Criticism of two draft laws aimed at reforming Cambodia’s electoral system continues to grow. On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch issued a statement saying the draft laws “violate basic human rights and democratic norms and should be substantially revised before being presented to the National Assembly for ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly has been presented with a full list of 24 candidates for nine positions on the National Election Committee. As the Assembly prepares to select the members, its women’s political committee urged that it select more women, and that a woman be chosen as president ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just one refugee on Nauru has taken up the Australian government’s offer to settle Cambodia, according to a Cambodian official. A Cambodian interior ministry spokesman Khieu sopheak told the Cambodia Daily that a Rohingya man was so far the only refugee who had taken up the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new report issued today by Transparency International calls for the establishment of an AsEAN Integrity Community (AIC) to combat corruption, warning that economic integration could otherwise deepen the graft that taints the region. “If economic integration is not built on a strong foundation of transparency, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Bangkok-based regional law firm says it will expand to Cambodia in the coming weeks, despite the local bar association’s renewed drive to clamp down on foreign lawyers practising “illegally” in the country. Law firm Tilleke & Gibbins said it expected to enter the legal scene ss='cambodia-color'>...

A royal decree released yesterday has assigned 38 paid advisers to deputy ruling party president say Chhum to assist him in his new role as senate president. The same document, signed by King Norodom sihamoni on Monday, also served to disband the large team of advisers ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new special economic zone aiming to make Cambodia into a regional logistics hub held an official groundbreaking ceremony yesterday, at its future home on the muddy outskirts of Phnom Penh in Kandal’s Takhmao district. The $100 million Kerry Worldbridge sEZ project is a partnership between ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two days after a platoon leader in Mondolkiri accused soldiers from Kratie of pointing their weapons at his men in order to free a group of suspected illegal loggers from Vietnam, two of the military’s most senior officials on Thursday said they were unaware of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the Ministry of Commerce held a workshop yesterday to garner feedback from NGOs and businesses on the draft National Food Law.The new law deals with the safety, labelling and advertising of food and agricultural products for local consumption ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday handed over digital copies of a Cambodia-Vietnam border map bought in France to the Royal Academy.The academy’s border committee now has maps from the UN, Us and France, and says it will begin studying them in a bid ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singaporean-liSted oil and gaS firm KriSEnergy iS edging cloSer to finaliSing itS deal with the Cambodian government that will pave the way for extraction from offShore oil field Block A.According to KriSEnergy&rSquo;S half-yearly financial Statement, poSted on itS webSite yeSterday, termS have been agreed and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Japan and the five SoutheaSt ASian countrieS bordering the Mekong River adopted a blueprint Monday to booSt induStrialization in the Subregion.​ It aimS to booSt the combined groSS domeStic product of the grouping to $4.7 trillion by 2020. ASEAN&rSquo;S combined GDP iS currently eStimated at SS='cambodia-color'>...

Residents and authorities in Kampong Thom province’s Kampong svay district yesterday expressed deep concern over the persistence of severe drought in the stung sen River. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment and the Us Agency for International Development’s (UsAID) Greening Prey Lang Project are planning to release a report on the Prey Lang Extended Landscape. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s top economy builders are looking to bring back Thai investment that has departed the country since the onset of political clashes involving Preah Vihear temple in northern Cambodia. Officials at the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) yesterday hosted 30 delegates from the Thai ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Cambodia signed a $32 million grant agreement with the government on Monday to expand Takhmao town’s water supply system. ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the day the EU enforced tariffs on some of Cambodia’s exports, the Council for Development of Cambodia announced yet another new investment in the garment sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday donated hundreds of two species of fish to the Agriculture Ministry’s Fisheries Administration so that it can dole them out to farmers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Identification (GDI) has approved a guideline to pave the way for easier and faster residence registration and management. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Australian Ambassador to Cambodia Pablo Kang, and Preah sihanouk Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun, launched Australia’s support for a “smart city” strategy for sihanoukville. ss='cambodia-color'>...