National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun on Friday defended Cambodia’s decision to reject four human rights proposals and merely take note of another 38 during the adoption of its second universal periodic review report in Geneva on Thursday. In all, Cambodia accepted 163 of the 205 recommendations ss='cambodia-color'>...

District security guards, often used to break up demonstrations and beat protesters, were mobilized Tuesday to help clean up the city as hundreds of Phnom Penh’s trash collectors continued their strike over pay and working conditions. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said 60 Cintri trucks returned ss='cambodia-color'>...

A draft US law that would require the World Bank to regularly report to congreSS about the condition of familieS diSplaced or Still living in the Boeung Kak lake area waS approved WedneSday by the HouSe of RepreSentativeS. The bill includeS language that Specifically requireS the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Sen&rSquo;S army of Student land meaSurerS may have marked ground for them in 2012, but repreSentativeS of about 20 ethnic familieS in Ratanakkiri province Said yeSterday that their combined 50 hectareS of land haS now been invaded by hordeS of familieS digging for gemS. Chhay SS='cambodia-color'>...

A commune police officer has been summonsed to appear at Ratanakkiri’s provincial court on Friday after 10 villagers filed lawsuits against him in september for his alleged involvement in illegal logging in a community forest and for threatening them with a rifle, villagers and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Tuesday that the country’s banking sector has enjoyed strong growth in recent years and urged the banks to increase their lending to agriculture. According to the report of the National Bank of Cambodia, lending at the kingdom’s 34 commercial banks ss='cambodia-color'>...

A day after opposition leader sam Rainsy said election reform talks were being “cut off” due to ruling party intransigence on the issue of National Election Committee reform, the opposition has asked the Cambodian People’s Party to officially declare its stance on the matter. senior CPP ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 600 of the Kingdom’s inmates could be released or see their sentences reduced this Khmer New Year if the King responds favourably to a request made yesterday by the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons, officials said. Kuy Bunsorn, director general of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dengue fever deaths and infections have fallen dramatically during the first two-and-a-half months of this year compared to the same period in 2013, according to the government’s latest figures. Nhan Chantha, head of the Health Ministry’s national dengue control program, said his staff recorded one death ss='cambodia-color'>...

A bloody slingshot battle broke out in Kompong speu province yesterday when villagers who have sold their land to a private company defended the firm’s machinery as it attempted to bulldoze the homes of neighbors who have refused to sell. The dispute, in Thpong district’s Ya ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine environmental activists on trial for the destruction of private property in Kompong Thom province denied allegations in court Monday that they ravaged a local farmer’s cassava field in 2011. The nine members of the Prey Long People’s Network, a group of activists dedicated to protecting ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Senate on Monday inaugurated three office buildingS, which were conStructed under the ChineSe grant aid of 7.7 million U.S. dollarS. The inauguration waS preSided over by Say Chhum, Acting- PreSident of the Cambodian Senate, and ChineSe AmbaSSador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo, and waS attended SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who became first prime minister of Cambodia after the 1993 U.N.-sponsored elections, will form a new party and re-enter the political arena, according to his cabinet chief. “The prince has a plan to create a new party,” said Naranarith Anandayath, chief of Prince ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly two years have passed since Cambodia’s leading forestry activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in the Cardamom Mountains. After a long wait, more than 100 activists, supporters and monks will finally make the pilgrimage on saturday to the spot where he was killed to pay ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian stockbrokers yesterday admitted to a disappointing level of investor interest in Grand Twins International’s (GTI) initial public offering. Garment industry unrest, distrust in the private sector and a lack of liquidity in the market were all said to be discouraging investors from buying into the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seventy-four former Khmer Rouge SoldierS fighting for land they claim the government granted them in the 1990S have agreed to meet with the military commanderS who allegedly Sold the parcelS for perSonal profit. The meeting, Scheduled for TueSday, followS a week after a pair repreSentativeS for SS='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of a speech by Prime Minister Hun sen denouncing civil society’s criticism of the way that three judiciary laws sailed through the Council of Ministers without outside input or transparency, NGOs released an open letter yesterday calling for the Kingdom’s renewed commitment ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two disputes involving a land developer with ties to the highest ranks of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party have once again exposed the lack of justice faced by impoverished communities in the capital, affected residents and rights groups have said. In Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A second deadly car accident in as many days has claimed the lives of more Cambodian migrant workers fleeing Thailand in the wake of last month’s military takeover. At least two undocumented Cambodian workers were killed while driving through Thailand’s Chonburi province to get to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce has vowed to uncover more markets for Cambodian products to help buffer against price fluctuations caused by the Kingdom’s dependency on neighboring countries. In a response to concerns raised on social media, Commerce Minister sun Chanthol wrote on the ministry’s official Facebook ss='cambodia-color'>...