Leaders of the National Election Committee (NEC) who break the law will be removed from their posts by the National Assembly, officials said yesterday. The comments came after a meeting between Cambodian People’s Party and Cambodia National Rescue Party working groups. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 10-year-old girl was killed in­stantly when a piece of unexploded ordinance (UXO) detonated un­der the heat of a brush fire in in Kompong speu province’s Oral district on sunday afternoon, her commune chief said Monday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 of Phnom Penh’s 270 gardeners gathered at the National Assembly and then City Hall on Monday morning to deliver petitions asking for a substantial raise to their modest monthly salaries, threatening to go on strike if they were denied. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Preah sihanouk province have had yet another change of heart about the notoriously wild Kazantip music festival, pulling the event from sihanoukville’s Koh Puos island for a second time, with one official citing a desire to dissuade “indecent tourism.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior official yesterday urged local leaders to share information on available community services and government changes to residents as the Ministry of Information yesterday laid out its social accountability strategic action plan for the coming year and eyed last year’s results. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three villagers from Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district were illegally detained and beaten on Monday by a group of soldiers from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces’ Number 6 Brigade over a land dispute, victims and rights group Adhoc said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In 2001, Australia’s then-Conservative government first introduced its “Pacific solution” as a way of stopping an influx of asylum seekers attempting to reach its shores by boat—and as a way of winning votes during an election defined by wedge politics. ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall announced Friday that the vast majority of remaining evictees from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood—who were left landless after a development firm failed to provide adequate housing for hundreds in the community—will not be rehoused in the area. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc against a logging company they say has claimed more than 9,000 hectares of community forest as its own and threatened residents against using the land. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly will vote this week on a proposal to reform the National Election Committee (NEC) to make it a constitutional institution, a key prerequisite of the deal that ended the country’s political deadlock. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Kompong Thom provincial police officer has been moved to the Ministry of Interior in Phnom Penh while authorities investigate a CNRP provincial councilor’s claims that senior provincial police officials have been siphoning off parts of their subordinates’ salaries, officials said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from an ethnic Bunong community in Mondolkiri province filed a complaint with a district governor against a commune police chief on Thursday after he allegedly cleared trees belonging to villagers in Pech Chreada district’s Krang Tes commune, officials said Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Thailand amounted to 4.18 billion U.s. dollars in the first ten months of 2014, a 12 percent rise over the same period last year, the figures of the Thai Embassy here showed Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers prevented a company from clearing part of its land concession in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district on saturday in the latest confrontation in a long-running dispute in the Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary, according to a villager and a local official. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of families living in Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building filed a petition to City Hall yesterday morning, urging authorities to put an end to nearby construction work, which they say has left large cracks in the structure, and demanding compensation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has improved overall in protecting children from abuse and exploitation, the United Nations’ first Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) found in a report released yesterday, but the Kingdom has to take greater strides to further safeguard children’s rights. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Days after the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced it would help resettle Australia’s refugees currently being held on the Pacific island nation of Nauru in Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday acknowledged criticism of the deal at home and abroad. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Labor Ministry official in charge of garment factory faintings declared Wednesday’s reopening of a svay Rieng province factory—where 100 workers fainted in the past week due to chemical fumes—a relative success, with only three more women collapsing while working. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 of Phnom Penh’s 270 gardeners gathered at the National Assembly and then City Hall on Monday morning to deliver petitions asking for a substantial raise to their modest monthly salaries, threatening to go on strike if they were denied. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior official yesterday urged local leaders to share information on available community services and government changes to residents as the Ministry of Information yesterday laid out its social accountability strategic action plan for the coming year and eyed last year’s results. ss='cambodia-color'>...