Three mothers say they fear their sons are being coerced into fabricating molestation accusations against a man they know as the patron saint of Phnom Penh’s riverside but who police and child-protection activists say is a predator. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US InStitute of Peace on WedneSday announced the completion of a program &ndaSh; conducted by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) &ndaSh; to train an additional 600 educatorS to teach Khmer Rouge hiStory in the Kingdom&rSquo;S Secondary SchoolS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

An environmental nongovernmental organization and young Cambodians opposed to sand dredging will petition the country’s parliament and relevant ministries to stop companies from digging up sand in a southwestern province, activists said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two more people have tested positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune this month, bringing the total number infected to 272 since an outbreak of the virus was first detected in December, a health official said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Developers are eagerly anticipating today’s auction of four licenses to dredge sand on a section of the Mekong River, the first bidding round for licenses since the government began a nationwide crackdown on illegal sand dredging in April. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An NGO umbrella group says it has seen a new, leaked copy of a controversial draft law that aims to regulate the country’s hundreds of non-government organizations—and that the latest version marks a significant step backward. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of pro-democracy and human rights groups met with the National Assembly’s vice president, opposition lawmaker Kem sokha, on Wednesday, repeating calls that a controversial law to regulate NGOs be tabled. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government yesterday renewed its public call on Vietnam to halt activities it says are encroaching on Cambodian territory, this time citing a military post currently under construction along the border in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three activists from the environmental NGO Mother Nature and a human rights monitor were detained in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district for about three hours Thursday after City Hall deemed a planned march to the National Assembly illegal. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) organized a forum on TueSday to help companieS, inveStorS and StudentS underStand the importance of diScloSure in the SecuritieS market, inviting repreSentativeS of the fledgling bourSe&rSquo;S two liSted companieS to Share their experience. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Public and private universities are experiencing an exponential rise in the number of students opting for two-year associate degrees rather than four-year bachelor’s programs following last year’s disastrous high school exit examinations, education officials said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Unicef and the Ministry of Health have prepared four spots to raise awareness in the care of newborns and young children with illnesses. The ads, for radio and television, aim at improving the country’s high child mortality rate. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Licado and Adhoc both say they will not attend Wednesday’s consultation workshop on the controversial draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO) hosted by the National Assembly. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mark Harmon, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s international co-investigating judge, announced Tuesday that he was stepping down from his position following almost a year of inaction by judicial police in executing arrest warrants in two government-opposed cases. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday wrote to three world leaders to request “cooperation” to secure copies of maps of Cambodia’s borders, which he said are held by the governments of France, the UK and the Us. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In their continuing effort to stop illegal fishing in Cambodian waters, the Kingdom’s Immigration Police impounded 11 Vietnamese fishing boats last week caught in Cambodian territorial waters off Koh Kong province and ordered their 39 crew members deported. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has given Cambodian microfinance institute Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) a loan of up $10 million, aiming to boost access to finance to small- and medium-sized enterprises in Cambodia’s rural areas.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition is expected today to lodge a constitutional challenge to the controversial law on associations and non-governmental organisations (LANGO) in a last-ditch effort to stop the legislation before it’s signed by the King. ss='cambodia-color'>...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has written to Prime Minister Hun sen informing him that his government does not have copies of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam that Mr. Hun sen requested from him last month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A police officer was killed and another injured on Wednesday night when an old rocket from a 60-mm rocket launcher exploded while they were on patrol along Oddar Meanchey province’s border with Thailand, according to local officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...