An NGO umbrella group says it has seen a new, leaked copy of a controversial draft law that aims to regulate the country’s hundreds of non-government organizations—and that the latest version marks a significant step backward. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of pro-democracy and human rights groups met with the National Assembly’s vice president, opposition lawmaker Kem sokha, on Wednesday, repeating calls that a controversial law to regulate NGOs be tabled. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government yesterday renewed its public call on Vietnam to halt activities it says are encroaching on Cambodian territory, this time citing a military post currently under construction along the border in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three activists from the environmental NGO Mother Nature and a human rights monitor were detained in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district for about three hours Thursday after City Hall deemed a planned march to the National Assembly illegal. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) organized a forum on TueSday to help companieS, inveStorS and StudentS underStand the importance of diScloSure in the SecuritieS market, inviting repreSentativeS of the fledgling bourSe&rSquo;S two liSted companieS to Share their experience. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Public and private universities are experiencing an exponential rise in the number of students opting for two-year associate degrees rather than four-year bachelor’s programs following last year’s disastrous high school exit examinations, education officials said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Unicef and the Ministry of Health have prepared four spots to raise awareness in the care of newborns and young children with illnesses. The ads, for radio and television, aim at improving the country’s high child mortality rate. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Licado and Adhoc both say they will not attend Wednesday’s consultation workshop on the controversial draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO) hosted by the National Assembly. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mark Harmon, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s international co-investigating judge, announced Tuesday that he was stepping down from his position following almost a year of inaction by judicial police in executing arrest warrants in two government-opposed cases. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday wrote to three world leaders to request “cooperation” to secure copies of maps of Cambodia’s borders, which he said are held by the governments of France, the UK and the Us. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In their continuing effort to stop illegal fishing in Cambodian waters, the Kingdom’s Immigration Police impounded 11 Vietnamese fishing boats last week caught in Cambodian territorial waters off Koh Kong province and ordered their 39 crew members deported. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has given Cambodian microfinance institute Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) a loan of up $10 million, aiming to boost access to finance to small- and medium-sized enterprises in Cambodia’s rural areas.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition is expected today to lodge a constitutional challenge to the controversial law on associations and non-governmental organisations (LANGO) in a last-ditch effort to stop the legislation before it’s signed by the King. ss='cambodia-color'>...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has written to Prime Minister Hun sen informing him that his government does not have copies of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam that Mr. Hun sen requested from him last month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A police officer was killed and another injured on Wednesday night when an old rocket from a 60-mm rocket launcher exploded while they were on patrol along Oddar Meanchey province’s border with Thailand, according to local officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Employing some 700,000 Cambodians, the garment sector is the country’s largest private employer. But move above the factory floor and you will find mostly foreigners, from countries such as China, singapore, Bangladesh, sri Lanka and the Philippines. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Battambang province arrested a man on saturday who was in possession of more than $2,500 in counterfeit U.s. notes after receiving complaints from market vendors he had duped earlier in the day, police said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment announced yesterday that nearly 70,000 traps have been removed from the Kingdom’s forests over the past 15 months.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s National Commercial Arbitration Center (NCAC) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) are promoting mediation to resolve business disputes and build investors’ trust in commercial litigations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six more countrieS have taken part in the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in SoutheaSt ASia (TAC), raiSing thiS deal&rSquo;S memberShip to 49. SS='cambodia-color'>...