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'>...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) iS pleaSed to announce the launch of the InnovationS in Development Technology Expo, Monday, September 8, 1:15 p.m., at the Development InnovationS Lab, #296, St. 271, Tuol Tumpoung, Phnom Penh. 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'>...

A Ukrainian member of parliament and former television executive is being sought by Cambodian authorities for allegedly raping a minor in Phnom Penh in 2011 and has been placed on Interpol’s list of most-wanted criminals. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An education campaign launched by Cambodia’s National Immunization Program (NIP) in the aftermath of last year’s HIV outbreak in Battambang has been effective in dispelling the concerns of parents hesitant to get their children vaccinated, government health bodies and the World Health Organization have said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eight more rescued Cambodian fishermen were repatriated Tuesday from Indonesia’s Ambon Island, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, following the return of 230 others two weeks ago. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A South Korean-owned garment factory bowed to union preSSure ThurSday and agreed to pay itS former workerS wageS they are owed, following a meeting with the MiniStry of Labor. SS='cambodia-color'>...

CPP lawmakers and officials continued to defend their controversial draft of a proposed law aiming to regulate the country’s non-government groups at a workshop at the National Assembly on Wednesday, despite a boycott from some NGOs and the opposition, which dismissed the event as “rubbish.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Victims of sexual violence can often have difficulty reintegrating into society, but experts say the healing process from such assault can be a lifelong struggle. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A total of 110 National Assembly members on Monday convened to review and unanimously approve seven draft laws in a historic session that saw the Kingdom ratify the UN’s Convention on sea Law (Unclos). The Unclos, dated December 10, 1982, “lays down a comprehensive regime ss='cambodia-color'>...

Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) has called for licensed private electricity distributors to receive cashless payments for electricity bills to prevent possible COVID-19 infections. ss='cambodia-color'>...