The National Election Committee (NEC) submitted a letter to the Ministry of Interior on Monday recommending that bureaucratic obstacles preventing the Kingdom’s 60,000 monks from registering to vote be resolved. ...

The Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries has announced a ban on all imported low-grade meat from neighboring countries as part of a national reform of the Kingdom’s meat industry. ...

Two Vietnamese nationals were arrested in Mondolkiri province as they attempted to cross the border back into Vietnam on Thursday in a tour bus loaded with high-grade timber, authorities said Sunday. ...

Refugees resettled in Cambodia as part of a multi-million-dollar deal with Australia have reportedly moved into private accommodation, five months after arriving in the Asian nation. ...

Cambodian agricultural experts are suggesting a national standard for organic products.Cambodian farmers are increasingly growing organic rice and vegetables in some places, but there is no official certification available. ...

National airline Cambodia Angkor Air will officially start regular flights between Sihanoukville and Ho Chi Minh City on June 17 in response to the increase in tourists wanting to use the route. ...

National Bank of Canada attributed its 5.5 per cent jump in fiscal third-quarter profit to its acquisition of Cambodia’s Advanced Bank of Asia Ltd. (ABA Bank) earlier this year. ...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen reconfirmed here yesterday afternoon the dates for the next commune/Sangkat council election and national election, the State News Agency-AKP report. ...

French investigators probing the 2012 murder of French national Laurent Vallier and his four children have returned to Cambodia to interview three suspects, a police official said on Wednesday.    ...

Local rights groups have raised major concerns about Cambodia’s sweeping new Telecommunications Law, which gives the government virtually unchecked spying powers and criminalizes any electronic communication deemed to cause “national insecurity.” ...

Cambodia’s health regulation system is in need of deep reform, not just minor adjustments, as it is failing to meet its national needs and ASEAN obligations, according to a new report. ...

A new juvenile justice law designed to steer youth offenders toward restorative justice instead of incarceration was passed by the National Assembly on Monday after more than a decade in the works. ...

Lieutenant General Hun Manet has defended his father Prime Minister Hun Sen’s record, saying people should remember the role Hun Sen played in bringing peace and national reconciliation to the country. ...

A sub-decree establishing Cambodia’s first juvenile prison will be issued by the start of September, Minister of Social Affairs Vong Soth told United Nations Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith on Wednesday. ...

The government unveiled a long-awaited national plan to combat violence against children yesterday, four years after a countrywide survey revealed that more than half of children in Cambodia are physically abused. ...

The Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday convicted seven Vietnamese nationals of procuring prostitution and sentenced them between six and ten years in prison, according to a verdict pronounced by Judge Kor Vandy. ...

The main opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party’s President Sam Rainsy will pay his condolence to former president of senate and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party tomorrow. ...

The National Election Committee has created a pair of new commissions, with one aimed at keeping relevant stakeholders informed of the reformed body’s activities and another coordinating electoral activities with Provincial Election Committees. ...

Police in Sihanoukville on Monday arrested Russian national Roman Dragomir, 39, for his alleged involvement in a violent brawl between two groups of foreigners at the Queenco Hotel & Casino in February, an official said. ...

Yem Ponhearith, chairman of the National Assembly’s commission on religious affairs, culture and tourism, on Thursday told a workshop that arrivals of “anarchic religious tourists” from Vietnam are harming Cambodia’s religious harmony. ...