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'>...

UN Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith raiSed the forced diSSolution of the CNRP and the rediStribution of itS legiSlative SeatS, aS well aS the government&rSquo;S frequent legal action againSt Sitting parliamentarianS, during her viSit on TueSday with National ASSembly PreSident Heng Samrin. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Extreme weather attributed to the tail-end of an El Niño event continues to wreak havoc on the nation’s agricultural sector, with more than 20,000 hectares of rice fields damaged so far this year, a government agricultural expert said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Almost 200 people protested yesterday in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City, demanding the release of Mang Puthy, president of the Cambodia Informal Economy Reinforced Association (CIERA), who says he was arrested after officials framed him for attempted murder. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite initial hopes that the man who tortured her 2-year-old son last year would face trial in Cambodia, the child’s mother said on Tuesday that Vietnamese police have informed her that the abuser would not be extradited from Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...