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'>...

National Police chief Neth Savoeun haS iSSued an order to police to begin 24-hour monitoring of market jewelry ShopS and money exchangeS, and warned officerS they could be fired if they allow armed robberieS to occur, according to a notice poSted on the police&rSquo;S webSite SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two more Cambodian women who were trafficked to China as brides are being assisted by officials at the Kingdom’s embassy in Beijing and will soon be repatriated, the government said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

David Puttnam, the U.K.’s trade envoy to Cambodia and the producer of the 1984 film “The Killing Fields,” on Tuesday warned that Cambodia could go the way of war-torn Middle Eastern countries if it fails to make stability a priority. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As part of its plan to up Cambodia’s soldier count, the Ministry of Defence is recruiting 620 university students. The candidates from the 2014-2015 academic year are to be volunteers with no criminal backgrounds, according to an official announcement. The recruitment drive spans the month of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S.-baSed conglomerate General Electric (GE) Signed an agreement with Cambodia&rSquo;S State- owned Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) on ThurSday to help improve the country&rSquo;S power grid. The contract waS inked by GE energy conSulting managing director Ravi Segal and EdC director-general Keo Rattanak. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen said Monday that his government will seek the pardon and release of female convicts who are pregnant or have children living with them inside prisons, following a report by a human rights group which took authorities to task for neglecting ss='cambodia-color'>...

The day after the government deported a foreign activist opposed to a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday invited activists in the valley to secede from Cambodia, but warned that rocket launchers could be deployed if ss='cambodia-color'>...

A major in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Pur senchey district on saturday night after he accidentally shot a 12-year-old boy in a drunken attempt to “clean the barrel of his gun” with a live round, officials said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank is forecasting a continued slowdown of Cambodia’s economy over the next three years because of rising local production costs, sluggish global rice prices and other headwinds. The prediction is a gloomy counterpoint to the coming rebound the Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecast ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a month in which Prime Minister Hun sen publicly sang the praises of opposition leader sam Rainsy only weeks after threatening to unleash the military on Mr. Rainsy’s deputy, Kem sokha, the opposition party was back on the road this week promoting an image ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of opposition officials and indigenous villagers from northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province claimed Thursday that guards from Vietnam threatened to shoot and kill them as they inspected disputed border territory, in the latest land squabble between the two neighboring nations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups want Cambodia’s parliament to hold a consultation with civil society about a controversial draft law on nongovernmental organizations approved Friday by the government of Prime Minister Hun sen, which has long demonstrated animosity toward organizations outside of state control. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Takeo provincial police yesterday sent seven men arrested for disturbing the peace – but suspected of fraud – to the provincial court, after they were arrested on Friday in Kiri Vong district’s Kiri Chung Koh commune where they had been trying to persuade people to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of Vietnamese families illegally residing in floating homes on the Mekong River in southeastern Cambodia’s Kandal province have urged local authorities to postpone their eviction by eight months so they can sell the fish they are raising and avoid financial ruin. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of activists in northwestern Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province said Tuesday that their forest is under threat from illegal loggers in neighboring provinces and could be completely cleared within months if authorities do not step in to deal with the problem. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N. plans to “review” a slew of newly declassified documents that show that judicial police ignored an arrest warrant for Khmer Rouge navy commander and accused war criminal Meas Muth, according to the U.N.’s special expert on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of NGOs on Monday told the World Bank to fix the land-rights problems surrounding its past projects in Cambodia before lifting a freeze on new lending to the country it imposed in 2011 to protest the mass eviction of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak ss='cambodia-color'>...