Nearly a decade ago, Meng Chor inherited a rooftop rental agreement with a telecommunications firm after buying a property on Mao Tse Toung Boulevard. For $300 a month over a 10-year lease, the contract allowed the company that later became Mfone to keep the cell tower ss='cambodia-color'>...

A fleet of five speedboats set off from sisowath Quay on Tuesday afternoon carrying Phnom Penh’s governor, 19 local officials, several bodyguards and a press team, as the municipal authorities’ plan to deal with flooding in several districts of the city switched into first gear. Over ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CPP-dominated National Assembly on Wednesday approved a law that will see the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy split into two separate ministries, but has yet to decide who will head the new bodies. The CPP’s 68 lawmakers unanimously passed a measure that will see ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP president sam Rainsy on Monday defended his recent Facebook posts urging police and soldiers to “stand up” with the people and “demand” a change of government, and dismissed claims from the ruling CPP that he was inciting a coup. “We just want to urge ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia should hold a referendum to decide whether the country calls a reelection or not after allegations of serious irregularities during July’s election that handed victory to Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling party, political analysts said. Kek Galabru, president of a renowned human rights group ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the director of one of Cam­bodia’s largest breweries, Malay­sian businessman Goh Nan Kioh has made millions selling Angkor Beer to Cambodians. But now his latest business venture, a controversial mainstream Mekong dam in Laos, is drawing the ire of environmentalists who believe that it will ss='cambodia-color'>...

There were ugly scenes on Friday at Phnom Penh’s hill-temple Wat Phnom when district security guards scuffled, shouted abuse and punched a group of mostly women and monks who had gathered to hold a memorial ceremony for Mao sok Chan—the 29-year-old man shot dead by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP announced Tuesday that it had engaged lawyer Richard Rogers, former head of the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Defense support section, to analyze evidence of alleged crimes committed by the CPP government and decide whether they justify filing a complaint with the International Criminal ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The opposition CNRP on sunday set new conditions for ending nearly two months of political deadlock over the national election that both it and the ruling CPP claim to have won, ahead of scheduled negotiations between the two parties this morning. The opposition is now demanding ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents embroiled in a long-running land dispute in the Borei Keila area of Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district on Wednesday tore down three metal fences and occupied an unfinished apartment block at the site. The fences were felled with axes by irate residents, who took the ss='cambodia-color'>...

KOMPONG CHAM CITY – Armed soldiers and military police prevented opposition leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha from leading an election campaign march here sunday, with the pair instead making brief stump speeches for the May 18 council elections in front of militarized roadblocks and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Being landlocked and poor has always placed Laos at a disadvantage to its more powerful neighbors. The only body of water that offers Vientiane an international reach is the Mekong River, which flows through the heartland of southeast Asia. Now, that river, which laps the western ss='cambodia-color'>...

An outspoken CNRP youth activist who claims that her passport application was leaked by immigration police said Thursday that she will lead protests in front of the Ministry of Interior and Prime Minister Hun sen’s residence in Phnom Penh if authorities do not attempt to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police and military police in Kratie province’s snuol district on Wednesday burned to the ground 56 homes they said were on protected land, causing displaced villagers to block National Road 76 in protest for four hours, officials said. snuol district Governor Kong Kimny said Thursday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The U.N.’s efforts to locate a group of Montagnards hiding in Ratanakkiri province continued to be hindered Monday as the provincial governor was yet again unavailable to meet its delegation, four days after it traveled to the northeastern province. Despite the delegation’s expectation that it would ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 4 August 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the 0utcomes of the AsEAN Post Ministerial Conferences sessions with the Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China and Japan, and the 22nd AsEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday implored authorities along Cambodia’s northern border to redouble their efforts at stopping illegal loggers from sneaking into Thailand, where more than a dozen have been shot dead by Thai soldiers so far this year. The 13 Cambodians fatally shot by Thai ss='cambodia-color'>...