After hosting 16 of the Kingdom’s 20 registered parties at the inaugural meeting of the Consultation Forum, two additional parties earlier this week announced their intention to join the group but pushed back against the idea of opposition leaders receiving salaries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forest activists in Ratanakkiri province’s O’yadav district said on Thursday that a group of Cambodian and Vietnamese traders are colluding with officials and transporting timber from their community forest to Vietnam after they had illegally felled trees there early this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng said on Thursday that the reinstatement of opposition leader Kem sokha’s political rights, which would open the door for his possible return to the political stage, was purely dependent on legal proceedings as his court case is ongoing. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Charcoal traders have complained about the high cost of “service payments” required to export to Thailand via Banteay Meanchey province’s Boeung Trakuon border crossing, forcing some to stop operating. Meanwhile, Forestry Administration officials recently imposed a blanket ban on all charcoal exports. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Red Cross has donated a car, two scooters and cash to activist Ben Devis and the Tabos community as an incentive for participating in the protection of the natural resources in Preah Vihear province’s Phnom Thnout-Phnom Pok Wildlife sanctuary.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of cars, thousands of motorbikes and chainsaws and a haul of timber impounded as evidence at Mondulkiri province’s Keo seima Wildlife sanctuary are falling into disrepair and should be moved for proper care, said provincial environment department director Keo sopheak. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng on Thursday ordered authorities to investigate a potential connection between a recent gun-smuggling case in Thailand and a similar case last year, seemingly contradicting the Defence Ministry’s earlier claim that the weapons didn’t stem from Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia welcomed the approval of the amendment of article 89 of the Labour Law on worker protection and severance pay by the government on Friday, but the organisation’s head said the move could financially burden employers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chab Sopharith, Banteay Meanchey provincial deputy police chief, Said the operation waS carried out on National Road 59, in the province&rSquo;S Malai commune. A driver waS arreSted but later releaSed when it waS aScertained that he waS not involved in the caSe. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Military police in Banteay Meanchey province’s Preah Neth Preah district on sunday confiscated endangered animals from two men suspected of poaching wildlife in Thailand. District military police Commander sin Rasy said yesterday that authorities managed to stop an sUV transporting endangered wildlife. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 15,000 luxury neang nuon trees have been planted along sihanoukville’s streets, around four water treatment facilities and along the Ochheuteal canal, in order to mitigate the pollution of the coastal environment when dirty water flows into the sea. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-Corruption Unit chairman Om Yentieng on Monday denied a claim made in court last week that he had exceeded his authority by ordering the bodyguard of ousted Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei to search the home of a murder suspect’s parents. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court has indefinitely postponed the trial on charges of “forgery and incitement” of jailed opposition senator Hong sok Hour, adjourning again on Wednesday after proceedings resumed following an earlier postponement on Oct. 2. ss='cambodia-color'>...

While still relatively small, the number of trademark applications has grown in Cambodia and the country’s low volume means that the Kingdom boasts among the fastest times in southeast Asia for registering a trademark, a government adviser told a business workshop yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local authorities say they are struggling to protect the Mondulkiri Protected Forest and the Phnom Prich Wildlife sanctuary from being logged by villagers in the province’s Koh Nhek and Pech Chreada districts, while villagers accuse authorities of colluding with certain logging groups. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an effort to standardise wedding rituals, Cambodia’s achars, or laymen who carry out Buddhist rites of passage, have been invited to a 10-day training course next month in the capital, the Ministry of Cults and Religion announced last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s rice industry faces a ple­thora of challenges—both internal and external—that have led to low prices and prevented ex­porters from achieving a lofty tonnage target set by the government in 2010, Prime Minister Hun­ sen said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A study of the Kingdom’s district health system has found it “unable to manage” non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, which are estimated to be responsible for more than half of adult deaths.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ahead of International Women’s Day, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) issued a statement highlighting the important roles rural women and girls play in society while stressing the need to protect and promote their rights. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is conspicuously missing from Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida’s itinerary for a trip to southeast Asia this week that will see him visit Burma, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand—where he on Monday pledged $7 billion for the region over three years. ss='cambodia-color'>...