Thailand’s Foreign Ministry Permanent secretary sihasak Phuangketkeow will visit neighbouring Cambodia this week.   Mr sihasak, in his capacity as Acting Foreign Minister, is scheduled to visit Phnom Penh on Tuesday and Wednesday July 1 and 2 to deepen bilateral ties between the two nations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall met with urban planning experts and officials from relevant ministries Tuedsay to discuss building a new overpass on Russian Boulevard, near the Institute of Technology, and extending the existing paved walkway along Phnom Penh’s riverside to Koh Pich bridge, according to Chrean sophann, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Members of six ethnic communities in Mondulkiri’s sen Monorom town yesterday accused local authorities of blocking their efforts to protect community and wildlife sanctuary forests, where they say luxury timbers are logged by Villas Development, a company co-owned by the wife of Mondulkiri Deputy Governor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh on Tuesday offered grave warnings to anyone who “tries to topple the current government.” The minister appeared to be addressing the opposition, which has said it will call for mass demonstrations if election reform is not enacted by the ruling Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando yeSterday promiSed to once again defy Phnom Penh Municipal Hall and go ahead with an unSanctioned March 31 proteSt againSt the MiniStry of Information&rSquo;S refuSal to give him a televiSion licence and more relay frequencieS to extend the reach of SS='cambodia-color'>...

A group of villagers from Koh Kong’s Areng Valley gathered outside the offices of Flora & Fauna International (FFI) in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding a say in a project designed to relocate endangered siamese crocodiles from the site of the planned stung Cheay Areng dam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Hong said that Cambodia is committed and willing to improve the country’s human rights and democracy record. Namhong said during a meeting yesterday with Ms. Flavia Pansieri, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russia invites some Ministers of Cambodia to visit Russia to sign Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral consultation between the two countries, a government official said. The invitation was made during a meeting Monday between Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and Dmitry Tsvetkov, new Russian Ambassador to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly approved changes to the country’s customs law yesterday, in order to comply with Association of southeast Asian Nations intergration standards. The changes demand border operations increase human resources, reduce paperwork and modernise procedures in order to simplify border exchange and facilitate trade between ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union members of the Ministry of Labour’s Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) will meet on Monday for a garment industry wage discussion focusing on ideas raised at a workshop in April. The invitation from Labour Minister Ith sam Heng was sent to the seven LAC unions on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers caught in a land dispute with a minister’s wife gathered outside Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court for a third consecutive day on Thursday, demanding the release of two men jailed over a clash with workers from the well-connected agriculture firm KDC. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has expressed acceptance of Thailand’s new government and cabinet according to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s policy and confirmed that is won’t allow anti-junta groups to use Cambodia as a base. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two Vietnamese airlines have reportedly commenced flight simulations of routes over Cambodian airspace in an effort to cut travel time between that country’s two major cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following reports of abuse and poor conditions at the Kingdom’s shelters, the government yesterday launched official recommendations that seek to ensure better care is offered to victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged political activiSt Ouk Pich Samnang with intentional violence, cauSing damage to public property and obStructing the work of authoritieS after he drove hiS tuk-tuk through a Security barricade near Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S houSe during a proteSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Thai government’s move to stabilise rice prices for the 2014 harvest season has prompted mixed reactions from local rice industry representatives. sok Puthyvuth, president of the Cambodia Rice Federation said yesterday the policy would impact Cambodia negatively when Thailand is forced to sell ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a huge outcry from medical students, the University of Health sciences agreed yesterday to lower a planned rise in annual tuition for those hoping to pursue a medical specialty beyond their general degree. The students then agreed to accept the rector’s offer of $2,250, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the government’s latest defense of a proposed dam in the heart of the sparsely developed Cardamom Mountains, Prime Minister Hun sen in a letter downplayed the impact the project would have on the hundreds of ethnic minority families it would displace and touted its ss='cambodia-color'>...

At the behest of Prime Minister Hun sen, prisons across the country sunday marked International Women’s Day by releasing a total of 22 female inmates who are either pregnant or had young children with them in jail, including a woman convicted of attempted murder over ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers demolished 62 houses in Preah sihanouk province’s stung Hav district Thursday and evicted about 70 residents after the provincial court decided to act on a long-standing ruling that deemed the families to be living on the land illegally, an official and a rights worker ss='cambodia-color'>...