Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday released a three-page open letter on the occasion of the U.N.’s International Day of Peace, praising his own achievements in ending the country’s civil war while vowing to “crack down” on people who commit “tricks” in the name of ss='cambodia-color'>...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry launched a Swing through SoutheaSt ASia en route to China on Jan. 24 with viSitS to LaoS and Cambodia, part of a broader U.S. puSh to improve relationS with the region and counterbalance China&rSquo;S riSing influence. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s tax revenue collection rose to about 21.6 percent in the first five months of this year, compared with the same period last year, with some $708.2 million filling state coffers, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation (GDT). ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities seized 100 kilograms of endangered wildlife meat this weekend on Kratie province’s National Road 7.  The haul, which contained 60 kg of wild pig and 36 kg of deer meat, was discovered after a local environmental NGO stopped an sUV traveling in Chit Borei’s sambok ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Minister Prak sokhon defended Cambodia’s position on the south China sea issue during a press conference at the Foreign Ministry yesterday, denying accusations that the Kingdom’s opposition to any joint Asean statement in support of the Philippines was tied to large loans and grants ss='cambodia-color'>...

Getting a head start on campaigning for the 2018 elections, opposition leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha yesterday promised Cham voters in Kampong Chhnang’s Kampong Tralach district that a change in the country’s leadership would mean a change in its approach to land disputes as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen at the “Global Leader’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment held at New York, said that Cambodia has actively joined UN member states to implement policies, strategies and action plans aimed to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Expired glue used in the production of Cambodia’s new generation of national identification cards is causing the top layer of some to peel off, though it’s unclear exactly how many of the 6.4 million issued since 2012 are affected, according to a Ministry of Interior ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents and evictees from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak and Bo­r­ei Keila neighborhoods re­turned to the World Bank’s country headquarters on Norodom Boul­evard on Monday to hurl eggs at the front gate and demand that the international lender leave Cambodia.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party proposed a bold set of regulations for the National Assembly in an interparty meeting yesterday, calling for, among other things, a larger share of the body’s budget, and minority party control over the assembly’s purse strings, an opposition working group ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following the National Assembly’s passage of the draft trade union law last week, the senate is set to take up the law today, with the permanent committee scheduled to discuss it followed by a vote on Tuesday, said the senate’s secretary-general Oum sarith.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Emerald Resources NL, an Australian mining firm with interests in Cambodia, will relist on the Australian securities Exchange (AsX) on Tuesday following the company’s compliance with chapters 1 and 2 of the exchange’s listing rules and rule 11.1.3, the company said in a filing yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After four months of study, sok Touch, the head of a research group from the Royal Academy, announced yesterday that both Cambodia and Vietnam are in violation of each other’s borderlines, but was hesitant to release his team’s exact findings to protect the government from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese money accounts for the overwhelming majority of investment in Cambodia’s anaemic energy sector, but while the government has been happy to take Beijing’s loans for the construction of hydroelectric plants, a study published last month found that such investment came with both ecological and ss='cambodia-color'>...

 Tuy sereivathana sits at his desk transfixed by the glow of his computer screen. On the walls of the environmentalist’s modest office are hung pictures of rare species of plants and animals found in the Cardamom Mountains, one of Cambodia’s few remaining wildernesses. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials, thousands of monks and Prime Minister Hun sen himself will hold a massive prayer ceremony at Angkor Wat in early December to highlight the Kingdom’s continuing “peace, independence and political stability”, a spectacle observers said was designed to disguise the deterioration of Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Transport Minister sun Chanthol has vowed to reinvigorate a long-dormant project to connect the Kingdom’s sole operating railway line to the capital’s biggest industrial park – a move that would boost rail traffic ahead of the completion of a rail link to northwestern Cambodia and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chroy Changvar district residents affected by the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation’s (OCIC) satellite city project have again appealed to authorities to help them solve their land dispute, especially ahead of the upcoming commune elections, instead of the Phnom Penh city hall’s below market value compensation ss='cambodia-color'>...

The capital’s listed water utility, Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA), signed a construction deal yesterday with France’s Vinci Constructions Grands Projects to renovate the Chamkarmon Water Treatment Plan and enlarge its water production capacity from 20,000 cubic metres per day to 52,000 cubic metres. ss='cambodia-color'>...