A spokesman for the newly reconstituted National Election Committee (NEC) said Friday that Japan and the European Union (E.U.) have agreed to send experts to Cambodia next month to look for ways to improve the country’s flawed voter lists and to better educate voters. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam, the world’s third largest rice exporter after India and Thailand, has raised by 3% the export price floor for the 25% broken rice to $350 a ton as it prepares for a tender in the Philippines, traders said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the government’s border committee said Tuesday that villagers in Tbong Khmum province who are angry about Vietnam claiming 16.6 hectares of land they had farmed failed to inform authorities that they used the land before the countries signed a 2011 border agreement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit met with visiting staff of the Global Fund to Fight AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria last week to follow up on the Fund’s allegations that a former government health official had collected some $350,000 in bribes to manipulate mosquito net contracts. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A day after the death of CPP President Chea sim, say Chhum, the ruling party’s secretary-general, was on Tuesday appointed to succeed him as the president of the senate, while preparations began for the June 19 national day of mourning for the late figurehead. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of indigenous villagers in northeastern Cambodia’s stung Treng province called on local forestry officials Wednesday to crackdown on illegal saw mills and to provide them with protection after they received death threats from unsanctioned loggers of luxury timber. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmaker Mao Monyvann on Thursday rebuked the government over its repeated refusals to publicly release a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, saying he would push ahead with a banned press conference to publicize the lack of transparency on the issue. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Phnom Penh made the country’s largest ever methamphetamine seizure late last week after arresting three members of a trafficking ring who were found with nearly 55 kg of drugs worth about $3 million, most of which was destined for Taiwan, an official said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Around 150 villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have blocked a Chinese concession holder from clearing land they say was reserved for grazing their cattle, an official from a nongovernmental organization and a local commune chief said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung on Tuesday met with Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong to inform him that local Vietnamese authorities had been ordered to compile reports on the use of land on disputed stretches of the border following recent diplomatic notes from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of a group known as Cambodia Youth Movement 157, which counts Defense Ministry officials among its leadership, on sunday handed out money to eviction-threatened indigenous families in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley on behalf of Hun Manet, the son of Prime Minister Hun sen. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC), which represents most of the country’s export-oriented garment factories, will establish a training institute with the aim of replacing more than 8,000 jobs in the garment industry held by foreign  workers with a highly skilled local workforce. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After initially dragging its feet, the Japanese government has agreed to take part in a massive industrial development project in Myanmar. The decision was clearly influenced by China’s active involvement in infrastructure development in the Mekong region, which also includes Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A loacal NGO director and a village chief in Battambang’s samlot district were summoned for questioning by district police today over a complaint filed by six loggers, who claim the men attempted to extort $6,000 from them under the threat of violence. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the arrest of wanted tycoon sok Bun this weekend, authorities are now searching for his bodyguard, police said yesterday, though a lawyer for the woman Bun was charged with assaulting has accused the disgraced real estate magnate of obscuring the man’s identity. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Youth vocational training may be the key to curbing migration and combating poverty in Cambodia’s most vulnerable communities, according to child welfare NGO Pour un sourire d’Enfant (PsE), which is helping to roll out a technical skills program for high school dropouts. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A pilot project to create the first-ever mechanical toll-parking system in the Cambodian capital has sparked concern among the city’s freelance parking attendants, who eke out a living on the tips they receive from helping drivers find space to park their car. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The leader of Cambodia’s opposition party on Thursday denounced the conviction and sentencing of 11 party activists to prison terms of up to 20 years for participating in a protest that turned violent as a “brutal act of repression.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three more opposition activists were charged with “joining an insurrection” Wednesday for taking part in a CNRP-led protest that turned violent last year, with two being sent to Phnom Penh’s Prey sar prison and a third detained overnight at municipal police headquarters. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As deforestation in Cambodia’s forests has grown in recent years, more and more citizens have come together to fight against it. Now, a group of 300 people are going to campaign for awareness about the destruction of Prey Lang, the largest evergreen forest in the ss='cambodia-color'>...