koh Kong province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s call-centre scammers have been driven so desperate by the government’s intensified crackdown that they are now trying to deceive police officers, the digital economy and society,  a Thai  minister said on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...