Senior government miniSterS yeSterday rejected the Cambodia National ReScue Party&rSquo;S call for Cambodia to follow the lead of Thailand and take the country back to the pollS. Interior MiniSter and Deputy Prime MiniSter Sar Kheng Said yeSterday that there waS no chance a new election would SS='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials over the weekend warned that opposition leader sam Rainsy could face legal action for comments he made on his Facebook page that called on the public to woo the country’s armed forces into supporting the CNRP and put an end to decades of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc alleging a military official is using armed forces to claim 90 hectares of their land. In their complaint filed with Adhoc earlier this month, the 13 families who claim ownership of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

United Nations envoy is expected to arrived in Cambodia today, a week after the deadly crackdown by government forces against protesting workers on Veng sreng street, which left five people dead. This is the first visit of surya P. subedi, UN special Rapporteur on human ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government yesterday warned foreigners to stay away from opposition protests against a hotly disputed election as thousands of riot police practised crowd control in the capital. Authorities and security forces would “avoid potential clashes at all costs” said the government in a statement released ss='cambodia-color'>...

Riot police and groups of men in plain clothes armed with sticks, Tasers and slingshots violently attacked a group of anti-eviction protesters conducting a hunger strike at Wat Phnom late last night, injuring several people. Protesters from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community began the hunger strike ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng has ordered all prison, detention and rehabilitation center chiefs to accommodate and give full access to delegates from the U.N.’s subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (sPT), whose five-day mission to assess the use of torture, cruelty and other inhumane treatment ss='cambodia-color'>...

Stronger diSaSter planning iS needed to avoid future devaStation and loSS of life cauSed by flooding, according to a report publiShed by World ViSion yeSterday. The report, titled&nbSp;CitieS Prepare, recommendS that the Cambodian government and civil Society work to place “a Stronger emphaSiS on diSaSter riSk SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned to court four people involved in a land dispute with a private company in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak I commune, including two victims of a snake-throwing incident in October, over alleged violence and theft. On October 30, a bag ss='cambodia-color'>...

Both dengue fever and malaria deaths have plummeted this year compared to the same period in 2012, which was a peak year for the cyclical dengue, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health. Dengue fever killed 59 people and infected 17,491 during the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A village chief in Kompong Thom province has begun collecting signatures on a petition to remove the opposition-aligned head monk of his local pagoda, whom he has accused of embezzling the pagoda’s money. Kheang Khean, the chief of Krachab village in stung sen city’s Achar Leak ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of soldiers from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) in Banteay Meanchey province have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc accusing their superiors of serious corruption, stealing veterans’ pensions, nepotism and illegal logging. For three years, a representative of the soldiers said, they had ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the management of an embattled garment factory this week refused to follow a government order to reinstate 19 dismissed union leaders and activists, unionists and observers are at a divergence of opinion over how the state should respond. “It’s fairly unprecedented,” Dave Welsh, country director ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP on Monday delivered a letter of notice to provincial authorities of its plans to hold a rally in siem Reap City to mark International Human Rights Day next Tuesday, a party official said. Ke sovannaroth, the head of the CNRP’s siem Reap working ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is moving forward with development of the Lower se san 2 hydropower project and is seeking support from surrounding nations. A spirit of collaboration was established on Tuesday at a meeting between Chief Minister Pehin sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, Tourism Minister Dr. Thong Khon and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asean Economic Community (AEC) will cut red tape and allow freer trade between the bloc’s 10 member states. But many companies in the region aren’t even aware of the AEC blueprint, a sobering report from the Asia Development Bank has found. The bank also ss='cambodia-color'>...

Striking garment factory workerS and proteSting CNRP SupporterS Should reSpect people of other nationalitieS and make Sure they act within the boundarieS of the law, DefenSe MiniSter Tea Banh Said ThurSday. Speaking at an opening ceremony for three new Royal Cambodian Armed Force Science laboratory buildingS, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Web surfers and social-media addicts will have to hold out longer in the wait for Cambodia to boost its internet speeds, as construction on the Kingdom’s first submarine internet cable is behind schedule. Paul Blanche-Horgan, CEO of Ezecom, Cambodia’s largest internet provider, confirmed yesterday that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Pursat Provincial Court on Tuesday charged three men with illegally clearing forest inside a protected wildlife sanctuary, and authorities are still searching for the man they were allegedly working for, officials said Wednesday. Provincial prosecutor Tan seihak Dechak said the three charged men—Pak Im, 41, ss='cambodia-color'>...

NGOS have accuSed logging tycoon Try Pheap&rSquo;S MDS Import-Export Company &ndaSh; which had a licence to clear foreSt during the conStruction of the Stung Atai hydropower dam in PurSat &ndaSh; of continuing to log the area deSpite the dam being finiShed. Ouch Leng, director of the SS='cambodia-color'>...