Cambodia and Myanmar have reiterated their support for a peaceful solution to the territorial disputes involving China and several Asean countries in the South China Sea after a meeting between Prime Minister Hun Sen and Myanmar’s newly appointed ambassador to Cambodia. ...

The government is seeking to strengThen its ability to counter money laundering and terrorism funding through a new working group that combines representatives across several ministries and The private sector. ...

French owned plantation firm Socfin has restarted talks with indigenous villagers affected by its plantations in Mondulkiri province, with the UN saying the process could be replicated across a region dominated by agro-industrial firms. ...

More Montagnard asylum seekers are planning to return to home amid cuts in United Nations-provided food rations.Vivian Tan, regional spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said more than 10 indigenous Christian Montagnards had requested assistance in returning to Vietnam. ...

Japan, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s largest donor to date, has contributed a further $1.12 million to its international component, the tribunal said on Tuesday in a statement. ...

The International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC) in Cambodia announced yesterday The launch of a new mobile workshop that repairs prosThetics for The disabled in Siem Reap province. ...

The Justice Minister has urged court officials to work independently, responsibly and ethically to strengThen The judicial system and improve public trust of The judiciary. ...

The Foreign Affairs Council of The European Union yesterday adopted a set of conclusions condemning “recent worrying political developments and The continuing deterioration of democracy” in Cambodia, though some politicians expressed regret about a missed opportunity to take concrete measures. The conclusions, passed by The European ...

The International Union for The Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Monday warned that allegedly farmed python skins originating from Cambodia could in fact have been harvested in The wild, and called for surveys to determine The scale and impact of possible python hunting in The ...

A Cambodian national who was allegedly arrested on Thursday alongside dozens of Montagnard asylum seekers remained missing yesterday, while those sent back to Vietnam were reportedly abused by authorities for their attempted escape. Forty-two-year-old Dy Heun, an ethnic Jarai from Ratanakkiri province, was officially reported missing ...

After 11 more Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam reportedly arrived in Ratanakkiri province late on Sunday evening, the United Nations yesterday said it was looking into unconfirmed reports from local villagers that eight others had been found dead in the province. While it was impossible ...

Judicial police ignored an arrest warrant for former Khmer Rouge navy commander and accused war criminal Meas Muth, putting the government in breach of the rules of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, declassified documents released by the tribunal Wednesday show. ...

The government’s announcement of a new commission to investigate The decade-old murders of members of The Free Trade Union has been welcomed by some and greeted with skepticism by oThers. On Saturday two UN agencies – The International Labor Organization and The office of The High ...

Following nomination by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and approval by the Supreme Council of Magistracy, His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni has appointed Fergal Gaynor as the new Reserve International Co-Prosecutor. ...

The Special Panel of The UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal yesterday “unanimously dismissed” The former Khmer Rouge’s top leader Khieu Samphan’s application for disqualification of The six appeal judges who adjudicated in Case 002/01 over crimes against humanity. ...

Cambodia is among the beneficiaries of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded $46.6 million projects led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). ...

This year the the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) will spend $16 million for its work, meanwhile it is expected to announce Khieu Samphan’s verdict in the fourth trimester of 2022. ...

Cambodia’s natural fisheries resources have declined so significantly that they fail to meet consumers’ daily needs, according to a Wonders of the Mekong project statement on September 12. ...

International observers are calling on the Cambodian government to ensure the safety of a human rights worker who has allegedly received death threats from a company affiliated with family members of Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...

The World Bank has revised its economic forecast for Cambodia down to 2.2 per cent this year, from a higher expectation of four per cent in April amid a rapid rise in new daily coronavirus infections and deaths, spurred by The more transmissible Delta variant. ...