The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced Monday that it would provide over 800 million U.s. dollars in concessional finance to Cambodia over five years to support the southeast Asian nation in economic development and poverty reduction. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just before the regional consultation period for Laos’ Don sahong dam comes to a head at a final meeting in Vietnam on sunday, Laos government officials are already espousing plans and timelines for the project’s completion. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five men were sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for selling nearly 1 kilogram of crystal methamphetamine to undercover police officers in the capital’s Tuol Kork district last April. ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall has revealed its three-pronged plan to tackle the chronic congestion on Phnom Penh’s roads, by reducing second-hand vehicle imports, introducing more one-way roads and changing the working hours of government employees. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 70 villagers representing hundreds of families living in Battambang City’s Prek Preah sdech commune protested outside the provincial hall Tuesday over fears that local authorities intend to evict them to make way for military families. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Between 40 and 80 tonnes of charcoal, made from trees logged inside protected areas of community forests in Battambang’s samlot district, have been illegally exported to Thailand over the last year, an NGO officer said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun said Wednesday that bipartisan support for the country’s two new election laws would ensure they are passed with little debate by the parliament today, despite substantial public concern about their content. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials delayed the bidding process for three projects funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday after heated arguments between bidders broke out in Kompong Cham province’s Choeung Prey district, local officials said on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Police Commissioner Neth savoeun on Tuesday called on Phnom Penh’s police forces to increase arrest rates in the city to 75 percent of reported crimes and also asked municipal judges to grant bail less frequently.​ . ss='cambodia-color'>...

Princess Norodom Arun Rasmey has resigned from her position as a deputy president of the royalist Funcinpec party, prompting analysts to question the viability of the party’s attempts at revitalisation under returned leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Recent studies show that Cambodia’s democratic development is backsliding. For many Cambodians the future is unpredictable, creating a sense of uncertainty for many, while political freedoms are on the wane. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Guinness World Records judge kicked this year’s Angkor sankranta festival into action Monday by officially declaring a 4-ton sticky rice cake produced for the Khmer New Year celebration to be the largest ever made. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district last week seized several logs of illegal timber, ending what they said had been a lull in illegal logging since the arrests of two officials accused of colluding with loggers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 locals from Tbong Khmum province accompanied by opposition lawmakers scuffled with Vietnamese soldiers sunday morning while trying to reach a disputed 16.6-hectare plot of land along the country’s border with Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Members of a community in Battambang where an unlicensed doctor allegedly infected more than 200 people with HIV earlier this year have demanded free general healthcare, a provision usually reserved only for the country’s most poor. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The king of Cambodia his majesty Norodom sihamoni will give a fired-cremation for Former President of senate and the Ruling Cambodian People’s Party Chea sim on June 19, 2015. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmaker Um sam An on saturday led about 200 nationalist activists to inspect a non-demarcated strip of land along Kandal province’s disputed border with Vietnam where the Vietnamese government is constructing a military outpost. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) reported Monday that it collected 707 million U.s. dollars in taxes during the first six months of this year, up 38.5 percent over the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Bayon Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, will start daily flights between Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City from today, a company representative said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The results of a Korean proficiency test for would-be migrant workers were released Wednesday, with more than 7,000 Cambodians qualifying as prospective laborers in south Korea’s agriculture, manufacturing and construction sectors, according to officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...