The Cambodian government on Friday approved two power plant projects worth more than $1.3 billion in total in what authorities said was an effort to reduce the Kingdom’s dependence on imports. ...

Teachers in Preah Vihear province and the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association (Cita) have denounced a letter issued on Tuesday by the provincial education department banning teachers from tutoring on Sundays and public holidays. ...

Police in Kandal province on Tuesday arrested the owner of an electrified rat trap that killed a fisherman in a flooded rice field behind the suspect’s home on Mon­day night, an official said. ...

In recognition of this year’s World Malaria Day on Monday this week, the Health Minister reconfirmed Cambodia’s commitment to eliminate the disease by 2025 during a speech in Pailin on Monday. ...

HLH Group, listed on the Singapore Exchange main board, on Thursday said it has awarded a construction project in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to Yanjian Group (Cambodia) Co Ltd for about US$36.8 million. ...

Authorities in Mondolkiri province on Wednesday finished installing an emergency bridge over the O’Phly river near the site of the existing bridge, which was damaged by an overloaded truck on Monday night. ...

Water bird numbers are making a big comeback in the Prek Toal conservation area on the Tonle Sap lake in Battambang province, the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a report released on Saturday. ...

Police in Svay Rieng province said Wednesday that they were still searching for one of two men suspected in a violent attack on an elderly commune chief that stemmed from a drunken fight on Saturday. ...

A 12-year-old boy was killed when a piece of an 80-mm mortar shell he was playing with exploded on Saturday in Battambang province, police said on Sunday.   ...

An unlicensed medic was arrested in Tbong Khmum province on Monday after administering three injections to a patient who then died en route to a nearby clinic, a police official said on Tuesday. ...

A police official from Takeo province was arrested in Vietnam on Saturday night after fatally shooting one man and injuring a second at a restaurant just across the border, officials said on Sunday.  ...

Former Cambodia National Rescue Party member Ismail Pin Osman was arrested in Phnom Penh on Wednesday for alleged human trafficking, though police officials offered little detail on why he was taken into custody. ...

Villagers in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district who found a haul of unexploded ordinances on their farmland on Monday have handed it over to provincial authorities. ...

Australian filmmaker James Ricketson, who has spent more than seven months in Cambodian prison on allegations of “espionage”, had a ruling on his final bid for bail delayed at the Supreme Court today. ...

The Foreign Ministry will summon Cambodian ambassador to Thailand Eat Sophea on Tuesday to assure her the junta has no order to deport Khmer workers, and to clarify the country’s policy on migrant labour. ...

The development of two dams on the Lower Mekong River in Laos may have potentially devastating impact on the food security and livelihoods of 60 million people in the area, an international environmental group said. ...

Four Cambodian men were charged by the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Tuesday over the brutal beating and robbery of two expatriates on the holiday island of Koh Rong last week, a court official said. ...

Around 300 Cambodian government officials, business leaders, economists and researchers met in an international investment conference here on Monday to exchange views on the prospect of Cambodia’s economic development. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday began questioning union leader Seang Rithy, who was arrested outside a garment factory in Pur Senchey district on Tuesday while leading what police said was an illegal strike. ...

After the government deported Spanish environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson on Monday, the opposition CNRP has called on the Interior Ministry to turn its attention to thousands of Vietnamese immigrants living in the country illegally. ...