Military police have identified the suspected leader of what they believe to be a sex trafficking ring masquerading as a masseuse-training agency as a 40-year-old businesswoman with Cambodian and Thai citizenship who owns karaoke parlors in both countries.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has restarted a long-dormant dog breeding program it hopes will replenish its stock of explosive-sniffing canines as well as its dwindling coffers by selling them to others, including riot police. The first litter of six Malinois, a type of Belgian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Em Chan Makara, president of the Disability Action Council (DAC), told reporters that his group will issue drivers licenses for people with disabilities in conjunction with the government. The council will also discuss appropriate vehicles for disabled people with other stakeholders. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from China’s Export-Import Bank are expected to visit Cambodia this week to study granting a loan to a Chinese construction firm to build a $1.6 billion, 190-kilometer long expressway from Phnom Penh to sihanoukville. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Customs Department announced on May 27 that it would stop processing paperwork for import and export companies, and halt cross-border activity if they fail to meet today’s deadline for online tax registration.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

A key donor to the Cambodian Human Rights Action Coalition (CHRAC) has suspended its funding, citing operational concerns even as other revenue sources are seemingly drying up for the organisation.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly (NA) yesterday approved a proposal by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) to punish politicians who are absent from parliamentary meetings without a “reasonable” explanation, the assembly spokesman said, after a boycott by the opposition. ss='cambodia-color'>...

While highly contentious new rules were being passed in the National Assembly on Monday banning the CNRP from collaborating with its former leader sam Rainsy, photographs were posted to Facebook of senior opposition lawmakers dining at a riverside hotel in Kampot province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Indigenous People Network and civil society organizations yesterday asked the government to speed up registration of indigenous collective lands. ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Cambodia National Rescue Party President Kem sokha stood arm-in-arm with three newly minted deputies earlier this year, the quartet seemed eager and ready to address the party’s next challenge at hand: critical commune elections that could greatly bolster grassroots support. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an effort to promote financial literacy to students in primary and secondary schools, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and sport yesterday officially launched the “Let’s Talk Money” comic book.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party is rewriting the nation’s political laws yet again, this time to allow the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s 55 parliamentary seats to be dished out to minor parties – with royalist Funcinpec the main beneficiary in the sweep – in the event ss='cambodia-color'>...

Only 3.7 percent of Cambodia’s 14 million people have bank accounts with a financial institution, while less than 1 percent of those with an account are actually using them to save money, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday. Though the World Bank’s Global Financial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile phone call promotions undercutting the government’s minimum pricing regulations are to be outlawed – again. Minimum charges will be applied to mobile phone calls from on Thursday with the return of the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia’s (TRC) rules on call tariffs, the regulator confirmed yesterday. On ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Mani, a parliamentary member from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, yesterday visited more than a thousand of local people in Kampong speu, including supporters of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). He took the time to justify the legitimacy of the government led by His Father, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen of Cambodia believes that within 6 months, Cambodia will have direct flight from Japan, which will help promote tourism and investment in the Kingdom. The Premier made such comment January 31 during his meeting with Delegates of World Tourism led by Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A police officer who has been implicated in a fatal hit-and-run has been asked by local police in Kandal province to come to their office and negotiate a settlement for the victims’ families, police said sunday. Ek sovannara—the son of Ek Krit, a former Kandal provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new U.S. government program, NOURISH, will combat malnutrition among Cambodian children. On September 8, Deputy Prime MiniSter Yim Chhayly jointly with DeniSe RollinS, Acting ASSiStant AdminiStrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)&rSquo;S Bureau for ASia, announced the launch of USAID&rSquo;S five-year, $16.25 SS='cambodia-color'>...

The number of dengue cases in the Kingdom is continuing to dwindle, but health officials noted a spike of rainy season-induced Japanese encephalitis over the weekend. On saturday alone, 112 children at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital were diagnosed with encephalitis – brain-swelling – that was caused ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government will allow UN representatives to seek out a group of Montagnards reportedly in hiding in Ratanakkiri province. Interior Minister sar Kheng gave the green light for UN offices of human rights and refugees to look into the case, where at least 13 Montagnards ss='cambodia-color'>...