Friends of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, who went missing under mysterious circumstances in February and was found dead in siem Reap province last week, expressed anger Wednesday at the Cambodian police’s apparent unwillingness to investigate the 58-year-old’s death. Two-and-a-half months after the journalist vanished after going ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mid-level negotiations between the CPP and opposition CNRP to end the country’s political deadlock hit yet another snag Thursday, this time over how to elect members to the National Election Committee (NEC), though the parties did agree to keep talking. The talks were the second since ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian woman who went to China to marry a man there was repatriated on Thursday after escaping from her husband’s house and finding refuge at the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Yoeng sreymom arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport at about 3:30 p.m. in the company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thach Ry, a 64-year-old Khmer Krom man, fled Vietnam in 2008 after authorities there tried to arrest him for protesting the government’s treatment of his community. Arriving in Cambodia with his wife and daughter, authorities here tried to arrest him, too, he said, so like many ss='cambodia-color'>...

UNESCO, the Battambang provicial government and touriSm officialS held talkS yeSterday on planS to liSt the province on the UN arm&rSquo;S World Heritage CitieS Program. AS part of the firSt of Several conferenceS on SuStainable touriSm for the conServation of cultural and natural heritage and the SS='cambodia-color'>...

The head of a construction company working to upgrade Phnom Penh’s dusty, potholed Veng sreng street said Thursday that the project would take twice as long to complete as expected. In November, Phnom Penh governor Pa socheatvong announced that a 6.5 km strip of the road—which ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction work at the site of Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute by Hong Kong-listed casino operator NagaCorp has caused concern among staff that the large development is driving away students. In recent days, a wall separating the institute from Hun sen Park in Chamkarmon district’s Tonle Bassac ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Koh Kong’s Botum sakor district said Friday that Union Development Group (UDG) used military forces to prevent villagers from planting paddy rice on land that is locked in a longstanding dispute, a claim the military denied. Khun Thala, a 40-year-old villager, said Friday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six familieS that were evicted from the Boeng Kak lake community, including long-time activiSt Heng Mom, confirmed WedneSday that they had accepted a deal from Phnom Penh City Hall for plotS of land and titleS in the Same neighborhood. The familieS have agreed to plotS of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s efforts to tackle HIV/AIDs over the past 15 years have won it praise, and put it well ahead of many other low-income countries.  But some of those most involved in the fight against AIDs are worried that an array of challenges could see some of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday sentenced two government officials to three years in prison, with one year suspended, after they were found guilty of aggravated fraud. Nuon sarath, 42, a former officer from the Justice Ministry’s civil department, and Keo sophal, 48, a former ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday encouraged Cambodia to pick up the slack on its higher-education system in order to bolster the country’s economic competitiveness. “Training human resources is necessary to developing the labour market and encouraging investments,” the premier said during the Royal University of Law ss='cambodia-color'>...

The latest version of the government’s draft law on NGOs, which was approved by the Council of Ministers in January, is identical to an earlier version made available to civil society in 2011, with several outstanding concerns still intact, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 100-page set of guidelines for the legal protection of the rights of women and children was launched by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Phnom Penh on Thursday in a bid to address shortfalls in how the judicial system handles cases such as rape, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The pace of Cambodia’s rice exports are expected to slow this year. Unable to maintain the steady rate of previous years, the export volume for the first half of 2014 is much the same as it was this time last year. At the end of June, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Over the past six months, 19 “vulture restaurants” have led to a slight rise in the number of the birds spotted in Cambodia, according to a recent Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report. Contrary to the name’s sound, the vultures aren’t the dish being served ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death toll from recent floods has reached six people, while inundations have caused more than 4,400 families across four provinces to be evacuated from their homes, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. “The full extent of the damage is not known yet,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives for the employees and owners of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire last month will meet at the Ministry of Labor today to try and hammer out a pay package for the workers, though a factory official said they would not ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Planning is to release today preliminary results of Cambodia’s first agricultural industry census, which promises to provide the biggest ever snapshot of the key sector. According to a press release issued yesterday by the ministry, the census’ preliminary results will include the number ss='cambodia-color'>...

An election reform lobby group has called for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to grant wide-ranging powers to a new election body. The Election Reform Alliance and political parties that did not win seats in last year’s national election said ss='cambodia-color'>...