Minister of Interior sar Kheng has ordered commune officials to use next year’s increased annual budget of more than $100,000 “effectively, transparently and responsibly”, with local-level expenditure set to more than double from $50,000 a year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The process of obtaining geographical indication (GI) status for Kampong speu palm sugar in the European Union suffered a setback this week after a company asked for revisions to the wording of the product’s guidebook, according to a producers association. ss='cambodia-color'>...

During Prime Minister Hun sen’s official visit to the UN, rallies in support and against him took place over the weekend as planned, with supporters of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) attacking each other. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation have committed to eradicating hunger in Cambodia by 2030. The commitment was made yesterday at an event to mark World Food Day 2018 in Kampong Cham province’s stung Trang district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Mondulkiri Provincial Court on Sunday decided to detain Te Kim San, the former head of the mining community in Keo Seima diStrict&rSquo;S Chung PhlaS commune, on chargeS of collecting foreSt by-productS and building an illegal timber proceSSing facility. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A member of the Supreme ConSultation Forum iS Set to forward to Prime MiniSter Hun Sen, the complaintS of more than 1,000 familieS againSt a military lieutenant general over alleged land grabbing in Kampong Thom province&rSquo;S Stoung diStrict. SS='cambodia-color'>...

As Rhona smith, the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, began her first official visit to the country Wednesday, leading human rights activists were at odds over how much her position could influence the situation on the ground. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A seminar scheduled by the opposition CNRP later this month on its “political image” will focus on convincing the party’s lawmakers and members to stick to a united message and keep debate inside the party, opposition leader sam Rainsy said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government spending on social welfare and economic development could both see double-digit growth next year, according to a document summarizing expenditures in next year’s budget that will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Hun sen today. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The wife of imprisoned opposition senator Hong sok Hour on Thursday denied reports that she and the driver of her husband’s sUV fled the scene of a crash in Kandal province that left another man with a broken femur. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police arrested 36 men and one woman on saturday in the latest raid on Phnom Penh’s Trapaing Chhouk slum, a cluster of shanties above a fetid pond in sen sok district where crystal methamphetamine use and distribution are rampant. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local conglomerate Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) will invest $60 million in the construction of Olympia Plaza, a seven-storey shopping mall being built inside the company’s mixed-use Olympia City project in central Phnom Penh, the company confirmed yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts say maritime territorial disputes over parts of the south China sea are unlikely to lead to military conflict, after a meeting between U.s. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart in Washington in september. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy Party deputy preSident Teav Vannol yeSterday declined to Say whether he would take leaderShip of the party in the wake of preSident Kong Korm&rSquo;S retirement, though a fellow Senator Said it waS all but a foregone concluSion. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s telecom regulator has de-recognised 29 internet and voice-over internet protocol (VOIP) providers in the Kingdom, for failing to provide documentation to prove their active status, according to an official from the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC). ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government collected about $1.3 billion in tax revenue in 2015, a 21.67 percent increase over the previous year, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s general department of taxation on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 vendors from the Tumnup market in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district protested in front of the municipal court on Wednesday to demand that two of their colleagues who were arrested amid a dispute over market fees be released. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A former MEC Co. Ltd shareholder was tried in absentia by the Court of Appeals yesterday morning for allegedly defaming his former company and MEC’s chairman, former Cambodian Prime Minister Ung Huot, in 2014, according to a court official. ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall plans to privatize a 280-hectare plot of public land set aside for a $3 billion development by the Over­seas Cambodia Investment Cor­poration (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district, officials said Thursday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals have sold a royal residence in Koh Kong province to the government for about $6.5 million after it was donated to them in October by the king and queen mother.   ss='cambodia-color'>...