Foreign diplomatic missions in Phnom Penh say they are closely watching the handling of the cases of human rights monitors and a national election official charged and jailed on Monday in connection with a sex scandal being prosecuted against an opposition leader.    ...

The government claims not to have issued a single permit to export Siamese rosewood since it agreed to strict new trade rules for the exceedingly rare trees, and says it will look into a U.n.-managed database that states otherwise.   ...

Environmental nGO Mother nature has hired a Singaporean law firm to investigate alleged irregularities in the country’s importation of Cambodian sand, the organization’s founder said on Wednesday. ...

After rising significantly in recent years, Cambodia’s rice production will fall this year because of a shortage of rain, the U.n. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a new report. In its second quarter Rice Market Monitor report for 2012 published on Monday, the FAO ...

A two-year-old girl from northwestern Pursat province was confirmed positive for human H5n1 avian influenza after she was admitted to the Jayavarman VII Hospital in Siem Reap province on Oct. 25 with fever, running nose, lethargy, dyspnea, cough and breathing difficulties. She died on Oct.26. This ...

The momentum toward large-scale dams on the Mekong River may be unstoppable, but governments must work fast to mitigate their effects on fisheries and biodiversity or risk long-term food insecurity for millions of people whose lives depend on the river and its tributaries, leading academics ...

Tuesday marked World Toilet Day, the annual attempt to push the issue of open defecation back into the spotlight and highlight the preventable illnesses that are caused by what is still a very common practice in Cambodia, which has the lowest toilet coverage in Southeast ...

A four-year-old boy from Cambodia’s northeastern Kratie Province has been confirmed for H5n1 human avian influenza, becoming the 3rd case this year, said a joint statement by the World Health Organization and the Cambodian Health Ministry on Wednesday. The boy was confirmed positive for the virus ...

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 ...

Thirteen Vietnamese Montagnards have been recommended for refugee status by Cambodian authorities, pending approval by the Minister of the Interior. Spokesman Khieu Sopheak added that the refugee status for the remaining 13 now will be considered for official confirmation. ...

Two weeks after five Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam, the U.n. said Sunday that reports of the arrival of nine more—including three children—added to the situation’s “urgency.” Two ethnic Jarai villagers living in Ratanakkiri said the nine Montagnards—an indigenous group from Vietnam’s ...

U.N. humaN rights eNvoy to Cambodia Surya Subedi wrapped up his seveNth missioN to Cambodia oN Friday, sayiNg that his owN assessmeNts of laNd coNcessioNs coNfirmed that they are beiNg uNfairly graNted aNd leaviNg maNy commuNities out iN the cold. Mr. Subedi said that meetiNgs held ...

Detainees and prisoners continue to be administered electric shocks, beaten unconscious and even smothered by plastic bags, with 49 new allegations of torture or abuse at the hands of authorities this year, according to rights group Licadho, which says in a report released Wednesday that ...

Economic growth in Cambodia is estimated to reach 6.7 percent this year, a 0.2 percent drop compared with 2011, the U.n. said in a report released on Friday, citing a modest slowdown in exports from Cambodia to the U.S. and Europe. In its Economic and Social ...

It’s one of the world’s 49 least developed countries and almost half of the voting population is unhappy with the current government. But 72 percent of Cambodians are generally happy and spend large amounts of their time laughing, smiling and generally enjoying life. That’s the conclusion ...

Initial mapping of three ethnic minority Banong communities in Mondolkiri province got underway yesterday, a critical step in their plans to gain much coveted communal titles to their ancestral land. Established by the 2001 Land Law, communal land titles were designed specifically to protect the ancestral ...

With an aim of facing the growing challenge in Southeast Asia concerning money laundering and the financing of terrorism, the U.n. Office on Drugs and Crime has stepped in to provide Cambodian police with skills in order to curb this threat, according to a statement ...

A new outbreak of H5n1 highly pathogenic avian influenza has been reported in a village poultry flock. The veterinary authority sent Follow Up Report no.3 dated 21 March to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday that the country needed to prepare more measures to curb the spread of H5n1 strain of avian influenza, which broke out the worst last year and this year. “We have done a lot to control the spread of the ...

A rights group has asked the Cambodian government to stop harassing Christian Montagnards from Vietnam who are seeking refugee status in the country following the arrest of a family of five Montagnards in a northeastern province. ...