A European Union election expert mission yesterday met with the government’s Cambodia Human Rights Committee in a closed-door meeting as part of its visit to the Kingdom, at the end of which it will submit recommendations to the Cambodian authorities. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two Cambodia Daily journalists accused of incitement and violating voters’ rights for asking questions in advance of sunday’s commune elections in Ratanakkiri province will likely be summoned for questioning after Election Day, a provincial court prosecutor said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu sopheak’s pre-election warning that some NGOs and their leaders were being watched for illegally aiding the opposition was a threat designed to frighten them, General sopheak said on Wednesday, as civil society groups warily condemned the statements. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Phnom Penh will next month start issuing fines of up to $25 for violations of parking regulations by using handheld devices that scan license plates and recognize the registered identity and address of a vehicle’s owner, an official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two key members of the election monitoring group dubbed the situation Room are seeking a meeting with Interior Minister sar Kheng to discuss a recent government order that would bar the NGO consortium from continuing its work for next year’s general election. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday completed its task of removing pictures of its leadership from its billboards across the country in response to the passage of widely criticized legal amendments that effectively outlawed their former president’s association with the party. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A meeting yesterday between Interior Ministry officials and the acting leader of jailed government critic sourn serey Ratha’s Khmer Power Party ended with the party being asked to file missing annual reports to bring it in line with the Political Parties Law. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Senate amended itS internal ruleS yeSterday to puniSh SenatorS who miSS SeSSionS by docking their SalarieS, while alSo voting down a meaSure to appoint the wife of Hong Sok Hour to fill hiS former Seat on the body&rSquo;S anti-corruption committee. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Next year’s national election is unlikely to slow the rapid pace of bank lending growth but could put a temporary crimp in deposits, though the sector is expected to have sufficient liquidity to absorb the impact, according to a report released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following protests against land rights NGO Equitable Cambodia (EC) on Friday, several villagers in affected communities in Kampong speu’s Oral district voiced concern yesterday that the protests might have been staged by the company that the communities stand in conflict with. ss='cambodia-color'>...

University researcher sok Touch yesterday took the government’s oft-used “colour revolution” narrative one step further by characterising practically every major political development since the 2013 post-election protests as part of one concerted attempt to foment insurrection in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...

US-baSed energy giant General Electric (GE) hopeS to finaliSe an agreement with the MiniStry of MineS and Energy by November that would See the Kingdom&rSquo;S coal and gaS plantS uSing emiSSionS-monitoring technology for the firSt time, company executiveS Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A former senior army official and head of the late Chea sim’s bodyguard unit yesterday appealed to the supreme Court to once again reduce his jail time for a raft of crimes including embezzlement, weapons possession, breach of trust and forgery. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng yesterday announced he has formed an assessment group – with representation from the ministry’s identification and immigration departments as well as the Ministry of Labour – to study the issues affecting Cambodian migrant workers and provide recommendations to fix them. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction of the first seaport for tourist vessels in Kampot is due to start by the end of the year. The groundbreaking ceremony for the port project was previously scheduled for september, but was delayed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has approved new candidates to fill National Assembly seats left vacant by the dissolution of the opposition, drastically changing the composition of Cambodia’s parliament and providing a shot in the arm for the ailing royalist Funcinpec party. ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least 2 hectares of flooded mangrove forest in Koh Kong’s Peam Krasaop Wildlife sanctuary have been filled in with sand from illegal dredging nearby, with local authorities and an NGO yesterday claiming an unidentified “powerful” tycoon was behind the environmental crimes. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment workers from the Gawon Apparel factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao town have agreed to stop blocking a road leading to the factory for the next 15 days as they await a solution to their labour dispute from the Arbitration Council. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) boss Om Yentieng has said the Kingdom’s whistleblower and witness protection draft law was nearly complete, while at the same time lashing out at Transparency International Cambodia for not assisting in the process, something the group flatly denied. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 30 familieS from Poipet city&rSquo;S PhSar Kandal commune yeSterday proteSted in front of the Poipet Town Hall to demand intervention from authoritieS to reSolve a land diSpute with a man who claimS to be an “adviSer” to Prime MiniSter Hun Sen. SS='cambodia-color'>...