Cambodia and Vietnam yesterday pledged to enhance cooperation and also pushed for the completion of demarcating the border to build peace and development. The discussion was held yesterday during a meeting between National Assembly President Heng samrin and Vietnam’s National Assembly chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kompong speu province on Wednesday seized more than 1,000 logs on the property of a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation, marking the third time the firm has been found with illicit timber in the past year. Local officials offered no explanation for why the plantation’s on-site ss='cambodia-color'>...

Germany’s car manufacturers are on edge as the U.K., their No. 1 importer, prepares to leave the E.U. And although expanding into Cambodia’s market is unlikely to ease their anxiety, German investors who gathered in Phnom Penh on Thursday said whatever potential might exist here 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 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will continue to support the development of Cambodia’s logistics sector in its partnership with the government to reduce transport costs and strengthen the country’s logistics infrastructure. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed strong dismay on Monday over the designation of Cambodian tycoon Oknha Try Pheap and General Kun Kim under the Us’ Global Magnitsky Act. “It is very disturbing when the public figures of a country become the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Internet search giant Google on Friday launched a new service that for the first time allows users to instantly translate Khmer script into other languages. Khmer is the most recent addition to the 66-strong collection of languages between which words, sentences or whole websites can be ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thy Sovantha iS accuStomed to being threatened on Facebook. But the 19-year-old CNRP youth activiSt, who became Something of an online celebrity through the popular oppoSition Facebook page “I Love Cambodia Hot NewS,” SayS the lateSt threat againSt her, in which a copy of her paSSport SS='cambodia-color'>...

Around 1,000 garment workers from a factory producing jeans in Bith Trang special Economic Zone in Prey Nop district went on strike to protest against administration chief in their factory.   They also demanded the annual leave of 18-21 days per years, which were rejected by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh says Vietnam is willing to co-operate with Cambodia in terrorism prevention through exchanges and joint drills, Nhan Dan reported Wednesday. The official organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam said the offer was made at a reception in Hanoi Tuesday ss='cambodia-color'>...

Recent flooding has claimed another victim, a child in Kratie province who drowned, bringing the total death toll to 30, Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said yesterday. While water levels are declining across the 12 provinces affected by flooding, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four more goods made in Cambodia have been linked to exploitative child labour, adding to a mounting list of items the United states considers to be produced in violation of international rights laws. The mounting number of Cambodian goods found to use child labour runs ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thirteen ethnic Montagnards have emerged from the jungles of Cambodia, where they hid for more than seven weeks after entering the country from Vietnam to flee alleged persecution, the United Nations and local authorities said saturday. Eight of the Montagnards–including one woman–left their jungle hiding ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defense Minister Tea Banh joked Tuesday that the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are “biased to the right people” in protecting the government from destabilizing political agitators. speaking at the annual review of the military’s activities at the Defense Ministry, General Banh said the armed forces ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forestry officials and police on Monday arrested seven men for logging illegally in stung Treng province’s sesan district, officials said Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang says he will visit Phnom Penh’s Prey speu social affairs center today to investigate its controversial treatment of detainees following the death of a recent charge. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In its latest plan to tackle gender disparities, the government applauded its own progress, while still acknowledging persistent challenges, such as a lack of women in leadership roles, and new ones, such as women’s vulnerability to climate change. “The situation of women has improved remarkably over ss='cambodia-color'>...

In May, circus artists from Phnom Penh, Battambang City and siem Reap City will come together for the ninth Tini Tinou International Circus Festival, which was relaunched last year after being canceled in 2011 for financial reasons. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The body of a fisherman was discovered floating in the Tonle sap lake in Kompong Chhnang province’s Boribor district on Tuesday after a vicious boating attack, police said Wednesday, in what is the fourth such incident on the lake this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...