Chea Chamroeun, who became a member of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party in 1993, submitted a resignation this week, claiming who would rather focus on communities than remain in a climate of political conflict. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has rejected a request from the Royal Academy for Judicial Professionals to provide observers at the upcoming exam for new judges and prosecutors, according to a letter posted to the unit’s website on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmaker Um sam An, who was at the fore of the CNRP’s efforts earlier this year to reveal Vietnamese encroachments into Cambodia, said on Monday that he had entered self-imposed exile along with opposition leader sam Rainsy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen inaugurated Cambodia’s newest Olympic-size swimming pool in Kompong Cham province on Wednesday, a $1.5 million facility named after himself and marked as a venue for the 2023 south East Asian (sEA) Games. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Around 50 people representing 83 households from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang yesterday refused concessions offered to them during a meeting with the National Assembly’s Commission on Human Rights, Complaints, and Investigation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police officials yesterday called for tougher sentencing of drug dealers and for the government to make it “easier and faster [for police] to seize their property”, as the Interior Ministry’s annual drugs conference wrapped in the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Every day, hundreds of tourists flock to the Tuol sleng Genocide Museum to hear macabre stories of killings and torture carried out inside the prison once at the heart of the Khmer Rouge’s security apparatus.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

A visiting representative of JsC Russian Railways, the state-run firm that manages rail infrastructure and operates passenger and freight services in Russia, met executives of Cambodia’s railway operator yesterday to discuss possible cooperation between the two companies. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The smuggling of illegally cut timber from northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri  province to Vietnam has dramatically increased since around April 17, with smugglers traveling the roads between the two countries day and night, sources in the region say. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) held a workShop on “Nuclear SafeguardS and the Additional Protocol” at Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Sunway Hotel yeSterday, highlighting the need for more technical knowledge and greater information Sharing on nuclear power in Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 pieces of luxury rosewood bearing Cambodian names and a phone number were found by Thai police and forest conservation officers in a national park in Thailand’s sa Kaeo province on Tuesday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries aims to increase fish production by 1.3 per cent this year, members of fishery organisations believe that is an unlikely target as drought conditions have tapped out natural resources. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday told Phnom Penh authorities and the Ministry of social Affairs to either improve the city’s notorious Prey speu detention center or shut it down in order to spare his government more embarrassment. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A reporter in Mondulkiri province who climbed a mango tree to look into a police official’s compound for a rumored stash of illegal timber over the weekend says he was later detained and threatened with a beating. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Branchless banking, including mobile banking, is one of the hottest trends in Cambodia’s microfinance industry, helping financial institutions deliver their products conveniently and affordably to people living in rural areas, industry insiders said yesterday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official at the Finance Ministry’s customs and excise department has been jailed on bribery charges following his arrest by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) last week on suspicion of taking kickbacks from foreign companies.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce is visiting the Kingdom’s petroleum importers to check their inventories following the release of new regulations this week that require the companies to maintain and report their stock levels, a ministry official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has requested the assistance of Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs stéphane Dion in mitigating the impact of climate change during an official meeting last Friday, noting, among other things, the recent severe drought. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister in Charge of Border Affairs Var Kimhong yesterday moved to quash the latest outbreak of rumours that National Assembly President Heng samrin’s native village of Thlok Trach would be given to Vietnam in a land swap. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The chief executive of ANZ Royal Bank has denied media reports that the Australian and New Zealand Bank Group (ANZ) is considering pulling the plug on its Cambodian operations amid a planned retreat from the region’s markets. ss='cambodia-color'>...