The number of dead fish found in Kampong Thom’s protected Tonle Chhmar Lake climbed higher over the weekend – nearly 70 tons of fish have now died since the first were found by provincial fishery officials on April 23.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities say they have discovered irregularities among the 170,000 thumbprints the CNRP gathered in support of a petition seeking King Norodom sihamoni’s intervention in the current political crisis, deputy National Police chief Kang sokhorn said on Tuesday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday called for the closure of 2.25 million hectares of natural forest in the country’s Central Highlands as well as the shuttering of wood processing facilities across the country, regional news outlets reported. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union and the SwediSh International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) have agreed to provide a grant of €33.1 million to Support the third phaSe of Cambodia&rSquo;S Public Financial Management Reform Program, State newS agency AKP announced Friday. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

Continued widespread logging in the Prey Lang forest is evidence that the government’s recent push to have more than 400,000 hectares of land protected is toothless, according to activists as well as a Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) report released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human error is the leading cause of road traffic accidents in Cambodia and young people on motorcycles make up the largest number of deaths on the nation’s roads, where 1,108 fatalities were recorded in the first six months of 2016. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the government plans to transfer roughly 60 percent of detainees at the notorious Prey speu detention center to a “mental illness” center in Kandal province, mental health experts expressed doubts this week over the country’s capacity to provide proper care. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Voters in next year’s elections will now have to make their choices under the watchful eye of the army after the government issued a decree yesterday establishing permanent military forces at national and sub-national election sites between 2016 and 2019. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hours before AsEAN foreign ministers released a long-negotiated, but ultimately watered down communiqué on the contentious south China sea, China’s foreign minister singled out Cambodia for praise for holding out against a push for a stronger statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

American sporting goods giant Nike has opened its first dedicated retail store in Cambodia in what observers have described as another sign the Kingdom’s strong economy and rising incomes had not gone unnoticed by international retail giants. ss='cambodia-color'>...

President Trần Đại Quang hosted a reception in Hà Nội yesterday for Cambodia’s senior Minister and Minister of Cults and Religion, Him Chhem, during which he stressed the need for the two countries to boost religious cooperation in bilateral and multilateral frameworks. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the Anti-Corruption Unit has asked opposition lawmaker Real Camerin to submit documents detailing his income and expenses to clear himself of allegations that he embezzled most of the $55,000 he raised to fund trips to inspect Cambodia’s border. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of South KoreanS and CambodianS employed by a Korean developer faced off with an excavator and a bulldozer clearing land for a wealthy local buSineSSman in a diSpute over 6 hectareS of land in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S RuSSei Keo diStrict on WedneSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

During a closed-door meeting on Monday, Defense Minister Tea Banh told a Vietnamese counterpart of the CPP’s success in suppressing an opposition campaign to highlight border incursions by Vietnam and urged Hanoi to help ensure that the issue does not re-emerge. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 villagers living on the fringe of a giant hydropower project in stung Treng province are lobbying for their commune’s police chief to be removed, alleging that he habitually confiscates illegally logged wood from villagers on behalf of powerful business interests. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A unit of domestic conglomerate Chip Mong Group, Chip Mong Insee Cement, has signed a partnership agreement with China’s CITIC Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. to build a $262 million cement plant in Kampot province, with construction slated to start next year.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

After nearly two months tied to a tree near the Lumphat district office in Ratanakkiri province, a female elephant has finally been rehoused by the Mondolkiri Project Elephant sanctuary, which purchased the animal in early October, according to the sanctuary’s founder. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has levelled further criticism at the Vietnamese army’s alleged control of 40,000 hectares of economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, claiming that the grants are in violation of the Cambodian constitution. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prosecutors in Kompong speu province have ordered police to reinvestigate the demise of a newspaper reporter who was reportedly bludgeoned to death by an angry mob on sunday, while the victim’s family and employer cast doubt on the official version of events. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance has raised concerns about the rapid growth of credit and real estate sectors, which it says could pose risks to Cambodia’s economic growth, while emphasising that policy measures were being taken to mitigate these risks. ss='cambodia-color'>...