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. ...

The governmenT needs abouT $2.4 billion To begin 331 public invesTmenT projecTs, such as roads and schools, planned for The nexT Three years, according To a sTaTemenT released by The Council of MinisTers on Friday. ...

Opposition leaders have been unable to negotiate a release of 11 political activists handed steep sentences earlier this month for their alleged involvement in violent demonstrations last year. ...

The senior governmenT official in charge of land dispuTe resoluTion visiTed more Than 300 Koh Kong province families who are ThreaTened wiTh evicTion by China’s Union DevelopmenT Group To compile a reporT on The issue for Prime MinisTer Hun Sen. ...

The head of The ForesTry AdminisTraTion’s Mondolkiri canTonmenT said Monday ThaT he had accused one man over an AugusT 1 incidenT in which miliTary police freed The drivers of four Trucks TransporTing illegally logged Timber from The cusTody of anTi-economic crime police and escaped wiTh ...

Environment and agriculture ministry officials Wednesday warned the authors of a new report accusing the government of colluding with timber magnate try Pheap to illegally log the protected forests of northeastern Cambodia that they could be sued unless they made changes to the text. ...

In an effort to strengthen and boost the efficiency of administration in the capital and provinces, the government has added new members through a sub-decree issued on June 30. ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday dismissed a request made by some civil society groups and claimed the government will not repeal the Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organisations. ...

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The governmenT has ordered all sTaTe insTiTuTions To sTarT compiling a lisT of prices for all fee-based services so ThaT individuals and companies can avoid informal paymenTs, which were made illegal under The penal code lasT year, spokesman for The Council of MinisTers Phay Siphan ...