Var Kimhong, senior minister in charge of border affairs and his Vietnam’s counterpart, Ho Xuan, began the close-door meeting on the Cambodia-Vietnam joint border committee this morning at the council of the cabinet ministers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP lawmakers have written to Prime Minister Hun sen asking him to stop the ongoing illegal logging of northeast Cambodia’s Virachey National Park, which they said they witnessed during a recent trip and blamed on businessmen An Mady and Try Pheap. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CPP’s 68 lawmakers pushed a controversial NGO law through the National Assembly on Monday morning without debate and without the opposition CNRP, whose 55 members boycotted the session in protest over legislation they say the government could use to stifle dissent. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce’s Camcontrol Department found yesterday that part of the more than 300 kilograms of “suspicious” dried squid, stingray and shrimp confiscated in Kampot on sunday had extremely high levels of a chemical substance banned in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmakers in Cambodia’s senate said Thursday that they would boycott an upcoming vote in the upper house of parliament on a draft law that regulates nongovernmental organizations working in the country if senators failed to amend the legislation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 workers from a factory that supplies sportswear giant Puma delivered a petition to Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet on Friday calling attention to their demands that five-year employment contracts be replaced by one-year contracts, a union leader said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 500 vendors from Phnom Penh’s Phsar Doeum Kor market on Wednesday gathered at City Hall to protest plans to demolish and rebuild the wholesale hub, worried that they will lose their stalls and be forced to purchase new ones. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A report released this month by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) suggests that due to Cambodia’s high suitability to solar power, energy from solar panels is a viable and sustainable source of power that could lead to energy independence. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The effort to reduce violence against children in Cambodia is gaining speed, with a boost from the Religion Ministry, which will highlight the Buddhist value of nonviolence as well as the practice of meditation in the country’s schools, according to ministry officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian arm of the World Wildlife Fund has called on the government to move forward with plans to reintroduce wild tigers in the country’s eastern forests, but reiterated concerns over possible development in the area.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province on Friday assisted 14 ethnic Montagnards who asked to be repatriated across the border to Vietnam after they left Thailand, citing financial hardship because they were unable to find work. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two monks were arrested in Phnom Penh’s Pur senchey district on saturday for possessing a small amount of crystal methamphetamine, police said sunday, but fellow monks and pagoda residents claimed the arrests were retaliation for the two taking part in political rallies. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday threatened legal action against those who have accused him of using incorrect maps to plant posts along the Kingdom’s border with Vietnam, and called on parties claiming to have the true maps to present them. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition negotiators were demanding last year’s July 22 political deal include concrete vows to depoliticize the military and courts in a comparable fashion to the National Election Committee (NEC) but suddenly abandoned the demands in the final days, those involved have said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eighty-two Cambodian students have been selected for a scholarship program to continue their master and doctoral degrees at France’s universities in the field of economics, law, medical studies, engineering, French-language teaching and tourism. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As talk of El Niño-inspired droughts shaped much of the conversation ahead of this year’s late-blooming rainy season, recent torrential rains in some areas of the Kingdom have given way to new fears of crop inundation and damage. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s commercial banks lent $11.9 billion to customers in the first half of this year, a 33 percent increase from the amount lent during the same time last year, according to a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) report released Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Low-income factory workers and illiterate citizens risk being left behind in the country’s voter registration process if current policies remain unchanged, Transparency International Cambodia warned yesterday, as it forwarded a list of recommendations to the National Election Commission. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The senior government official in charge of land dispute resolution visited more than 300 Koh Kong province families who are threatened with eviction by China’s Union Development Group to compile a report on the issue for Prime Minister Hun sen. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of local and international NGOs are urging the World Bank to include a program for helping the thousands of families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood as part of the plan to start funding new projects in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...