Stung Treng provincial military police and at leaSt four Laotian drug SmugglerS exchanged gunfire along the Lao border TueSday after a man waS arreSted for attempting to Sell more than 1.5 kg of cryStal methamphetamine to undercover officerS, an official Said WedneSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A United Nations human rights expert has called for a speedy solution to the situation of the Montagnards from Vietnam still hiding in the forests of northeastern Cambodia, after crossing the border to escape alleged persecution. About 13 of the 50 Montagnards—Christian indigenous people from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights advocates have called for construction of the Lower sesan II hydropower dam in Cambodia’s stung Treng province to be halted until new environmental and social impact assessments can be carried following changes allegedly made to the project’s plans. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fashion brands, including Europe’s biggest clothing retailer Inditex sA (ITX) and Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMB), said they are willing to pay more for clothes made in Cambodia, backing a trade union campaign for higher wages. The chains are among eight clothing retailers that include Next Plc (NXT) and Primark that have ss='cambodia-color'>...

A London court on Friday convicted three British men of conspiracy to commit fraud following an investigation by the U.K.’s serious Fraud Office (sFO) into a British biofuel firm that swindled investors in its Cambodian venture. Gary West, the former director of sustainable Agro Energy (sAE); James ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ly Thuch, first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), has reiterated that mine clearance work across the country has brought nothing but smiles and happiness, with more and more people living in safety, free from the threat of the silent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Airlines plans to spend $1.5 billion to acquire up to 22 planes, a move that might see the new airline’s eventual fleet size overtake that of national carrier Cambodia Angkor Air. “We [will be] starting to deploy 16 to 22 aircraft immediately once it’s ready ss='cambodia-color'>...

On November 19, 2012, President Obama met with the leaders of the 10 member states of the Association of southeast Asia Nations (AsEAN) to deepen our diplomatic, economic, security, and people-to-people ties with the key Asian multilateral organization. With a population of approximately 620 ss='cambodia-color'>...

In May Cambodia became a member of the World’s Most Beautiful Beach Club and as a result Koh Kong provincial authorities are not renewing leasing for beachfront stores and evicting those who work there. The leases are said to have expired two months ago, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twelve civil society organizations submitted a joint statement asking the Us government and heads of democratic AsEAN members to raise issues of human rights violations in Cambodia and the misuse of courts to stifle the opposition at next week’s Us-AsEAN summit in California, in order ss='cambodia-color'>...

The planned theme of yesterday’s AsEAN defence ministers roundtable was military cooperation between countries, particularly in times of natural disaster, but it was a theme invariably pushed to the background by other regional developments. Among them was what appeared to be a cooling-off period in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights group Adhoc released a report on the state of Cambodian migrant workers yesterday, saying that tales of abuse from migrant workers and their families have increased five-fold compared to the same period last year. seventy per cent of this year’s 141 complaints concerned domestic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Banteay Meanchey province’s former governor got a surprise Monday when he attended a ceremony in Phnom Penh expecting to receive a donation of 200 power tillers from Chinese officials, but received eight small water pumps instead. Former Banteay Meanchey governor Oung Oeun and the governor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is now ranked as being perceived by investors as southeast Asia’s most corrupt country, surpassing Laos and Burma on Transparency International’s annual corruption index. Cambodia ranked 160 of 175 countries in the report, with its index score a mere 20 out of 100. That’s two ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged Daniel JohnSon, an American miSSionary, with committing indecent actS againSt five boyS under the age of 15 at an orphanage he operated in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Meanchey diStrict, police Said. JohnSon, 35, waS Sent to the court on WedneSday SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the country remaining trapped in a tense political stalemate that shows no signs of abating, Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday reiterated that the government would continue working as normal while the opposition’s boycott of parliament continues. “I will not talk about the political situation, as ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30 U.S. collegeS and univerSitieS jointly organized an education exhibition here Saturday, aiming to promote education tieS between the two countrieS. “The fair iS the largeSt-ever event directly promoting U.S. higher education opportunitieS to Cambodian StudentS,” Said a preSS Statement from the U.S. SS='cambodia-color'>...

At least three workers were arrested Tuesday morning outside the Wing star shoes factory in Kompong speu province, where the Free Trade Union (FTU) has been leading a strike calling for benefits and back pay, according to police and a union representative. An FTU representative said ss='cambodia-color'>...

With National Assembly President Heng samrin attending a conference in Laos, CNRP Vice President Kem sokha on Wednesday hosted his first official foreign visit since becoming first vice president of parliament in late August. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and the U.S. Senior military officialS met here WedneSday and vowed to Strengthen and expand bilateral tieS and cooperation for mutual benefitS. The commitment waS made between Gen. Pol Saroeun, commander-in- Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS (RCAF), and viSiting Gen. Vincent K. BrookS, SS='cambodia-color'>...