News that Laos will move ahead with the proposed 912-megawatt Pak Beng dam, which would be the third mainstream dam in Laos’ Lower Mekong River, has sparked criticism from environmental groups who say downstream countries should decide the fate of potentially harmful development projects. ss='cambodia-color'>...

It wasn’t until she was en route to the Ho Chi Minh airport that sok srey Touch knew she was in trouble. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Japan energy company yesterday said it planned to build a rice mill fuelled by rice husks in Cambodia’s Takeo province. New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) confirming cooperation ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Senator LindSey Graham laSt week Submitted a reSolution to the U.S. Committee on Foreign RelationS requeSting the SuSpenSion of U.S. military aSSiStance to Cambodia until an independent inveStigation into July&rSquo;S national election iS conducted. The reSolution waS Submitted on WedneSday to expreSS “the SenSe of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Election monitoring groups are questioning the National Election Committee (NEC) recent decision to let a Phnom Penh casino fund its new multi-million dollar headquarters, a move they said would cast further doubt on the body’s independence. NagaCorp, the owner of Phnom Penh’s only licensed casino, NagaWorld, ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s a mistake to consider Cambodia a nation under authoritarian rule by a single party; it comes down to a single man – Prime Minister Hun sen, a new paper argues. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) has released an observational report on the rights of woman defendant’s at the Appeal Court, claiming that many weren’t granted due process. Having monitors attend 453 trials from December 2016 to June this year, CCHR found that there ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has announced the resumption of the MIA programme to recover the remains of American service personnel missing after action on Cambodian soil during the Vietnam War. The programme was suspended for more than a year after the Us government imposed visa ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen, in a speech on Monday, ordered officials to “facilitate” the campaign process for all political parties, including the opposition, a seeming about-face, as they had recently reported being hindered and harassed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In addition to the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) rally on saturday, which its spokesman says would see some 100,000 supporters attending, two other parties announced plans for events that day to kick off their parties’ campaign period. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) said on Wednesday that 50,000 party-affiliated election observers had signed up to monitor the July 29 national polls, even as many opposition parties announced they would not send any due to lack of resources NEC member and spokesman Hang Puthea ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Australia became the latest Western embassy to announce it would not be sending a representative to Wednesday’s opening of parliament, Council of Ministers spokesman Phay siphan dismissed the Us and EU Ambassadors being “unable to attend” as no loss because “they give no value ss='cambodia-color'>...

The spokesman for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has said the government is in no way concerned after the European Parliament gave it three months to reverse what it called the “systematic repression of the political opposition”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s democracy has been in increasing trouble in recent months, with Prime Minister Hun sen dissolving the main opposition party and cracking down on independent media. Now there’s a sign that the U.s. government is paying attention. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreigners should not interfere in Cambodia’s internal affairs, the Chinese government’s top diplomat told his Cambodian counterpart, following an election in the southeast Asian nation that critics said was neither free nor fair. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Toyota SUV and the load of illegally logged luxury wood found inSide it on Monday belong to the wife of a diStrict police chief in Tbong Khmum province, according to local officialS, who Say they have no intention of taking action againSt the couple.&nbSp;“We SS='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers from both the ruling Cambodia People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) were able to reach consensus and move forward on several aspects of the draft union law yesterday, revising seven of 21 articles that had been flagged by union groups ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of social Affairs yesterday once again called on the Kingdom’s employers to hire the disabled, something mandated in a widely ignored 2010 sub-decree. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s anti-logging task force on Monday confiscated nearly 3,000 logs stashed in a forest clearing in Mondolkiri province, officials said on Tuesday. The owner of the 2,949 pieces of second-grade timber—Khlong, Tbeng and Trach—is unknown, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police, which ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong sakphea were viciously beaten and left seriously injured yesterday morning as a protest outside the National Assembly against Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem sokha descended into violence.The ruling Cambodian People’s Party denied any involvement in organising the ss='cambodia-color'>...